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

Tolleston, Ind. one man was fatally hurt
! and score of others. most OF whom
were passengers, were injured. The
/ wreck came about through a misunder-
standing of orders
Two women fought OH the street and
one was fatally wounded at HartshOrne.
| l. T., and their husbands fought fierce
duel, in which one was seriously wound
cd. George Hart and Mrs. w. c. Cole
are under arrest. and Mrs. Hart and Cole
are in the hospital.
Judge Anderson of the United States
| District Court at Indianapolis denied the
Chicago Board of Trade an injunction
against l.. A. Kinsey & Co. and twenty
alleged '.bucket-shop" proprietors to pre-
vent them from using the boards con-
| tinuous quotations
The sealed verdict of the jury read in
court Al st. Louis finds Mrs. Minnie
Cummings, charged with killing her
fourth husband. Dennis Cummings, April
10, 1908, guilty of murder in the second
degree. The penalty was fixed at ten
years in the penitentiary.
j. &. st. John, president of the Colo
RADIO Springs City Council, indicted on n
charge of having accepted a railroad pass
rs bribe, was acquitted by jury in
the District Court under instructions of
Judge Leeds. who declared the evidence
for the prosecution was insufficient.
Death in the electric chair awaits Al
fred A. Knapp, the murderer of women,
who was found guilty at Hamilton. Ohio,
of killing one of his wives, Hannah God
dard. The self-confessed slayer OF at
least FIVE victims, all of whom he choked
to death, accepted the verdict with indif-
ference.
Masked cattlemen visited a small flock
master near Gillett, Wyo., and dyna-
mited his sodhouse, windmill and water
ing tank. The fockmaster was bound to
a post while the work of destruction was
going on and when the cattlemen depart
ed they admonished him to leave the
country.
The South Dakota State board of re-
gents has passed upon the charge pre-
ferred against President Garret Drop
pers of the State university of Vermilion
and has wholly exonerated him from all
charges. Droppers was charged, among
other things. with drinking beer and
smoking cigars. -,
Congressman Frederick Landis, Glen
Forgy of Chicago and Misses Charlotte
Harrison and Laura Howe were occu-
pants of runaway automobile at Lake
Maxinkuckee, Ind, which scooted under
4 wire clothesline, throwing all the Occu-
pants out of the vehicle and disfguring
Miss Harrison for life.
1t is rumored in the divorce colony at
Sioux Falls, S. D., that Mrs. Roland B.
Inli fnr hos
been rejected, temporarily at least. The
statement she made last November to the
effect that she came from New York to
Sioux Falls to get a divorce is said to
have influenced the courts action.
Three persons were killed and fifty in
jured, eighteen of them seriously, in q
collision on the Missouri Pacific The
fast mail which left St. Louis for Kansas
City crashed into an excursion train,
south bound from Kansas City, that had
become stalled at Dead Mans" curve
between Little Blue and Lees Summit.
The jury in the Elmira Drake murder
case was discharged at Covington, Ind,
after announcing to Judge Rabb that
there was no prospect of an agreement.
The jurors were out twenty hours and
stood six for acquittal and six for con-
viction from start to finish. The case
has cost Fountain County $1,000 to date.
Frank S. Rogers. 10 years old, broth
er of Mrs. William A. Rublee. wife of
United States Consul General Rublee at
Vienna, was found dead in a barn at
1902 Fourth avenue. Detroit. His body
was identified. In his pocket was a
small amount of morphine. Young Rog-
ers was graduate of Wisconsin Uni
versity. His home had been at Frank
lin Mine. near Hancock, Mich. No mo-
tive for suicide is known.