The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1901-12-26

had been in dire want for several days.
He bought two ioaves of bread with the
money and walked home over the snow
! in his stocking feet.
ii. l.. Kidwel and Nicholas Breazy
We're asphy yxiated 10y natural gas in their
room at Akron. Ohio. They had gas
stove turned on full force and during
the night the gas pressure was increased
and it is supposed fumes escaped into the
room which ended their lives.
Attorney General Douglass of Mime
! sofa will bring his action on behalf of
the State against the Northern Securities
Company before the United States Su-
prcme Court soon after Jan. !. He will
petition for bill of equity. which is in
the nature of injunction proceedings.
The two-story brick heating plant of
the ST. Francis Catholic Orphans Home
at Tifiin. Ohio. was almost entirely de-
stroyed by fire. Conditions were serious
for the 800 inmates as the thermometer
registered around zero and there was no
other way of heating the institution.
At Garden City, Kan. an explosion Of
gas on an east-bound Santa Fe passenger
train set fire To TIE smoker. chair ear and
oae sleeper, which were entirely burned.
The passengers were uninjured. but Con
ductor John O'Day and Porter Robert
Pennington were badly cut and burned.
The State Normal School at Aberdeen.
:. D.. was destroyed by fire. involving
4 loss of $4,000. The building was near
ing completion. and was still in the hands
of the contractors, \. L. Frazier 4 Co.
Of st. Paul. MINI. who will have to bear
the loss. which is partially covered by in-
surance
In Omaha the grand jury voted true
bills against 14S business men and 9TH
ers for keeping and maintaining gambling
devices. The indictments are based on
slot machines. and include prominent hO-
tells. two political clubs. score of drug
gists and over hundred cigar stores ard
saloons.
At Findlay, Ohio. Solomon Shafer. a
wealthy farmer, has been sued for S2J.-
900 damages by Omar Watson. Shafer
is bound over to court on Il charge pre-
ferred by Watson, who. while hiding be-
hind the parlor organ. heard him make
love TO his young wife. Shafer is 20
years old.
Albert H. King, one of the three men
convicted of fixing foot race. evaded
his sentence of two to fourteen years at
Michigan City 10y ending his life with
morphine in Jail at Brookville. Ind. The
young man was real estate dealer, and
previous to his connection with the
fraudulent foot race had an excellent
reputation.
Miss Josephine Holman of Indianapo-
lis. who is engaged to Signor Marconi,
who is now experimenting with wireless
telegraphy with such astonishing results,
has announced to her friends that her
marriage will not take place as early rs
expected for the reason that Signor Mar
conf is now concentrating all his thoughts
on his work
The dead bodies of John +. Bull and
his wife were found at their home in Par
sons. Kan. Bull was a prominent real
estate and loan broker. leader of the
Methodist Church choir. and was report
ed to be in comfortable circumstances.
The bodies We're lying on the floor. both
stabbed to death. Indications point to
wife murder and suicide.
4 stranger entered the Office of Justice
Webb in Youngstown. Ohio and. finding
the clerk. Miss Clementine Hamilton.
alone. demanded that she open the safe.
which contained $1,000. Upon her re-
fusal he attempted to strangle her. say
ing: If You don't open the safe Ill kill
You" Miss Hamilton succeeded in break
ing away, and. securing a revolver, fired
at the man. who ran out and escaped.
Miss Irene Gerlin of Cleveland has
proved that she is a plucky and athletic
girl though only Is years old and pu-
pill of the Central high school. She was
home from visit at friends
house when a man seized her and hissed:
IF You scream I'll kill you" The girl
quick as flash struck her assailant in
the face and knocked him down. Then
gathering up her skirts she ran home.