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


Mississippi river is frozen over at St
Louis.
Minneapolis received S7,961 $50 bush
els of wheat in 1899, S,30c,OO0 more than
the city ever received in calendar year
At Lima, Ohio, Lester Queen, a clerk,
was found dead in his room. He was
asphyNiated. His home was in Chicago.
Ross Raymond, formerly a well-known
journalist. has been sentenced 10 the
Milwaukee house of correction for sixty
days for vagrancy.
At Wcllsvillc, Mo-, Wabash passen-
ger wcst-bound struck a COW. The en-
gine was ditched and Fireman John
Robinson was killed.
The Peoples Bank of Wabasha, Mimi,
closed its doors and is now in the hands
of the bank examiner. Depositors, it is
claimed, will lose nothing.
The town of Hill City, s. D., was near
| ly destroyed by fire. Seven stores and
one hotel were burned. The loss is SlO,-
600, with very little insurance.
Wyatt Sharp, who escaped from the
Arkansas penitentiary, has surrendered
10 the police in Denver. Sharp killed b.
| A. Milestone in fight at Huntington,
Ark
At Bellefontaine Ernest Austin was
sentenced to the Ohio penitentiary for
| life for the murder of his brother. Will
| liam. Ernest was volunteer in the
| American-Spanish war.
Two wagon loads of powder, each con-
sisting of 1875 pounds of the explosive,
were blown up near Eagle River, Wis.
| Two faa Alny nd
Joseph St. Louis, were killed.
\ passenger train on the Chicago
Great Western Railroad crashed into the
rear of 4 Northern Pacific stock train
near the Mississippi street bridge in the
eastern portion of ST. Paul, Mimi, split
ting the caboose in two and injuring
seven men.
]. w. McAndrews, one of Haverly's
Original forty" and known far and wide
as the Original watermelon man." died
at the insane asylum in Elgin, ILL.,, aged
GA years. He was committed last May,
when he was suffering from paresis and
steadily failed.
At 8 o'clock Tuesday morning wafer
was turned into the S33, 600, 600 drainage
canal at Chicago and began to flow to-
ward Lockport, where it falls into the
Desplaines river, and thence, through the
Illinois and Mississippi rivers, to the
Gulf of Mexico.
Three large seed houses and one of the
meal houses of the Consumers Oil Com
pany, owned by Chicago capitalists, to-
gether with 200 tons of meal and about
1900 tons of seed, were burned at Little
Rock. Ark. The loss is $4,000, with
$4,000 insurance.
James L. Moore, aged Go years, shot
and killed his wife, aged 22 years, neal
Names, Mo-, then blew his head off. Mrs.
Moore was the daughter of John Hunter,
who recently killed C. G. Winningham.
She was Moore's second wife and had
left home after a quarrel.
W. II. Curtis, manager of the Butler,
Ind, Canning Company, has mysteriously
disappeared. He went to Chicago to col
lect several thousand dollars due the
company and, after collecting 1,2OO, he
vanished and no trace can be found of
him. His family fears foul play.
A serious landslide occurred on the
water front of Mare Island, Cal. As
result 80 feet of the sea wall slid into
the bay, carrying with it tons of granite
work, cement and earth and loosening up
fully 100 feet more of the wall. The
break is believed 10 be due to heavy
rains.
Christian scientists OF Lead. s. D.,
have rebelled against the orders of the
school board that children attending pub
lie schools must be vaccinatcd. The or
ders of the board are that each pupil af
ter reasonable time must be vaccinated
rrbar thrnafan IN tot
the case into court.
Former Congressman Ben Glover COM
mitted suicide al his home near Douglas, |
Butler County, Kan, by shooting. De-
spondcncy resulting from sickness and |
poverty was the cause. Glover formerly |
represented the third district in Congress, |
and was among the first to be elected by |
the famous Farmers Alliance movement. |
Reports received from the back coun-
try show that the recent earthquake in |
California was the cause Of Il number of /
strange happenings. The mud volcanoes
on the desert near the Colorado river
have become active after q long rest,
and the natural gas wells near Yuma are
in working order since the heavy quake.
A 100000 cubic feet gas well was
struck four miles east of Findlay, Ohio,
by operators who are "wildcattinc" in
new territory. All tools, casing and tub
ing were blown out of tic well, and the
roar of escaping gas could be heard for
five miles. This is the greatest gas well
in Ohio since the famous Karg we'll Of
ten years ago.
Fire at an early hour on recent
morning destroyed more than half the
business district OF Massena, Iowa, in
volving Il loss of about $50, 900. As there
was no fire protection the fire practically
had its own way and burned out every
thing east of the public square,. Eight
business houses, including the postoffice.
were destroyed.
The Pioneer Steel Elevator Company
has been organized for the construction
of Il very large grain elevator at Duluth,
Minn. The men back Of the enterprise
are Walter Douglas, G. j. Piper, w. s.
Archer and c. L. Thayer, all but the last
named being formerly linseed oil men,
who sold out TO the American Linseed
Oil Company lately.
\ burst water main at the corner of
Harvey and Sixteenth streets, in the
heart of the business district of Omaha,
did damage amounting to $4,000 before
the water could be turned off. The main
was a large one and the water rushed
down the streets in n stream from six
inches TO foot in depth, overtiowing
the curbs and running into Easements.
Vifgie Graves, the actress, who is
known throughout the United States in
the ingenue roles with the Olga Neither
sole, Frohman, DAILY and other standard
theatrical companies, is now the wife OF
Richard II. Lowe. reputed to be one of
the richest men of all the Klondike
army. The couple were married private
ly at an Oakland, Cal, hotel on Dec. u.
The coroner's jury that investigated
the death of Winfield Randleman, the
express messenger who was killed in the
wreck on the Union Pacific Railroad at
Brighton, Colo, has found that the col
lision was caused by the criminal care
lessness of Conductor Z. w. McAllister.
This man lost his reason at the scene of
the accident, but is slowly recovering his