The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1902-08-21
EASTERN.

Luther Il. Marsh. venerable iurist and
famous Spiritualist. is dead in New York.
Mrs. McMaster Mills bulldog swallow
cd three OF her diamond rings, worth
81 900. at Greenwich. Conn.
Santos Dumont's airship was damaged
during an exhibition at Brighton Beach,
New York. The accident occurred in the
building where the airship was being eN-
hibited
The Bethlehem Steel Company, for
which Charles NJ. Schwab paid SI.oOU,-
Oo0. has been sold 10 the United States
Shipbuilding Company at figure stated
10 be S26.o00.0o0.
The Harlan & Hollingsworth ship
building plant at Wilmington, Del. has
been transferred 10 the United States
Shipbuilding Company. The price is said
10 be 81. 100000.
The boiler of the tug Jacob huper
blew up near st. Georges, Staten Island.
and four members Of the crew We're Fill
cd by the explosion or drowned. Two
men Were rescued.
George McFadden, colored. has con-
fessed to the Philadelphia police that he
is wanted in Lumberton. s. c.. for the
murder in November, 1900. of Elizabeth
Smith, also colorcd
Levi Pcrham. aged 10, ut inquest over
body OF Marcus Rogers at Bennington.
VT, confessed that, assisted by Rogers
wife, he bound her husband, chloroformed
him and threw the helpless man into the
Walloomsuc river.
Application to New York Stock Ex-
change TO list imperial Russian rentes
has been made through J. T. Morgan x
Co., and is taken in Wall street rs an
other step in recognition of city as finan-
cial center OF the world.
Nelson Morris X Co OF Chicago have
purchased the business OF the United
Dressed Beef Company. whose main
plant is At Forty-first street and First
avenue. New York City 1t is said the
consideration was S5,O0o,0O0.
A freight train plunged through an open
bridge on the Long Branch division Of
the Central Railroad of New Jersey and
landed in Elizabeth river. Patrick Mans
field Of Plainfield. 4 brakeman. and Fire
man Webster of Bayonne were killed.
A cloudburst caused devastation in
Hillsdale cemetery at Madison. \. ].
Seventy-ive caskets were uncovered by
the rushing waters and many OF them
We're swept from the graves. Some of
the bodies were found mile from the
cemetery.
The sale OF the Philadelphia mint prop
erty has been consummated, the buyers
being the Philadelphia Mint Realty Com
pany, and the price S2.OO0.OO0. This
property was put up AT auction some time
ago and the highest price offered was
81. 100000.
Rev. DIR. VI. NJ. Sweeney, pastor OF the
Bellevue Methodist Episcopal Church.
Bellevue. Pa. committed suicide at bis
residence by cutting his wrists. He bled
TO death before his condition was Giscov-
cred. DIR. Sweeney suffered 4 stroke of
apopleNy two weeks ago and it is thought
was temporarily deranged.
An unknown man was found dead on
the stoop of 4 private house at so West
Twenty-ninth street, New York. He had
killed himself by drinking poison. 1t
developed that the man had during the
day robbed the office of Edward Mayhem.
He failed TO secure any valuables. and
his failure is believed to have prompted
him to end his life.
An attempt on the life of Robert +.
vania and present Democratic candidate
for the same office. has been made by
someone whose identity is unknown as
yet. A package containing several pounds
of sunpowder in the form of small cakes
or briquettes was sent TO him. but lay
a chance the explosive was not ignited.