The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1902-04-17
WESTERN.

MISS lua Rogers declares Her engage
ment to Jasper Oglesby of Elkhart, ILL.,,
is not joke.
The 5O0-barrel -four mill of H. II. King
& Co., located at Gordon, Minn., was
entirely destroyed by fire.
Gov. Nash of Ohio says he will appoint
Lieut.. Gov. Nippert to the vacant pro-
bate judgeship at Cincinnati.
George E. Chamberlain Of Portland,
Ore, was nominated for Governor by the
Democratic State convention.
Fire in the Baptist Female College at
Lexington, Mo-. created a panic among
the students, but none was injured.
The wheat crop throughout Missouri is
reported to be in fine condition and the
average, 81 per cent, larger than the pre-
vious year.
British camp Mt Lathrop, No.. has ship
ped more than 1900 mules and horses
to South Africa since the beginning Of
the Boer war.
Fire destroyed the seven-story apart
ment building. the Tashmoo, in Chicago
One fireman was killed. The loss is esti-
mated at 100000.
The Commercial Club and City Council
of Omaha have joined in an invitation to
the National Editorial Association to
meet in that city in 1908.
Heavy Hardware Dealers National
Union at ST. Louis elected ]. A. Gregg of
st. Paul president and w. c. Brown Of
Chicago secretary-treasurer.
A tram car used for hauling lumber
plunged down half-mile hill at the Tay-
lor mill. near Lake Washington, Wash,
and injured its seven occupants.
Rev. Granville Lowther at Mcpherson,
Kan. says he will appeal from the YER
dict of the Methodist committee finding
him guilty of heretical teachings.
James Whitfield. president of the West.
ern Baseball League. committed suicide
at Kansas City. Overwork and financial
worries were the supposed causes.
The schooner Josephine, en- route from
Ashtabula to Conneaut. Ohio. capsized
in a squall four miles off the latter point.
The crew was rescued by harbor tug.
Carl J. Carrollson, tailor, of Muncie.
Ind, claims to be grandson and heir of
William Marsh Rice, for whose murder
Albert I. Patrick has been sentenced to
death.
+. Godfrnon. assistant cashier Of the
First National Bank of Falls City. Neb.,
suicide by shooting himself in
the head. Dependency is assigned as
the most probable cause.
The estate of the late Philip D. Ar
mour of Chicago amounts to $1i.151. .105
and TO large extent consists Of personal
This figure covers, however,
only the property in Chicago and New
York.
Lee Gallagher. the paying teller of the
First National Bank of St. Joseph. Mo-,
was arrested on n charge of embezzling
funds of the bank. The specific sum is
alleged to be $1,000. Gallagher con-
fessed that he is an embezzler.
Iowa's Twenty-ninth General Assem-
officially the session is supposed to have
adjourned at noon. Tardy action Of the
committee on enrolled bills caused the
delay. The session enacted about 225
avs.
Prof. Joseph NJ. Miller in Detroit con-
fessed to committing the murder of Car
rie NJ. Jennett. She was one of the
pupils of Miller. who is music teacher.
and was on her way home from lodge
meeting when he killed her by cutting her
throat.
On account Of having TO pay premium
IF from l to IL cents over May wheat,
.ogether with Il decline in the demand
or flour and high freight rates. about 80
Der cent of the Minneapolis flour mills
nave closed down for an indefinite length
If time.
Mrs. Grady of Butte. Mont. confessed
hat she drugged Mrs. Proulx. rich
widow. and robbed her OF her diamonds.
5odies of Mrs. Grady's husband and son,
N whose lives there was 5000 insur-
lnce, which was paid to Mrs. Grady, are
o be exhumed.
Fire that broke out in the plow shop
# the Southern plow works at Colum-
'us. Ohio. destroyed the plant. and also
hat of the Columbus iron works. burned |
wo whole blocks and warehouse, caus- +.
ng loss of 100000. The origin of the |
ire is unknown.
Nnl!e resisting arrest at BoOnvilic, :
DO. Louis Sage was shot and killed and
like y. Logan was seriously wounded
y Policeman Albert S. Bena. The men
we're on a railroad train without paying |
are and drew their revolvers when about /
o be arrested.
Blanche Walsh, who was presenting
Janice Meredith at the opera house in
seattle. Wash. fell from a rickety rear
ntrance of the theater into Puget Sound
nd was so badly crippled and shocked .
y the icy bath that she was incapaci- |
ated for several days.
Two men were killed as the result of
he explosion of nearly 5000 pounds Of +
owder at the plant of the Austin Pow
er Company at Glen Willow. a few
tiles southeast of Cleveland. The DOW
IT plant was wrecked. The cause of
be explosion is not known.