The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-01-29
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Any One May Become Thoroughly
Informed on Leading Happenings by
Simply Glancing Down This Col.
umn-No Long Story Necessary.
WEDNESDAY.
Thomas C. Platt was reelected to
the United States senate from New
York.
Congressman Albert ]. Hopkins was
elected United States senator from
Illinois.
The new governor Of Pennsylvania
advocates the punishment Of owners
of sensational newspapers.
John T. Norris, the detective, was
arrested on eight indictments for
blackmail at Springfield, o.
Former Speaker Kelly of the st.
Louis house of delegates got two
years sentence for perjury.
Five milliners were arrested at
Hamilton, O., charged with using
song-birds to decorate hats.
Charles W. Hale, GAINESVILLE, O., was
found at the foot of a flight of stairs
with his head crushed. The cause Of
his death is a mystery.
TUESDAY.
The jewelry store of r. NJ. Munich,
South Bend, Ind, was robbed of
5000 in goods.
Henry T. Quackenburg and wife.
each aged 80, were burned to death in
fire at Pittsburg.
Leonard Quint, 10, Columbus, O.,
who was found guilty of murder, has
been sentenced to be electrocuted
May az.
Governor Nash has issued a procla-
nation against coal stealing, with
special reference to the riotous doings
near Xenia.
Governor Nash and other members
pf invitation committee left for Wash
ington to invite President Roosevelt
to the Ohio centennial at Chillicothe
Charley and Earl Polly, Ports.
mouth, o., were perhaps mortally
wounded by their brother, James Pol
ly. The shooting was the elimination
of carousal.
MONDAY.
The new naval training school will
doubtless be located by the depart
ment at Put-In-Bay. o.
The most powerful gun ever built
In America, 16-inch coast defense
rifle, was successfully tested at Sandy
Hook.
The cause of the long delay in the
arrival of the Atlantic liner st. Louis
at New York city was due to leaking
boilers.
A boiler explosion near Vest New
ton, Pa, wrecked sawmill, killed
two men and injured two oIners, one
probably fatally.
At Chicago Eugene ]. Conklin shot
and killed Miss Jennie Dwyer and
painfully injured her escort, Frank
Fay Merritt, aud died of self-inficted
wounds.
line Kelly. a young society woman Of
New York city, was caught in a pas
senger elevator and badly mangted
She may die.
SATURDAY.
William Henry Orr, Hamilton, O.,
"a, and unmarried, shot himself in the
head with a rifle.
Engineer Wolf of Delaware, O., was
decapitated while his train was speed
ing towards Springfield, o.
The Pennsylvania and other rail-
roads file figures before the inter.
state commerce commission.
For the first time in many years the
Thames rives. in England, is frozen
over. The ice is nearly an inch thick.
A messenger boy pulled 3 lever in
a blockhouse at Cumberland, Nd, and
four railway men are killed in a rail-
way wreck.
War between rival labor organiza-
tions in Chicago resulted in lockout
of 1000 workers, including about
1000 women.
The official figures show tnat Al, ,714
persons lost their lives and 33,112
houses were destroyed as a result of
the recent earthquakes at Andijan.
Russian Turkestan.
FRIDAY.
Paul Munsch, 6, Hamilton, O., was
drowned. He broke through the ice.
while sliding.
Fostoria people drove of the de-
tectives sent to prevent the taking Of
coal in the railroad yards.
Irene Mouselle," the alleged mat
rimonial schemer, was bound over at
Marietta, o. Her husband was re-
leased.
NJ. Goubet, the inventor of the sub
marine torpedo boat bearing his;
name, who was recently confined in
an asylum for the insane, is dead in
Paris.
At Mansfield, O., the circuit court
granted a continuance of the extradi-
ton case Of former Insurance Com
missioner William NJ. Hahn, wanted
by New York authorities.
THURSDAY.
William Martin, Geneva, O., fell heir.
to a snug fortune while in a New.
York prison.
George C. Perkins was formally
elected United States senator by the
California legislature.
Andrew Myers, living near Lyons,
Neb., shot his brother Irick three
times. Erick will die,
Mrs Daniel Rowland WIS burned to