The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-11-04
WESTERN.


tended investigation of the cause of the
falling of the ceiling of the Robinson op-
era house, in Cincinnati, has announced
that the accident was not the result of
neglect.
Jose Sanchez, son Of Sheriff Jesus H.
Sanchez of Valencia County, N. NJ, has
confessed that he fired the shot that killed
his wife in the Colorado House, in Den
yer. He claimed, however, that the shoot
ing was accidental.
John Davis, colored, was brought to the
Cincinnati Jail by officers from Brown
County to escape lynching. His crime
was shooting and fatally wounding Judge
John VI. Markley of Brown County Com
mon Pleas Court in Georgetown.
The Supreme Court of North Dakota
has filed decision in the case of the
Fort Totten Indians, declaring that In
dams who have taken land in severalty
and have received preliminary patents are
electors and have the right to vote.
John Shafer, a Covington shoemaker,
"a years old, was killed while celebrating
Democratic victory at Cincinnati. He
had been blowing huge tin horn. He
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with an electric light wire, and Shafer fell
dead.
At Kansas City, No., Allen NJ. Bishop,
who had been employed as an under
takers assistant, was found unconscious
in the rear of the store. He was removed
to police headquarters, where he died in
ten minutes. He had committed suicide
by drinking embalming fluid.
Five men were injured by the bursting
of q blast furnace at the Illinois Steel
Company plant in Milwaukee. Two can
not live. The iron worked through the
furnace into the water jacket, causing an
explosion which let all of the iron i'll the
furnace out in molten mass.
At Tifin, O., James Reed went home,
drew a revolver and with the words. Il
have decided to kill you," shot his wife
three times He then turned the weapon
to his own head and fired, but stumbled
and the shot went wild. He was captur-
ed by the police and lodged in the county
Jail. Jealousy.
At Deadwood, S. D., the notorious Cur
~ gang of bandits broke Jail, and after
exchanging several dozen shots with sew
tIdi ClllLcuS NuO lHltlSSptCu thCiu dNNi-
dentally, made their escape to the noun
tains. The daring of the escape was con-
sonant with the boldness Of the men who
accomplished it.
Gen. A. $. Weissart of Milwaukee,
Wis, and Gen. Paul Vandervoort of Oma
ha, Neb., each an ex-grand commander of
the Grand Army Of the Republic, and
Gen. r. N. Adams of Minneapolis, have
just secured $4,000 acres of land in the
coast region of Texas, on which to colon
ize veterans of the late war.
Nine persons were injured in head-end
collision between the Logansport accom-
moda ton on the Panhandle Railway any
a freight train on the Pittsburg, Fort
Wayne and Chicago line at Hartsdale,
Ind, thirty miles from Chicago. The
engines oollided with such force that they
were completely telescoped.
At ST. Louis, while sixty-five workmen
were on a large scaffold extending the
whole length of the Wabash building,
which was recently partially destroyed By
fire, section of the platform gave way,
falling to the floor below. 1t carried eight
men into the mass of debris. Two were
fatally injured and four others were Sc
riously hurt.
A mixed passenger and freight train
rolled down a forty-foot embankment on
the Sedalia, Warsaw and Southwestern
Road three miles north of Warsaw, Mo.
Engineer John Minnier was instantly
killed. Fireman Charles McConas had
leg broken, and Brakeman William Price,
Conductor w. L. Bass and Fred Schwett-
mann, passenger, were badly hurt.
Frauntze U. Jean, FrencEnan, for
merly employed by the A. o. Jones Brick
and Terra Cotto Company at GAINESVILLE,
Ohio, has confessed to setting fire to the
plant A few weeks ago the factory,
which was one of the largest of its kind
in the country, was destroyed by fre. In
vestigation was at once commenced with
the above results. Revelations of high
ly sensational order are expected.
Major John S. Mellon Of st. Louis will
appear in Washington this winter with
bill against the United States Govern
ment fol services rendered humanity as
original discoverer of the germ theory.
According TO the grizzled veteran it was
he wLo lid the foundatiSn stones to the
elabora.> structure of bacs-riology. Pas
teur, he claims, caught his first glimmer
ing of the germ idea from an article
which appeared in the old st. Louis Times
in the year 1866. 1t stated that Major
Mellon had made the discovery that chOl-
era and diphtheria were caused by what
he termed parasite. In order to cure
the disease it was necessary to kill the
parasite. Major Mellon offered recipe
which he claimed would accomplish that