The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1900-02-01
WESTERN.


st. Louis, aged 80.
Captain Julius Friedman, millionaire,
was found dead in his bed at the Palace
Hotel in San Francisco.
Brig. Gen. Thaddeus III. Stanton, for
mer paymaster general Of the United
States army, known as the fighting pay
MASTER" died at Omaha.
Albert L. Van Sickle, Chicago boy,
claims share in the estate left by Miss
Marie Van Sickle, an eccentric woman
who recently died at Newark, \. j.
Charles Mccarthy, who was a circus
clown more than forty years ago and
known as the first man to turn a double
somersault, dropped dead in n saloon in
Chicago.
The indictment against John Whallen
of Louisville, charging him with attempt
ing TO bribe Senator S. b. Harroll, has
been Quashed in the Franklin Circuit
Court at Frankfort, Ky.
Guy bennett, aged p years, a nephew
Of President Dole of Hawaii, attempted
suicide at Denver by cutting his wrist
with knife in rooming house. He
was out of money and respondent.
Mrs. Mary Wright Curwen, distin-
guished for leadership in promoting the
formation of womens clubs, and in that
capacity known all over the United
States, died at her home in Cincinnati.
Gov. Nash of Ohio has received letter
from his stcpson, David w. Deshler, in
Corea, announcing that he has been mar
ried in Japan to a Japanese woman Of
rank. The news is a complete surprise.
BY hard work on the part of the fire.
men a fire at Stephens, Mimi, was con-
fined TO the large general store of j. IL.
McMahon. Loss $4,000, insurance ST.
900. The origin of the fire is unknown.
jefferson Davis Storts, a well-known
attorney aud one of the picturesque char
acters of st. Louis, died of injuries re-
ceived by falling from street car. He
was a member of the Missouri Legisla-
ture in 1888.
Spittoons will be placed at distances Of
200 feet along the streets Of Cleveland
il an ordinance introduced in the Council
is given approval. The novel plan to aid
in keeping the city clean was suggested
in all seriousness.
Thomas Hennesy, manager of the St.
Louis Radiator Manufacturing Company,
jumped through a third-story window at
Mercy hospital in Chicago. His injuries
resulted in death. Mr.. Hennesy was de-
lirious at the time.
A fire broke out in the town Of Lafay-
cite, Colo, and spread rapidly before a
high wind. Practically the entire town
was destroyed. Hundreds of families
were rendered homeless. The loss by
the fire is 100000.
Amos Phillips, the murderer whose ac-
completes were lynched at Fort Scott,
Kan., the other day, and who was him
self saved from the mob by the deter
mined efforts of the sheriff, has been SEN
fenced to life imprisonment.
At Oberlin, Ohio, Miss Gertrude Rick
seeker, the 16-year-old daughter of Mill
ionaire Ricksecker of New York, conf
mitted suicide by taking laudanum. Miss
Ricksecker was in poor health, and mel
anchola caused her TO take her life.
The third of series of dynamite ex-
plosiors within the city limits of Lead
vile, Colo, occurred the other day,
wrecking the handsome residence OF A.
v. Hunter, the millionaire mine owner,
and the house of ]. C. Ritchey, adjoin-
ing.
Anton Wood, Thomas Reynolds, kid
Wallace and one Wagner, four convicts
in the penitentiary at Canon City, Colo,
stabbed William G. Roney, captain of the
night watch, to death, captured and
bound two other guards and made their
escape.
Julius Wcnzel, a nou-union ironworker,
was attacked by strikers, who used brass
knuckles, in Chicago, and defended him
self by stabbing one of his ASSISTANTS.
His victim, Z. A. O'Connor, striker,
was mortally wounded, and died on the
sidewalk.
The wedding of Jesse James, Jr, son
of the notorious bandit, and Miss Stella
McGown of Kansas City took place at
the home of the brides parents. The
honeymoon will be spent at the home of
Mrs. Samue!s, Mr.. James grandmother,
in Clay County.
Leroy w. Secor, who embezzled ST.
600 from the Goodrich Transportation
Company at Milwaukee, has confessed to
the officers in New York City, where he
WiS dTTCSlcu. l1e VIII lSip thS SoooiANAA
people straighten ont his books and then
take his punishment.
The GAINESVILLE and Ohio River Rail
road, extending from GAINESVILLE TO Mari
eta along the right bank of the Muskin-
gum, has been sold after several years
of receivcrship to the Ohio and Little
Kanawha Company, organized by j.
Hope Sutor, the receiver.
At Mitchell, $. D., Judge Smith has
appointed o. Z. Aud of Plankinton re-
ceiver for the defunct Plankinton Bank.
The appointment of receiver was con-
| tested by the attaching creditors. The
non-attaching creditors will attempt to
have the attachment dissolved.
The general stores Of w. +. Wilhelms,
Redwise & Co. and Frank Overmeyer al
Burr Oak, Ind, were destroyed by hire
The estimated loss is S2S,0OO. 1t is be-
lieycd that the Redwise store was burg
| larized before the fire was discovered
and the other store buildings caught from
this one.
At Geneva, Ohio, there was sold al
public auction the other day the entire
circus and menagcrie owned by Walter
IL. Main. Lions, tigers, elephants ans
other animals went to the highest bid
ders, and the rolling equipment, from 10
man charots to private railway ears, wa,
l I.