The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1902-06-05

and precipitated 200 persons into an ex
cavation, killing one and injuring eighty
seven, some of them fatally.
A conflagration which ragged for twS
hours in the town of Jersey Shore, Pa
destroyed sixteen buildings in the busi
ness portion of the town and caused 4
loss of between $4,000 and $4,000
With a dynamite cartridge between his
teeth. Adam kaufman seated himself un-
der a tree at Meriden, Conn, and calmly
lighted the fuse. He was blown TO pieces
Kaufman was well-known local au
archist.
John l.. Semple. the Camden lawyer
who has been on trial for a week in the
United States District Court in Phiiadel-
phia for alleged completely in the manu-
facture of $40 silver certificates, was
found not guilty.
Samuel Salter, Joseph ID. Rodgers.
Clarence Meeser, Harry McCabe and
James I. Sheehan. indicted for ballot
box stufiing, in connection with the elec-
tion Nov. 4. 1899, were found guiltless
by jury in Philadelphia.
Employees of the Union Bag and Paper
Company at Ballston. n. ", who are
members of the Laborers' Protective
Union, went on strike for an increase in
wages from S1.25 to $1.JO, for a ten-hour
day and for 10 cents an hour overtime.
Since the declaration of the strike in
the anthracite coal region there has been
a continuous exodus Of mine workers
from the Schuylkill district of Peaasyl-
vania. Many of the men have taken
their families with them, their intention
being to live permanently in other fields.
George I. Bruins. an examiner of ac-
counts for the Equitable Life Assurance
Company, shot his wife and killed him
self at their home in Brooklyn. n. Y.
Edna Dashiell, sister of Mrs. Bruins. who
had spent the evening with the couple.
says that Bruins was unreasonably jeal-
Gus.
Mrs. Rose Fieginow, wife of New
York newsdealer, killed her 6-year-old
daughter Bertha by gas asphy yxiation and
then committed suicide by taking carbolic
acid. The woman had been sufferer
from nervous disease for several years
and it Is supposed she was temporarily
insane.
While preparing to fire a salute at Wi
chita, Kan, a gun belonging TO Battery
A. Kansas State artillery, exploded pre-
maturely, wounding three members of the
battery. George Halter of Peck was fa-
tally hurt. Burt Davis of Wichita WAS
wounded and G. W. Thomas,
also of that city, was seriously hurt.
Alonzo ]. Whiteman, who was arrested
some time ago in New York on a charge
of forgery. has been discharged from Gus
tody. Whiteman was convicted and SEN
fenced TO two years and six months I'M
prisonment. The appellate division of the
Supreme Court reversed the decision of
the lower court. The charge was with
drawn.
Of the West Penn Railroad occurred at
a point called Porter's Curve, Pa. Two
men were killed and one injured. The
engine was wrecked and four freight cars
loaded with valuable freight, together
with cabin car, were a total wreck.
The track was torn up for a distance of
several hundred yards.
Harry Hicks, aeronaut. was killed at
Point, a summer resort near
Kingston, n. y. When the balloon had
reached an altitude of 1900 feet Hicks
the descent by means Of a
going slowly to 500 feet above
the Hudson river. For some reason he
ost his hold and fell, striking head first
IN sand bar in the river.
College hazing and the strong rivalry
between classes of the University of YER
mont caused the death Of Nelson Pease
Bond, a freshman, in Lake Champlain.
Caught alone and set upon by two sopho-
nores, whom he suspected of a design to
kidnap him in order to prevent him from
being present at class function, he ran |
o the lake, and, his pursuers say, jump |
ID in. So far as known there was no |
,ther witness Of the drowning. Both |
leclare that they sought to save him, but |
,ould not, rs he sank before they could |
each him with boat.