The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-07-23
WESTERN.

Chicago's population, based upon COM
pilation of the 1903 directory, is 2,231,-
600.
A tornado passed eight miles north of
Cozad, Neb., killing one person and in
juring three others.
One-sixth of the business portion of
San Luis Obispc, Cal, has been burned
out with loss of over 100000.
A. H. Kruger of Toledo. Ohio, a clerk
in the postofIice, was killed by being
run over in the street by an automobile.
George fischer, a Duluth, Minn., al
derman, was charged in an open meeting
of the council with having solicited
bribe of $75. The council ordered an in
vestigation.
Three engines and twenty cars of
freight train jumped the Denver and Rio
Grande track in the Royal Gorge, Colo
RADIO. and plunged into the Arkansas
river. sheer fall of 1000 feet.
Two laborers, Patrick H. Sheehan and
John Peterson, were crushed to death at
Portland. Ore. by the falling of mass
of sand from a bank fifty feet high which
they had struck with their picks.
The new Chicago passenger station of
the Rock Island, the Lake Shore and the
Nickel Plate railroads. said to be the
best in the United States. has been open
ed. The structure cast $3,0O0OO0.
Frederick c. Fisher of Riverside, Cal,
whose parents live in Evanston, ILL.,, was
hanged for the murder of his wife, whom
he married in Chicago several years ago.
The woman's parents live i'll Milwaukee.
Gen. Nelson A. Miles rode ninety miles
on horseback to prove he is still hale on
the eve of his retiremeSt at "a; journey
made from Fort Sill, Okla, to Fort Ell
Reno, between $40 a. m. and 2:2O p. m.
DR.. A. C. Yengling, Grand Army de-
partment commander in Ohio, has inau-
gurated movement to change the date
of Memorial day from May 80 to a later
date, because of Dissertation" by sport
ing.
Mrs. A. e. Johns of New York was
saved from death in a chasm in Yosemite
Park by searching party She had been
imprisoned on a rocky ledge fifteen hours
and suffered terribly from bruises and
cnts.
Miss Laviuia Wheeler is dead in Oak
land, Cal. at the age of 1O2 years. She
was in full possession of her faculties al
most up to the time of her death. She
died, according to her physicians, simply
of old age.
A representative of Wisconsin tan
merry has purchased 81 100000 worth of
hides from the Kansas City packing
houses. The hides had been covered by
water during the flood and were sold at
a discount.
Chauneey Dewey, Clyde Wilson and
W. E. Mcbride left the Shawnee County
Jail at Topeka, Kan, free men, though
under bond of $4,000 each to appear
for trial later for the murder of the
Berry family.
John Tetzloff, his wife and son were
found in dying condition near Burdick,
Ind. having been poisoned from drinking
water. 1t is asserted a deliberate at
tempt was made to poison the family by
doping the WELL
Joseph Smith is in Jail at Union, No.,
charged with the murder of his half
brother, John Rhodes, whom he shot at
their home. Their aged mother, Mrs.
Eliza Rhodes, lying i'll in bed, died when
she heard the shot.
Missouri Pacifc's Colorado limited was
wrecked ten miles south of Kansas City
and ten persons were injured, three seri-
ously. The accident occurred on
straight track near the approach to a
bridge and the cause is unknown.
Near Saltwater, Mimi, Joseph Nei
man, a farmer, while herding cattle, was
shot from ambush by an unknown one
my. The charge from double-barreled
gun struck him in the chest and arms.
1t is thought Neiman will recover.
Fred Ames, superintendent of police
at Minneapolis under the administra-
tion of his brother, Mayor A. A. Ames,
left in charge of deputy sheriffs to begin
his six and half years service in the
State prison at Saltwater for bribery.
Eight thousand Christian Endeavorers
were thrown into a panic and nearly a
score of them were injured when the big
Tent Endeavor, in which the convention
was in session at Denver, was blown
over. None of the injured is badly hurt.
Validity of 'ninety-nine-year act" re-
garding street railway franchises has
been upheld by Judge Grosscup of Chi
cago in an order which is taken to have
the force and effect of a formal opinion;
orders received to apply $5SO,OOO at once.
Pete Traynor, well-known heavy
weight pugilist, who at one time was
known as 1.-The champion of the South
recently was married to Miss May
Wolfe. one of the most prominent and
wealthiest women on the Indiana oil
field.
L. E. Nolan eloped ten years ago with
the wife of G. w. Sans of Walla Walla.
She had a daughter years old at that
time and now Nolan has deserted his
first love at Spokane for the girl and
they have disappeared. Nolan is about
S5 years old.
Stockmen and others are much alarm
ed over the likelihood of grasshoppers
raiding the section of the country around
Bellefourche, s. d. Grasshoppers for
some time have been devastating parts of
Montana, and are rapidly coming toward
South Dakota.
In a collision between Wabash pas
aenper and freight train ono mile west of