The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-09-24
WESTERN.

The Kansas City Lead and Oil Works
owned by Marsh Bros, was completely
destroyed by fire after midnight Sunday
night. Loss estimates, which at first
were placed at from $4,000 to S35, ZOO
are now put nearer 100000. The loss is
fully insured. A spark from n locomotive
is thought to have caused the fire.
While demolishing the old Grand Pa
cific Hotel at Chicago four laborers were
crushed by the falling walls of the west
foundation of the skylight court We'd
nesday. One was taken out by fellow
workmen dead and three others were
taken to the County Hospital perhaps
fatally hurt. Another saved his life by
jumping nearly thirty feet
Chris Won der Abe, president of the St.
Louis Browns, is defendant in suit filed
in the Circuit Court Wednesday by Miss
Annie Kaiser, who asks for $4,000 dam
ages for breach of promise. Recently
Mr.. Won der Abe married in Erie, Pa, n
Miss Della Wells of st. Louis. When
this was announced Miss Kaiser stated
that Won der Abe had promised to marry
her, but the time had never been set for
the wedding.
| At Big Jim's Crossing, ten miles north
| Of Norman, O. T., Joe Johnson, an Indian,
shO. and killed two other Indians. Big
| Jim. chief of the PottawattOmies, fined
Johnson SO and two ponies for the crime.
| Wednesday the sheriff heard of the kill
| ing and placed Johnson under arrest.
| The sheriff asked the chief why he pun
ished Johnson so lightly. The chief re-
Piled: white mars court too severe"
The killing was in eold blood
A Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
special race track passenger train dashed
into a detached portion of a freight going
In the same direction directly under n
Chicago viaduct Thursday night. The re-
suit was n wreck, in which Engineer Jas.
Moran was dangerously injured and Fire
man Nat Moulton and five passengers
we're seriously hurt. Five loaded freight
ears, a baggage car, passenger coach
and engine 140 were demolished.
The Midland State Bank of Omaha,
Neb., failed to open its doors for business
Wednesday morning. The deposits in the
bank amount to about $65,0O0, while the
loans and discounts are between $4,000
and $4,000. There has been a constant
drain on the bank during the last year,
but the immediate cause of the failure
was the refusal of the clearing house to
rash the banks checks, some $4,000
worth of paper being thrown out.
A rumor is in circulation at Cleveland
10 the effect that John d. Rockefeller,
The multi-millionaire, has purchased the
great plant of The johnson Steel Com
oany ut Lorain, but il lacks confirmat ton.
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immense fleet of vessels on the great lakes
to carry the ore from his mines in the
Superior region has led many people to
believe that he intended building or ac-
luiring a steel plant to convert his ore
into manufacturing products.
Following the example of Cleveland and
Chillicothe, the citizens of Dayton, Ohio,
began weeks celebration of the cen
tennial year of the city's history Mon
lay. The program included a parade of
school children and of bicyclists, n grand
Industrial. civic and military pageant, a
prize drill and trolley carnival. The
celebration was ushered in with a salute
Of cannon and a general decoration of the
rity. A large number of visitors from
other parts of the State took part in the
festivities.
Five people were seriously injured We'd
nesday night by the overturning of fire
department truck which was responding
to an alarm at Hopkins Theater at st.
Louis, Mo. AS the truck was passing
the theater the rear wheels caught in the
street car tracks and the heavy vehicle
was thrown over ON to the sidewalk,
which was crowded with people watching
! lha ott IL hn fira
did not amount to anything, but the
alarm created a scare in the audience.
j. j. Stewart, president OF the Board of
Police Commissioners of Fort Scott,
Kan, who recently sent his resignation
10 Gov. Morrill,, has asked that his name
be stricken from the roll of the First
Methodist Church, of which he was a
trustee. and announces that he will with
draw his resignation as a police commits |
sioner, the latter at the request of the
Governor. The church had called upon
Stewart to enforce the prohibitory law
and his action is taken. he says, to relieve
The church of embarrassment.
+. w. Humphrey Il Co., heavy clothing
dealers at St Louis, have executed deed
Of trust to Attorney A. Nj. Sullivan to
secure their five leading creditors. whose
claims aggregate almost 100000. At !
torney Overall says that in addition to
the preferred creditors claims there are
unsecured liabilities of less than so, 600. |
The FIRMS stock is estimated by Attorney
Overall as being worth $4,000. Its |
open accounts are small, as the firm did |
most of its business on a cash basis. |
About $4,000 is due the concern on small |
bills.
The Rev. A. J. Field, Methodist min
lster, committed suicide at Guthrie, o. T.,
by cutting his throat, after making three |
attempts to hang himself and jump into
q well. At the Populist county conven- /!
ton held last week Field jumped from his
seat, drew revolver and declared the |
by the will of God. could |
20 no further until prayer was said. The |
chairman assented. Field prayed fifteen |
and asked for the free and I'M |
limited coinage of salvation. The suicide |
was 30 years old. and was said to be Il rel |
ative of Marshall Field. Chicago.
A. f. & l.. Il. Kelley, IL well-kaown |
mortgage loan firm, filed an |
assignment Monday morning TO &. Nj. |
Hansen and A. c. Cobb, Jointly. AL |
though no schedule has yet been made the |
liabilities are estimated at between $780, |
900 and S150,000. The assets are not |
known. The assignment is principally |
due to the firm advancing money for de- |
linquent borrowers to keep up interest and |
taxes. and the exhausted condition of the |
firms cash resources brought about by |
the business depression. The firm has |
loaned several millions of Eastern money, |
mostly on farm property, and the loans |
are well secured.