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

The business part of Wynnewood. l. T.,
burned on a recent morning. The losses
are estimated at $4,000.
Andrew Carnegie has offered Canyon
City. Colo. $1,000 for a public library.
and the library association has accepted
the condition imposed.
Drifting barge Galatea was picked up
off Racine port by the steamer Santa
Maria and with her half-frozen crew TAX
en- into Chicago harbor.
Campbell Brothers. sewer builders and
dealers in sewer supplies at Cleveland.
have filed petition in bankruptcy with
debts aggregatinG $66.O0O.
AT noon the bank at Springdale, Ark,
was robbed by one man. He compelled
the assistant cashier to give him all the
money in sight. about 5000.
Representatives William Alden Smith
of Michigan has introduced bill in the
House making the birthday of William
| Mckinley. Jan. 80. a national holiday.
Winslow Alderdice, for man. years ac-
| tive in manufacturing business, has filed
| petition in bankruptcy at Warren o..
placing his liabilities at over S1S1.OOO.
sity of Chicago. announced gift of ST.
| 00O.OOO by John d. Rockefeller and
S3I5,O00 from others whose names are
withheld.
Six persons were more or less severely
| injured in an accident to a west-bound
Madison street cable train at the Clin
ton street entrance to the Washington
| street tunnel in Chicago.
Andrew Carnegie has offered Redwing,
Minn.. $1,000 for a public library build
ing. provided the city furnishes IA site and
S1.5O0 annually for maintenance. The
library board asked Carnegie for S12.J0O.
An east-bound fast mail train on the
Union Pacific crashed into the rear of
freight train near Rawlins, Wyo. The
passengers were shaken up and the fire
man, Charles Brown, was seriously in
jured.
W. J. Selvage, an insurance agent, was
shot on the street at Portsmouth, Ohio.
by Charles W. Baker. Selvage is alleged
to have caused the separation of Baker
and his wife. His injIries will result
fatally.
Word comes from Chicago that Byron
L. Shear of Denver has married Fran
ccsca Balm. an opera singer of some re-
pute and wealth. Shear made several
millions out of the Mollie Gibson before
silver slumped.
WI. Selvage. young insurance agent.
died at the city hospital. Portsmouth.
Ohio. from bullet wound in his stomach.
the injury having been inflicted by Chas.
Baker. who said his home had been brok-
en- up by Selvage.
As United States Mail Driver Oscar
Kelly left the branch postoffice at Third
and Olive streets, ST. Louis. with sacks
Of registered mail. he was knocked sense
less by three highwaymen. who took the
mail bags and vanished.
While suffering from an attack OF vio-
lent insanity Dexter Knight, ranch
man living near Bryan, Idaho. killed his
5-year-old boy and severely injured two
others of his children. Knight killed his
son with the baby's cradle.
Dispatches from Worthington, Mimi.
state that Nellie Mitchell, who disappear
ed from the emergency hospital, Chicago.
several days ago and who was supposed
TO have committed suicide. has returned
TO her home in Worthington.
North-bound Sunset express No. of
the Southern Pacific Railroad and Sunset
express No. 10 from San Francisco co..
lided near Salinas, Cal. \ part of No. .
was destroyed by fire. Two persons
were killed and four injured.
The State Bank of Gothenburg, Neb..
was closed by order of the State banking
board, and an examiner placed tempo
rarily in charge. The bank is capitalized
at $4,000. and at the time of its lest
report had deposits of $4,000.
During street quarrel at Spencer.
Neb.. William Parker fatally shot his
father-in-law. Peter Hansen. The quar-
living at her fathers home for some
time. Parker is under arrest
The new training school of the Univer-
sity OF Utah, with its entire contents. WAS
destroyed by fire at Salt Lake. Loss
$4,000. insurance $4,000. The fire is
thought TO have originated from combus
ton of chemicals in the laboratory
In sight OF hundreds of persons three
men knocked down the driver of mail
wagon NJ the door OF the Old postoffice
building at Third and Olive streets. ST.
Louis. stole a pouch filed with registered
Christmas matter and made their escape.
One person was killed and seven injur-
ed by the fall of a passenger elevator
in the department store of Schaper
Brothers in st. Louis. The drop was
from the fourth floor to the basement.
1t is not known what caused the acc
dent.
United States Senator j. ii. Berry of
Arkansas, while Ell route TO his home at
Bentonville. was badly injured at New
burg by fall on the ice. Senator Berry
has only one leg and walks with crutch.
His crutch slipped and his fall injured
his hip joint.
At Beatrice, Neb., Judge Letton has
handed down a decision declaring the I'M
constitutionality of the law requiring
contracts between land owners and real
estate agents TO be in writing. This opin
ion will have far-reachng effect upon
real estate agents.
Theodore Cabblac of st. Louis sold his
shoes for 10 cents that he might buy
bread for his wife and six children who