The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-08-31
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prominent stockman, was gored to death
by a bull.
Fire destroyed Merriam's planning mill
and adjoining buildings at Conneaut, o.,
with loss of $1,000.
Fire has utterly destroyed the bust
ness portion of the city Of Victor, Col,
causing a loss estimated at S2,OOO,000.
Frank w. Howell. lately of New York,
in a fit of dependency at Webb City,
Mo-, killed his wife and fatally wounded
himself.
At st. Louis, Mo-, a voluntary petition
in bankruptcy was filed by John +.
Hermann, Jr. Liabilities $l61,202 as
sets $32,311.
The City Council of South Omaha,
Neb., has adopted resolutions calling up
on Mayor Ensor to resign, under threat
Of impeachment proceedings.
At Columbus, Ohio, Miss bessie Gar
rett was struck by West Broad street
car and injured so that she died within
an hour. She was riding a bicycle.
Six men were killed near Joplin, Mo-,
by the explosion of five boxes of giant
powder The plant of the Marguerite
mine was also completely destroyed.
The yards of the Uhrig Fuel Com
pany and of the Forest Lumber Com
by fire. The total loss amounts to about
S150,O00.
Miss Viola Horlocker, charged with
poisoning the wife of her employer at
Hastings, Neb.. is said to be patient at
Oaklawn Sanitarium, Jacksonville, H.,
q private insane asylum, enrolled as Miss
Allen.
All Kansas City cattle records were
broken the other day, when the receipts
at the stock yards were 1890 head. or
265 head more than on Sept. 20, 1898.
when the previous record was estab-
lished.
Harry Staininger, IL years of age, was
instantly killed and Frank Murdoch, also
II years old, mortally wounded by Henry
Bartholmus, whose watermelon patch
six miles east of Ouray, Colo, they were
raiding.
A fire, supposed to be of incendiary ori-
gin, destroyed an entire block in the
heart of Sidney. Neb. Three business
houses. six residences and as many barns
were destroyed, at loss of not less than
1000, with no insurance.
After making futile attempt to kill
his wife, Hugh Herr, living at Cleveland.
sent bullet into his head. There is
little hope for Herr's recovery. The
cause for the shooting was that Mrs
Herr did not want to live with her hus-
band.
At Indianapolis, Ind, Policeman John
Warren found James Birch, watch
man, beating his wife. The wife-beater
shot Warren through the breast. Before
falling the policeman shot Birch twice
through the head, killing him almost in
stantly.
Harrison Hamilton and Ira Cooper,
two wealthy ranch owners in Day Coun-
ty, o. T., to settle a feud repaired to a
cyclone cave, and stripping off all clothes,
fought a duel to the death with corn
knives. The bodies were found covered
with gashes.
Four puddlers were terribly burned in
a waterworks tunnel explosion at Cleve-
land. Crib No. l, in which the explosion
occurred. is more than mile from the
shore. The explosion was caused by the
shutting off of the air from the tunnel,
causing congestion of gas.
Gen. Charles w. Blair, of Kansas
City, attorney for the Kansas City, Fort
Scott and Memphis Railroad, died at
Coronado Beach, Cal. after lingering
illness. He was 20 years old, and for
fifty years had been prominent figure
in politics in Ohio and Kansas.
Daniel Montgomery, wealthy Milan.
Mo-, farmer, crushed his wife's face with
a hatchet and attempted to kill his little
boy, and then cut his throat with razor.
had been sick for about a
week, and it is supposed that he was in
a delirium when he struck his wife.
Tom Ryan, a cattleman, was shot and
killed by Frank Coil, young sheepman,
fifteen miles southeast Of Chadron, Neb.
The affair is the result Of feud that
has existed between the cattlemen and
the sheepmen over priority of right on
pasturage land. Coil gave himself up.
In Cincinnati st. Paul's German Cath
olc Church was partly destroyed by fire.
The parish school adjoining was dam
aged by falling debris when the dome
fell. The church was being remodeled
for Its golden anniversary. Ihe hre
started from the supplies Of the frescoers
and painters.
At Newtown, Ohio, Jacob Christman,
aged 81, attempted to kill L. ID. Drake
and then committed suicide. Christman
fired a shot at Drake, but missed him.
He then rushed back into his house, from
which pistol shot was heard, and sim
flames burst out and the
house was consumed.
A boiler exploded at the Ahwickert
Planning Mill at Appleton, Wis, killing
two men and seriously injuring eight
others. The entire factory was wrecked
and windows in the vicinity were broken
by the conclusion. The end of the boiler
was carried through the engine-room
roof and fell 100 feet distant. The loss
is estimated at $4,000.
An attempt was made to burn the city
building at Delaware, Ohio, valued at
S150,000. A man was seen running from
the rear and fire was discovered in the
hay used for the fire department stock.
The horses were nearly suffocated before
they could be removed. After two hours
the flames were under control. Loss
81 900