The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1900-08-09
WESTERN.

Ten persons were injured in trolley
.ar accident at Toledo. Ohio.
Fitzwilliam II. Chambers, prominent
Detroit lawyer, is dead, aged VI.
Police of Mansfield, Ohio. sent out Of
town the four Zion elders who have been
mobbed there.
The town Of Gilman, Colo, was burn
ed, causing loss Of 100000 and making
homeless upward Of 200 people.
In Grass Valley, CAL, a fire which
started in laundry burned over two bus
mess blocks. causing a loss Of $75,OOO.
Buffalo Bills Wild West show was
run into by a freight train near Detroit.
one man being killed and nine injured.
Hereafter smokers Of cigarettes will
not be employed in the packing houses Of
Swift 4 Co., in the Chicago stock yards.
Alexander Jester has gone to Norman,
Ok He has grown twenty years young
er since his acluittal and will preach
again.
The census office has made public the
population Of the city Of Cincinnati. Ohio.
It is 325, ,9O2, an increase over the last
census Of 2S,994.
Two armed highwaymen overpowered
the night operator at Isinours. Minn.. and
robbed the safe in the c., NJ. st. L.
station of $2S.75.
Alexander Jester, on trial ut New Lon
don, No., for the murder Of Gilbert
Gates twenty-nine years ago. was ac-
quilted. The jury took six ballots.
Mrs. Alice O'Day, wife Of Colonel
John O'Day, leading railroad attorney
of Missouri, attempted suicide by shoot
ing herself in the Lindell Hotel at st.
Louis.
George II. Berghett, paying teller Of
the Ogden State Bank, was killed in Pine
Canyon, Utah, by falling from a cliff
beyond recognition.
William G. Lang. Chicago travelling
man. committed suicide ut Dallas. Texas.
by shooting himself through the heart.
Dependency is supposed to have been
the cause of the act.
The schooner J. s. Richards. in tow Of
the tug Creswell. was run into and sunk
by the steamer J. W. Moore in the De-
troit river abreast Of Walkerville. Two
sailors were drowned.
Mrs. Ida Pifer, widow, aged 30 years.
was struck by Big Four passenger
train while crossing the tracks at Shelby,
Ohio. and was instantly killed. 1t is
supposed she was hard of hearing.
James Butler, Howell County. Mis-
souri,, farmer, while driving TO West
PLANES, was shot from ambush and in
stantly killed. The assassins escaped.
The motive OF the murder is not known.
Two men and young woman lost their
lives by drowning in MuskegOn Lake,
Mich. Three other occupants of the boat
were saved The boat in which the party
were rowing captized about n mile from
shore.
Large numbers of Indians, under the
leadership of one Harjo, held a meeting
at Tulsa, l. T., and decided to divide the
Greek Nation into its original forty-seven
towns, proposing to return to their tribal
customs.
Tie street railway power house burned
at Akron, Ohio. The fire originated from
a bursting boiler tube. An addition con-
tanning $6OO.OOO worth of machinery was
saved. Damages to building and ma
chinery. $4,000.
At Delphos, Ohio, lightning struck
COW belonging to ]. b. Egts, dislOcating
both hips and cutting fantastic figures
upon her body. The animal died, and
when skinned it was seen where the
lightning had run down both legs.
The wholesale lumber firm of 7. NJ.
Richardson & Son OF Oklahoma City,
with headquarters at Houston, Texas.
has made an assignment for the benefit
Of their creditors. The liabilities will
reach $24O, 900. The assets are unknown.
Rev. ]. +. Moreland, in charge of the
Zion Methodist Episcopal church for ne
groes in st. Louis, is operating penny
bank to stimulate his race to industry
and thrift. His only capital is his hon
esty, in which his flock relies implicitly.
Robert Cunningham, proprietor of the
Cunningham Hotel in Kansas City, was
fined $500 In police court for ''mashing.
The technical charge against him was
disorderly conduct. The fine was intend
ed as punishment for q long series of
offenses.
A letter from Kerrville, in southwest
ern Texas, states that in large section
north Of there devoid Of all railroad and
telegraph lines crops and nearly all kinds
of property have been destroyed by
foods, and scores Of families are home
less and destitute.
A severe tornado passed through Traill
County, North Dakota. Three miles
north of Caledonia the house of Thomas
Everson was demolished and his I-year-
old son was killed. The damage to crops
In the path Of the storm was total. The
small town Of Fongerinss was wiped
out.
The whole Of the Tintic, Utah, mining
district was shaken by an earthquake.
The first shock was SO severe that the
people became thoroughly frightened.
The shaft OF the Mammoth mine was so
thrown out Of shape that 1t was impossi-
bic to get the cage below the 1,6OO-foOt
level.
The Kansas Oil and Gas Company has
let the contract for ten gas wells TO be
drilled In the vicinity Of Coffeyrille at
once. The company expects to have
twenty wells drilled by Oct. l. The plan
is to bring factories from the gas fields
OF Indiana to Kansas. Thousands OF
acres have been leased in this section.