The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1901-05-23
WESTERN.

WESTERN.
Mrs. Nation has been found guilty OF
| smashing a Topeka saloon. Her attor'
neys set up plea of insanity.
Six high school girls at Terre Haute
have been suspended for staying away
from classes 10 see "Sapho.'
The Twenty-sixth infantry. United
States volunteers. has been mustered out
at the Preside, San Francisco.
Timothy Nicholson of Richmond. Ind.
was chosen president of the national
conference of Charities and Corrections.
Vice-President Roosevelt has accepted
the invitation to make an address at Min
neapolis during the State fair in Septem-
Der.
John 3. Forsythe. well-known farmer
Of Kay County. Oklahoma, was found
murdered in his house. There is no clew
to the criminals.
Ex-Congressman Thomas ]. Wood an
nounces his candidacy for the Democratic
nomination for Governor Of Indiana at
the next election.
Patrick Shields, foreman for the Clou-
quet Lumber Company, was shot and
mortally wounded at Eveleth, Minn., by
]. Harkurth of Duluth.
Steamer City of Paducah sank in the
Mississippi river and twenty-five or more
persons were drowned. Vessel struck
a snag while leaving landing.
Edward A. Cudahy Of Omaha is quoted
as saying he will. if necessary, double
his reward of $4,000 to secure the cap
ture of Pat Grove, the alleged kidnaper
of his son.
The First Methodist Church at Cleve-
land was sold to Charles L. Pack for
$4,000. With this money, it is said.
the church people will erect an institu-
tional church.
The body of Joseph Seitz was found
near Owatonna, Minn., and investigation
showed he had committed suicide by
drinking carbolic acid and had been dead
perhaps two weeks.
The biggest oil producer drilled in the
Lima field in months was brought in on
the Dan Heffner lease, near Westmin-
ster. Ohio. The well is said to be good
for 500 barrels a day.
Federation of Musicians, in session at
Denver, adopted resolutions declaring
ragtime melodies ''unmusical rot" and
plsslging the organization to work to
check their popularity.
Andres Gales and Jose Sanchez were
sentenced at Silver City,~N. NJ, to be
hanged on June 4; Jesus Ramos to 80
years and Frank c. Brito to ten years in
the penitentiary for murder.
Mrs. Celia McFadden, wife Of a Cleve-
land saloonkeeper, while crossing Detroit
street in that city, was struck by an
east-bound car and dragged distance Of
fifty feet. Her recovery Is doubtful.
The GOO or more employees Of the brick
and terra Gotta makers at St Louis, who
have beea out on STRIKE for an advance
in wages, have returned to work, their
demands for higher pay having been ac-
ceded to.
James Lee, colOred, a convict from st.
Joseph County. sent up for larceny, was
killed by Night Officer Herrick of the
Michigan City, Ind, State prison, after
he had murderously attacked the officer
with an iron bar.
Cincinnati society circles were stirred
by the announcement that Miss Marjorie
Harmon, daughter Of Judson Harmon,
eA-Attorues Neucrai VI lne Oulteu
States, was secretly married to George
Heckle Of Boston.
1t is believed by his friends that DIR.
Henry Hopkins OF Kansas City is to be
president of Williams College, to succeed
DR.. Garter, who resigned recently. DR..
Hopkins is a son of Mark Hopkins, who
made Williams famous.
To take care of its increasing business
and to prepare for the worlds fair, the
Burlington Railroad Company is plan
ming an extensive system CT terminals
and yards in North st. Louis at an esti-
mated cost of S1,00O,0OO.
r. L. Mosby, leading citizen of Black
Rock, Ark, shot his wife on account Of
Jealousy and she died the following day.
Mosby was put in Jail for murder. He
burned the cords from his bunk and used
them in hanging himself.
Joseph Keith. convicted of the muir
der of Nora Kifer and now in the Mich
igan City, Ind, penitentiary awaiting ex-
has been granted stay of execu- |
tion until November. All arrangements
had been completed for the hanging.
Five hundred individuals who have
der Dowie of Chicago have rebelled and !
left Zion because the general overseer
has declared that he was an angel and |
a reincarnation of the prophet Elijah.
President John Henry Barrows of
Oberlin College states that John ID. |
has offered the college $780,, !
600 on condition that the college raises |
100000 during the present year. OF |
this amount $150,O00 is already pledged.
News has been received by the steamer
Moana of the wreck of the American
schooner Helene Nicholson Of Tacoma,
bound from Apia for Sydney, on an un
Noumea, New Caledonia. All hands were |
saved.
A dastardly attempt was made to |
wreck 4 fast passenger train on the Wa
bash Railroad by placing a pile Of ties
across the track n mile east of Wyatt, |
Ind A slow freight Unexpectedly pre-
ceded the flyer and the distractions were !
Liquor sellers in the Chickasaw Ma
ton are meeting the severest penalty
ever imposed. Judge Thomas at Paurs
' AHey, L. l., Iluposeu Two senteuces Va
four years Imprisonment and $1,000 fine
each in the cases of John Stevenson and
o. Scrivener.
The State authorities of Missouri have
just allowed the expense bill incurred in
the famous Alexander Jester murder
trial, which was held at New London.
The expenses allowed amount to S.
1886. the second largest bill ever al
lowed in the State
Clinton L. Worden, porch climber
and crook of national notoriety, and Ed
ward c. Worden were arrested in Chi