The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-12-10
WESTERN.

6rmed the constitutionality of the Kan
sas eight-hour law.
G. P. Butler, a prominent member OF
himself in his room.
The grand jury at st. Louis has re-
turned two indictments against Major
Dennis Of get-rich-quick fame.
Fifteen persons were injured, two IA
tally, in rear end collision between
Whittier electric cars near Los Angeles
in a dense fog.
The defaulting and fugitive president
OF the failed Bank of the Chickasaw Ma
ton has been indicted By grand jury at
Ardmore, l. L.
Jacob Kinds shot and fatally wounded
Jerry Arnold at Cadiz Junction, Ohio,
because the latter defeated him in q
sparring exhibition.
Forty-four killed aud lS5 injured is
the record Of the street cars, elevated
roads and railroad trains within the city
Of Chicago for the month of November.
Frederick c. Drews, of the Chicago
and Great Lakes Dredging and Dock
Company, was killed by an Illinois Cen
tral train ut the Both street station, in
Chicago.
Francis ]. Mccarthy, 15-year-old
electrician of San Francisco, has invent
ed wireless telephone by which lie has
already transmitted messages distance
Of four miles.
Attorney James \. Fuilenweider was
shot and probably mortally wounded by
three highwaymen, who attacked him at
42d street and Wabash avenue, Chicago,
while on his way home.
Fred Strube gave himself up at Ma
Con, No., after evading arrest for two
weeks and confessed that he murdered
Alice Henninser at Topeka, ILL.,, because
she refused to marry him.
Ruth Bryan Leavitt writes to a friend
that her artist husband has decided TO
-erinin at Humansville, Mo-, where they
have been spending their honeymoon,
and run for Congress on the Republican
ticket next year.
The Purtsche Canticny Hauestein
block in Lima. Ohio, was burned, entail
ing loss Of $4,000, divided among sew
cral occupants. \ number of persons
IA tatlicu
down ladders by the iiremen.
Janitors discovered stick OF dyna-
mite. fitted with an electrical explosive
appliance. just outside the door Of the
Des MOines National Bank. Presumably
safe blowers attempted to effect an en-
trance, but were frightened away.
4 record-breaking initiation ceremony
took place i'll Convention Hall, Kansas
City. in that nearly 1000 men took their
first degree as knights of Pythias at one
time. OF these 1000 were from Kansas
City and the others from neighboring
towns.
One man was killed and three We're
badly injured in rear-end collision of d
wrecking train OH the Cincinnati and
Muskingum Valley Road with a freight
train at North Bend, Ohio. The cause
is supposed to be the failure to send out
q fagman.
The Circuit Court at Hamilton, Ohio,
has granted the motion for stay Of ex-
ecution of the sentence Of death passed
upon Alfred A. Knapp for the murder of
his wife. The execution was set for
Dec. II, and stay has been granted for
thirty days.
Peter Niedermeier, Harvey Van Dine
and Emil Roeski pleaded not guilty
whe1 arraigned before Judge Kersten in
Chicago on murder indictments. Gustav
Marx pleaded guilty and was the only
one to show that he realizes the peril in
his situation.
st. Paul's German Lutheran Church in
Fort Wayne was completely gutted by
fire. The loss is $4,000, with $4,000
insurance. The church was built fifteen
years ago, and st. Paul's congregation
had just completed payment for it. 1t
will be rebuilt at once.
In a collision between two north-bound
South Side elevated railroad trains at
the Fifty-irst street station in Chicago
one guard was fatally hurt and several
of the passengers seriously injured. The
fog and the frost on the rails were re-
sponsible for the accident.
Three men were killed and four in
jured in head-end collision between q
hand car and freight train AT Sar-
gents, a few miles below Waverly, Ohio,
on the Norfolk and Western Road. The
men were all on the hand car on the
way 10 Sargent's to repair a bridge.
Prairie fires are raging in the western
part Of Caddo County, Okla, south of the
Washita River. Many homes are re-
ported to have been burned between Fort
Cobb and Anadarko. The fire swept a
path from five TO six miles wide. destroy
ing everything, though so far no lives
are reported lost.
Mrs. Mary Sickles has sned the City
Of Enterprise, Kan, for $4,000 dam
ages for the murder Of her son, Clark
Sickles, by Horace Plaisted, now in the
She alleges that Plaisted
was drunk at the time and the city was
as its officers had allowed
the joints to run.
Omer z. Burke, a union steamftter,