The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-05-20
WESTERN.
Fire wiped out the little village of
Wis, Sunday night.

Williams, Brown & CO., wholesale ship
ping and commission merchants of Sal
Francisco, have failed; liabilities, $50,
900.
Ferdinand Fleming, a railway posta
clerk, whose run is between Kansas Cit.
and Council Bluffs. over the Kansas City
f, st. Joseph and Council Bluffs Railroad
confessed TO breaking open packages an,
abstractiny their contents. He is q
years old and was recently married
The Mississippi Valley Cottonwood As
sociation, in session at st. Louis, Mo.
has decided TO advance the price of al
grades of cottonwood lumber 50 per thou
sand feet. This action was taken on ac
count of the destruction to cottonwood by
the lower Mississippi foods. The average
price of cottonwood lumber will hereafter
be S12 per thousand.
The Denver fire and police board has
accepted the resignation of Chief of Po
lice Russell and appointed William r.
O'Brien to the place. Mr.. O'Brien is q
native of Chicago, and graduated from
the public schools of that city in 1877. He
has held the position of weigher at the
Denver mint for the last four years. He
has had no experience in police work.
William J. Farley, alias Harry McMul-
len, wanted in Chicago for the embezzle-
ment of $1,000 from Work Bros, cloth
iers, of that city, was arrested at St Louis
and consented to return without a reQuisi-
ton. To officials Farley said he never
took a cent of the firms money. nor was
he ever tempted to do SO, until few
months ago, when he became mixed up
with women and the races. He disap-
peared suddenly about April 10 and went
to Mexico.
Wild rates on iron ore have been estab-
lished at Cleveland at 60, 30 and 40 cents,
but it would not be at all surprising to
see any of these low figures reduced, as
owners of boats that are moving seem
ready to accept almost any price in their
efforts to secure down-bound cargoes. The
70-cent contract reported. refers only to
one boat, and as far as can be learned this
is all that has been done as yet in con-
tracts from the head of the lakes, aside
from the boats of the ore companies.
Frank Westerfield of Wilmette. Ill.,,
collector for the town of New Trier, is
charged with being 81 200 short in his ac-
counts, and the villages of Wilmette, Win
netka, North Evanston, Kenilworth,
Glencoe and Lakeside are in Juror of
excitement. The bondsmen of Wester-
field are Dennis Kloepfer, George Scully,
Bernard Brown, William Myers, Matthew
Horee. Joseph Steffens. Anthony Engels
and John Fisher. AS his bond is for $780,
900, it is believed the township is safe
from loss, the bondsmen all being wealthy.
Four posses are searching for the three
prisoners who escaped from the Prescott,
A. T., Jail Monday, shooting two officers
in their flight Lee Morris, the young
assistant district attorney, shot by the
prisoners, died. His death has greatly in
famed public feeling against the prison
ers. who will probably be lynched if
caught. This feeling is intensified on ac-
count of the passage by the Legislature
of law which virtually acquits all mur-
derers where the crime is committed prior
to the passage of the law. From forty to
fifty murders have been committed in that
county during the last six or seven years
without extreme punishment.
Patrolman Oscar Christensen of South
Bend, Ind, was murdered in cold blood
Tuesday night by tramps, and the central
police station Wednesday held over one
hundred hoboes in an effort to determine
he tramp or tramps who committed the
murder. The South Bend police depart
nent was notified of the breaking open
If Lake Shore and Michigan Southern
freight car near Elkhart, and the local
1olice were instructed to watch for the
'obbers. AS the west-bound freight cross
ID Michigan street Christensen was there,
md Asa Miller of Elkhart and tramp
,alled "Boots" jumped off. The officer
,hased Boots" eastward on to the COM
mons, and had gone about hundred feet
when he was shot and killed instantly.
rhe shots apparently came from the mov-
ng freight train. Miller was caught, but
Boots" escaped.
Early Wednesday morning at San Fran
.isco, fire broke out in the tannery of A. b.
Patrick & Co., and two hours later there
vas little left but ruins. The loss to
,lant and stock is estimated from $780,
100 to $425, 900, with insurance of $780,
400. The buildings destroyed numbered
en-, four of which were two-and-a-half
story frame structures and one i've
story building The others were one-story
sheds. Almost simultaneously five tene-
nent houses on Telegraph Hill were burn |
ID. The families occupying them barely
escaped with their lives, so rapidly did
he flames spread in the ramshackle wood |
IN houses. Loss about $4,000. Another
,laze destroyed four cottages on Wiscon-
in street in South San Francisco. Loss |
i, 900. An explosion of gas in the gro
,ery store of D. Bordorl, 1920 Bryant |
street, wrecked the building and injured
number of people, including the proprie- |
or, and did damage to the extent of over |
1000.
The Supreme Court of Missouri is in |
deadlock over the settlement of the part |
lership estate of Murdock & Dickson,
which involves more than 81 100000. The |
,ase is before the court on a writ of pro- |
iibition to restrain the circuit judges from |
OF making any orders in the |
.ase Charles X. Dickson, who was in |
with William Murdoch, died !
n 1871. His individual estate was inven- |
Dried at over $1,000,000. Dickson made
will, with the late James B. Fades and |
Barton Bates as executors. Murdoch |
ook out letters of administration on the |
estate. Later, he made an as |
ignment of the assets to John G. Priest. |
n 1895 Attorney John NJ. Dickson, son |
# Charles X. Dickson, went into the |
probate court and raised the point that |
he law had no provision for an estate in
course of administration being assigned. |
This point was carried to the highest !
'ourt, but the Supreme Court of the State
tands three to three in respect TO it. The
,ourt has asked the adverse parties to
lgree upon special judge, whose decision
hall be final.
SOUTHERN.