The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1900-01-04
Odds and Ends,
Vienna, Ga, had a big fire.

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Salem Mason, 1OS, colored, is dead,
Nashville, Tenn.
Several stores. Cleveland, Tenn, burn
ed. Loss $4,000.
Sweetwater, Tenn.
Zinc trust is said to be forming with
800, 100000 capital.
Thieves got $1,5OO at Pollard Bros
store, Newburne, Ala.
James Crocker's store, Huntsville, Ala,
burned Loss $1,000.
Engineer Galloway was killed in a
wreck, Clarendon, Texas.
Thread manufacturers have advanced
prices 10 cents a dozen spools.
Society of ethical culture in New York
has begun crusade against vice.
Chas. Yocum, Harrodsburg, Ky, acci-
dentally shot and killed his wife.
Sousa's band will attend the Paris ex-
position as the official American band.
Cunningham & Co.'S sugar estate burn
ed at Sugarland, Texas. Loss 100000.
Indian leaders are said to want to send
troops to the Cape to fight against the
Beers.
Henry Oppenheimer, 10, New York,
leaped from burning building and was
killed.
Geo. NJ Settle, dry goods merchants,
Paris. Texas, has failed. Liabilities
$4,000.
Smooth thief relieved Sam johnson, q
Cincinnati truck farmer, of $4,000 in
Spanish war bonds.
Paterson, n. j., will erect $4,000
bronze statue, life size, of the late Vice
President Hobart.
VIM. Baldwin, %, drowned at New
port, Ky. He was the champion bag
puncher of Kentucky.
New municipal buildings at Norwich,
England, are proposed by the corpora
ton at q cost of 100000.
Britain gains f266,500 year from the
little tax which falls on patent medicines,
pills, liver cures and ointments.
Mexico and China have completed at
Washington general treaty of trade,
navigation and immigration.
Negro woman and her two children
were found dead from smallpox in Chat
ham County. North Carolina.
Abraham X. Lefever, prominent Ian
caster County, Pa, farmer, died after
terrible suffering, with hydrophobia.
The Council of Jewish Women will
hold its second triennial meeting in Cleve-
land. Ohio, from March 4 to II, 1900.
Bubonic plague is said to have made
its appearance in Noumea, capital of the
French penal colony of New Caledonia.
Since March 10 of last year New Jer-
sey has enrolled corporations that repre-
sent face stock value of 81, 403, ,400,-
600.
Two intoxicated men on horseback,
near Scipio, l. T., shot into house with
a Winchester, instantly killing Mrs. Plum
kett.
Congressman Sulzer wants the birth
days of Thomas jefferson and Abraham
Lincoln, both in April, made national hol-
idays.
At recent local option election in
Cloverport, Ky, women and preachers
crowded the entrance to the polls and
sang hymns, while church bells were
ringing. The temperance advocates won.
Rover, the mascot dog of the Bangor,
Me-. fire department for eighteen years,
was buried in satin-lined casket. Big
funeral.
A bill will be introduced in the New
York Legislature to prohibit the sale of
carbolic acid, except upon a physicians
prescription.
People of Dublin, Ireland, want bust
of Richard Croker in the Irish capitol,
because of his aid in helping to save the
Parnell homestead.
An analysis of the marriage records in
Oklahoma discloses that the average age
of brides there is % years. If the re-
marrying widows should be counted out
the average would fall below 10 years.