The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1900-03-22
WESTERN,

Henry Book, an old resident, while at
tempting 10 cross the Missouri river on
the ice at Chamberlain, 5. D., broke
through and was drowned.
1t is rumored that the great Western
railroads hare made an arrangement 10
| do no more cutting of rates between Chi
cago and the Western coast.
Nearly the entire business portion of
| Mackinaw City, Mich, was destroyed by
| fire. The pcstofiice and several residences
| were burned. The loss is about SJU,OOu.
BY 4 vote of ID yeas and IL nays the
| Ohio Senate defeated the Clark bill Civ
| ing local option on the liquor traffic to
municipalities and wards in municipali-
| ties.
While undergoing initiation into the
secret order of Eagles at St. Paul, James
Morrison was seriously injured by the
discharge of 4 cartridge used in the cere-
mony.
NJ. d. Haskell, ex-mayor and owner
and manager of the Auditorium Theater,
was found dead in his playhouse at Ash
tabula, Ohio. Heart failure was the
cause.
William Pearce, farmer living three
miles west of De Soto, No., was acci-
dentally shot and killed by set gun
which he had himself placed in his corn
CRIB for thieves.
Fire at Miamisburg, Ohio, destroyed
the Big Rothschild tobacco warehouse
and damaged adjacent buildings. A Chi
cago firm owned the warehouse. Loss
estimated at $l50,OOO.
A Chicago syndicate, with A. II. BulIen
at the head, has purchased the Minnesota
Mailing Company's plant at Red Wing.
The syndicate will complete the plant
and then d,uble its capacity.
The building occupied by the 4. W.
Swisher Cigar Company and the Column
bus Cigar Box Manufacturing Company.
at Columbus, Ohio, was destroyed by fire.
Loss $4,000, insurance $1,000.
Gen. John J. Elwell, one of the best
known citizens of Cleveland, and a hero
of the civil war, is dead. Death was due
to old age, but probably hastened by in-
juries received during the war.
A Union County, S. D., man named T.
J. Collins has a somewhat advanced idea
of what is necessary TO amusc the Amer
lean people. He is preparing to tour the
East this summer with a snake show.
AT Omaha, Neb., fire entirely consumed
the stock of the Omaha Tent and Rub
Der Company, valued At $3O.OOO. and gut
ted the building in which it was located.
The loss on the building will be $15,0OO.
Carrie Crawford, a young widow who
lived in the Hennepin building at Min
neapOlis, lost her life in the flames
which destroyed the building. Her old
father and her 3-year-old child were res
cued.
Lillian Bell, well known as a writer, is
TO he married April 3 to Arthur II.
Boguc. Both are residents of Chicago.
The couple will go abroad after the we'd
ding, and will spend part of the sum-
mer in Paris.
At Tecumseh, Okla, Roger Bruno,
alias Jim the Tough, arrested for horse
stealing and murder, attempted to escape
from Sheriff Grace. The men had
fierce struggle, but Grace succeeded in
killing Bruno.
The safe of the Bank of Hitchcock, ..
D., which was burned 4 few days before,
was opened, and it was discovered that
81 .0o0 known to have been in the safe
at the close of business the day Of the
fire was missing.
At Grand Forks, y. D., the City Coun-
Gil decided TO accept 5000 from the
bondsmen of the late city treasurer, NJ.
l.. Gordon. Suit had been begun against
the bondsmen for $4,000, the amount OF
shortage claimed by the city.
At Cincinnati the boss carpenters and
builders came to an agreement with the
Carpenters and Joiners' Union to estnb-
lish an eight-hour work day at $40 on
the lst of next June. The present rule
is nine hours and 1926 day.
While Charles Il. Cedarquist and his
brother were thawing dynamite at st.
Anthony Park. st. Paul, four sticks ex-
ploded and Charles Cedarquist was blown
distance of fifty feet and instantly kill
ed. His brothers legs were badly shat
tered.
Judge Sherwood, in an opinion rendered
in the Supreme Court in banc, at Jeffer-
son City, Mo-, awarded a writ of per-
emptory mandamus against Auditor
Isaac NJ. Mason, in the St. Louis city
election law case, holding the law CON
stitutional.
At Flint, Mich, the Armstrong steel
works were destroyed by fire. The plant
was established in 1889 and was employ
ing 100 hands. Loss is estimated at
$150,0O0, partially covered by insurance.
Goldcn's brewery and cooper shop were
also destroyed.
At st. Paul, Mimi, William +. Mock
was fined $3.50 and sentenced TO six
months in Jail for contempt of court III
permitting the Bowman children, whose
guardian he was, to leave the jurisdiction
of the court while a contest was pending
over their custody.
The Chicago-Denver flyer on the Chi
cago, Burlington and Quincy Railway,
known as No. L." had slight acciden:
at Tower 80, twenty-five miles west OF
Ottumwa, Iowa. The engine and front
truck of the baggage car left the track. |
No person was injured.
All the vessels of the revenue feet Will |
leave San Francisco about May =, and |
will assemble at Seattle May ~. They |
will then start for Alaskan waters. Th. |
fleet includes the Bear, Rush, Grant, Me |
Culloch and Manning, the latter vesse! |
now being on her way from New York.
Fire which started in the engine room |
totally destroyed the fOur-story brick |
building at Columbus, Ohio, owned hy |
L. w. Swisher and occupied by the Co |
lumbus Cigar Box Company and the +. |
w. Swisher Cigar Company, entailing |
loss Of $4,000 on building and contents. |
The rapidly increasing interest i'll the |
breeding and raising of Angora goats i'll |
the Southwest has resulted in the forma
tion of the American Angora Goat |
Breeders Association, which will have
its headquarters in Kansas City. \
herd book will be provided as a means
of guaranteeing pedigrees.
The Omaha National Bank won its
case in the action brought by the State
to recover $2O1, 600. the amount of n
warrant sold through the bank by ex-
Treasurer BARLEY, which was held not
to have been negotiable, the proceeds of
which he embezzled The case was de-
cided in the Supreme Court.
The receiver for and principal creditors
s. the Toledo Commercial have sold the