The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-01-12
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| WESTERN
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Bengston of Wana
mingo, Mimi. the oldest couple in tn
State, each 95 years old, died within al
hour of each other.
As result of the completion of the so
called wire combine" an advance Of s.
per ton for wire and wire nails was an
nounced at Cleveland.
At st. Louis, Sister Margaret Newman
mother superior of the Ursuline convent
was killed by falling from a third-stor,
window. She was 35 years old.
At Youngstown, Ohio. Mahoning Chan
ter, Daughters of the American Revolu
tion. unanimously elected Mrs. William
Mckinley a life member of the society.
John W. Jones, miller of Prospect
Ohio. has filed a petition in bankruptcy in
the United States Court at Toledo. He
says he has debts amounting to S51 600
with no assets.
Oracle File, years old, the daughter
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Enoch File of Kansas
City, Kan, has won her suit for damages
against that city. She was shocked by
an electric light wire.
! AT Akron, Ohio, Rev. n. ]. Myers and
Rev. W. II. Brightmire were assaulted
and thrown into the snow while going
home from church. They had led a cru
sade against Sunday saloons.
| AT Astoria, Ore, the attempt to arrest
| Charles Willard on suspicion of being the
man who set fire to the Fulton cottage at
Seaside resulted in a desperate fight in
| which Willard and two officers were
| killed.
Gov. Leedy has commuted the sentence
Of j. r. Colean, who while cashier of the
| State Bank at Fort Scott, Kan. in 1895
stole So. 900 of its funds. wrecking the
bank. His sentence of FIVE years was re-
| duced to four.
Alexander Zeese. Of the firm of A.
Zeese e. Co., photo-process engravers, and
one of the pioneer engravers of Chicago.
met with almost instant death by falling
from the iron stairway at the Northwest
ern station in that city.
Minneapolis had its third grain elevator
FIRE within fortnight early the other
morning, the annex of Woodwork ele-
| vator. with its contents. being entirely
| consumed. The loss on building is about
So. 900 and on grain $4,000.
Two Fort Scott, Kan, bandits tied a
policeman to a tree and then held up and
robbed the occupants of two hotel offices,
after which they shot a railroad engineer,
engaged in a pitched battle in the dark
with two officers and escaped.
Col A. c. Woodruff has filed petition
of voluntary bankruptcy at Marysville.
Ohio. giving his liabilities as over $50
600. Seven manufacturing establish
ments in which he is interested hold notes
against him ranging from S32S to $751;
100.
In fight between non-union white min
ers and negroes in the Springside mining
district at Pana, ILL.,, several men on both
sides are reported to have been badly in
jured. The fight originated over a white
miner taking exceptions to a negro loiter-
ing around his house.
L. ID. Leader, aged %, school teacher
and prominently connected at McComb,
committed suicide at a hotel in Findlay,
Ohio. He took large dose of morphine.
wrapped the bed blanket around his body
and then shot himself through the head.
III health was the cause.
A Denver and Rio Grande freight train.
loaded with ore and cattle. jumped the
track near Mears Junction. Colo. and
rolled down a steep embankment, smash
ing the cars to pieces. All the members
OF the train crew were more or less In
Jured, but no one was killed.
The delegates to the Louisiana pur
chase convention at st. Louis unanimous
ly selected that city as the place of hold
Inc %hn 70, -. n.
nearly all the States and territories in the
Louisiana purchase" were assembled in
response to an invitation of Gov. Stephens
to decide upon the place and manner of
celebrating the Tooth anniversary of that
important event.
Fire in the six-story brick building at
st. Louis owned by the Ames estate and
used by the Albert Acruman Mercantile
Company as wholesale department
goods store, caused heavy loss. The fire
originated in the fifth story and burned
up through the roof and down into the
second story, badly damaging the build
ing. The contents Of the sixth story were
nearly destroyed and those in the stories
below badly damaged.
The National Biscuit Company, through
it's president, B. F. Crawford. met Attor-
ney General Monnett at Columbus, Ohio,
and a settlement of the suit of custer re-
Gently filed in the Supreme Court was ar
ranged, under which the proceedings are
expected to be dropped. The company
complied with the first and second clauses
in the action by paying into the State
treasury fee of 81, 100 for the privilege
Of doing business in the State. President
Crawford assured the Attorney General
that if the company's mode of doing busi-
ness was in violation of the Ohio trust
laws it would modify the system so as 10
comply. This will satisfy the remaining
clause in Mr.. Monnett's action.
John d. Rockefeller's agents at Ev
erett, Wash, are preparing to build one
of the largest electric plants on the Pa
cific coast. Its purpose will be to furnish
power to operate the Everett and Monte
Cristo Railroad. sixty-five miles long,
standard gauge, owned by Rockefeller.
and chiefly carrying freight, together with
the Everett street railway and half a
dozen large Everett industries, which
Rockefeller controls These include nail
works. the largest paper mill on the
coast, smelter and the city lighting
plant, besides big concentrator at
Rockefeller's Monte Cristo mines. 1t is
estimated that the saving in cost of power
will pay for the electric plant in three
years.
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