The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1902-01-09
WESTERN.

quake shocks.
Max Grossman, an old German. wa
drowned in the Marais des Cygnes a
Ottawa, Kan. while fishing.
L. w. Lacey, superintendent Of th,
Palm Fruit Company's ranch near Was
CO, Cal, was shot and killed by an EN-
ploye.
John ]. Valentines will. fled for pro
bate at Oakland, Cal, leaves an estat,
valued at 100000 to his widow ant
children.
The Duluth Transfer Railway has beei
| sold under foreclosure Of bonds amount
ing to $1.1SO.O0O and bought in by tn,
bondholders.
Citizens Of Leavenworth, Kan, hav,
voted in favor of issuing $4O0.OOO bond.
for municipal ownership of the city Wa
terworks plant.
Robert Il. Lee aud Samuel Garvin were
convicted at Helena. Mont. Of stealing
200 head Of cattle from the Indians on
the Crow reservation.
| Timothy Moore. James Hogue and 4
7. Calhoun were killed by the explosion
Of boiler at Britt's Switch. Ark. Two
other men were badly injured.
The Blue Goose saloon and building al
| New Hampshire. Ohio. were blown up by
dynamite. The saloon was the only one
in the town aud only recently started
The Searchlight Hotel. Searchlight
New, WAS destroyed by FIRE. Mrs. Bull
lock, the lessee. and her two children, q
boy and girl, were burned to death.
w. X. Davis was killed and several
thousand dollars damage done at ire
lands stone quarry at Dunkirk, Ohio, by
| the premature explosion of ten pounds Of
| dynamite.
The Saa Francisco mint has just COM
pleted coinage record, which makes
1901 ihc banner year in its history, $751;
0I2,59O having been converted from
bullion into coin.
John Murray, wanted by the American
police OH the charge Of numbering his
wife at jefferson. Ohio. has surrendered
TO the police iu London aud is awaiting
extrali.ion proceedings.
G. II. Null, fireman on the Erie Rail-
road, leapes. from the cab of an engine
near Lima, Ohio. and was killed. He
thought q train ON siding was about to
crash into his engine. His home was in
Gallon.
William A. Lindeke. formerly a pros
porous dry goods merchant. killed himself
at st. Paul. Minn.. by shooting through
the heart. He met with financial re-
verses and for the last year had been
employed as II clerk.
Mr.. and Mrs. Milton Gorton. an aged
h1rnnA m fhasr
residence four miles northeast Of Litch-
field. Minn. The hired man. Frank Addy,
aged IS years, escaped in his night attire.
this being on fire when he got out Of the
house.
Frank H. Peavey, head OF the Peavey
Grain Company, and said to be the great
est elevator owner in the world, died at
the Auditorium Annex in Chicago. Pneu-
monia. with which Mr. Peavey had been
confined to his room since Dec. ~. was
the cause OF death.
Minnesota court granted temporary in
junction restraining officers Of Northern
Pacific Company from retiring preferred
stock. from transferring property to
Northern Securities Company and from
entering into any agreement with COM
petinz lines to fix rates.
Four men may die as the result of a
collision between freight trains on the
Pennsylvania road near Tifin, Ohio. En-
gineer Keiste- aud c. ]. Chadwick, Op-
orator at Warsaw Junction. were buried
under the debris for hours. Both wa.e
badly injured and nearly frozen.
Committee of seven Cleveland bankers
has IA Ion ovar tba fin opcio1 n fair, of tht.
Everett Moore syndicate after a confer
ence. Soivency Of the syndicate is not in
doubt. The action being due to the need Of
ready cash by the electric railway and
telephone companies controlled by it.
Many of the largest Touring mills in
Kansas viii have 10 shut down soon if
the price Of wheat does not drop from the
recent heavy rise. The mills which
stocked up heavily two months ago at
lower price are running TO full capacity
sud are making big money on their Hour.
News has reached Bisbee, Ariz.. Of the
killing Of George Ashton and Cam Ben
ningficld. well-known cattlemen, by Mex
lean woodchoppers in the Huachuca
Bcnniugfeld's effort to stop the Mexi-
cauS, WHO were SuOOtluS uOieS INTO MS
sent
Twelve persons were injured. one prob
ably fatally, in collision between an
electric car and a freight train at the
Forty-seventh street crossing of the Chi
cago Junction Railway switch tracks into
the Chicago stock yards. Another man.
not a passenger. was hurt in the work Of
rescue.
The explosion of boiler in tine base
ment of the Sacred Heart Institute in
Duluth. Minn.. resulted in loss of sew
eral thousand dollars to the building.
while seventy persons who were within
at the time narrowly escaped being kill
ed or injured. Evening devOtions were
in progress.
o. c. Barber is at home in Akron.
Ohio. from a recent European trip. He
states that he has been successful in
getting control of the match business in
some of the countries he visited, and
that il is the plan of the Diamond Match
Company TO eventually get control Of the
matchmaking industry OF the world.
The saloon of Joseph Deutsch in Chi
cago was robbed via the ice-box route.
The proprietor was at supper and his son
was watching the place when four men
entered. They did not stop to buy a
drink. but forced the boy into the ice box
at the point of revOlvers and then secur-
ell 500, the contents of the cash register.
An attempt to wreck a car on the To-
iedo, Bowling Green and Southern Elec-