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

recently bought the Lindell and Missouri
systems.
Mrs. Anna E. George was taken into
court at Canton, Ohio, for arraignment on
an indictment for the murder of George
d. Saxton. A continuance was granted,
no date being set.
Being denied shore leave by their COM
mander, thirty members of the crew of
the Philadelphia disappeared from the
ship at Santiago, Cal. Eighteen of them
have been recapturcd.
A fatal head-end collision occurred on
the Chicago Great Western Railroad at
North Hanover, ILL.,, and as result three
men were killed, three engines, dozen
cars and the station house destroyed
The territorial statehood convention at
Guthrie, o. T.. resolved for constitu-
tional convention in June and State
election in October on proposition to go
to Congress and demand admission in De.
cember.
The home of Daniel Burns. at the north
end of Steubenville, Ohio, has been crush
ed by huge rock weighing about one hun
dred tons which lOosened from the top of
a hill and rolled down with frightful force.
Mr.. Burns, his wife and son were badly
injured.
Mayor P. C. Hesser of Fort Scott, Kan,
has been expelled from Grace Episcopal
Church by public announcement because
of his failure to make an effort to close the
saloons of the city. His wife thereupon
withdrew. Hesser was elected as Pro-
hibitionist.
North-bound train No. on the Big
Four road, while running forty miles an
hour, instantly killed ali unknown man
and woman who were walking on the
track few miles west of Cleveland The
bodies were mangled in a horrible man.
ner.
The Circuit Court of Cleveland, Ohio,
overruled the demurrer to the disbarment
charges against Judge F. E. Dellenbaugh.
The court held that it had jurisdiction in
the case and that the charges were suffi-
cient. if proved, to justify Judge Dellen-
baugh's disbarment.
The murder charge against John Miller,
Mrs. Dickinson and Mrs. Wilson. accused
Of the assassination of Daniel Wilson in
Suisun Valley, Cal, was dismissed. there
being no evidence to hold the parties. The
case promised highly sensational develop
ments at one time.
The dead bodies of Charles \. O'Hara
and his wife have been found in a hole in
one corner of their ranch, near Barr,
Colo. They had been missing for several
days, and search was instituted by the
authorities, resulting in their being found
with both their skulls crushed.
Three weeks ago a farmer named Kel-
lerman, near Fairbury. Neb., hutchered
hog afflicted with trichinae. The family,
comprising himself, wife and seven chill
dren, partook of meat which was INSULT
ciently cooked. Three days later a daugh
ter and afterward the mother, after fear
full suffering, expired.
Tilted by the girl he loved, Wesley Ly-
ons, coal miner aged 90, shot his rival,
Thomas Roberts, another miner, aged 22,
and attempted to kill Mary Davis at
Shawnee, Ohio. Lyons then killed him
self. Miss Davis had refused to allow
Lyons to accompany her home from a
dance and accepted Roberts as her escort.
At Saltwater, Mimi, the jury in the
case Of Edwin Bronson to break the will
Of his grandfather, Isaac Staples, brought
In verdict sustaining the claim of Bron-
son that Mr.. Staples was of unsound mind
at the time of making the will. The es
tate of Mr.. Staples is valued at S1,3OO,-
600. and by the terms of the will the heirs
Of Mr.. Staples daughter, who married w.
G.. Bronson, were only remembered in
small bequests.
C. r. Troxcl, attorney for Grant G..
Gillett, ex-millionaire cattle king, and
James II. Arnold of Kansas City, one of
the heaviest creditors of Gillett, have ar
rived at Ell Paso, Texas, from Chihuahua,
Mexico. Arnold says that negotiations
with Gillett looking to settlement of the
latter's affairs with his creditors are now
under way and everything points to salts
factory arrangements being completed be-
fore March 1. when Gillett will return to
his home in Kansas.
The Western lime manufacturers met
in Toledo and agreed on scale OF prices.
They claim no trust was formed, but
prices were fixed, which, they say, will be
maintained throughout the West. at least.
Peter Martin of Huntington, Ind, is pres
ident of the organization and George B.
Christian of Marion, Ohio. secretary. The
manufacturers present represented an an
nual output of $500 barrels and CAPITAL
of S3,O00,000. 1t is understood the ad-
vance is to be from 25 cents to 80 cents
barrel.
The official count of the vote cast
throughout the grand dominion of Ohio
for Pythian grand lodge officers resulted
as follows: Grand chancellor, John c.
Geyer, Piqua; vice-grand chancellor. Jc
siah Catrow, Germantown; grand prelate,
l.. W. Ellenwood, Marietta; grand mas
ter of exchequer, George B. DOnavin,
Delaware; grand master-at-arms. Charles
]. Deckman, Malvern: grand inner guard,
s. \. McCloud, Marysyille; grand outer
guard, Charles F. Brown, Cincinnati.