The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1905-01-19
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boots and shoes.
The immense plant of the st. Louis
Plate Glass Company at Valley Park,
twenty miles west of st. Louis. was par
TALLY destroyed by fire, entailing loss
estimated at $250,000. Between 300 and
500 employees will be out of employment
until the plant can be rebuilt.
Three men were killed ana a woman
was probably fatally burned in wreck
on the Cotton Belt railroad at Piggott,
Ark A local freight was standing at
Piggott station. when a locomotive crash
ed into the caboose, reducing the car to
kindling The wreck caught fire.
Attempting to beat off an imaginary
foe, Henry Johnson, son of Daniel S.
Johnson, a well-to-do farmer, died at
Lyons. Mich. The young man was
brought home from the State Agricul-
tural college few days ago a maniac.
His parents attribute his death to haz-
ing.
George Betz, employed at the plant
of the Laclede Gaslight Company in st.
Louis, was instantly killed at the tele-
phone, which had been charged with
1000 volts of electricity. caused by cross
wires. George Horan and John Finlay-
son sought to aid him and We're badly
shocked. 1t is believed they will die.
Before his retirement Gov. Durbin of
Indiana paroled William Z. Hinshaw,
minister convicted of the murder of his
wife at Belleville ten years ago. Since
his conviction Rev. Mr.. Hinshaw has
been in the Michigan City prison. In
issuing an unconditional parole Gov.
Durbin took the position that the State
in the prosecution of the case had failed
utterly to establish motive for the
crime. The case to-day, the Governor
said, is full of mystery as it was ten
years ago, and all the intervening years
have failed to throw any new light on
the tragedy. Hinshaw was pastor of
church in the village of Belleville. Late
one night Mrs. Hinshaw was found dying
on the doorstep of the home and Hin
shaw was found in the yard, suffering
from knife wounds across his breast. The
woman had been shot through the head.
John Miller, % years of age, q waiter
employed in Porter's restaurant, killed
his wife and two children at his home, SO
Lewis street, Chicago. After shooting
them, he cut their throats with razor.
Then he cut his own throat and shot
himself in the breast. Miller had been
drinking in North Side groggeries all
evening. He returned to his home after
midnight with ali his money gone and
much the worse for liquor. His wife.
who is waitress also, met jim at the
door. She lectured him severely upon
his drinking and dissolute life, which had
shifted tha burden of the family'S SuD-
port upon her own shoulders. Stung to
madness by her tongue lashing, the
drink-crazed man drew revolver from
his pocket and began shooting. His
wife fell at his feet with two bullets in
her body. Miller, thoroughly aroused
then, dashed past her PROSTATE form into
the room where his two little children
had been sleeping They were wide
awake and were rubbing their eyes to
learn what all the noise was about, when
their father leaped upon them and shot
them, one after the other, with unerring
aim, and they toppled over upon the bed
unconscious. To make sure his work of
death had been successful, Miller secured
a razor from n bureau drawer and delib-
erately cut the throats of his wife and
children, and then hacked their bodies.
Then. standing where he could survey his
murderous handiwork, he cut his own
throat. He did not die quick enough to
suit him and he pressed the pistol to his
breast and sent its remaining load into
his bosom. 4 moment later neighbors
burst down the door of his rooms. Miller
regained consciousness after being taken
to the hospital, but cannot recover.