The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-08-03
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The army worm IS causing great dam
age around Fort Scott. Kan.
w. ID. Hooper, a wealthy grocer. died
at his home in Hot Springs, Ark.
At Napoleon. Ohio. Daniel Howe, aged
10, was instantly killed by lightning.
Rev. Charles f. Haywood cf Silver
| Greek. Ncb.. was fined So for accepting
drink of whisky.
The Hepulh.an iron ana Sgoel Com
pany of hast st. Louis has in erca>cd the
wages of its LOGO employees Ii per cent.
Girls clubs in southern Kansas have
resolved to wed men who served with
Funston in the Philippines or remain sin
gle.
The carriage trimmers of the Brown
carriage works at Cincinnati have struck
against a reduction of II Per cent IL
wages.
Jessie Hoover, II years old. daughter
OF the engineer of the scenic railway, was
drowned at the Omaha exposition
grounds.
y passenger train was wrecked near
Clarks, New, ON the Central Pacific. En-
ginecr \. ii. Real was killed and the fire
| man injured.
At Athens. Mo, Is. l.. Hull fatally shot
| his sweetheart, Miss Florence Gordon,
and then committed suicide, blowing his
| head almost OFF.
Andrew Carnegie has offered to give
| $4,000 for a public library in San Diego.
! Cal, if Il site be donated and the library
maintained as at present.
Allen Thomas Wells. general freight
| agent of the Denver and Rio Grande
| Railroad, died ut Denver of diabetes. He
was born at Memphis Tenn, in 1891.
The excursion steamer Queen arrived mt
Seattle from Alaska. Among her passcn-
| gers were United States Senator George
+. Perkins of California ana Henry Vii
lard.
Lloyd Tevis, the California multi-mll-
ionaire mining king. turfman and stock
raiser, died at his home in San Francisco.
His estate is estimated at from $4,000
900 to 500. 0.000,000.
\ cyclone struck the eastern portion of
La Forte, Ind, and wrecked the boot
and shoe store owned by Buttcrworth X
Co. Several other buildings were also
level"d to the ground.
At Denmark, Ind. Charles Wolfangei
chopped his wife and two daughters to
death, then cut his own throat and died
on the floor by his wife's bedside He is
thought TO have been insane.
Cincinnati messenger boys are on strike
for Il raise of compensation. The matter
became serious the other night when two
boys were stabbed, several hit by missiles
and many sluc-cd with clubs
The Topeka, Kan. Daily Capital has
been sold to syndicate, including Del
Keller, the present business manager;
Harold T. Chase, the present editor, and
+. O. Popohoe, n local capitalist.
Three thousand five hundred brickmak-
ers went on Il strike in Chicago, nearly
every brickyard in Cook County being
shut down. with the resultant prospect
of tying up building operations indcf-
nitely.
Edna Curtis. Milhc Dctrick. Incz and
Mabel Neal. daughters of Caldwell, Kan.
citizeLS, were drowned at Brury. They
were in bathing in the river and got be-
yond their depth. Their ages range from
IL TO 10 years.
A. Finley, third officer of the steamship
Garronc, now being fitted up Mt Seattle
for transport, has received word from
England that through the death of his
father he is heir to an estate amounting
10 nearly S4,00o.00O.
Frank Wallace, convict from Kansas
City, ic5prd from the third floor ef the
Jefferson City. Mo-. pcnitentiary To the
stone pavement below and was killed. He
was IL years old ana serving a l2-year
sentence FOR robbery.
new steel cage built for the four in
corrigible couvicts in the Ohio State pris-
on at Columbus has been finished and the
men placed in it, They are known as the
prison demons" Each one has shot or
stabbed a guard or two since his incar-
ceration.
The bodies of two white men, supposed
to be father and son. have been found III
the brush by the Tahlequah road. four
miles from Fort Gibson, |. L. The names
of the victims are not known, but it Is
stated that they were from Barton Coun-
ty. Missouri
BY the men accepting the proposition of
Manager Campbell to pay the same
wages paid prior to 1892 the big strike
among the employees of the finishing mills
Ut IpuutNipNu- ohlD, NiS sNANith. h-A''
means practically an advance of - per
cent in wages.
City Marshal John Gates Of Strong
City, Kan, shot and almost instantly
killed Mrs. johnson on the Santa Fc plat
form there. He had ordered her off the
platform, whereupon she attacked him
with Il knife, and to save his life the Off
Ger fired ut her
The famous Mariposa estate, terrific
rally one of the largest gold mining
properties in the United States, and the
first quartz property developed in Cali
forria, is to be reopencd and worked af-
ter suspension of operations for nearly
thirty-ive years.
Detectives arrested John Connors at
the Dittenhoffer shoe factory in Cincin- |
natl and charged him with a sensational
murder that occurred a year ago in st. |
Louis, Mo-, when Charles \. Brant, Il |
stenographer, was held up by three men
and shot TO death.
John Doyle, engineer Of the Garfield |
Grouse mine, ut Cripple Greek, Colo. was !
carried off by twenty masked men. Doyle |
was released by his abductors after they |
had given him Il severe beating. He pro- |
fesscs not to know who the men were or /
why they punished I'M.
w. ~ Thayer. the balloonist from Col
!inS. Mich, was killed in sight Of many
persons at Strcator, Ill. lie fell from
the parachute when the balloon was up
200 feet, landing on his back on the rail /
road track. His back, neck, both legs
and both arms were broken.
Charles L. Taylor and John NJ. Fulton
Of Reno. New. have bought from Sam
ucl Hunt, Orin Bennett and 5. ID. Thack
or the largest antimuny mine in the Unit
ed States. there being over 2o.OOU,UD
pounds of high-Grade ore III sight. The
mine is in Humboldt County, Ncv.
At Moorhead, Mimi, Il woman giving
her name as Mamie Brown was found
masqucradiue in mans clothes and was
fined SO and ordered out Of town. 1t has
been learned that She is the eldest ddush-
f..Ns. n D. HrH - tor