The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1902-02-06
WESTERN,

Mrs. george turner, colored, died at
Springfield, Ohio, from drinking poisoned
coffee. Her husband and three children
may recover.
Nelson Morris Of Chicago and his wife,
daughter and son-in-law (Air and Mrs.
Schwab) narrowly escaped death in a
runaway at Santa Barbara, Cal.
Chicago. Milwaukee and st. Paul linn
ited crashed into Kedzie avenue street
car in Chicago, and a dozen persons were
hurt. three of them perhaps fatally.
Calvin A. Black, Chicago travelling
man, fell over the banister Of hotel
stairway at Wichita. Kan, and was
killed. His home was at Somerville,
Mass
Through a mistake in an operator at
Everett, two freight trains collided on
the Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul at
Deer6eld, ILL.,, killing one man and injur-
ing five others.
Myrtle Morris Wade, 22 years old, and
Benjamin c. Wade, "a, were married at
Hamilton, Ohio, for the third time in two
years. Their second divorce was granted
last Christmas.
w. G. Nevin, general manager OF all
tine lines of the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe Railroad west Of Albuquerque.
died ut his home in Los Angeles from
creeping paralysis.
William Allen White Of Emporia,
Kan, who is retiring from literary work
at Colorado Springs, is not under the
care of physician. and alarming reports
of his condition are denied.
Two children-Bertha, aged 10, and Ed
gar, 5-of Harry Burrows, a Bellairc,
Ohio, contractor, were badly bitten by
dog afflicted with hydrophobia and were
taken TO Chicago for treatment.
The Ohio Supreme Court has rendered
a decision sustaining the Garfield corrupt
practices act in a case brought by L. A.
Russell, who claimed that it did not ap-
ply to candidates for Congress.
In ST. Paul fire wrecked the Davidson
block, five-story brick structure at the
corner of Fourth and Jackson streets.
The damage done is estimated Mt $685.
600. amply covered by insurance.
The residents OF the little town Of Ches-
terfield. located in an isolated portion of
Bannock County, Idaho. are greatly ex-
cited over the appearance in that vicinity
of an eight-foot, hair-covered human mon
ster.
Harry NJ. Prouse, discharged soldier
from the Philippines, who claims to have
relatives in Chicago, was caught in San
Francisco as he was trying to ship him
self in dry goods box as freight to Chi
cago.
About 100 union bakers and bench
hands, employed by the six leading firms
of Kansas City, were locked out be-
cause Of an attempt of the industrial
council TO form a union Of bread wagon
drivers.
The machinery of the Youngstown, O..
plant of the American Can Company is
being dismantled, preparatory TO ship
ment to Chicago. The reason given for
the market.
Three members Of the st. Louis house
of delegates have been arrested, charged
with accepting bribes for the passage Of
a street railway franchise. Others are
involved in the scandal, and more indict-
ments are expected.
\ 42-pound gold nugget worth upward
of $4,000 is reported TO have been found
in California Gulch, one of the tributa-
ries of the famous Alder Gulch in Madi-
son County. Mont, where gold was first
discovered in Montana in 1868.
Mrs. Mary Battey. wife of Postmas-
ter d. c. Battey Of Florence. Kan, died
of blood poisoning caused by the prick Of
a pin. About Il week before Mrs. Battey,
while brushing a dress. pricked finger
scarcely deep enough to bring the blood.
AT Carrolton. Mo-, William Marsh,
who with Edward Moran was charged
with killing a man named Mckinney last
May, has been convicted of murder in the
second degree and sentenced to ten years
in the penitentiary. The jury was out
four hours.
Five hundred persons, many in scant
attire, fled from fire in Lindell Hotel, St.
Louis, with the thermometer near to zero.
All escaped unhurt and the hotel proper
was saved by heavy fire walls. An ad-
joining building was destroyed. with loss
of 81 100000.
The adjustment committees of the con-
ductors and trainmen of the Uniol Paci-
tic Railroad have signed two-year
agreement with General Manager DICK
inson of that road whereby they receive
a substantial increase in pay and Ehcrter
hours in many cases.
Norman +. Lambert, prisoner on the
receiving ship Independence at Vallejo,
Cal, awaiting trial on charge of de-
sertion from his ship on the Asiatic sta
ton, jumped overheard in the night, es-
Gaping in the darkness or sank. His
home was in Indiana.
The young son and daughter OF Cleve
Smith and Joseph Calvin, hired man,