The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1901-05-30
WESTERN.


WESTERN.
Iowa Prohibitionists nominated State
ticket, headed by A. U. Coates for Gov
ernor
Daniel r. Dittrick, aged 26 years. died
in Cleveland from traumatic meningitis,
caused by a slap on the neck.
The National Cash Register factory at
Dayton, Ohio. employing 2.3OO men, has
shut down because Of labor disturbances.
The Rev. Ernest NJ. Stires will leave
Grace Episcopal Church, Chicago. to be-
come the rector of st. Thomas Church,
New York.
John r. Tanner, former Governor of
Illinois, was attacked by heart disease
and died within half an hour at hotel
In Springfield.
Topeka is now under control of the
dry" element. the State Supreme Court
having decided that ]. w. F. Hughes is
the legal Mayor.
The Santa Fe freight house at Wi
chita, Kan, which was stored to its ut
most capacity with freight. was burned.
The loss will reach $4,000.
Fire in the carriage trimming works
of Buob & Scheu, Cincinnati. destroyed
$4,000 worth of stock and damaged the
building to the extent of $1,000.
One man was killed and four injured
by the caving in of a section of the stone
sidewalk in front of the partly demol-
ished Central Music Hall, Chicago.
In Tacoma, Wash, Mrs. Charles +.
Gunzert, wife Of a plumber, shot and
killed her 13-year-old son and then CON-
mitted suicide by taking carbolic acid.
Hamlet Henry Hawthorne, a veteran
of the Civil War, now an inmate of the
national soldiers home at Dayton, Ohio.
has come into an inheritance Of $780,
600.
]. W. Mahey fred the contents of a
double -barreled shotgun into the body of
Homer Klein at Augusta, Ok, without
any apparent cause. Klein was fatally
wounded.
The body of Allen Colo, well-known
farmer near Whorton, Ohio, was found
dead in a barn. The body was crowded
into an oats barrel, and foul play is sus-
pected. No bruises were found on it.
Ernest ]. Walter, charged with send
ing a letter threatening to kidnap son
of Senator Kearns, has been set free at
Omaha. his attorneys showing that kid
naping is not a crime under federal law
At Marseilles, ILL.,, fire that started un-
der the print paper machine from an un-
known cause, caused loss of nearly
100000 to the large and finely construct
ed plant Of the W. D. Boyce Paper Mills
Company.
For interfering with n father who was
chastising his child, Benjamin Atkins.
brick mason was killed in Chicago. Dan
iel d. Mccarthy. a saloonkeeper. is I'M
der arrest, charged with causing the
death of Atkins.
Another attempt has been made to
Sauk river, near st. Cloud, MINI. Two
charges Of dynamite were used. One
exploded with but little effect, and the
other failed to so off.
Passenger train No. 115 on the Rio
Grande Railroad ran into washout near
San Carlos, Colo, and was wrecked. The
engine rolled over into ST. Charles creek,
but the rest Of the train remained ON the
bank. No lives were lost.
Mrs. Elmer Quimby, wife of a farmer
living near st. Louis, killed her two chill
dren, boy aged Z and a girl aged 8,
by giving them morphine. Mrs. Quimby
tried to end her own life, but took too
heavy a dose and will recover.
While a party of miners were standing
near the engine at the Slope mine at
Lisbon, Ohio, preparatory to entering the
mine for the days work, the boiler eX-
ploded with frightful results. A number
of the men were burned and scalded.
The Aragon mine at Norway, Mich,
has been sold by Ogelvie, Norton 4 Co.
of Cleveland to the United States Steel
trust for $2,9O0,0OO. The Aragon is one
OF the older mines on the range and has
o. n. Moore Of Bucyrus, Ohio, died
from the result Of an accidental dis
charge Of a gun during drill of college
squad at Ada. Though only blank
cartridge, the powder and wad blew part
of his hand off. Death was due to lock-
jaw.
A sensation was caused at Lewiston,
Idaho, by the arrest of John y. King, a
well-known business man, charged with
the murder of Charles Z. Thatcher. The
latter, who was a partner of King, was
murdered in the firms store at Lapwai
the night Of July 10, 1898.
A package containing $1,000 in cur-
rency, consigned by registered mail
the National Bank of Commerce of Kan
sas City to n bank In Great Bend Kan,
has disappeared and detectives are work
ing on the theory that it was stolen by
a postal clerk. The money was in green
backs.
William Park was shot and killed at
Central, y. NJ. in the office of n justice
of the peace during the preliminary eX-
animation Of May Esmond, charged with
serious crime. James \. Wiley had
given damaging testimony in which he
used Parks name. Park commenced
shooting and Wiley dropped him.
The factory and warehouse of the
Eaton Ritchell Company, manufacturers
Of tAware, occupying nearly half bloc
at Fifteenth and Wynkoop streets, Den
yer. was destroyed by fire. Lieut.. Will
liam Kuhn was severely burned by an
explosion OF paints L. C. Ritchell, man
q ger Of the works, estimates the damage
at $l25. 5.06.
At Beilefpnraine. Ohic, jury awarded
50 1000 damages to David Hickman for
injuries received Mt the hands of mob.
Hickman and Ed Jackson, colored, and
Mrs. Nell Jackson, white. We're tarred
and teGthered and driven out of town by