The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-05-18

AGRICULTURAL department 10 SuaEieS III
ker of Santa Clara, Cal, for 1900.
William n. Boggs, the defaulting teller
Of the Dover, Del, National Bank. has
been sentenced to five years in the Tren-
ton, \. j., penitentiary and a fine Of St.
500.
Mayor Jones' Golden Rule Park, at To
ledo, which helped to make the Mayor
famous, will be closed. 1t is the intention
Of the Mayor to erect 4 large factory at
that point.
Mrs. Edwin +. Uhl Of Grand Rapids,
Mich, has been reelected president for
the ensuing two years of the National
Federation Of Music Clubs, in convention
in St. Louis.
The two top floors of the fve-story
building occupied by the American Tent
and Awning Company at the corner Of
Third and Chestnut streets, st. Louis,
burned out. The loss is $4,000.
Gold in paying quantities has been
found in Ashtabula County, Ohio, by
Pittsburg men, who have quietly leased
1900 acres before saying anything. As
says made tend to show that extensive
mining will be profitable.
Young Gee, said to be a highbinder from
San Francisco, was shot dead at Sebas-
topol. Cal, by his brother, Gang Gee q
merchant, whom he had attempted to
murder after being refused a sum Of
money for which he asked.
Mary Vlach. the 16-year-old daughter Of
q farmer residing near Beemer, Neb.,
committed suicide while respondent over
the death Of her soldier sweetheart, Geo
Hoar, who fell before Caloocan while
fighting with the First Nebraska.
The big FIVE story warehouse of the
Newly Transfer and Storage Company
at Kansas City was destroyed by fire.
The loss is estimated at over 500, 900.
james G.. McNellis, a fireman, foreman
Of No. truck company, was killed.
Weasel Skin and some other Indians
have terribly beaten number Of Mexican
herders near the lower Florida mesa. near
the Animas river. Colo, and killed five
head of horses and a large herd of sheep
belonging to the Mexicans' employers.
L. G. Wilkins and another man were
killed in an explosion at the California
powder works at Pinole. Wilkins former
ly lived at Council Bluffs, Iowa. where his
parents now reside. He was foreman Of
the shellhouse and was aged 20 years.
John C. Wagner, who had carried a
bullet in his head since the Custer mas
sacre in 1876, committed suicide with
morphine at a hotel in Saltwater. MINI.
Wagner served in both the Confederate
and Union armies during the civil war.
At Decatur, Neb., John Egleton and
Oscar Zeager quarreled over the boundary
line of their property and Egleton struck
Zeager on the head with singletree.
Zeager was picked up insensible and nev-
er rallied. dying in few hours. Egleton
is now in Jail.
w. E. Gooding, a well-known railroad
man, and for several years connected
with the Minneapolis Times, committed
suicide at Walla Walla, Wash. shooting
himself In the head. A letter he left said
his was simply a case Of too much poll
tics and bad luck"
During the performance of the Buffalo
Bill show at Cumminsville, Ohio, the roof
of old Turner Hall, which commanded a
view Of the show from across the street,
was covered with spectators. A portion
Of the roof went down, with fifty persons
on it, distance Of thirty feet. Three
persons were dangerously injured.
A cyclone visited Mulyane. Kan, and
blew down twelve frame business houses
and the Methodist Church. A small cy-
clone passed over Wichita, and five miles
east Of there it dropped to the earth and
picked up five farm houses. Mr.. Jacobs.
while out feeding stock, was hit on the
head by flying debris and fatally hurt.
At Minneapolis, Bernard Golling at
tempted to shoot his wife, from whom he
was seeking divorce. He fired one shot
at her in the street, when Judge Gilflian,
who was passing, intervened and struck
up Ceilings arm, causing the second shot
to 60 wild. Golling then ran a short dis
tance and sent bullet through his own
head.
A cyclone struck Coldwater, Kan, at 10
o'clock the other night, completely de-
stroying twelve houses and killing Joseph
Bowers, a prominent cattleman. Aid
rich's general store was wrecked and a
brick block on Main street was blown
down. The Presbyterian Church was
blown away and the court house was un-
rooted.
Mrs. Charles U. Martz, wife Of promi
nent Kirksville, Mo-, man, received a
beautifully chased silver wine flask, filled
with what purported to be sweet wine.
No marks other than the address were
upon the package. The wine was given
to chemist, who analyzed it, finding
enough arsenic in the contents to have
killed a dozen persons.
The suicide of Mary ylack, farmers
daughter, at Beemer, Neb., was followed
by another, that Of young man who is
said to have cherished q tender affection
for her. Young Jos. Harnby called at the
Vlack home and asked permission to see
the young woman's remains. He entered
the death chamber and Immediately shot
himself, dying instantly.
The long wooden railroad bridge span
ming the Nemadji River below South Su-
perior, Wis.,, by which the Great North
ern reaches Allouez Bay, fell while
heavy train was attempting the passage.
Engineer Thomas Quinn was caught m
derneath his engine and killed and Fire
man Harry Miller was crushed between
the cab and engine, receiving injuries
which may prove fatal.
Archie McCarter, q civil engineer and
contractor in Fort Scott, Kan, until
1891, when he left for Yucatan, has just
been released from political prison in
the republic Of Colombia, where he was
confined for about six years, and has re-
turned there. He has gone directly to
Washington and interested the Govern
ment in his demand upon the Colombian
Government for $150,000 indemnity.
Fire swept Russell & Co.'S mammoth
thrasher and engine plant at Massillon,
Ohio, destroying property valued at fully
S500,0O0. The blaze started in the ware
house, and gained steadily Oh the fire
men. In this structure 300 finished ma
chimes were consumed. The machine
shops were saved. Albert Bamberger, q
volunteer fireman, was killed by a fall
ing wall. In the same catastrophe Chris
tian l.. Baalz, q workman, was probably
fatally injured.
Mayor John II. Cassidy, of Bellefon-
taine, Ohio, was horsewhipped by Miss
Minnie Crawford on the main street of
the city. Miss Crawford, who is a mil