The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-11-10

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EVENTS OF INTEREST
THAT OCCURRED DURING THE
PAST WEEK.
TerseIy Told Telegraph Tales In
Brief Paragraphs-MauyC CasuaIties
"A Few Crimcs-Some Fires-Poiit-
ical aud Religions News.
Fire in the Capitol.
Washington special: The United States
Supreme Court Room, located near the
center of the Capitol, is wrecked and the
valuable law library connected with it,
is seriously damaged and manv of the
valuable records of the courts. filed away
in the vaults beneath that portion of the
Capitol, have been destroyed. This is
the result of an explosion of gas, which
occurred in the SUBJ basement of the Cap
itol, Just beneath the Supreme Court
Room. The explosion destroyed the
flooring of the entrance to the room i'm
mediately below the Supreme Court
Room and the fire which followed COM
nun icated at once to the law library and
Supreme Court Room.
Frightfu1 Accident at n Colliery.
Seven men were killed and three fatally
injured at the Exeter Colliery of the Le-
high Valley Coal Company, at West Pc
terson, near Wilkesbarre, Pa. The acci-
dent was due to the alleged carelessness
of Engineer David Price, who, acting in
disobedience of positive orders, caused
three cars to run into the top of the shaft.
These cars, loaded and weighing eleven
tons, fell down the S60- foot shaft, and
crashed with frightful force upon the
carriage carrying the men. The mass
OF wreckage fell to the foot of the
shaft, choking it, and when, after hard
work the men were extricated. seven
were dead and three were fatally injured.
Farmer Kills himself
Solon Atkinson, prominent and
wealthy farmer of Boone County, Indi-
ana, committed suicide by first taking
morphine and then shooting himself twice
in the abdomen with shotgun. Insani-
ity is supposed TO have been the cause.
His father suicided twenty years ago by
shooting and then hanging himself. Mr..
Atkinson was 40 years of age, and leaves
a wife and one daughter. He was a
prominent worker in the Christian
Church, being Treasurer of the State
Conference, President of the Confer
ence Mission Board, President of the
Fund for Supersnnuated Ministers and
ex- Chairman of the State Conference.
Murder and ISuicide.
Scots burg 1nd.) special: Failing to
effect a reconciliation with his wife who
left him last summer, Martin Tyler OF
Indianapolis, shot her and then turned
the revolver upon himself, intiicting ia
tai wounds. Mr.. Tyler arrived here and
called upon his wife at her home, where
he pleaded his cause, and when Mrs. Ty-
Ter refused TO again live with him he
drew pistol and began firing. The first
bullet struck the woman in the face and
the second in the side, He then shot
himself once in the head and once in the
abdomen. The wounds of the man are
fatal, while those of the woman are not
necessarily so.
Several Men Killed by All Explos ion.
At Oil City, Pa. while crowd OF ma
chtnists were testing new boiler ter
rife explosion occurred, instantly killing
Machinists McCloskey and Frawley. An
employe named Mcmahon was taken TO
the hospital dying. The boiler let so
with terrific force, blowing the roof off
The building and scattering iron beams
ard debris of all kinds among the two
hundred men employed. Several other
employees were injured, but it is thought
that the only fatalities are those men.
toned.
Eleven Men Killed in Detroit.
The roof of the Wonderland Theater at
Detroit, Mich, collapsed, carrying down
the iron galleries of the structure and a
great mass of scaffolding and debrl>.
Some twenty five men were working un-
der the collapsed parts of the structure.
Scarcely any of these seem TO have es-
capped in juries. The bodies of eleven deal
men have already been recovered. Sew
eral others are fatally injured.
Chinese II piocaust.
A Victoria b. c. telegram says: The
steamer Arorangi, from Australia via
Honolulu, brings news of large fire al
Sidney recently, which destroyed twenty
large mills ard inflicted heavy loss ol
property.
Latest reports from the conflagratioi
at Han1ow, China, say that 200 house!
were destroyed and thousand peopl,
killed and burned to death.
Fifty Years a Slave.
Frank Lewis, said to be the Oldest and
blacklist colored man i'll Indiana, wa:
killed by the cars few days ago in 10
komo, while asleep on the depot plat
form. He rolled off under the car wheels
lewis was fifty years slave.
Spain Will Sign the Treaty of Peac'
Under Protest.
The Madrid CORES pOndent of the Lon
don Daily Mail says Spain will sign ;
peace treaty under protest.
kentuckian Suicides.
Omaha (Neb.l special: Charles Of
futt, a well-known attorney, while tenn
porarily deranged through illness, sho
himself through the lead, dying instant
ly. Mr.. Offutt was a native kentuck-
ian, and was twice Speaker of the Hous
of the Kentucky Legislature.
Destructive Fire.
Fire destroyed the works of the Stan
lard Car Wheel Company at Cleveland
Ohio. The walls fell. catching Firemel
Dyer and Albert Dawson, knocking ther
senseless. Loss, $50 600,
EASTERN.
Joseph G. Godfrey, paper manufactur
pr of Raubeville, Pa, has filed petition
in bankruptcy; assets, S30,0o0; liabilities
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