The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1902-06-12
WESTERN.

INDIANA DelnocratS nouihateu Stoee
ticket and adopted platform without
mention of Bryan or silver.
At Nevada, Mo-, Benjamin Franklin
Birch. aged 40 and very wealthy, mar
ried Miss Emma Jennings, aged Il.
Lieut.. Gen. Miles went to Fort Riley,
Kan, with Gen. Randolph, chief OF ar
tillery, to witness practical test of field
guns.
Mrs. Belle Smith and her two small
children were burned to death in their
home at Hardin, Mo. Triple murder Is
suspected.
Henry Clacker, who was recently re-
leased from an insane asylum, shot and
killed Mrs. Irene Kemper in a quarrel at
st. Louis.
Henry Besch, registrar of st. l.ouis
ander Mayor Ziegenhein, has been IN
dicted on the charge of receiving bribe
while in office.
John w. Baldwin, leading politician,
was arrested at Sedalia, Mo-, charged
with the murder of his brother-in-law.
Samuel L. Lipscomb.
Ernest Fahrig. Philadelphia chemist,
reports that Kansas shale will produce
SIG in gold to the ton and there is rush
of prospectors to Rock Hill City.
August Jahnke has been convicted at
Alliance, Neb., of the murder Of Michael
Sierk and his punishment fixed at i'm
prisonment for life. The jury was out
week.
Joliet, ILL.,. was inundated by cloudburst
and rising waters Three persons lost
their lives, great property loss was in
Cured and business practically brought
TO standstill.
Gebhard Bohn. president of tie White
Enamel Refrigerator Company of St
Paul. filed petition in bankruptcy, plac-
ing his liabilities at $144,460 and his as
sets at ST. DDS.
]. w. Howry. whose home is in Bos-
ton or Philadelphia, took morphine with
suicidal intent in an apartment house III
Kansas City. He is 20 years old and will
die. He is apparently wealthy.
Rev. Cornelius O'Rourke. a well-known
Catholic clergyman of Silverton, Colo.
and john McComb, Denver mining
man. We're drowned near Durango. Colo,
BY their team plunging into the river.
Edward T. Britt, a private of Company
II, Eighteenth infantry, was shot and
killed at Denver by Frank Wagner. a
saloon watchman. 1t is claimed Britt
was trying to break into the saloon.
Dr. S. A. Knopf, in paper read before
the National Conference of Charities and
Corrections at Detroit, insisted that tu-
berculosis is not infectious and declared
that it can be cured without change of
climate.
Letson Balliett was found guilty of
using the mails for fraudulent purposes
by the jury at Des Moines. The charge
was made in connection with an Oregon
mining proposition. The verdict was a
surprise.
A cloudbu-st destroyed the greater
part of Courtland, Neb. Seven inches Of
water fell. devastating the fields. Sew
aral buildings have been wrecked by the
storm. and it is feared a number of peo-
pie are killed.
Ten prisoners affected by the United
States Supreme Court decision in the
case of former Captain Peter c. Dem
ing have been released from the federal
penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan, and
furnished with tickets TO their homes.
Thomas MacAffee was killed and
james Darcy badly injured by a tornado
which struck not far from the mouth OF
Tusler creek, near Glendive, Mont. Mac
Affee and Darcy We're on their way to
Cotter's ranch in a wagon when over
taken.
A jealous farm hand, named John Lin
nett, killed Belle Brown at Milwaukee,
and after escaping was captured by
posse. Both We're employed by John
Mulaney, a farmer near Lake Beulah.
1t is supposed love affair is at the bot
tom of the trouble.
Another Detroit woman joined the
ranks Of Detroit titled women when Miss
Martha Palms, q wealthy young woman
and daughter Of ore of the most promi-
nent families. married Count Laurent
Meichel Champeaux OF Chateau Vile
Neuye. Cote dor. France.
The planning mill and woodworking
shop of the Illinois Car and Equipment
works at Hegewisch, Chicago suburb,
were totally destroyed by fire. The loss
is estimated by Superintendent Aberauer
at 100000. Two thousand men are
thrown out OF employment.
Richard j. Sands, an old soldier, killed
/ MIS-. MtSiAiOCh cOoAN
ing house in Columbus. Ohio, by
cutting her throat and attempted 10 Kill
the rroprietress. Mrs. Victoria Richard
son. who witnessed the murder Drink
| ing and jealousy was the cause.
Practically complete returns from
twenty eight out of the thirtythree coun-
ties in Oregon, and estimated majorities
in the Ave remaining, give Chamberlain,
Democrat, 25S majority for Governor.
The entire Republican ticket, with the
exception of the Governor, is elected by
from 1000 to 1900.
4. j. Brannan, substitute mail car
rier in ST. Paul, was arraigned before
United States Commissioner Spencer,
charged with tearing up letters instead
of delivering thenr Brannan is not sus-
pccted of theft, as the fragments Of let
tiers found indicate that he did not even
! look at the contents.
The organization of a new political
labor party has been agreed on finally by
the Western labor union convention in
Denver, which adopted declaration for
socialism and independent political ne
tion and decided on the name. the Amer
lean Labor Union. for the organization.
1t was voted to send organizers through
out the East.
Ii. r. l.. Zwick of Dayton, Ohio, was
killed while acting as field judge at the
Cleveland interscholastic field meet. Sher-
burn Wightman swung the hammer pre-
paratory to making a throw. 1t parted
In his hands, one of the pieces striking
Zwick, who was standing twenty feet
away. squarely in the stomach. he died
two hours later.
4 combination of twenty of the largest
lumber manufacturing plants in Coos
County. ILL.,, has been effected. and within
two weeks new corporation, the Ameri-
can Sash and Door Company. will be Ill
operation. Organization has been perfect
| ed under the laws of New Jersey, and
the new company will have a capitaliza'
ton of S35O0.OOO.
The Missouri State express on the Chi
cago and Alton Railroad collided with
the rear end OF a freight train standing
on the track near the Blue river, just
east of Kansas City. The engineer, b