The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1902-07-24
WESTERN,

Fred Ames, the indicted chief Of the
Minneapolis police, is reported to be on
the way to Europe.
+. A. Palmer of New York has offered
to found university at Muncie, Ind.
and endow il with $5O0.0OO.
Robert NJ. La Toilette was nominated
for Governor by the Wisconsin Republi-
can convention on the first ballot.
Between thirty-ive and fifty miners
were killed by explosion in DaIy-West
silver mine near Park City, Utah.
Col George d. Wick has retired from
the presidency Of the Youngstown, Ohio,
Iron. Sheet and Tube Company on nc
count Of i'll health.
Anthony Vaughn, a wealthy citizen,
was found dead at Lima, Ohio with a
bullet hole in the breast, and is supposed
to have been murdered.
Captain Hobson, the Cuban war hero.
rescued drowning girl, who had jumped
in the Mississippi river near East ST.
Louis to test his gallantry.
The police officials have ordered all for
tune tellers and clairvoyants engaged in
their business in Cleveland either to quit
their calling or leave the city.
Joseph Galloway. aged 62 years, a
member OF Quantrelrs band during the
Civil War, was fatally stabbed ut Lex
ington. No.. by DOC" johnson.
In a rear-end collision at Kirkersville
station. Ohio. on the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, Engineer ]. A. Little and
Brakeman Orrin Dittem were killed.
Chicago freight handlers charge that
four railroads have violated the compact
by which the recent strike was settled.
by refusing to reinstate old employees.
Very Rev. William Choka, vicar gen.
eral of the Roman Catholic diocese of
Nebraska, died at st. Joseph's hospital,
Omaha. Father Choka had been in the
diocese for seventeen years.
The yacht Arab Fourth was capsized
far out in Lake Michigan by the sudden
squall at Chicago, and two persons were
drowned. Three others were rescued
after beart-breaking pull against wind
and sea.
The coroner's jury at Park City. Utah.
has returned a verdict holding the Off
cials of the Daly-West mine entirely
blameless for the accident by which
thirty-five men lost their lives.
The commission appointed to reappor-
ton Oklahoma has announced the total
population of the territory to be 100000
with one Representative for every 22.OOO
people. and one Senator for every $4,000.
The danger Of a national miners strike
was ended by President John Mitchells
speech at the Indianapolis convention;
plan Of 81 weekly assessments and $780,
600 lump relief was urged instead Of
walkcut.
Two towns in North Dakota and one in
Minnesota were reported wiped out by
cyclone, with possible loss of scores Of
lives. Much valuable property is known
to have been destroyed, country districts
suffering severely.
Jury in the case Of Capt" Streeter
and his allies. on trial for the murder Of
Watchman Kirk in Chicago, failed to
agree except in the case of William
Force. who turned States evidence. and
he was acquitted.
Both litigants in the case of the State
of Minnesota against the Northwestern
Securities Company ct al. being the So
called anti-merger suit, have agreed 10
submit to the jurisdiction of the United
States Circuit Court.
Near Tulsa, l. T., Creek Indian boy,
Charles Mingo, was found dead, securely
fixed on the horns Of a wild Texas steer.
When found the steer was trying to dis
lodge the boy by rubbing against the
banks of a small ravine.
James Conover, aged GO, a wealthy
farmer near Mason, Ohio, murdered his
wife by pounding her head with a club.
Conover was confined in an asylum for
the insane for some time, but was re-
leased three months ago.
A porch climber entered the residence