The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1902-10-02
EASTERN,

George CAN'T was hanged at Reading,
Pa. Gantz's crime was the murder last
October of Annie Etter. IL years Of age.
Gantz was 81 years old, idle and shift
less.
James Winston. aged IS, miner who
had returned 10 work, was beaten 10
death by a mob, and his son-in-law, s.
J. Lewis, severely injured at Scranton,
Pa.
III. Nj. Nj. Richards, treasurer of the
American Iron and Steel Manufacturing
Company. was shot and seriously wound
ed in a riot led by the striking employees
OF the company AZ Lebanon, Pa.
In a collision OF freight trains at Ken
wood Junction, Pa, on the Fort Wayne
Railroad. six cars We're wrecked and TWO
frame dwellings demolished. Three train
men and two women occupants of the
dwellings are reported seriously hurt.
A million and n half dollars is the
amount of the bequest Of Mrs. Mary ].
Winthrop of New York City to Prince
ton Theological Seminary When an
nouncement of the beQuest was first made
1t was estimated that il would not reach
over 100000.
Couty Treasurer VIM. o. Thompson.
charged with embezzling county funds to
the amount of S13.5I6. was arrested at
York, Pa. and placed under $4,000 bail.
Thompson was arrested on ten specific
charges. q warrant having been sworn
out on each offense.
Maj. John Wesley Powell, founder and
director of the bureau Of American eth
nology, is dead. The end came ut his
summer home in Haven, Me-, after a
critical illness. He was 6S years old, and
was one of the foremost geologists and
anthropologists in the world
In full sight of a crowd variously esti-
mated at from $1,000 10 10000 people.
Louis Girard, one of the aeronauts with
the Stafford troupe, fell 80 feet with
collapsed hot air balloon at the Bristol
County fair al Taunton, Mass. and died
an hour afterwards from his injuries.
Although the death of Mary Gruner,
who came TO New York recently from
salt Lake City. is shrouded in mystery
the police profess TO have evidence to
show that she burst blood vessel in a
hit Of emotion due to the receipt of news
saying that love affair had ended un
happily for her.,
The Golden Eagle Hotel in Washing
ton was dynamited by Frank McKie, one
Of the guests, who subsequently COM
United suicide. Twenty or thirty guests
were thrown from their beds by the eS-
plosion, but only the proprietor, Louis
Brandt, and his wife We're injured. the
latter seriously. The affair is veied in
A peculiar damage suit has been
brought against street railway company
Of New York City by Simon Kurtz. who
seeks to recover the sum of $4,000 be-
cause Of n fall which compelled him TO
shave off his beard. Kurtz is cantor.
or singer. in synagogue. Since losing
his beard. he declares. he can no longer
follow his profession under the rules of
the church.
A gang of burglars blew the safe of the
Beechwood Improvement Company of
South Sharon. Pa. and secured S4O0 in
cash. After robbing the safe the men,
Tour or fve in number, were first seen
~ Policeman Newton Stamp. whom they
overpowered, bound and gagged. George
Haynes. another policeman. was knock
ID down and tied to a post and Policeman
sayler kept up running fight with the
men for some distance, but they finally |
.scaped.
Lebanon, Pa. was in a state Of excite |
nent Monday night. There was firing of |
,istols for hours in the vicinity of, the |
American iron and steel works, where a |
'trike was in progress. The negroes who |
lad just arrived to take strikers places |
It the works were terrified, as were the
'olored citizens in the vicinity. About |
midnight William Hoffman, aged II. was
hot and he died in the hospital He was
messenger in the Office Of the American
ron and Steel Company and had attend
d an entertainment in the opera house.
IN his way home he was struck by a
ullet.
Broker John W. Hart Of Chicago has
,st his bride in Pittsburg. He was mar
led in Chicago the other day and the
oupie We're on their wedding trip. Mrs.
Hart told her husband she would go
hopping and she arose early without
Weakening him. When he awakened at
o'clock he found her missing. About
O'Clock he became anxious and started
0 make the rounds of the department
torres. but failed to find any trace of her.
In collision between freight trains on
he Pittsburg. Bessemer and Lake Erie
near Pardoe. Pa, four men
'ere killed and two fatally injured.