The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-06-03
WESTERN.

years an employe of the National Banl
of Illinois of Chicago. killed himself at hi
home in Riverside Wednesday, and on,
more violent death is added to the recor,
of ruin made by that Inflated institution
Hiram Warren and wife were killed anf
James Warren, a relative, was badly in
jured by being struck by a train on the
Union Pacific, Denver and Gull Railroad
two miles west of Kersey, Colo. Warre.
tried to whip his horses across ahead OF
the train.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railway Com
pany has discovered large amount OF
bogus mileage in use ON its lines. The
operators seem to have secured the covers
of exhausted mileage books and filled
them with mileage slips which they have
had printed in imitation of the regular
slips.
The consolidation at Kansas City, Mo-,
of the National Bank of Commerce and
the Metropolitan National Bank, with a
combined list of deposits amounting to
S10,000,000, became a matter of fact Mon
day morning, when the Bank of Com
merce took up the business of both con-
Germs.
A car loaded with corn contributed by
the citizens in the vicinity OF Smith Cen
ter, Kan, for the starving in India has
been shipped. Each side of the car was
decorated with banner inscribed Car
load of corn for the starving of India.
Mohammedan or atheist. We can feed
the world"
Mrs. Diana Wundling of Pomeroy, o..
was shot by her son, Silas, because she
demanded of him a log chain he had bor-
rowed of her, died twenty-four hours
later. The murderer, who is in Jail, when
told of his mothers death, remarked,
stolidly: well, she ought to have kept
away from my house,
At st. Louis, Judge Flitcraft has made
an order that the Fourth Street and Ar
senal Railway Company be sold June %
under a second mortgage. The foreclo-
sure was ordered because of default of
payment of interest falling due Sept. /,
1896, and March 1, 1897, and also de-
fault of payment of taxes.
Prof. w. +. Mittmann of Chicago, for
merly dancing master at the Germania
Club, shot himself in the head Tuesday
and then threw himself from the balcony
of the thirteenth floor of the Chamber of
Commerce building to the main floor,
where his mangled, lifeless body was pick
ed up by the police a few minutes later.
Dependency over domestic troubles is
the cause assigned.
Mrs Margaret Moffatt has brought suit
in the Superior Court at San Francisco
to recover damages in the sum of $780,
600 from her husbands father for alleg-
ed alienation of affection, and has insti-
tuted proceedings against her husband to
compel him to support her. She alleges
that she has twice been married to Will
liam Moffatt. but each time her father
in-law has induced his son to desert her.
Richard NJ. Scruggs and E. j. Lang
horne, st. Louis merchants who were ar
rested at New York Saturday on charges
of smuggling several thousand dollars
worth of diamonds and jewelry into this
country on the steamship st. Paul, evil
IDENTIFY intend to make vigorous fight
against the charges made by the customs
inspectors. They have retained an attor-
ney, and an answer to the charges is ex-
pected soon. As the case involves more
than $1,000 it will have to take its reg
ular course before the district attorney.
May Campbell, St. Louis, Mo. variety
actress, hid in a clothes closet Tuesday
and listened while her husband made vio-
lent love to Maud Devere, and heard him
arrange for an elopement. Then Mrs.
Campbell emerged with a revolver and
put five bullets into her husband and one
into Maud Devere She then walked to
the Four Courts and gave herself up.
Campbell was taken in a dying condi-
ton to the city hospital. When a detec-
tive brought in his wife and asked him to
identify her as his assailsnt he refused
TO do so and kissed her affectionately.
Campbell is shot through the lungs and
in the throat The surgeons say he will
die. The woman's wound is slight
Twenty-Five years ago Monday Rev.
Stephen NJ. Merrill of Chicago was con-
secrated bishop of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church. Monday he preached his
sermon. An immense
filed First Church"
Bishop Merrill never seemed stronger. He
confessed to the recognition of new SEN
sation, since the event seemed to call for
q sermon largely personal. But he put by
the temptation and preached sermon
with little of Bishop Merrill in it and
much of the gospel of Christ. At the
Palmer House in the evening the Method
Ist Social Union celebrated Bishop Mer-
rill's silver jubilee by giving banquet
in his honor. Bishop Merrill is past II,
and is still hale and hearty. His preach
ing is still marked with the vigor and
earnestness of the early seventies, when
he first lived in Chicago. The bishop is
willing to talk on any subject of interest
except himself All the personal history
he would tell was: Born in Ohio in 1925.
Preac cher since 10 years old. Lived in
Chicago since 1877. Elected bishop in
1871"
A Dubuque, Iowa, dispatch says: The
wholesale grocers of Iowa who have been
caught on the short side of tea have sent
a delegation TO Washington to see what
Senator Allison can do for them. With
them have gone two representatives of the
Chicago houses. Before the tariff of 10
cents a pound on tea was publicly sug-
gested by Senator Allison's committee.
these grocers sold for future delivery in
such quantities that one Chicago house
stands to lose 100000 if compelled to
furnish taxed tea, and Iowa houses will
also lose heavily. The importers have dis
cou0ted the future and have sold their
stocks at liberal advance on former
prices. One Chicago and New York house
is reported to have cleaned up S250,000,
and other importers are supposed to have
done equally well. The grocers tried to
cover, with the result that the demand for
immediate shipment raised prices in the
Japan ~ cents. Some of the grocers,
rather Than stand this, decided to counter
mand their orders and take their chances
on securing modification of the tariff bill.
The delegation sent 10 Washington vii!
ask that the tariff bill be amended 10 pro-
vide for 4 rebate of the tax on all tea i'm
ported to fill orders taken before the Sen
ate bill was reported. John w. Doane Il
Co., Sprague, Warner & Co, Franklin
MacVeagh & Co.. w. NJ. Hoyt & Co and
Mcneil & Higgins. the principal tea I'M
porters of Chicago. denied any knowledge