The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1901-07-25
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and wounded another for resisting ar
rest.
Samuel Orner, an aged citizen of To-
peka, Kan. was found dead i'll bed, vic
tim of the heat.
Pickpockets robbed about twenty Ep-
worth Leaguers and left them stranded
at Colorado Springs.
Carnegie has offered $4,000 TO Mat
toon. Ill. and $4,000 to Saltwater. Mimi,
for library buildings.
Elsie Hirtz. aged ii. and Fannie Grit
lin. aged III. both living at Hokah. Mimi.
were drowned while bathing in Root riv-
er falls.
Local showers fell in portions of Kan
| sas. Missouri. Nebraska, Illinois and Ok
lahoma affording temporary relief from
the drouth.
The commencement exercises 1T the
Ohio Normal university at Ada. Ohio. de-
generated into n big row between seniors
| and juniors.
The Gregson Hot Springs Hotel. locat-
ed twenty miles from Butte. Mont. was
| totally destroyed by fire. The damage is
about $4,000.
The fourstory salesrooms AMI hide
warehouse of Joseph Byrnc & Co. in ST.
Louis. was almost completely DESTROYED
| by fire. Loss $4,000.
William 5. Gracey, Il wealthy oil on
orator. manager of the Boston Oil Com
pany. dropped dead at the breakfast Ia
bic at Marietta. Ohio.
\ prairie fire which started eighteen
miles north of Larned, Kan. burned over
4 large extent of country. destroying over
10000 bushels of wheat in the stack.
Ethel Fitch and Annie Gum were
drowned in the Mahoning river at
Youngstown, Ohio. The little girls were
in bathing and went beyond their depth
Reeves Brothers boiler works at Al
lance, Ohio. We're destroyed by FIRE Loss
$10O,0C0 with $4,000 insurance Alfred
Meredith, an employe, was fatally in
jured.
Three boy bandits held up Agent Mil.
Ter at Hoyne avenue station of the Met
ropolitan Elevated road in Chicago and
shot him in the arm. but secured no
money
Fred Fourhelm, Il farmer of Bartlett,
Iowa. insanely jealous, murdered his
wife, his 6-year-old stepson, killed his
favorite horse. set fire TO his house and
committed suicide.
Willis Miller, OH trial at Upper San
dusky, Ohio. for murder, attacked court
guard in attemp.7t escape and was as
sisted by brother and sister, He was
overpowered after a desperate fight.
The United States Vehicle Manufac-
turers' Association, with. Cincinnati as
headquarters, was Incorporated at CO.
lumbus. Ohio. TO band the vehicle manu- |
facturers of the country together for mu-
tual benefit
John S. Mosby. Confederate leader |
during the Civil War, has been appointed
q sp,Aial agent of the federal land office. |
He claims his presen. residence in Cali |
fornia. He has been assigned 10 duty in |
Nebraska.
]. II. Nash. n wealthy ranchman. |
whose ranges are near Cimarron, y. Nj, |
was killed by being dragged by a bron- /
cho over rocks up the mountain side. He |
had roped the animal and became entan-
gled in the rope.
Miss Elsie Hirsch. the 19-year-old |
daughter of Simon Hirsch of the. Star
Distilling Company in Cincinnati. lighted
a gas stove in the bathroom. Her night
dress caught fire, and she was burned so
badly that she died.
A north-bound Hooking Valley freight
train and the soutii-bound pay train ran
into each other near Vinton. Ohio killing
Fireman S. l.. Socia of Nelsonville. En-
gineer James Rafferty, of Columbus was
probably fatally injured.
AT New Comcrstown, Ohio, during
heavy storm lightning struck a straw
shed Oh the farm of Mrs c. McMacklin.
instantly killing Mrs. james Huff. her
daughter, Mrs. Thornton, and the lat
ter's 4-year-old daughter.
A posse organized at Big Sandy. Mont,
20 capture three alleged horse thieves,
"Bucking Bill" Fred Comme and Pete
Walter. has received word that the three
men were hanged by another posse on the
Missouri river, near Judith.
In San Francisco FIRE destroyed the
Pacific glass works and four-story fiat
building adjoining The charred remains
of a man supposed 10 be William Hoist,
the proprietor of the glass works, who
had a habit Of sleeping in the factory,
were found.
Two freight trains collided on bridge
over the Arkansas river in Indian Ter
ritory, killing five persons and fatally in
juring two. Fire consumed both trains
and the bridge. Both locomotives drop
ped into the river and We're swallowed
up by Quicksands.
August NJ. Chenidlin, a. years old. was
crushed TO death at Sr. Paul. Mimi. 10y
the wheels of 4 fire engine. The machine.
which was going at top speed. struck him
as he was crossing the street. For twenty
years Mr.. Cheniliin acted rs tutor for
the sons of James ]. Hill, the railroad
magnate.
Surprise was aroused i'll theatrical cir
eles through the announcement that Miss
Amy Leslie, the Chicago dramatic writer.
had married Frank II. Buck. chief bell
boy at the Virginia Hotel in that city.
The ceremony was performed at St. Jo-
seph. Mich. Mr.. Buck is % years old
and his bride AZ.
The Alexandria. Ohio. village bank
was Gynamited at l o'clock the other
The building and safe Were
wrecked, but the cash box not disturbed.
Citizens exchanged shots with the rob
bers, John Lloyd being shot and slightly
hurt. Six robbers escaped with three
stolen rigs, but no money.
In ar explosion at the home of John
w. Jones in Broad Ripple, Ind, Ray
tones. aged 13, was killed and a 4-year-
old boy and Mrs. Jones probably fatally
injured. The lads started to light tre
with coal oil in Il stove in which there
was already sinolderins fire. The holse
was completely consumed.
Within thirty days trains of the Penn
sylYania road will be running into De
troit from Toledo. \ mileage arrange
nent has been effected between III.
system and the Wander
bilts whereby the Pennsylvania is TO use
the Michigan Central tracks. E;aking
connection seven miles north of Toledo.
The body OF Samuel Garrison. ranch
man who resided at the Natural Corral,
twenty miles from Cody, Wyo., has been
found some distance from his cabin with