The Nevada County picayune., 1906-11-16
s. J. Demaresoue. at Killmtrick's

l to the ocean. He swan to the rocks and clung until rescued by his wife. He went down the Hume so fast that his clothing was torn off and then his skin was burned off.
 Brig. Gen. Frederick Funston has arrived in St. Louis and taken charge of the Southwest division of the United States army, removed there from Oklahoma City,, Okla. The Northern division headquarters have been removed from St. Louis to Chicago.
 James D. Money, Jr, nephew of United States Senator H. D. Money of Mississippi, who killed d.. J. Henderson at Money station, Miss, has been released on $20,000 bond.
 John Smalley, of Futile, Ok, kill led his wife and then himself after she had applied for divorce.
 Prospectors near Watertown, N. D., are searching for the source of gold nuggets found in the crop of d duck.
 William Randolph Hearst has gone to California for recuperation from the strain incident to his guber- material campaign.
 Ambrose l.. Thomas, president of Lord & Thomas, advertising agents, Chicago, and interested in other en- terprises, dropped dead in depart ment store in that city from heart disease.
 Jonah P. Sappington, who died in St. Louis county, Missouri, was the last of seven men who assisted U. $. Grant to build the log cabin in which he lived on farm south of St. Louis a few years before the civil war.
 St. Louis chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy have subscribed 5000 toward the erection of a monument to the confederacv in Forest park, in that city.
 The preliminary returns to the de- pertinent of agriculture on the pro- duction of corn in 1906 indicates a total yield of about 2,SS1, ,096 bush els, or an average of 30.2 bushels per acre. as compared with an average yield of 29.3 bushels as finally esti- mated in 1905, 26.S in 1904 and a ten-year average of 25.2 bushels.
 Thomas Daugherty, a prominent young man of Dunmore, Pa., died ill lhe state hospital at Saeranton, as the result of being stabbed by an un- Nnown woman. The corner says the wound was in the heart and was in flicted by hat pin.
 Mrs. Esther Summer Damon, said .o be the last surviving widow of a soldier of the revolutionary war, died at her home in Plymouth Union, | Va, aged 93. She was married in 1885, when 21 years old, to Noah Damon, who was them 75 years old. Damon served through the reyolu- tionary war, having enlisted in 1115.
 The twenty-fifth anniversary of the marriage of President Porfirio Diaz of Mexico and Mime. Carmen Romeo De Diaz was celebrated in Mexico City.
 The president has announced the appointment of Atty-Gen. William Henry Moody to be justice of the su- preme court of the United States to succeed Justice Henry Billings Brown, who retired some time ago.
 Secretary Hitchcock will retire from the interior department and will be succeeded by James R. Gar field, a son of former President James A. Garfield.
 The president, accompanied by Mrs. Roosevelt, Surgeon-General Rixey of the navy and M. c. Iatta, one of the assistant secretaries at the White House, IS away on trip to the Isthmus of Panama to inspect the canal. They are due to return | November 27.
 A great fire ragged in Canton, China, destroying the section where the restaurants and gambling houses were located.
 Hon. Robert l.. Henry, chairman of the democratic caucus in congress, has issued a call for a meeting of the democratic members to be held in the house of representatives De- cember 1.
 Eleven indictments were handed to Judge Lochran in the United States district court at St. Paul, Minn., by the federal grand jury, covering the giving of rebates by certain railroads and the receiving