The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-12-09
WESTERN.

The Chinese government proposes to es
tablish Il school for Cinnamon in Sar
| Francisco.
Word was brought to Phoenix, A. T..
| by line rider that three train robbers
jess Williams, Tom Anderson and an un,
known man-who have been in Jail al
Fronteras since Thanksgiving day, have
bought their way out from the Mexican
officials and are at liberty in the Ajo
Mountains.
Two footpads stopped Mrs. Richard a.
House, wife Of a Chicago and Alton cn-
gineer, at an outlying point near Kansas
City and robbed her of $50. Mrs. House
made show of resistance, when one of
the men poured the contents of a bottle
of sulphuric acid on her hands. The men
escaped unidentified.
Samuel f. Tanner, late captain of Com
pany C, Seventeenth infantry, Ohio Ma
tional Guard, who was recently indicted
for embezzling the company's funds, was
sentenced at Toledo to the penitentiary
for three years. Tanner had embezzled
the rent checks due the county commits
sioners, and also the company's funds, the
amount aggregating $40.
Bud Scott, late of Highlands, Kan, was
found dead under a viaduct leading across
the Union Pacific tracks to an implement
warehouse in Omaha, Neb. 1t was
thought he had fallen frcm the viaduct
to the track below. Investigation devel-
oped that he was murdered. Several
scalp wounds were found on his head and
his skull was crushed. as by a blow from
a hammer.
w. ii. Banfeld, principal owner of the
Irondale tin mill, has purchased twenty
acre tract of land in East Liverpool,
Ohio, for n site for big sheet Inill and
steel plant which is to cost $3.50, 900.
The projectors of the new plant claim
that the work on the buildings will COM
mence soon after Jan. l, and that 400
men will be employed ut first.
A report has reached Bismarck. n. D.,
from the Standing Rock reservation that
the mother Of Philip Ireland, one of the
young Indians recently lynched at Will
Transport, has committed suicide because
of the disgraceful death of her son. There
is a belief among the Indians that any
person who may be hanged will never
reach the happy hunting grounds-the
heaven of the Indian. This is the reason
that the Indians at Standing Rock want
ed the Indians shot and not hanged.
The Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians,
who have been in session at Antlers. l. T.,
have determined to organize colony and
emgrate to Mexico. They have been
offered lands by the Mexican Government
very cheap. Not being able to agree on
a leader to conduct them to the promised
land in their own nation, United States
Agent Wisdom was finally selected. The
Indians propose to sell their lands to the
United States and with the proceeds pur-
chase new homes. The Dawes commits
sion is authorized to negotiate for the In
dian lands. Agent Wisdom has not yet
decided whether to accept the offer.
Chesterfield, Ind, was almost wiped off
the map by the explosion of eighty quarts
Of nitro -glycerine, which had been brought
overland from Montpelier and placed in
an open field, half mile from the town.
Marion Mansey and Sam Mcguire were
working at gas well near by when the
explosion occurred. Mansey was thrown
fifty feet, but not fatally injured. Ma
guire was also thrown 100 feet in the air
and badly lacerated, but will recover. The
little town of Chesterfield is a mass of
ruins. NJ bdleSNlle, TWO mlleS AWAY, |
and at Yorktown, FIVE miles distant, the |
damage was almost as great. The jar of |
the explosion was felt for fifteen miles |
in all directions. The explosion was spon-
taneous. Though many were hurt, no
person was killed.
DR.. L. ]. See, one of the staff of OBJ
servers at the astronomical observatory |
maintained at Flagstaff, Ariz., by Per
cival Lowell of Boston, has described the !
recent important work undertaken at the |
observatory. The study of Mars is the |
chief work, and the problems to be solved |
sn the planet involve the measurement |
of fine lines supposed to be canals, which
are found on its surface. Since 1896 the |
work has been prosecuted with the new
24-inch telescope. 1t was announced at
Harvard College that since August, 1896,
DR.. See has discovered with the Lowell
telescope about 500 new double stars, be-
sides measuring some 700 objects noticed
by previous observers. The new double
star discoveries are interpreted by DR..
See to suggest that this formation of rings
is only an exception to the rule; that the
more usual method of the formation of a
system from one great original mass is
that central mass divides en- masse, the
satellite beginning life as it were in near
ly its ultimate form,