The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-10-13
WESTERN.


have nominated Simon Guggenheim fol
Governor.
Ex-State Senator J. G. Richardson OF
Cincinnati, who was recently shot by his
brother-in-law, is dead.
Wright Smith, colored, was taken from
Jail at Jones Station, Ind, by lynching
party and his body riddled with bullets.
At Rockport, Mo-, Lloyd and Joseph
Henderson and Frank Dorst, farmers
were buried in sandbank in which they
were digging, and were dead when taken
out.
The annual pageant of the Yelled Pro
phet at st. Louis was a grand success
After the march the coronation of Miss
Marie Theresa Scanlan as queen took
place.
Harry Goldberg, 12-year-old lad, who
disappeared from La Porte, Ind, two
years ago and who was said to have been
murdered, has been found in Chicago,
where he is at work.
Superintendent w. J. Parks of the
Union elevator at Toledo, Ohio, died at
the hospital after suffering for three
weeks with burns. He is the fourteenth
victim of the Union elevator fire.
Oliver w. Trupp, said to be the son of
an officer Of high rank in the British
army, was found dead in a bathtub at the
West End Hotel in st. Louis. 1t has not
been ascertained what caused the mans
death.
Indians and Gen. Bacon's soldiers
fought a desperate battle. The scene of
the conflict was a promontory in Leech
Lake, near Bear Island, thirty miles from
Walker, MINI. Several were killed on
either side.
The Standard Consolidated Mining
Company's 20-stamp mill at Bodie, Cal.
was totally destroyed by fire. The fire
started in the boiler room. The adjoining
offices and the cyanide plant were saved.
The estimated loss is $4,000, partly in
sured.
Upon her deathbed, Mrs. Jeffreys of
Hillsboro, Ohio, confessed that she assist
ed in the murder of Louis Ball at Wash
ington Court House eleven years ago. She
duplicates another woman and four men,
all of whom reside about the city. Balls
head was cut off with q razor.
Samuel Wolfstein has been appointed by
Judge Hollister receiver for the wholesale
jobbing firm of David Hahn & Sons Of
Cincinnati, upon the application of Jonas
Hahn, one of the partners, who alleges
failure to agree among the partners and
increasing debts. The assets are estimat-
ed at $4,000, with liabilities amounting
to 100000.
A fatal boiler explosion occurred at the
sawmill of Laherty & Lee, located six
miles from Verdi, New, in which two lives
were lost and three persons seriously in
jured. The entire plant was completely
destroyed and not a fragment of the boiler
was to be found. The explosion was
caused by the engineer allowing the boiler
to run dry and attempting TO fill it with
cold water.
James r. Wicker and John C. Gentry,
owners of sawnill in the South Park,
Colo, and Benjamin Wolf and Matt Dol
phin have been arrested on a bench war
rant from the United States District
Court charging them with the theft of
500, 900 feet Of timber from Government
lands in the South Park. John L. Rus
sell, Government timber inspector, caused
the arrests 10 be made.
George W. Clarke, under sentence to be
hanged at San Quentin, Cal, for the
murder Of his brother, has made confes-
sion, in which he states he alone Is respon-
sible for his brothers death. Clarke was
enamored of his brothers wife and
thought that should his brother be put out
of the way the woman would marry him,
and he made the confession for the pur-
pose of eXonerating her of any completely
in the crime.
A. w. Bash, general agent of the Ameri-
Development Company at
Seattle, sails soon with w. Barclay Par
sons, chief engineer of the company. for
China to start work on one of the greatest
railroads to be built in China. The com
pany, headed by ex-senator Calvin S.
Brice, has obtained a concession 10 build
u railway from Hankow to Canton and
the sea opposite Hong Kong, traversing
)ne Of the richest districts of the empire.
The company is capitalized at S40,000,0OO.
1t will obtain most of its material on our
Western coast.
The citrus fruit season which has just
closed has been remarkable iE many re-
spects. Not only has the output been the
greatest in the history of southern Cali
fornia, but this has been after a series of
frosts, which were supposed to have wiped
out about a third of the crop. 1t is esti-
mated that the product, aggregating
{, 100000 boxes, sold in the Eastern mar
kets at wholesale for S11, ,01S, l2I, repre-
senting a value on board the cars in Cali
fornis of S6,491, ,792, with freight aggre-
eating S4,526,334. Estimating that %
per cent Of the freight is paid out by the
railroads in California, the industrial
value to the State is placed at 81 ,62I ,3l9.
Fireman Thomas Duckwall of Chicago
was killed in a wreck on the Northwestern
Railroad a few miles south of Milwaukee.
The passenger train which left Chicago at
1870 p. III. ran into the rear end of
freight that had stopped a short distance
south of Cudahy station. Several freight
cars were derailed and the wreck at once
took fire from the passenger engine, which
was ditched. The mail car was destroy
ed, together with the caboose and one 9th
er car of the freight train. Duckwall
was killed outright. Engineer Lane, who
escaped unhurt, claims that he was not
given the proper signals, but the Hall au-
tomato device was found to be working
all right and the freight train crew claims
that the usual precautions adopted when
q train stops on the main track were
taken.
SOUTHERN.