The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-12-21
Odds and Ends.

Louisville school board condemns golf
skirts.
Georgia's prohibition bill was killed in
the Senate.
Mountain Valley Hotel, Hot Springs,
Ark, burned.
Augusta, Ky, school building, worth
$4,000, burned.
Charles Grey, Wellston, o., blown TO
atoms in q mine.
James Mcconnell, editor of the Phila-
delphia Star, is dead.
John Fritz, Celina, o., fatally stabbed
his wife in the breast.
Rumored that the p, C. & Il. has been
acquired by the b. & =.
Edison and Columbus, o., electric light
plants will consolidate.
Half the business portion of Cumby,
Tex, burned. Loss $4,000.
Eight firemen, Montgomery, Ala, We're
injured by gasoline explosion.
Union Pacific people deny that the
Northwestern has leased that road.
Two men were asphyxiated hy gas in
little shoe repairing shop in Brooklyn.
Mexicans are still pursuing the Maya
Indians. A long campaign is expected.
Mayor Robinson, Canton, o., paid S130
for two blOodhounds, Chattanooga, Tenn.
Chicagoans are figuring for cheaper
coal by having it brought via water from
Erie, Pa.
Sells Bros circus may remove head
quarters to Bridgeport, Conn.,, from Co
lumbus, Ohio.
Texas health board has established
quarantine at Galveston against ships
from Santos, Brazil, where plague exists.
Willis J. Abbot, well known in news
paper circles, will take charge of the press
bureau of the Democratic national COM
mittee.
Minnesota railroads have concluded
contracts for the delivery of 6o0,00o,OOO
feet of pine logs to mills in the vicinity
of Dublin.
The pilot boat James Gordon Bennett
was struck by dummy shell fired from
the Sandy Hook proving ground and bad
ly damaged.
Pete Thompson was killed at FL Reno,
Okla, by John Curtis, son of Robert
Curtis, a wealthy white man. who mar
ried into the Caddo Indian tribe.
Jailer VIM. Shockley and his son, Har-
nv Shockley. Columbus. Ohio, We're in
dicted by the United States grand jury
on the charge of aiding Capt. |. r. Jobe
to escape from jail.
United States will have an irrigation
exhibit at the Paris show.
Cotton mills of New Hampshire have
increased wages 10 per cent.
Conductor Howard, Newark. O., was
killed in a collision near Mansfield. En-
gineer Peterman badly injured.
Many negroes are said to have been
duped into leaving Georgia for Missis-
sippi by an alleged female immigrant
agent.
Joseph C. Hoagland, 81, founder of the
Royal Baking Powder Company, died in
New York. He was several times Il mil
lionaire.
General Electric Company. New York,
may erect a $2,500,000 plant near Rug
by, England.
Gov. Gage, California, will call an ex
ira session of the Legislature TO elect
a United States Senator.
Mrs. Annie Glennan, insane, New
York. killed one daughter and attempted
70 kill another and herself.
New York's commissioner of agricui- i
.ure will prosecute the persons who ship
bed oleomargarine to Buffalo merchants
'or Elgin butter.
Rev. G. NJ. Sheldon, author of I'm His |
Steps," says he hasn't given up the idea !
If starting a daily religious paper. Chi |
ago or ST. Louis will get it.
A decision has been rendered in New !
York to the effect that a 100000 legacy
eft to Senator Depew 10y a friend is ex- |
.mpt from taxation.
The death of Mrs. Joseph Rugus, at
n. Y. twelve hours after
becoming bride, is surrounded with ,
mystery and is to be investigated.
Boston's Cobb twins, Cyrus and Darius,
ecently sat for photograph, and when
came home they were obliged to ask
he photographer which wns which.
Tree and shrub planting along the Suez
Canal to protect it from drifting sand is
n progress. Reeds have been placed |
llong about nine miles of water line Of |
he canal proper. !