The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1900-01-04
WESTERN.

going TO work.
The bear trap dam at Lockport, ILL.,,
was opened the other day and the waters
of Lake Michigan joined those Of the
Mississippi river.
Kansas City is to have an electric
railroad 10 Olathc, Kan, twcnty-one
miles distant. The original capital has
already been subscribed.
L. L. Ryan, n Chicago West Side dry
goods merchant, filed voluntary peti-
ton in bankruptcy, scheduling his liabiii-
ties at $4,000 and his assets at $oo,OOo.
The floods in the Patlatch and Clear
water rivers are receding. The weather
in eastern Washington is cooler and all
danger from further floods is believed TO
be past.
Officials of the National Association of
Rod Mill Workers claim that the rodmen
are out at all of the several mills con-
trolled by the American Steel and Wire
Company in Cleveland.
Charles Hauptman was fatally stabbed
by G. W. Chaffee, a brother of Gen.
Chaffce, U. S. A., after he had frac-
tured Chaffee's skull with hammer in
q fight at Houston, Texas.
| AZ St lOulS SudIlcS lDopchSitss Al
lineman, was killed and Edward Elms
and William Kaiser were seriously in
| jured while removing a wire which had
crossed an electric light wire.
The tenth annual convention of the
| Northwestern Lumbermen's Association
was held at Minneapolis, Minn., with
representatives present from Minnesota,
Iowa, Wisconsin and the Dokotas.
At Belgrade, Mon, Frank Rogers,
merchant, shot and killed his landlady,
Mrs. Eta Davis, and then turned his
weapon on himself with fatal accuracy.
Jealousy and drink caused the tragedy.
| Fort Bayard, \. NJ, has been discon-
tinued as Il garrison post and the build
| ings will be turned over to the surgeon
general of the army for use in connec
ton with the general hospital to be estab-
lished there.
Ten persons were injured in train
collision on the Great Northern read at
Hillyard, Wash. a passenger train aud
freight train crashed together during
dense fog. None of the injured persons
is seriously hurt.
Rev. j. NJ. Atwater died at Cleveland,
Ohio, aged e. years. He was at one
time president Of Hiram College, then a
professor in Eureka College, Illinois, and
later president OF Central Christian Col
lege at Albany, Mo.
The combine" in the st. Louis house
Of delegates kept their promises to the
people, and passed the three temporary
fighting bills. Everyone Of the majority
voted aye under protest, not because he
favored the measures.
Judge Thayer, in the United States |
Circuit Court at st. Louis, granted an
application for a writ of habeas corpus
and ordered the release of John p. Reese,
Iowa member of the executive board of
the United Mine Workers of America.
County Jailer Alfred Henry, while |
feeding the prisoners in the Howell Coun- |
ty Jail at West Plains, Mo-, was overpow-
cred and killed by two prisoners, Ben |
Richardson and Ed Grady. The prison |
ers escaped and locked the door after |
them.
William Corrigan, of Chicago, was
found dead in an alley, at the rear Of his
home He was subject to epilepsy and |
fell in some soft mud in the alley. In |
his struggles his mouth filled with the |
mud and he was asphyxiated. He was
2S years old.
The Wild Brothers Jewelry Company |
at St. Louis has filed deed of trust on
all its stock of jewe!ry and fixtures to
Peter A. Pckel as trustee for the cred
itors. The total amount os indebtedness
is placed at $57 600, of which $37 $50 is
due on notes.
At Bastrop, Texas, Arthur Burford,
son of Sheriff Burford Of Colorado Coun-
l.. Ia a,,1 IsoY,
Clements, deputy, mortally wounded.
The shooting, which took place at muir
der trial, was caused by the breaking
out of an old feud.
One of the children kidnapped from their
mother in st. Louis last May and taken
to Buffalo, n. Y, has been returned to
her by Superintendent of the Poor La
fayette Long. The mother is Mrs. Au-
gust Stephany, who said that her hus-
band stole their children for spite.
A riot between the boys in the gram
mar room of the Cortland, Neb., public
school and the teacher, j. q. Ludlain,
occurred the other day. For weeks there
had been bad feeling between the teach
er and the pupils. The pedagogue held
his own with the aid of a rawhide.
Coroner Lepper appeared before Mayor
johnson of Green Springs, Ohio. and
swore out a warrant charging Miss
Orpha Sheets with the willful murder of
Claude Tuttle. The coroner finished the
inquest at Green Springs in the Tuttle
poisoning case and the warrant is the re-
suit.
Austin X. Wheeler, treasurer Of Lemon
& Wheeler, the wholesale grocery COM
pany of Grand Rapids, Mich, committed
suicide by shooting himself through the
brain with q 32-caliber revolver. The
act was committed in the basement Of
the company's store. Death was instan-
taneous.
Tom Condor, cowboy, and Miss Lille
Wilson, daughter of prominent ranch
man in the Sioux range, were married at
Pierre, S. D. The match was in opposi-
tion to the wishes of the parents of the
young woman, so the young couple took a
sixty-m ride on horseback to escape an
irate father.
Fire did 100000 damage to the five
story brick building at 3G, 3S and 40
Woodward avenue, Detroit, occupied by
the Mutual Storage Company. Valentine
Schroeder, confectioner; Gebhard Paper
Company, Schneider & Sieder, awning
and the Diamond Print
ing Ink Company.
A desperate attempt was made to as
Judge William Lochren, for
merly pension commissioner, in the cham
bers OF the Judge in the United States
court room at st. Paul, MINI. James
Welch, the would-be murderer, had lost
a damage suit before Judge Lochren and
became insane over it.
\ recent night was the time set for the
of Charles Humes and Anna
Monroe at Shelbyyillc, Ind. When the
former appeared at Miss Monroe's home
for the ceremony, in company with a
he was informed that his in
tended bride had died early in the even
ing from heart failure.
Memories of the murder at Sioux City
Of the Rev. George G. Haddock on Aug.
3, ISS6, were revived by news from Ok
lahoma shat Henry Peters, one Of the