The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-03-10
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The price of wheat on the Chicago
Board of Trade touched S1.0J the other
day.
With its capital stock placed at $780,
000, 900. it cost the re-organized Union Pa
cifc Railway just $50, ,402.50 to incorpo-
rate at Denver under the laws of Colo-
RADIO.
Mrs. Robert Mantell, known on the
stage as Charlotte Behrens, is lying at the
point of death at Port Huron, Mich, an
operation having been performed as a
last resort.
Justice Parr and Attorney John W.
Clapp of Milan. Mo-, became involved in
a quarrel, and the interference of friends
alone prevented the justice from being
killed with poker.
According to a decision of the Minneso-
ia Supreme Court, man who builds
house on anothers lot has no claim to
the house, nor can he enforce lien
against the lot for its value.
Ulrich Steiner, one of the wealthiest
men in Lima, O., was taken to the asylum
insane over new Christian alliance re-
ligion. He killed all his cattle, fowls, etc.
because the devil was in them.
A well-dressed young man attempted
to hold up Judge Madill. president of the
Union Trust Co., in his Office st St. Louis.
The judges presence of mind baked the
robber. and he was taken to Jail.
Eli Blake. postmaster at Tongawa. o.
T., was waylaid and beaten to death, pre-
sumably by a gang of local toughs, be-
cause he had been leader in an attempt
to drive the saloons out of Tongawa.
Michael Hoffman, pioneer wholesale
liquor merchant in Kansas City, has as
signed. The liabilities are stated at $780,
600 and the assets and stock worth S40.-
600, and real estate valued at $4,000.
The International, the Industrial. the
Occidental and the Salvadoreao banks
at San Salvador. have, by decree of the
Government, been relieved of the obliga-
ton of redeeming silver bills for eight
months.
Mrs. Grace Higgins of st. Louis, Mo-,
was compelled by her husband to rise
from sick bed and dance hoochi-coochi
dance for party of maudlin friends.
Feeling her disgrace keenly, she attempt
ed suicide with carbolic acid.
DR.. W. C. Nilder shot and instantly
killed himself at Newton, Kan. presum-
ably because of fear of the decision of the
coroner's jury investigating the death of
Mary Janke. The verdict, which was rem
dered after the doctors suicide, did not
directly involve him.
Rev. G.. o. Brown, who was suspended
by the Bay conference two years ago for
conduct unbecoming a minister and who
afterward was pastor of Chicago
church, confessed at San Francisco that
he was guilty of some of the things of
which he was accused.
While crossing q railroad trestle. near
st. Louis, Mrs. Lizzie King and Frank
Carey, aged II, were run down by an ex-
press train. The woman jumped from the
bridge, but the boy was ground to death
under the wheels. The woman is so badly
hurt she cannot recover.
The steamer City of Duluth grounded
on sandbar off st. Joseph, Mich, in a
fierce gale. The cargo of corn and -four
is a complete loss. With the aid of life
huoys the eleven passengers who embark
ed on the steamer at Chicago were hauled
10 shore. The crew of twenty was also
rescued.
Fifty or more lives have been lost by a
fire which broke out at Spokane. Wash
The flames were in the Great Eastern
block in Riverside avenue. 1t was vast
six-story structure the upper floors of
which were occupied by about n hundred
roomers. The loss will amount to S22o.-
600 or more.
Representatives of the striking miners
and the operators of the northern Colo
RADIO coal district have decided to submit
their grievances TO the State Board of
Arbitration. Four mines in the northern
district resume work, the miners who Will
report for duty having become dissatisfied
with the way the strike is being handled.
The National Stock Growers conven-
ton at Denver, Colo, came 10 an end in
a wild scene at the Union stock yards,
where grand barbecue had been pre-
pared. A crowd Of 10000 people was
present. Facilities not being sufficient to
accommodate the throng, there was much
delay and the tables were finally stormed
by the hungry visitors. The efforts of
Fifty policemen and a detachment of mi
litia to keep order were Lsughed at.
George H. Dobbs and Mrs. Amelia
New, recently convicted at Eureka, Kan,
of the murder of Mrs. News husband.
have been sentenced to life Imprisonment.
When arraigned for sentence Dobbs
stoutly protested his innocence. Mrs
New made no statement. At the conclu-
sion of the trial and while the jury was
deliberating upon the case she broke
down and acknowledged the murder OF
her husband by herself and Dobbs Later
she denied this alleged confession. Joseph
New was mysteriously murdered last Oc'
tober. A few days later Dobbs went tc
| live with Mrs New.
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