The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-10-06
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being destroyed.
The Vendome Hotel in San Jose, Cal,
was destroyed by fire. and Fireman Miles
! McDermott was crcmated. Financial
loss. $4,000.
NJ. A. Hanna & Co. have secured a re-
ceiver for the Toledo Drop Forge Com
pany on a small bill The company has
liabilities amounting to over $4,000.
Fire swept away the Central Maine
Hallway station and many adjoining build
| ings at Clinton, Me-, and for time the
town was threatened. Loss $4,000.
BY the overwhelming vote of 2l0 to l
the Illinois Methodist conference at
Charleston. Ill.,, declared in favor of equal
lay representation for future confer
ences.
Frederick Welde Of Milwaukee commit
ted suicide in St. Louis by taking prussic
acid and then jumping into the artificial
lake at O'Fallon Park, where his body
was found.
Imported negro miners and strikers met
In deadly conflict in the streets of Pana,
ILL., Two hundred shots were fred and
wild riot ensued, in which several persons
were wounded.
The Secretary of the Interior has or
dered that the lands in the abandoned
Fort Hartsuff, Neb.. military reservation,
comprising 712 acres, be sold on Dec. II
next at not less than their appraised value
Fire originating from burning forests
destroyed half of Cumberland. Wis city
Of 1,5O0 people, causing property loss
estimated ut $225.000. About twenty
FIVE families are homeless. Five children
are reported burned to death.
Fred G. Huntington assigned at Gin
cinnati. Liabilities and assets, 100000.
He is one of the three brothers who built
up the Mount Auburn addition. He was
also general agent of the New England
Mutual Accident Association.
Gov Bushnell of Ohio has issued
proclamation setting apart Oct 10 as La
fayette day. when voluntary contributions
will be received for the fund for the
erection of the Lafayette monument in
Paris TO be unveiled July 4. 1900.
The A. Booth Packing Company has alb
sorbed the Sandusky, Ohio. firm of Chas.
G. Nielsen & Brothers, makers Of caviar.
The deal includes the business of the firm
in Algonac, Mich, and Hamburg, Ger
many. as well as the Sandusky property.
J. West Goodwin. old-time editor, has
been arrested at Sedalia. Mo-, on the
charge of using the typographical union
label without authority. The local typo
graphical union proposes to push the pros
ecution in the State and Federal courts.
William Shields of Dayton, Ohio, was
on visit to Trenton the other day, and
when getting off a traction car allowed his
revolver to fall. An explotion followed
and Shields was fatally wounded. He
was a member of Roosevelt's rough riders.
Rev. Thomas L. Green has declined the
election to be bishop of the Episcopal do
cese of Iowa because of the veiled charges
that have been insinuated against him by
some of those who refused to make unan-
imous his election at the recent special
convention.
At Hutchinson, Kan, Z. C. Clark,
prominent member Of the Reno County
bar and known as writer on economic
questions. has been found guilty of man.
slaughter in the second degree. This is
the first trial in the sensational Boyd
murder case.
The body of Oscar Osborne, farmer
living near Akron, o., was discovered in
his barn. 1t was evident that he bad
been murdered for his money. He was
so years old and known to be very
wealthy. There is no clew to the perpe-
traitors of the murder.
The Kansas City Auditorium. destroyed
by fire last winter, is to be rebuilt at an
early day and run as popular price
Il a.,
arrived with plans for the new building,
which will be rebuilt at the instigation of
Alexander Frazer, its manager, and leas-
ed to Burgess 4 Woodward, the Omaha
theatrical firm.
Ed. Rousel, who until last June was
general secretary of the Fraternal Aid
Association. was arrested at Lawrence,
Kan, on the charge of embezzlement on
fifteen counts. Rousel has been promi- |
nent in lodge and business circles for
twenty years. The total defalcation is
S4,4O0, S2,4O0 of which his brother in |
Iowa has made good.
Mrs. George Ewing shot and almost in
stantly killed Mrs. Frank Ewing at Hop |
kins, Mo. The women were sisters-in-
law, having married brothers. An inquest |
was held and the jury returned verdict |
declaring that Lizzie Ewing came TO her !
death without just cause or provocation |
at the hands of Ida May Ewing. Jealousy |
is said to have cause dthe deed.
An authentic report regarding the pela- |
gic sealing fleet has just been received in |
San Francisco. Among the poachers that |
have made the largest catches were the |
following: Enterprise, 553 skins; Minnie. |
400; San Diego, 673; Theresa, 800, and |
Otto, T27. These skins, being excluded |
from the United States, are shipped to !
England. where they are disposed of at
reduced rates.
AT Hoisington, Kan, Lew Kelley and |
L. L. Baker had an alteration, brought |
about by an alleged insult to Mrs. Kelly |
by Baker. The result was running |
fight, in which Kelley pounded Baker on
the head with revolver. B. L. Ruggles, /
nm old man, interfered and tried to stop
the fight. The revolver in the hands of |
Kelley was discharged, and Ruggles was
shot and instantly killed.
At Flora, Ind, the safe of the Farmers
Bank was blown open by robbers, who
secured nearly $4,000 and made good !
their escape. Cashier William Lemon,
who was aroused by the noise Of the ex-
plosion, appeared on the scene while the
robbers were still at work. He was shot
and it is believed he will die. There were |
two terrific explosions and the bank build
ing was almost wrecked.
A prairie fire, probably started by a |
spark from a locomotive, has burned over |
thousands Of acres of grazing lands be- i
tween Kiowa and Bijou creeks in Morgan |
County, Colo. and destroyed thousands |
of tons OF hay. Ranchman W. c. Miller
and his wife and child had narrow es-
cape from being burned to death. One |
large bunch of about 5000 head of cattle !
was entirely surrounded by fire and every |
chance for them to escape was cut off. !
Red Cliff the fires advanced to within ten
miles Of the town and citizens organized ,
TO fight their advance.
George Charlton, living two miles east |
of kenton, o., will probably lose his life !
through a strange accident About mid !