The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-03-02
WESTERN.

Strycnnlne POISONING der nusuaHu Sa.
1t was an accident.
Horace A. Taylor of Wisconsin ha
been confirmed as assistant Secretary o
the Treasury and Col. Marcus p. Mile
as brigadier general.
Refunding bonds issued by Tifhn, Ohio
to the amount of $4,000 were sold t,
Briggs, Todd & Co. OF Cincinnati for
premium of secs.
The Highland Boy mine of Bingham
Utah, has been sold to capitalists in tn
Standard Oil Company for a sum approx
imating $4.OOO,OOO.
At Independence, Mo-, Mack Oldham,
negro teamster, shot and killed Id,
Fields, a mulatto, then committed suicide
Jealousy was the cause.
Unknown men secured $4,000 Of Wells
Fargo Express Company money from ar
express car in Chcrryvale, Kan, Will,
the messenger was at breakfast.
At Toledo, Ohio, Isaac ID. Smead, the
furnace manufacturer, who recently failet
for 81 SOC, 900, was discharged by the
court. None Of his creditors got a cent.
Isaac Hyman, a San Francisco clothier
was found dead in his bed, with the ga.
turned on. He was 53 years Of age, ano
life.
A number Of young men in Sacramento
CAL. are organizing a colony to settle on
the island of Guam. They propose to en-
gage in the raising Of the staple products
Of the island.
By vote Of Ia yeas to I nay the new
street railway bill repeating the Allen Law
and re-enacting the horse and dummy act
was passed by the lower house Of the ILL.
nois Legislature.
Mrs. Edith Poppleton, aged %, super.
visor of nurses at the Baptist hospital at
St. Louis, died of pneumonia. She was
the daughter of Brig. Gen. Samuel B.
Holabird, U. s. A, retired.
Ethan Allen Hitchcock of Missouri. re-
Gently United States ambassador to Rus
sia, has taken the prescribed oath and
entered upon his duties as Secretary of
the Interior in Washington.
RI Walsh, Chicago real estate deal
er, was shot and instantly killed by John
Driscoll, one Of his employees. The shoot
ing occurred in the hallway just outside
the ONCE. Five shots were fired.
Another snowslide occurred at Silver
Plume, Colo, carrying away all the build
ings Of the Seven-Thirty mine, together
with several miners cabins and burying
four men, two Of whom have been rescued
alive.
The st. Louis County Circuit Court
assessed fine of $1,000 each against
Charles Mason, Richard Burke, Edward
Fitzgerald, Isaac Cohen. Joseph Cohen,
Charlie Brett, Fred Khel and Howard
Ellis, poolroom operators. They claimed
to be doing a legitimate telegraph bust
ness.
In an explosion and fire at Hartford
City, Ind, four persons perished and $4O,-
600 worth Of property was wrecked. A
night policeman discovered fire in the rear
of the Dick building and hastened to in
vestigate. Just as he turned the corner
into the alley there was n terrific explo-
sion, which lifted the third floor of the
building several feet and dropped it down
on the second. Flames enveloped the
Dick, tn civilians and the Mason build
ings. Four charred bodies were taken
from the ruins. 1t is supposed the ex-
plosion was caused by escaping gas.
Thomas O'Neil, butcher. employed at
Swift's packing house in South st. Jo-
seph, Mo-. was literally cut to pieces by
his two younger brothers, Edward and
Jack. The men lived together. Thomas
being married. They had dispute over
money matters, when Edward and Jack
attacked Thomas with butcher knives.
ha 81 hhoA fvvi in
heart His head was badly cut and his
body is covered with knife wounds. Ed
ward was badly cut in the head. Jack
O'Neil is a one-legged man, and has no
fingers on one hand. He says he did the
killing in self-defense.
In one Of the most disastrous fires that
has visited the union stock yards in Chi
cago for years one fireman was killed out
right, two others were probably fatally
hurt, and a fourth sustained severe in
juries as a result of falling walls, while
property valued at 5000, 900 was reduced
to ashes. The fire started in the ham and
smoke house Of Swift d Co. in the very
center Of the packing house district. The
building was totally destroyed, the flames
being so furious at times as to get beyond
the control of the fire department., and
threatening to consume millions Of dol
lars worth Of property.
The ST. Louis Court Of Appeals has
handed down a decision in the case Of the
State for the use Of s. Beatty against j.
Il. Randall ct al. from Barry County,
sustaining the lower courts decision that
school teachers are empowered to pre-
serve discipline among their pupils not
only while the pupils are on the school
premises, but while they arc on their way
going from their homes to school and in
returning. In this case the son Of Beatty
refused to obey the school teacher. who
told him to accompany pupil home. and
was expelled from school. The School
Board sustained the teacher and the court
sustains the School Board.