The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1902-11-06
EASTERN.


The National Horse Nail Company s
works i'll Nergennes, VT. burned, with a
loss of S15,G00.
Mitchell day" was celebrated through
out the anthracite mining region of Penn
syivania with parades and speeches.
The Federation of Public Accountants
was organized in Washington with
George Wilkinson of Illinois as secretary.
The New York Produce Exchange held
a meeting and ratified the action of its
committee on canals in favor of deepen
ing the Erie canal to twelve feet TO per-
nit the passage of l,0o0-ton barges.
The vault of the private bank of
Charles X. Knapp at Sodus. \. Y, was
broken into with dynamite by burglars
and sum believed to be $1,000 was
secured. The building was wrecked.
The New York grand jury indicted On
charges of murder in the first degree
Thomas Tobin. alias Thomas Kelley, and
Alexander McEneaney. in connection
with the murder of Captain James Is.
Craft.
By sudden rush of gas, supposed 10
have been sulphuretted hydrogen, four
men were killed and three seriously al
fected near the Twenty-fourth street
heading of the big tunnel trunk sewer at
Niagara Falls.
Fire visited the famous Ross-FentoD
farm on Deal Lake. near Asbury pnrk.
y. j.. destroying the main building.
Charles J. Ross. the actor, OWNS the
property. and it was the summer home of
many theatrical people.
Negotiations are under way for merG-
ing the pittsburg Coal Comany and the
Monongahela River Consolidated Coal
and Coke Company. with their comoined
authorized capitalization of $11O,ooo,ooo
and assets of Si20.0SS.0S1.
Leland Stanford Stillman of New York.
a nephew of the late Senator Stanford OF
California and relative of James Stih-
man. the New York banker, and Miss
Ada Litimer 4 singer of New York City,
We're married at Hutchinson, Kan.
Cornelius L. Gritiiths. acting cashier of
the District of Columbia and Maryland
branch of the Equitable Life Assurance
Society of New York. and until three
weeks ago cashier and in full charge OF
the Washington Office. has been arrested.
accused of the emheZZlement OF S4ocU.
Prof. Herman W. Hilprecht, head of
the archaeological department of the
University of Pennsylvania, announces
that the university is now in possession
of collection of Babylonian antiquities.
presented by the Sultan of Turkey, which
is superior to that of the British museum.
After binding, gaggiIe and otherwise
maltreating the night watchman. John
Hamburg. at the Westmoreland Coal
Company's Office in West Irwin, Pa, four
masked men entered the building. blew
open the safe and carried away about
500. They escaped without leaving any
clew.
Seven of the silver plates used in the
communion service at fremont Temple,
Boston. have been stolen from the room
in which they were kept for many years.
1t is presumed the thief discovered the
silverware and took as much as he could
readily conceal under his coat and made
his escape from the building without
arousing suspicion.
Burglars succeeded in entering the
apartments in hotel in New York City.
occupied by ]. b. Lewman and his broth
er of Louisville. and Judge Van Epps.
who was for many years trial judge IN
the Supreme Court in Atlanta. Ga. a
split-second watch, belonging 10
the Lewmans who own a string of race
horses. and money said to amount to sew
eral thousand dollars was secured.