The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1902-07-17
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Four persons were killed by the heat in
Pittsburg.
Frederick W. Vanderbilt has given
S50O0O 10 Yale for dormitoIy.
More than 200 miners were buried alive
in a mine in Pennsylvania, caused by the
explosion of fire damp.
]. Edward Addicks' Bay State Gas
Company of New Jersey has been placed
in the hands of Receiver q. ID. Hallock.
Mary 5. Knowlton. daughter of former
Attorney General Knowlton, was killed
in q runaway accident at Arlington
Mass.
badly beaten at Boston for desecratins
an American flag and later fined $40 in
the District Court
Rev Leon E. Bell. a Lowell. Mass.
pastor and a graduate Of Northwestern
University, has been elected president of
Vashon College at Burton, Wash.
The grand jury at Buffalo indicted Mrs.
Elizabeth Meyer for the murder OF her
husband. DIR. Jacob +. Meyer. who was
shot and killed in his office on June 80.
As the result of head-on collision be-
tween lWO ou Tue AAuoSVh
Railroad at Caldwell. n. V, one person
was killed and sixteen others were IN
jured.
]. Hampden Dougherty, commissioner
of water supply, gas and electricity for
Greater New York, has resigned. Rob
ert Grier Monroe has been appointed to
the office.
The Fall River Line steamer Priscilla
collided with the Merchants and Miners
Transportation Company's steamer Pow
haitian in Narragansett bay. One man
was killed.
A premature explosion of dynamite in
q blast furnace Stag dump near Du-
Quesne, Pa, killed one man and danger
ously injured four others. All were
workmen.
James s. Mcdonald, real estate
broker, was killed with an umbrella by
an unknown man with whom he quar-
relied at Broadway and Forty-frst street
in New York.
Samuel Boyd. aged "a, one of Admiral
Dewey's orderlies on the flagship Olympia
at the battle of Manila bay. was almost
instantly killed at Magruder's station,
Nd, by being struck by train.
In 3S-foot launch, christened A. A.
Low, after the Mayors father, and ac-
companied only by his 16-year-old son,
Captain Henry Newman, New England
boatman. sailed from New York for
Southampton, England.
Mrs. Margaret Kelly, 65 years old,
wife of an employe of Whitelaw Reid at
his summer residence near White PLANS,
received fatal hurts at the hands OF
thieves, who struck her with stone
wrapped in q handkerchief.
A man committed suicide by jumping
from the Brooklyn bridge. A rope was
thrown to him from a passing tug, but
he refused to seize it and soon sank from
view. In his hat, which bears the mark
South Norwalk, Conn.," he left four 81
bills.
Fifteen men were burned, one fatally
and eight seriously, at the Homestead
steel works at Pittsburg. A ladle filled
with molten metal was being lowered into
the pit when the drum Of the crane broke
and the seething metal was thrown over
the unfortunate men.
Preyed upon by worries resulting from
his connection with several building and
loan associations. Col. George ID. FELTON,,
a former city treasurer of Camden, \. j..
assistant quartermaster general of the
State militia, and a real estate operator,
committed suicide by inhaling illuminat-
ing gas.
Col. Nathaniel Mckay, aged Il years,
the millionaire contractor and hotel man
of Washington, died suddenly of heart
failure at beach front hotel in Atlantic
City, while on his honeymoon trip with
his bride Of two weeks. who was formerly
Miss Mabel g. Geyer of Washington and
who is less than 30 years old.
A cloudburst in the upper Bushkill dis
trict Of Northampton County, Pa. did
q vast amount Of damage. Charles Abel.
q farmer, who with his wife was return
ing from the harvest field, was struck by
lightning and killed. The Bushkill creek
overtowed its hanks, and many fields Of
grain were almost wholly destroyed.
Herbert Hill, p years of age, residin.
at Roxbury, Mass. shot and instantly
killed his sister and perhaps fatally
wounded his mother. The crime was
committed at the residence The boy
rushed out OF the house bareheaded and
jumped on a car headed downtown. The
police started in pursuit and soon arrested
him.
There was almost tragedy in the
Roosevelt family at Oyster Bay, y. Y.
Little Ethel. out galloping with her older
brothers. fell from her horse because the
saddle girth slipped. She was dragged
fifteen feet in the mud, and the few who
witnessed the accident thought she would
be killed. But her own pluck and horse
manship saved her. She got up unhurt
and finished her ride with the boys.
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