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

The Transmississippi Exposition at
Omaha has closed. 1t was a success hnan-
cially.
Glenn Wise. night chief inspector for the
Toledo Traction Company. received n
charge of electricity and died in few
minutes.
The Massillon. Ohio, Stoneware Com
pany has restored the 121la per cent Gu: in
wages made last winter and will increase
its force.
James Robinson, formerly champion
bareback rider of the world, who has been
dangerously i'll at Lake Delavan, Mo-, is
recovering.
]. Il. Mertz, assistant adjutant general
of the Grand Army of the Republic, de-
partment of Minnesota, dropped dead in 4
Minneapolis hotel.
Adam Hammer. a machinist at Beaver
Dam, Wis, became violently insane and
shot nine men (none of them fatally be-
fore he was arrested.
At Columbus, Ohio. Ben Wheeler, while
handcuffed, jumped from the window of a
Panhandle train running at the rate of
sixty miles an hour and made his escape.
The Boston mine, in the northern part of
Humboldt County. Cal, comprising 5000
acres of placer mining ground. has been
sold to Charles Foote of Chicago for S145,-
600.
Miss Edith Tod, daughter of the late
John Tod and granddaughter of the late
David Tod. war Governor of Ohio, was
married in Cleveland to James r. Sheffield
of New York.
Jennie Holderman. quarter blood
Cherokee at Pryor Creek, l. T., killed her
self because her Indian lover, John Wat
ka, met death while resisting arrest. She
took morphine.
James Hathaway and Alonzo Arbury,
the 1S-year-old boys who attempted to
hold up and rob train near ST. Joseph,
Mo-, have been sentenced to five years in
the penitentiary.
At Bellaire, Ohio, an explosion occurred
in the main boiler room at the Bellairc
Steel Company's plant which completely
demolished the entire building and fatally
injured six men.
The Thompson wagon factory at st.
Louis Park, a suburb of Minneapolis,
burned to the ground. with seven freight
cars loaded with beets for the sugar fac
tory. The loss is 100000.
Asa Van Wormer, n wealthy retired
merchant of Cincinnati, aged so years. has
made a gift to the University of Cincin-
matt of $4,000, to be used for the erection
of fireproof library building.
The business portion of Divide, Colo,
has been wiped out by fire. George W.
III, dow
store. several saloons. a boarding house
and other business places were burned.
BY an accidental dynamite explosion in
a compartment shaft at the Trio mine.
jamestown, Cal, David Stewart and
Frank Catkings were killed and Edward
Brophy and. +. Il. Beecher slightly in
jured. e
Artie Smc. saged is, of Kirkersville,
Ohio. ont on the,k. went into the corntield
of Thomas Randall TO procure some corn.
He was mistaken for thief by Randall,
who shot him in the head, killing him in
stantly.
Judge Kicks of the United States Court
in Toledo. Ohio. has taken the Columbus,
Lima and Milwaukee road out of the
hands of the receiver and turned it over TO
the stockholders, all claims having been
| adjusted.
The Commercial Hotel, city livery stable
and a saloon between the two were burned
at Oklahoma City. The guests had time
| to escape from the hotel, which was en-
tirely consumed. Four horses were burn
| ed TO death.
An explosion near the rear entrance to
the eastern barracks at Fort Wayne, near
| Detroit, resulted disastrously To four sol
diers, who are now lying burned and
| bruised in the regimcntal hospital. They
| are all members Of the Nineteenth infan-
try,