The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-07-02
WESTERN.

The northern Colorado coal miners have
finally reached an agreement with the op-
orators under which they will resume
work Immediately. Both sides have agreed
to submit future differences to joint
board of conciliation.
A large fire broke out at midnight
Tuesday in the five-story building of the
Jeffery Furniture Company at Minneap-
oils, MINI. A general alarm was sent in.
The loss will exceed 100000. This is
the second time the building has been on
fire within two months.
Sunday morning the court house in
Hoxie, Sheridan County, Kan. was burn
ed TO the ground and all Of the records
of the Registrar of Deeds and County
Treasurer destroyed. The safes had been
both opened, and the records taken out,
opened and piled on the floor in such a
manner that they would be sure to be de-
stroyed. There was $500 in the Treasur-
er's safe, which is gone. The County
Clerks safe was not touched and his
records were saved. 1t will cost Sheridan
County about $4,000 to repair the loss
and put the records where they were. No
clew has been found to the perpetrators
of the deed and the excitement is high.
After many vicissitudes during the
period of growth the State Of Kansas has
produced an eminentiy satisfactory crop
Of wheat. From returns furnished from
every county in the State, the total yield
is 100000 bushels. That is almost
double the quantity produced in the same
State the year previous. 1t also exceeds
the average yield of the last five years,
which include the phepomenally heavy
crop of 1892. 1t is 100000 bushels
more than the season of 1S94-95 at the
four principal winter wheat markets and
100000 bushels in excess of the guam
tity reported at the same four principal
winter wheat markets since last July to
the present date. The production of
wheat in Kansas, as officially estimated
in the appended table, was as follows:
1891, 54,SG6000 bu.; 1892, 70,S31 900 bu.;
1893, 23,252, 600 bu.; 1894, 35,315 900 bu.;
1895. 22,920,0O0 bu.
EXcursionists on the steamer City of
Chicago who went across the lake from
Chicago to st. Joseph Saturday night saw
Capt. Charles Mcintosh, the veteran
commander, put passenger in chains.
The captain, observing an excursionist
sitting on the steamers rail, told him it
was against the rules of the vessel The
man made no answer, and was ordered
down at once. Il will get down when l
am good and ready" was the reply, as the
man reached for his revolver. Without
another word Capt. Mcintosh, who is over
60 years of age, seized the passenger,
who weighed $50 pounds, and, after n
brief struggle, threw him on the deck.
He then sat down on him and held him
until members Of the crew brought a
rope He was securely bound and carried
into the hold, where he was kept until the
steamers arrival at st. Joseph. He was
then turned over to the United States
deputy marshal on the charge Of attempt
ing to shoot an officer Of a vessel on the
high seas. The penalty for the offense is
severe. He gave the name of Philip Rog-
ers, and said he was a railroad man of
Chicago.
Joseph X. c. Forrest is dead. For a
period greater in duration than that Of
any other man he had done editorial work
on the newspapers Of Chicago. Few
men were better known than he. In a
city where his employers could have
passed unrccognized any time these twen-
ty years, Mr.. Forests walks on the
street had been continuous professions
through crowds Of friends. OF late
years Mr.. Forrest had been employed on
the Daily News, where his occasional
articles over the odd signature of "Now or
Never were the best eXponents of that
older school of journalism, which he al
ways adorned. The frivolous skipped
those articles after first reading. But
the settled older fellow, with strong con-
victions and positive love for true terms,
read them and enjoyed and indorsed
them. But he was an old newspaper man
before there was any Daily News. 1t is
said 10 Forrest named the Tribune. He
certainly helped start that paper. And
even before that he was professional, if
not veteran, for he had done much excel
lent work on the Journal. Ever since
1910 he had been actively engaged in
newspaper work in Chicago.