The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1902-08-28
WESTERN.

Buildings were unroofed and trees de.
stroyed by a storm at Pana, Ill.
| L. A. Sartell. an aeronaut, was killed
by a fall of 100 feet at Homer, Ill.
| Thomas Kane OF Chicago has been
| elected president of the Winona assem-
bly,.
Severe storms in Iowa, Kansas and
| Nebraska did considerable damage to
property.
The Psi Epsilon fraternity has estab-
| lisheS a chapter at the University Of
| California.
Harry Koehler and John Barnish, pris,
| oners at Lexington. Neb., beat the jailer
| into insensibility and escaped.
Mrs. William d. Schultz has asked that
| a guardian be appointed for her husband,
the millionaire soapmaker Of GAINESVILLE.
Ohio.
A delayed blast caused the death of
Peter Olsen and William Ladd in the
Ohio-Deadwood tunnel at Rockford,
s. ID.
Following conference at Indianapo-
lis between Big Four officials and engine
men the latter were granted their wage
demands.
Apple growers of the Mississippi valley
| will meet in st. Louis Nov. IS and 10 to
form an organization for the regulation Of
prices on apples.
During storm the steamer Ottumwa
Belle OF Keokuk. Iowa, was struck by
lightning and a panic among the LOCO
excursionists resulted.
X. c. Bliss of Cincinnati has been ap-
pointed manager of the Western Union
Telegraph Company in Cincinnati in place
Of c. L. Page. resigned.
DIR. Chauncey ForUaTd. president of
Forward Reduction Company of Cleve-
land. is bankrupt, owing nearly half u
million to many creditors.
David f. Leavitt, aged 62, prominent
St. Louis coffee broker and treasurer Of
the Episcopal diocese of Missouri, COM
mitted suicide because of i'll health.
Miss TOna Dunlap of Aledo. ILL.,, was
discharged by magistrate after he had
heard the evidence presented to connect
her with the poisoning of Annie Dool.
William Holabird. Jr.. one of the best
known young golfers in the western hemi-
sphere. died at his home in Evanston,
ILL.,, after 4 long illness of typhoid fever.
A Lake Erie and Western passenger
train was derailed and wrecked at the
crossing of the Northern Ohio and Lake
Erie and Western road at Bluffton. Ohio.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed Par
sons College at Fairfield, Iowa. Pres
byterian institution founded in 1879. The
loss is $4,000, and the insurance half
that amount.
President L. Il. Nichols of the Kansas
Agricultural College announced his decli-
nation of the presidency of the Rhode
Island College of Agriculture and Me
chanical Arts.
William Francisco, engineer, was kill
cd and Edward Montague, engineer. and
U. G. Houtchin, fireman. severely injur-
ed in a collision in the Burlington yards
at Holdrege. Neb.
john D. Rockefeller, the Standard Oil
magnate. has purchased the Faurot Opera
House and block at Lima, Ohio, for S90.
coo. 1t is his intention TO make extern
siye improvements.
The Wabash has awarded contract
TO the Carnegie company for $4,000 tons
of steel rails 10 be used between Zanes-
vile and Marietta. The value of the or
der is about 100000.
Miss Sabine Eyer. teacher in Chicago,
arrived in Denver to be marred. Her
betrothed. Marcus Reiss. died suddenly
the next day while driving two miles
south OF Lafayette. Colo.
During severe thunderstorm lightning
struck the farm house of Henry Moyer.
nine miles west of Emporia. Kan. killing
Mrs Meyer and her granddaughter. -Four
other members of the family were stun
ned
At conclusion OF inquest on body of
Mrs. Ann Bartholin in Chicago. the cor
oner's jury declared woman was killed
by her son and held Oscar Thompson and
Edward Counselman as accessories after
the fact.
Carl Henrici. owner of restaurant in
Chicago, was found dead in his bed with
a bullet hole in his right temple. As Mr..
Henrici had not been in good health late