The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-10-15
WESTERN.


WESTERN.
Children are dying of an epidemic Of
iormaldehyde milk poisoning in Phoe
nix, Ariz.
At the National Horse Thief Detective
Association convention at Richmond
Ind, a membership of 1,166 was report
ed.
David Nation, divorced husband OF
Mrs. Carrie Nation, was taken i'll OF
stomach trouble at Medicine Lodge
Kan, and died.
William 7. Baker, ex-president of the
Chicago Board of Trade, died at his
GUNNER home in Highland Park. His
death was sudden.
Of three masked bandits who held up
q street car at Aurora, ILL.,, one was
killed by the police and another wounded
in subsequent battle.
Sir Albert P. F. Coape, an English
baronst who became saloonkeeper at
Lumberton, \. NJ, has shot his fifth
wife, his sister-in-law and himself.
William Schroeder of Papillon, Neb.,
fell into grain separator through losing
his footing when pitching sheaves to be
thrashed and was crushed to death.
Stephen 2. Hearty, member of the
st. Louis fire department, was shot and
killed by Riley c. Wallace, a carpenter,
following an alteration about the pay
ment of rent.
A street duel between two police off,
GERS and several negroes in st. Louis re-
suited in the probably fatal shooting of
Patrolman Edward Rice and Samuel
Newby, a negro.
Five persons were killed and twenty
buildings demolished by a tornado at
Sheridan, Wis. Two men were drowned
III Green Lake, near Ripon, Wis. Great
damage to property is reported.
Lightning struck a tent in the Rock
Island Railroad camp in Kansas City,
Kan, during violent storm, killed two
men, injured five others and shocked all
the occupants, about fifteen in number.
Twelve persons were drowned by the
capsizing of the steamer Hack:ey in
Green Bay during furious gale Seven
survivors were picked up by a passing
boat after tossing all night ON a bit of
wreckage.
Records of divorces in Cuyahoga Coun-
ty, Ohio, show five applications a day,
and the courts are unable to keep up
with the demand. The average for a
year shows two divorces to every five
Mrs. Vet Borden, Mrs. Alice Hurd,
&c
Borden were drowned in the Narrows,
Long Lake, near Brainerd, Mimi They
attempted to ford the stream, although
advised not to.
While running at full speed in response
to an alarm of fire truck containing six
iremen collided with swiftly moving
street car at Ninth and Carr streets, st.
Louis, and all the fremen We're hurt, one
probably fatally.
The quick work of Engineer Daniel
Flynn in applying the air brakes before
running into an open switch saved the
New York and Boston limited train of
the Big Four Railroad from a probable
bad wreck at st. Louis.
Dynamite blew up several feet of the
Algoma Central Railroad near the Con-
'olidated Lake Superior Company's brick
plant in Sault Ste. Marie. They are sup
posed to have been disgruntled employees
If the Consolidated Company.
-Four men were killed and two injured
n head-on collision between double
header freight train and an extra engine
our mics north of Sloan Springs, Ark,
N the Kansas City Southern road. The
hree engines were demolished.
George Warner, aged 1G years, a son
If George Warner, now in the Louis
lille, Ky. Jail on a charge of numbering
Pulaski Leeds, 4 Louisville & Nashville
'ailroad official. died in Logansport, Ind.
# grief over his fathers crime.
The 5-year-old son of Fred Wagner
S dead at Neigh, Neb., as the result
# an attempt made by two of his play
mates TO make him eat sand. They dis
ocated his neck and a quantity of sand
vas found in the boys stomach.
st. Charles, Mimi, was razed by Q tor |
Iado, seven persons killed and twenty |
light injured. Other deaths from the |
torn are reported throughout the State. |
1t independence. Wis. two persons We're |
,illed and three fatally injured.
John j. Ryan, the turfman, testified |
'efore the federal grand jury at Cincin-
lati that he paid money to Daniel V. |
Iiller of the Poetofiice Department in
onnection with 'get-rich-quick" schemes
n condition of being given protection.
Mrs. Minnie Brown-Phillips- Harris
cummings, convicted of the murder of |
er last husband. Dennis Cummings, was
to ten years Imprisonment by
udge Douglas in St Louis. The usual |
notion for new trial was overruled.
Tom Horn, the notorious cattle rustler
waiting death for murder at Cheyenne,
Vyo., will be his own executioner. The
herif has let contract for the building
f scaffold which will be self-operating,
imilar to that formerly used in Colo
ado.
There is great deal of excitement in
liver City, \. NJ, and the surrounding
ountry over phenomenal gold strike at i
iold Gulch. The ore is of a peculiar
uality and has not yet been classified
Issays as high as $4,000 per ton are re-
orted.
A slight shock of earthquake was