The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1902-05-15
WESTERN.

IuTte ureiileu were Crushed 10 Oedtu III
fire at the Iowa iron works at Dubuque.
City elections were held throughout In
diana on Tuesday. contests being on local
issues and neither of the old parties gain
ing any advantage.
Headaches which caused hemorrhage
of the brain caused the death of Leslie
Everman, chief clerk OF the West End
Hotel in st. Louis.
Gov. Davis of Arkansas pardoned a
negro on condition that he go to Massa
chusetts. as that State, he said, sympa-
thized with the race.
William Murphy, aged 36, st. Louis
electrician, was shot AMI killed by his
wife. The murder was the result of a
quarrel and Mrs. Murphy declares she
acted in self-defense.
During heavy fog an cast-bound extra
freight sTain on the Union Pacific ran
into freight train No. II at a crossing
in North Topeka, Kan. killing two men
and injuring seven others.
Alexander Meussing was the prose-
cutor of his father in the police court at
Columbus. Ohio. and the latter was fined
$40 and sent TO the workhouse for thirty
NAY Aei SASahhS MS roh WotSA.
Fire in the Chicago stock yards endan-
gered millions Of dollars worth of prop
erty, but was extinguished after hard
fight, with loss of 100000 to German
American Packing Company and NJ. Vile
& Co.
The Rock Island road is negotiating
for the purchase Of the Chicago, st.
Louis and Peoria line, with the purpose
of making q new road from Chicago to
st. Louis, and also is planning a new
line from St. Louis to st. Paul.
Bernard Corrigan, n Kansas City cap
italist and railway contractor, has been
selected as president of the Metropolitan
Street Railway Company, which controls
all the lines in Kansas City and the
Kansas City Electric Lighting Com
pany.
Seven young men and women, members
of party enjoying an excursion on the
Maumee river. lost their lives at Toledo
when the naphtha launch Frolic was run
down and sunk by the tug Arthur Woods
of the Great Lakes Towing Company's
fleet.
Among those who have passed all the
examinations and are full-iedged naval
cadets, class of 1906, are the following
from the middle West: George Z. Lake,
Illinois: W. b. Howe, South Dakota;
Lennox Grant. Missouri, and w. F. Ans
den. Kansas.
The Cuyahoga Wire and Fence Com
pany of Akron, Ohio. capital stock ST.
100000. has absorbed the Cuyahoga Steel
Wire Company of Cuyahoga Falls and
the Hartman Manufacturing Company Of
Newcastle, Pa. The main offices will be
at Cuyahoga Falls.
-Four hundred union metal polishers
Went on strike at Cleveland because
their employers refused to grant nine
hour working day. AS result number
OF shops We're closed. Several of the |
larger concerns granted the demand Of |
the men and are not affected.
Freight traffic on the St. Louis, Kan |
sas City and Colorado Railroad, recently |
purchased by the Chicago, Rock Island |
and Pacific, was completely suspended |
the other day as the result of war de- |
and the Terminal Railway Association.
The st. Louis exposition building was |
sold at public auction for S2SO,OO0 TO |
Frederick w. Lehman for the St. Louis |
Union Trust Company. The sale was
forced by the bondholders, who were |
surety for a mortgage for Sl5O.OOO. The |
building will be torn down to make way |
for library building.
Walton Weber of Columbus was elect
ed department commander of the Grand
Army of Ohio on the first ballot over five
The feature of the encamp-
ment was the parade of veterans, in
which Gov. Nash participated. Several
thousand soldiers We're in line, and ~
BOO visitors were in the city.
Fire starting in a rubbish heap from
, cottage which was being torn down
destroyed frame cottage and wrecked
wo apartment buildings in Chicago.
twenty-five families were driven to the
street, and some of them had narrow es-
apes. Three persons were rescued from
he building, two of them unconscious.
Richard C. Davis, cashier of the Peo-
,le's National Bank of Washington, Ind,
who pleaded guilty to embezzling over
10000 of the banks funds, which he
pent in gambling, has been sentenced
" Judge John ii. Baker of the federal
,ourt in indianapolis to five years inn
,risonment in the prison at Columbus,
ohio.
1t is probable that the Metropolitan
Street Railway Company of Kansas City,
lnder the management of its new presi-
lent, Bernard Corrigan, will reduce fares