The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1902-06-19
WESTERN.

ton at Marquette, decided to establish
organization in other States.
The Democratic congressional conven
ton Of the new fifth district of Arkansa.
nominated c. c. Reid Of Morrilton.
Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, ha.
completed fund OF 100000 required
to secure services Of Prof. Joseph Swain
of the University Of Indiana.
The main tent Of the Harris Nicke
Plate circus was blown down by tor
nado at Sisourney, Iowa. twenty-five
people were injured, two fatally.
The third trial of Jessie Morrison, vino
Eldorado, Kan. An application for o
change Of venue has been refused.
The Great Western Coal Company
mines at Fuller, Kan, are tied up in
spite of the effort to resume with non
union men. There may be a general
strike.
Irwin A. Gardner, amanuensis to May
or Ames of Minneapolis was found gull
ty Of accepting bribes for protection OF
shark gaming and other illegal establish
ments.
Andrew Peterson, on trial for the kill
ing last January at Greenleaf, Kan. of
Carl Holt and his niece, Hilda Peterson,
was found guilty of murder in the first
degree.
Henry Siegel of Siegel, Cooper & Co.
has acquired half interest in store Of
Schlesinger l. Mayer for 81 200, 100.
Merger Of big department houses may
follow.
The Civil War claims Of Illinois and
Ohio for interest on equipment bonds
have been certified to Congress by Treas
ury Department; former will get ST.
O05. .129.
The Arkansas Democratic convention
nominated former Gov. James p. Clark
to succeed Senator James X. Jones and
renominated Gov. jefferson Davis by de-
clamation.
A tornado struck twelve miles north Of
Lake Park. Minn.. sweeping a strip Of
land two miles wide and three miles long,
1t destroyed nine farm houses and killed
ten persons.
Rendered destitute by the reported
death Of her husband, ]. Z. Bishop, in
the st. Luke's sanitarium fire at Chicago,
Mrs. Josephine Bishop Of st. Louis end
ed her life by drinking carbolic acid.
The Allis-C Chalmers Company of Chi
cago and employees have come to an am
icable settlement. and the strike which
las been ON for over a year is at m end.
The settlement is a victory for the work
men.
John Fox, farmer living near Elbow
r IL I.
Peter and his mother, and then shot him.
self dead. He was probably demented.
Fox was unmarried and lived with his
parents.
Mrs. Harry Churchill, formerly Miss
Olga Prizes of Omaha, for whom the Chi
cago police have been looking by request
of her mother, who feared she had met
tragic end, is said to be working in Kan
sas City.
Col. William Christy, president of the
Valley Bank, Phoenix, AriZ., arrived
from Prietas. Sonora, with details OF
massacre of Yaqui Indians-men. women
and children-by a detachment of Gen.
Torres troops.
At Tiffin, Ohio, the special grand jury
indicted Col. Brewer for murder in the
second degree. He was formerly State
game commissioner, and is charged with
killing Luther Herschey in a saloon
brawl May %.
The dead body of an unknown woman,
aged about 81 years, was found in Frank
lin Park, in the eastern section of Co
lumbus. There was nothing by which
the corpse could be identified, and it was
removed to the morgue.
William Strother, the negro bath at
tendant who was arrested last January
for the murder Of A. Deane Cooper, the
millionaire proprietor, in st. Louis, plead
ed guilty and will serve fifteen years in
the Missouri State penitentiary.
]. L. Cannon, a Kansas City track
man, and c. n. Brooks, subcontractor.
of Vernon, Texas. were instantly killed
at Wildman, Ok. by the premature ea-
plosion Of blast. Three others were
seriously but not fatally injured.
Clarence Hamilton, a trick bicyclist
from New York, known as MOncrief, fell
from the giant wheel at the Elks' fair
in Minneapolis and had several ribs brok-
en-. besides suffering internal injuries
which make his condition serious.
Mrs. Lillian ]. Adams has been ap-
pointed city treasurer of Kansas City,
Kan, by Mayor Craddock, to succeed
her husband, John A. Adams, who died.
Mrs. Adams had been her husbands
principal deputy for the past five years.
President Francis has been authorized
by the st. Louis exposition directors 10
sign contract with Leslie NJ. Shaw,
Secretary Of the Treasury, in which the
worlds fair management pledges itself
not to open the fair Sunday at any time.
Tornadoes in Illinois killed a total of
ten persons, suburbs OF Peoria and
Bloomington suffering the hardest at
tacks. Property loss will exceed $1,000
600. Danvers. ILL.,. is supposed to have
been destroyed. The known dead III
Minnesota are five.
Judge Babcock of the common pleas
court in Cleveland decided that the board
of tax review as provided in the Long
worth ripper" bill passed by the late
Legislature is unconstitutional. The de-
cision is n victory for Mayor Johnson.
who attacked the validity of the law.
By means of moose, improvised with
a bathrobe and towels, Miss Alice Lceis,
23 years old, the daughter of n wealthy
merchant of st. Louis, ended her life at
hotel in New York City. She is sup
posed to have killed herself in a fit of
melancholy superinduced by i'll health.
Evanston, ILL.,, society is astonished by
the unexpected postponement of the
wedding of Ralph McKinnie and Miss
Edna Louise Eversz, the groom announc-
ing that he intends TO take a "trip Tor
his health Oh the eve of his marriage,
which had been set for the very near
future.
Attorney Thomas A. MeGarry of
Grand Rapids was found guilty by jury
in the Allegan County Michigan) Cir
cult Court of bribing former City Attor-
ney Liant X. Salisbury in the attempt to
saddle a S4,OOO.OOO contract upon the
city for furnishing water supply from
Lake Michigan.
Four wagon loads Of pupils enjoying