The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-12-01
WESTERN.

cheson. aged 40. shot and killed T. ii
Low, aged %. They Quarrelcd over some
| fence posts.
In Day County, Oklahoma. r. VI. Muir
chcson, aged 40. shot and killed II. III
Low, aged -. They Quarreled over som,
| fence posts.
At kingmnl. Kan. W. c. Morgan. {
wealthy resident, wns found dead on the
| prairie. He is thought to have persisted
| in the storm.
The Baldwin Hotel and theater in Sar
| Francisco was destroyed by fire. There
were 500 persons in the building. Many
are supposed to have perishel. The loss
is about $2,000.G00.
George II. Hall. the absconding collcc-
tor of the county, who disappeared from
| st. Joseph, Mo-. nearly three years ago
has been located in Mexico. where he is
| the owner of several rich mines.
The Forum Club of St Louis has COM
| piled an address TO President Mckinley
asking him to recommend TO Congress
such legislation as will do away with the
massacre of negroes i'm the South.
AT Valley Springs, s. D.. Ncls Enquest
| fired three shots at Maud Snelser, none of
! which took effect, and then shot himself
through the head, dying Immediately. En-
quest was in love with Miss Snelser, who
failed to rcciprocate.
An attempt to rob the Lincoln County
Bank was made at Ellsberry. No. The
town watchman was tied to a tree by four
robbers, who broke into the bank and at
tempted to enter the safe. 1t is not known
that they got anything.
The powder mill at Lamonte Mo-, blew
| up, blowing six men TO atoms and wound
ing several others. The explosion took
place in the packing house. and was of
such force as to be heard and felt for a
distance of twenty-five miles.
A letter has been published from the
late Charles S. Cross. president of the de-
funct First National Bank of Emporia,
Kan, confcssing that he cooked the
books and embezzled the funds He ex-
onerates other officials of the bank.
At Utica. Ohio, the Wilson Bank was
robbed while the officials were absent for
a period Of fifteen minutes at the dinner
hour. Two thousand dollars in registered
bonds and $1,000 in coupon bonds and
$1,000 in gold and currency were taken.
The Supreme Court of Missouri has or
dered a new trial for Dr. jefferson D.
Goddard, convicted in Kansas City of the
murder of James Jackson and sentenced
TO ten years Imprisonment. on the ground
of improper instructions by the trial court.
A report of double murder, comes from
Hartshorne. |. T., where two brothers
named Green shot two Russians named
Morris and Buttawinski. killing both of
them. The tragedy is said TO be the out
come of a feud having its origin in Rus
sia.
Emil Wier stepped into Sheriff Mel
bury's Office at Huron. s. D., and asked to
be placed in Jail. saying it was he who
killed John Mott of Richland township.
whose body was found in his barn. Wier
claims to have committed the crime in
self-defense
After two months of search and the re-
covery of eighteen dead the grain handlers
at the Union elevator in Toledo found the
charred body of an unknown man. His
appearance indicated him to he a well-to-
do man and it is supposed he had been
visiting the elevator 1T the time of the
explosion.
A stranger, bent on suicide. threw him.
self in front of train going at full speed
at Brightwood and, in addition to ending
his own life, nearly caused n serious dis
aster. The sudden checking of speed
threw Brakeman Frank w. Fortney of
Bellefontaine from the train, seriously in
juring him.
Mark Murphy, % years old, gambler,
wLo went TO St. Louis recently from Chi
cago. was killed in the resort ne conducted
at 16 \ North Twenty-third street. His
skull was beaten in with blunt instru
ment and he died shortly after his bleed
ing body was discovered by James John
son, son of the assistant prosecuting attor-
ney of st. Louis.
A three-coach and baggage passenger
train on the Burlington. Cedar Rapids and
Northern road was wrecked six miles
north of Burlington. Iowa. One of the
cars, containing thirty passengers. rolled
down an emhankment, turning three
times in 100 feet. Two persons were
fatally. three seriously and seventeen
slightly injured.
While alone in the upper story of
dingy building on Commercial street, San
Francisco, All Pun was hacked and
beaten by All Bow and Sung Iee, two
highbinders. who fed at the approach of 4
lodger in the house, thus saving All Pun's
life. The latter was found lying over a
grating, with his skull fractured and COW
cred with gore.
An injunction was granted by Judge
Johnson of the District Court at Denver.
restraining the International Association
of Machinists, its officers and the striking
mechanics formerly employed by the L.
NJ. Davis Iron Works Company from in
terfering in any manner with the non
union men now employed in the shops and
from boycotting the company's products.
One of the boldest robberies committed
in Cleveland in years was perpetrated the
other day when the postoffice was robbed
of eleven packages containing Si00 each.
or 81, 100 in all. The money was in a pig
eonhole at n stamp window presided over
by Miss Mary Berry. She left the win
dow for few seconds and during that
brief time the money was taken. -Four
women were seen acting in suspicious
manner in the corridor of the postofiice
Just before the robbery and the police be-
iieve one of them to be the thief.
The Circuit Court at Norwalk. Ohio. has
affirmed the verdict rendered in the Gem
mon Pleas Court against the Nickel
Plate Railway, awarding $4,000 damages
to Frank Schaffer, brakeman. Schalfcr
claims that be was blacklisted by the COM
pany in consequence of the latter refusing
TO give him certificate of good character
as an employe, so that lie was unable to
obtain employment on any other railroad.
He brought suit against the company a
short time ago in the Huron County Com
mon Pleas Court and was awarded YER
dict of 5000.
w. ii. +. Schroeder of st. Louis was
married recently. A few days afterward
his wife and S21 900 disappeared Jcfier-
son ID. Storts, St. Louis lawyer, says
that she left upon his advice, and that her
seizure of the money was also by his ad-
vice. In fact. he says he told her to take
everything she could lay hands on" Mr..
Schroeder, according TO his wife, though
wealthy is close He refused to ci va har