The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1901-04-18
WESTERN.

WESTERN.
A killing frost has reduced the Califor-
mia fruit crop by one-half.
St. Paul policeman who tried to enforce
the anti-spitting law was nearly killed
by loafers.
Taylor Kirk. who killed his sister near
Cordell, o. T., was sentenced to ninety
nine years in the penitentiary.
Mayor johnson Of Cleveland, Ohio, has
taken steps to increase the assessments
OF corporations doing business in that
city. -,
People Of Momence. ILL.,. drove away a
band of Sypsies because one of them sold
two girls, his wards, to another Of the
band.
The west-bound Southern Pacific
"Overland>Limited'' was ditched and
burned near Wells, Neb. Two fremen
were killed.
James Allspaugh of Junction, Ohio. had
a gunshot battle with. burglars in his
house. About fifty shots were exchanged.
Allspaugh was uninjured.
The Toledo and Findlay Traction Com
pany of Findlay, Ohio. was incorporated
with a capital OF 81 500 900, to build an
electric railway from Toledo to Findlay.
Mrs. Isabel Thompson, aged 81 years,
was fatally wounded in Kansas City BY
a footpad who, in attempting to rob the
woman, crushed her skull with a COUP.
ling pin.
Superintendent Frank p. Smith Of the
Sandusky County, Ohio. in6rmary was
stabbed in the abdomen by Will Winters,
an inmate. Smith will die. Winters was
captured.
The new theater at Kansas City, Mo-,
which is to replace the Coates House, re-
Gently destroyed by fire, Is to be one of
the finest in the West and will cost
S225.OO0.
Attorney Edward f. Moore. a member
Of the famous old Iron Brigade, shot and
killed his wife and then ended his own
life at the home OF his brother-in-law in
Milwaukee.
Conrad Krug, salesman for the Huttig-
Moss Manufacturing Company, accident
ally shot himself at st. Joseph, Mo-.
while chasing burglar. and died three
hours later.
Linus Clawson, Jr, principal Of the
public schools Of Linderwald, suburb of
Hamilton, Ohio, hanged himself to a raf-
ter In his barn. Ill health ie given as the
cause OF suicide.
James Miller, under Indictment at Co
,umbus, Ohio, for highway robbery, at
tempted to kill Jacob Hinderman, a
salOonkeeper, TO prevent the latter testi-
flying against him.
Miss Lizzie COttman, Nebraska
school teacher. swan a food that sur
rounded her school house, returned with
a horse and rope and pulled the building
and thirteen children to safety.
Walter Lancaster, one Of the best.
known young men Of Marietta, Ohio, kill
ed himself. He was respondent over his
failure to obtain employment. He recent
" recovered from typhoid fever.
Mrs. Prudence Smith, Mrs. Jane Nc
Mutt and the latter's daughter, saloon
crusaders at Armourdale, Kan, charged
with destroying property, were freed
from the charge by the county attorney.
Frank Carlson, Eric Erickson and John
Bell, three "Blwabik" mine miners, were
seriously injured at Duluth, Minn., by the
explosion Of can Of powder, which they
were opening for blasting. All will re-
cover.
Jesse Way, one Of the most notorious
counterfeiters Of the country, died in the
Columbus, Ohio, penitentiary, from old
age. He was S3 years old and had serv-
ed nearly half a century Of his life behind
prison bars.
Edward Sine was shot ut Wichita,
Kan, while preparing to retire. The
shot was fred from a window of a build
ing opposite. T. ]. Robinson has been
arrested on suspicion, as he was said to
be jealous of Sine.
1t Is announced that the Jessie Morri-
son murder case at Eldorado, Kan, will
not be tried until September. The attor-
neys on both sides desired the postpone
ment. The case had been set for the
June term OF court.
William Roberts, treasurer Of the
Acme Box Company In Chicago, was held
up by three highwaymen in broad day
light and robbed of S376, which he had
just drawn from the bank to pay OF the
men in the factory.
Levi z. Letter, the Chicago millionaire,
sold the controlling interest in the First
National Bank Of Topeka, Kan, to c. J.
Devlin Of Topeka, an operator Of coal
mines in Illinois and Kansas. The price
paid was $4,000.
w. z. johnson, millionaire miner of
Florence, Colo, died suddenly at st. Jo-
seph's hospital at st. Paul. Mr.. johnson
had three smelters in operation in the
vicinity Of Denver, and was an inauen
tial citizen in his State.
The strike Of the journeymen painters
at Cincinnati, Ohio, has been settled and
more than 500 men resume work. The
new scale calls for an eight-hour day at
33 cents IN hour for the first year and 81
cents for the second year.
The tria! Of the proprietor Of the Last
Chance" joint at Coffeyville. Kan, result
ed in hung jury. The liquor secured in
the raid, and which constituted the prin-
cipal evidence against the jointist, was
stolen from the town jail.
A warrant has been issued for the ar
rest Of Mrs. N. A. Radcliffe on the charge
of having unlawfully voted at the late
city election in Denver, Colo. 1t is said
that she is the first woman arrested for
an election fraud in this country.
As result Of a two days conference
in Chicago representatives Of thirty
Of the largest soap manufacturing con-
Germs in the country have effected an or
ganixation to be known as the American
Soap Manufacturers Association.
By the giving way Of the cribbing in
the Granite mine on Battle Mountain at