The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-06-04
WESTERN.


A cloudburst rendeNed hundreds of
families homeless at Enid, Okla. and
caused damage estimated at 100000.
Mrs. Lulu T. Hadley, who refused to
make Booker 7. Washington's bed, has
left Indianapolis on account of threats
by negroes.
A most destructive and fatal tornado
struck the town of Elmo, Mo. Nine per-
sons were killed outright and FIVE were
injured, some of whom may die.
The postofice at New Richland, AIipn.,
was robbed of about $3.50 in stamps and
money, the safe being blown open with
nitroglycerin and completely wrecked.
Anton Calcagno, San Francisco shoe
maker, shot ard killed his former para
nour, Madeline Picconi, and committed
suicide, because the woman had left
him.
Allies kaldy, who was taking two cam
els and an elephant to Minneapolis to
join circus, was trampled to death by
station, Wyo.
Nineteen persons were killed and more
than twenty injured by tornadces that
swept over three Nebraska counties. One
man was killed and child injured by
tornado at Rolfe, Iowa.
A cook for a railroad gang at Breva-
tor. Minn., was threatened with lynching
by his boarders because he had killed one
of them In quarrel over the way break
fast was served. He escaped.
Thomas II. Dickinson, travelling pas
e., H.
mitted suicide at his home in Los Ange-
les, by shooting himself through the
head. Mr.. Dickinson was 40 years old.
Prolonged i'll health was the motive for
the suicide.
The Helena, Mont, police have OBJ
tanned confession from Harry Ander-
son, 14-year-old colored boy, that it
was he who set fire to the Montana club
house on April %, when the clubhouse
was destroyed with all its contents, at a
loss of S175,O0O.
Preparations are on foot in the Saliva
tion Army corps of Cleveland to equip
twenty of its members for a tour through
West Virginia, eastern Kentucky and a
part of Pennsylvania, paying particular
attention to those sections in which muir
derous feuds exist.
Amos Leedy, aged GO years, postmas-
ter at Leedy, Ok, has pleaded guilty and
been fined on a charge of OBTAINING valu-
able letters in land contest cases. The
letters had remained in the office uncalled
for and Leedy, ignorant of what course
to pursue, threw them into a waste bas-
ket.
A series of twenty-five explosions in
the plant of the Indiana Powder Com
pany at FOntanet, Ind, killed one man
and seriously injured three others. Sew
eral men who were reported missing have
been accounted for. The building took
fire and was destroyed. The property
loss is $4,000.
Samuel Keeler. charged with murder
ing his wife Feb. 15, took the stand in
his own behalf at Hamilton, Ohio, and
swore that he killed his wife while in
state of somnambulism. He said he
quarreled with his wife before they re-
tired and he had this on his mind when
he went to sleep.
The town of Altman, on top of Bull
Hill, Colo, was almost totally destroyed
by fire that started in the Altman
Hotel. The firemen's hose was cut and
1t is believed the fire was of incendiary
origin. The loss is $4,000, with insur-
ance of $4,000. Five alleged incendi-
aries are under arrest.
An attack of melancholia. due to nery-
BUSINESS, prompted Miss Tempest Leeper
to commit suicide at the LindelI Hotel in
st. Louis by drinking the contents of a
of
act followed the young woman's flight
fram the Norbury sanitarium at Jackson
vile, ILL.,, the day before.
The plowing of a goodly part of a field
in East Ashtabula, Ohio, was accom-
plished the other day with an automobile
which took the place of stout team of
horses. The test was made by H. I.
Raser of Erie, Pa, and his brother,
George Raser, guided the plow. Many
persons witnessed the unusual feat.
Records were broken when the Lake
Shore Twentieth Century Limited ran
from Toledo to Elkhart, 133 miles, in ia
minutes. This is two minutes lower than
any previous time. At intervals along
the run the speed average was seventy
two, eighty and ninety miles an hour,
he general average being seventy miles.
Maddened by the fact that his wife had
obtained divorce, NJ. V. Leasia shot
Ind killed f. H. Drews. his father-in-
aw, in Portland, Gre. Leasia's former
wife witnessed the tragedy and was COM
,elled to 60 with Leasia. What has be-
,ome of the couple is mystery. but the
police believe the man will kill his WIFE
Traces of prehistoric man in the shape
# implements of bone and polished stone
lave been found in Chester County, Cal.
" the paleontologists of the University
# California. Specimens of bones from
many extinct animals were also found.
The caves of that region are proved to
'e rich field for scientific investiga-
ion.
Detective Mintz is in possession of