The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-10-27
WESTERN.

Nearly foot of snow has fallen in
North and South Dakota. Stock men fear
grave damage.
& disagreement which has existed for
solrc time between the proprietors of the
| breweries of Denver and their employees
| has eliminated in n lockout in which
about $50 workmen are thrown out OF
work.
George Davis stopped in vacant barn
near Laredo, Mo-, to escape the storm.
While there lightning struck the barn,
setting it on fire, entirely consuming it,
and burning Mr.. Davis and his team to
DEATH
W. III. Murray of Clinton. Iowa, killed
his wife, who was an incurable inmate of
d Flint, Mich, asylum, and then killed
himself. He left a letter saying that his
purpose was TO relieve his wife from her
suffering.
The California Board of Health has ap-
pointed DR.. C. A. Ruggles TO visit the
Hawaiian Islands TO learn the extent of
the presence OF leprosy and to report
measures to prevent its introduction into
California.
The torpedo boat Davis. in its prelimi-
nary trial of three-quarters of an hour,
under the supervision of the naval board
at Portland, Ore, averaged twenty-four
knots, one and one-half knots above the
required speed.
]. Franklin Brown, q hypnotist, died at
San Francisco from blood poisoning con-
tracted several months ago when he at
tempted 10 put cub lion under the spell
of his power The cub rebeled and bit
Browns hand.
Billy Walker, the pugilist who was
knocked out by Andy Dupont. died at
South Omaha, Neb., after having been
unconscious fifty-six hours. The charge
against Dupont will be changed from
prize fighting to murder.
By unanimous vote at a meeting of the
striking wire-drawers, held in Cleveland,
the strike was declared off. Superintend-
ent Nye announced that all the old en-
ployes who desired to return to work could
do so as far as there were vacancies.
While returning to Walker, Mimi. from
a council with the Bear Island Indians,
Commissioner Jones had n narrow escape
from drowning, the steamer Flora, which
had carried him, being wrecked close to
the dock by running on to sunken timbers.
Burglars made an unsuccessful attempt
at robbing the Farmers State Bank Of
Promise City, Iowa. Nitroglycerin was
the explosive used. but the first charge
failed to burst open the vault door, and
the report of the explosion aroused the
cashier.
There were 113 fewer deaths in Chicago
last week than during the corresponding
period year ago. Fifty-nine of those
who died were children under 1 year of
age. Compared with the week preceding
there is a reduction of twenty-six deaths
from all causes.
Mrs. James Dietrich, who sued Mrs.
Anna Menzel, wife of leading merchant
of Milford, Ind, fer $1,000 damages on
the ground that the defendant circulated
a story that Mrs. Dietrich, who is lead
ing society woman, padded her form, was
granted S126 by the jury.
Joe OFT, who pleaded guilty to killing
his wife, was hanged in the Jail yard at
Granite Falls, MIN. OFT made state
ment from the sallows expressing sorrow
for the crime. He killed his wife on the
evening of May Is, 1898, by beating her
brains out with ''billy.'
The Minneapolis police found $51, 900
worth of government bonds In IN old
closet in South Minneapolis. They proved
to be all but $1,000 of the bonds stolen
from the Hard Wood Manufacturing
Company two weeks ago, and had evident
ly been secreted by the thieves.
The Cleveland City Council has passed
ordinances affecting two street railway
lines, which provide for reduction of
cash fare to cents and for the sale of
seven tickets for quarter. The action
is intended TO furnish the basis for suit
in court to determine the right Of the
Council to reduce fares.
At Detroit, Judge Swan has announced
his decision in the Roby-Florida case.
These two vessels collded near PresQue
Isle in Lake Huron in 1897 and the Flor
ida went down in deep water and has not
been raised. The judge finds that both
vessels were to blame and that damages
should be divided between them.
The Seattle Post-lntelligencer says that
one result of the survey at the mouth of
the Yukon river by Capt. Pratt of the
coast and geodetic survey is to add an area
of $500 square miles to Uncle Sans do
main. Capt. Pratt found that the south
mouth of the Yukon emptics into Bering
sea twenty miles further west than has
been supposed.
At Urbana, Ohio, the Circuit Court has
handed down decision in the case OF Ben
Church against Champaign County for
5000 damagc The suit grows out of
the lynching of Click Mitchell two years
ago, and is brought under the law which
gives the nearest of kin 5000. The COM
mon pleas court held the law unconstitu
tional. The Circuit Court held 1t to be
constitutional. The case will now so to
the Supreme Court.
A genuine blizzard prevailed in the
Southwest and West Monday. A heavy,
wet snow fell, and, driven by strong
wind, prostrated wires in all directions
and caused delay to railway traffic. The
snow followed twenty-four hours of
steady rain. The sidewalks were covered
three inches deep with slush. There was
decided fan in the temperature, and the
suddenness of the storm, coming upon the
track Of the Indian summer weather, will
undoubtedly cause great suffering, espe-
cally on the ranges covered with cattle.
SOUTHERN