Amador ledger., 1901-07-05
UNITED STATES.

LIZ COoIoH COIupreSS owned Dy In.
man, Nelms d Co., of Houston, Tex,
was burned with 2300 bales of cotton.
Loss $125, 200. = :,
Hartford City, Iud., has been visited
by terrible wind and hailstorm. As
MANY as forty oil derricks were blown
and several buildings were damaged,
causing loss of about $4,000
George Edwin Cain, years old, son
OF the head keeper of the Farallon
lighthouse, died Of diphtheria, and two
of the other ten children on the island
are suffering with the same disease.
Above Yuma, ON the Colorado river,
the work of dredging for gold is about
to begin. 1t seems that farther up the
river, in Utah, work of a similar char
acter is in progress.
Edward Biddle has been convscted
of murder in the first degree for killing
Thomas ID. Kahney, a Mount Wash
lngton, Pa, grocer. All three MEM
bers of this BURGLAR gang have now
been convicted.
A tornado struck Napier, Neb., and
killed seven people, all members of the
Greening and Anderson families. The
tornado was preceded by a severe hail
storm. Stones fell that measured ten
inches in circumference.
The well recently bored by the Guffey
Petroleum Company at Sour Lake,
Tex, developed into a gusher unex-
pectedly. The oil is of the heavy va
riety. No attempt to measure the flow
has been made, but estimates place it
at 30, 600 barrels.
The boiler of Chicago and Alton 10
connective, pulling an incoming passen-
ger train, exploded at Blue Cut, fifteen
miles east of Kansas City. Engineer
George Gerew was scalded to death and
Fireman Louis Crowley was burned Sc
verely.
Ten thousand horses in Manhattan,
n. Y, have succumbed within a week
to new epidemic, which, so far, has
puzzled the veterinians. They admit
that they have not yet been able posi-
lively to determine the cause and nature
of the disease or successfully treat it.
A large iron safe of the Pacific Ex-
press Company, with its door battered
in with hammer, was found near
Toledo, Ohio. Inside were several
empty money bags. 1t is supposed
that the safe was one sent from Toledo
to st. Louis and Omaha, and that it
was stolen and rified.
Large copper deposits in the south
ern portion of Blaine county, Ok. t.,
have been discovered. Mineral pros
pectOrs have been at work in the hills,
and the results of their work were the
filing of two mining claims. Many
people are f1ocking to the new Ell Do
RADIO.
Thirty acres of coal land in Pittston,
Pa, sank several feet and the surface is
still going down. The cave-in occurred
at the Fiddler colliery, operated by
Elliott, Mcclure & Co. The 900 en-
ployes escaped. 1t is thought the shaft
will have to be abandoned. The cave
in was due to "robberu pillars.
Three persons were killed and several
injured by lightning during a severe
electric storm which recently passed
over Indiana. AT Greentown the loss is
probably $4,000. AT Monticello, the
barn of Bert Hathaway was struck by
bolt of lightning and Hathaway. who
had taken refuge in the building, was
instantly killed.
Four dogs afflicted with rabies ran
riot in the different sections of Chicago
and at different hours, causing conster
nation and terror by their attacks until
each had been dispatched by bullet.
Several children were bitten by the
mad animals. In the past two days
about twenty persons have been bitten
by mad dogs in Chicago.
One person fatally hurt and six pros
trations, one fatal, was the record of
sweltering day in Chicago June 22d.
The mercury stood at 80 degrees, but
the humidity was so great that the
thermometer is only faint record of
the discomfort caused. John Hall fell
from third story window while trying
to get fresh air. Charles Jenkins, aged
rs, died of the heat.
Seventeen persons are believed to
have been killed and a number injured
as the result of fire following an ex-
plosion among a quantity of fireworks
| in the store of Abraham Rittenberg at
Paterson, n. J. The store was on the
ground floor of a tenement building.
The cause of the explosion is unknown,
and the property loss will not exceed
SIS, 900.
At Jaggers ranch, near Horse Prairie,
MOnU., Saln MOORE anu WllllaIu NC
Kenzie quarreled over a horse and
Moore shot Mckenzie, who was fatally
injured. Moore then rode fourteen miles
to secure medical aid for the man he
shot, but Mckenzie died in the mean
time. Moore, who is an old resident,
while Mckenzie was a recent arrival
from Wyoming, rode to Bannock and
surrendered. He said Mckenzie threat
ened to shoot him and he fired in self
defense.
Walter Selph, young drummer, son
of Colonel Dudley Selph, State In
spector of Rifle Practice and former
rifle champion, was killed in a prize
fight at Audubon Park, New Orleans.
He and young man named L.. L.
Bailey had quarrel at military ball
and agreed to fight it out with bare
fists. They had no seconds and pound
ed each other until Selph fell from a
blow which broke his neck. Bailey
was arrested and said he did not know
how the fatal result came about. He
made no attempt to escape.