The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-12-03
WESTERN,

| robbed of 5000.
Forty-three head of horses perished in
fire at Windsor, No.. which caused 4
total damage Of $4,000.
Fire caused $4,000 damage in the
pattern department Of tie Kokon iron
works in West St Louis.
Clark Yarrick, a prominent railroad
man, was electrocuted at San Francisco
in pool of water which had been charg-
ed by a live wire.
John ". Duke was found guilty of
embezzlement at Portsmouth, Ohio. He
was secretary of the Royal Building and
Loan Association.
Superintendent Mccormack and NJ. 81.
Beck were killed in the Vindicator mine
at Cripple Creek. Colo, by the explosion
| Of an internal machine.
The st. Louis police department is con-
| sidering the idea of reviving the ducking
stool for beggars who may be attracted
to the city during the worlds fair.
The Royal glass plant at Marietta,
Ohio, owned by the National Glass Com
pany, and employing 200 persons, was
burned. Loss $4,000, partly insured.
The Leonard Baulle Shoe Case Com
pany's factory at Minneapolis, ALinn.,
together with a warehouse and four
dwellings, were burned. Loss, 100000.
Proceedings in involuntary bankruptcy
have teen begun at Cleveland against the
Owen T. jerks Company, lumber deal
ers. The liabilities are placed at $4O,-
600.
B. T. Keith, the vaudeville manager
of New York, is to enter Cleveland G.
E. Kohl of Chicago is said to be nego-
tiating for the purchase of the Star
TEeater.
Fourteen dwelling houses were burned
In fire in Cleveland. As far as known
no lives were lost, the families being
warned in time. Fourteen families are
left destitute.
Beulah Thomas, n 16-year-old girl of
Arborville, Neb., has been kidnapped by
two men and no trace of her can be
found. She is the prosecuting witness in
an assault case.
Bob Fitzsimmons was victor over
George Gardner in twenty-round fight at
San Francisco; Fitz was greatly superior
in strength and skill and Gardner was
badly punished.
The remains of NJ II. johnson, a
prominent mining man, have been found
in deserted cabin near Saltese, Mont.
A bullet hole in the breast indicates that
he had been murdered.
In Urbana, Ohio, Otto Henry, with
half a dozen aliases, was found guilty of
picking the pockets of Alexander Nc
Beth, stock buyer, of his pocketbook,
containing about $1,000.
The steamer Scotia arrived in Point
Arenas, Cal, with FIVE of the crew of the
French bark Francois Hoppe. which was
wrecked near Point Reyes. Thirteen of
the crew are unaccounted for.
Under direction of United States Sem
ator w. A. Clark, the directors of the
Paul Clark home, established by a son
of the Senator, have opened free-soup
house to the destitute of Butte.
Robbers blew open the outer safe and
partially wrecked the building of the
Bank of Raymond. Neb., but were un-
able to gain access to the safe. They
departed without getting any money
Tile Chicago City Railway Company
and its striking employees came to terms
Wednesday and the men returned to
work. The agreement reached is n COM
promise. both sides making concessions.
Young Corbett and Eddie Hanlon have
been matched to fight in San Francisco
Dec. %. The men will meet at 129
pounds for the featherweight champion
ship of the world, the battle to be twenty
rounds.
District Attorney W. H. Bennett has
started a graft investigation at Milwau-
kee aimed at members of the City
Council, city officials and members of the
Legislature and grand jury is at work
probing.
Gustav Marx, slayer of Detective
Quinn in Chicago, has confessed that he
was implicated in the City Railway car
barns murders as well as three other
murders. Three alleged accompIices were
named to the police.
Judges and lawyers of Chicago took
part in commemorating the fortieth anni-
versary of Judge Joseph =. Gary's ac-
cession to the bench. Judge Gary pre-
sided at the trial of the anarchists and at
the famous Leutgert case.
The hotel conducted by Mrs. Georgia
Lloyd at Glens Ferry, Idaho, was de-
Stroyed by hre and 1t IS feared one or
more of the guests lost their lives. The
building contained thirty rooms, which
were nearly all occupied.
l.. Corners, merchant from Denver,
Is under arrest in Portland, Ore, charged
with highway robbery. He has a bank
book showing him to be wealthy. 1t is
believed he had three aliases, and is i'm
plicated in many holdups.
About 5000 miles of Missouri Pacific
track in southeastern Kansas and south
western Missouri ere without a section
laborer except the foremen. The men
quit work voluntarily upon receipt of the
announcement Of cut in their wages.
Efie Frankenfeld. "a years old, died
in Tiffln, Ohio, from poison, the symp-
toms of which were that produced by
morphine Whether her death was the
result Of accident, suicide or murder Is