Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1901-06-21
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Church at Cleveland, o., has sold its
site for 100000.
The estate of Charles II. Hoyt, the
playwright, after paying all claims,
amounts to $132, LOG.
The people of Georgia have brought
practical prohibition to more than 100
counties of their State.
The works of the Menasha, Wis,
Wood Split Pulley Company were
burned. Loss, $4,000.
Two masked men forced the postmas-
ter at Rincon, N. NJ, to open the money
drawer and hand out 500.
The Mount Barbara Military Acade-
my building, atSalina, Kas., was struck
by lightning and destroyed by fire.
Bert McMahon, aged %, crazed from
the excessive use of cigarettes, shot
himself at Chicago. He probably will
die.
Sam Jones started out as a circuit
rider on a salary of $500 a year. He is
worth now about $500, 600 and lives in a
$50, 900 house.
In fire at Bisbee, A. T., which de-
stroyed eleven dwellings, an unknown
buildings burned were small frame
houses, mostly occupied by Mexicans.
Two masked men held up and robbed
the store of Elliot & Brownrigg and the
Postoffice at Rincon, n. NJ, and es-
capped on horseback in the direction of
the San Andreas mountains
By the explosion of magazine at the
United Verde mine, Jerome, A. t., at
least four men were killed and num-
Der OF others were MANNED or wounded.
-Four bodies have been taken out of the
mine, and it is thought that number
of others were killed.
The great American stakes of $12,5OO
drew $1,000 people to the Gravesend
racetrack at New York, John E. Mad
denis Blue Girl at 6 to l won cleverly
over rather slow track, with the next
four horses heads apart, Nasturtium,
the favorite, getting the place from
Major Dangerfield.
Old love letters of his father, as he
thought them, have turned out to rep
resent fortune of over $500, 600 in New
York, New Haven and Hartford bonds
for William H. Warner of New Haven,
a drummer for coffin trimmings, who
has had hard time to keep the wolf
from his door.
News has been received at Phoenix,
A. t., of the killing of Antonio Teareal
at Metcalf by officers, while he was re-
sisting arrest. Constable Burkner and
another officer attempted to take Tea
real into custody, when he opened fire.
In the exchange of a dozen shots he was
MORALLY wounded.
George w. Cumberland, known to
the American stage as George w.
Thompson, "Father of the Elks,n is
dead in Brooklyn from blood poisoning
following an operation on his hand.
He was IS years old. He is said to have
founded the Order of Elks thirty-five
years ago, becoming the first exalted
ruler of New York Lodge, No. 1, in 1858.
Lieutenant Commander J. H. Bull of
the United States Navy, in charge of
the photographic service at the Pam
American grounds, Buffalo, fell from
the dome of the Government building
and was seriously injured. He was un-
conscious when assistance reached him
and was taken at once to the Emerg-
ency Hospital.
Crazed by love for his young wife,
whom it is said he had driven from his
home in Chicago, Herbert Fulford, a
prosperous Chicago contractor, killed
his mother-ln-law, Mrs. Jennie Nc
Cord, and then blew out his brains.
The tragedy occurred on the McCord
farm ut Ilderton, Ont. The victims
We're first cousins.
Rev. J. S. Newell, who was formerly
Baptist missionary in China and who,
owing to failure in health was brought
back to this country on a stretcher, is
now an evangelist in Wyoming. While
engaged in an itinerancy he CHANGED to
discover copper mine. He is now
preaching to miners and looking after
his copper interests.
Edward Moran, the eminent marine
and landscape painter, died in his apart
ments and study in Fifth avenue, New
York, from uraemic poisoning, super
induced by complication of diseases
from which he had been suffering for
about year. Edward Moran was born
in England in 1928. When he was II
years old the family came to America
and settled in Maryland.
Captain Howard Blackburn, the we'll
huOWn AHSOIlCoo 1dNlSdUOlJ hC1O VI OAO
most remarkable escape from death of
any American fisherman and ocean
voyager in small craft, has sailed from
Gloucester, Mass, in his twenty-five
foot boat, the Great Republic, for Lis
bon, Portugal, journey of $500 miles.
Two years ago he went across to Glou-
cester, England, in his thirty-two-foot
boat, the Great Western, making the
voyage in sixty-two days. He expects
to make this trip in sixty-two days.
The headless and decomposed body
of a young woman was found under
heap of brush near Chelmsford, Mass.
Murder had been committed in hor-
rible manner, for the head had been
separated from the trunk by series of
slashes from dull weapon. The con-
dition of the clothing affords no clew
to the identity of the victim, and the
circumstances offer case of interest
outside, rather than in the direct COM
munity, as the theory is that the body
had been taken into the woods and
thrown in spot that offered some Sc
clusion.