The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-11-26

curve leading to the bridge, which top
pied into the river Mt this moment. The
estimated loss is $4,000.
Miss Nellie McHenry, leading lady.
was seriously burned during the third
act of "Mliss'' at Krug's Theater in
Omaha. Her turn was 10 rescue a school
master from burning school house. In
dropping through the roof her skirts
caught fire, and a real rescue by the lead
ing man followed.
An alleged attempt to wreck a passen-
ger train with miners returning from
work by removing the spikes and fish
plates from rail on the Florence and
Cripple Creek Railroad in Eclipse Gulch.
Colo, was frustrated. The engineer re-
ceived warning and stopped his train be-
fore reaching the spot.
Two boys We're fatally burned in Leb-
anon, Ohio, after they had been bathed
| by the County Jail attendants in soapy
| water and gasoline. The lads were
Charles Gray. aged II years. and George
Ross. aged 10. They were sentenced TO
serve a term on the charge OF breaking
into and robbing freight cars in Love-
land. 1t Is thought the boys purloined a
bottle of the gasoline and deliberately set
fire to the cell with suicidal intent
Bearing twenty-one stiletto wounds,
the frozen body of Salvador Battalia was
found lying in a pool OF blood on the
Franklin avenue bridge i'll Minneapolis.
There is no clew TO the murderer. That
robbery was not the motive is clear from
the fact that about $65 was found un-
touched in his pockets, while loaded
revolver in the hip pocket showed that
he had been struck down from behind
without a chance to defend himself.
As Paymaster Sweethen of the Penn
sylvania company was leaving the First
National Bank in Logansport, Ind, Sher-
lift Beckley took from him valise con-
tanning $4,000 and carried it to the
court house, where the money was poured
out on a table and nearly $4,000 Of it
seized by the officer. The sheriff was
collecting judgments in favor of Thomas
Collins and George Lightheiser, who
were injured on the Pennsylvania lines
aud were awarded damages in court.
Surrounded by tables on which lay n
score of human bodies, many Of which
had been disfgured by the students
knife, fremen fought a stubborn blaze
which damaged the Northwestern Uni.
versity building at Dearborn and Lake
streets, Chicago, to the extent Of $685.
600. The south wing of the three top
floors Of the building, which was former.
ly the fremont House, was destroyed.
Interior decorations and furnishings,
which cost upwards of S150,O0O, were
marred and water-soaked.
Rev. Felix NJ. Lepore, pastor Of Mt.
Carmel Catholic Church, and another
Italian named Joe Sorici were fatally
wounded in Denver in fight supposed
to have arisen over a card game they
were playing in the priests apartments
in the church building. Father Lepore
was shot twice in the abdomen and once
i'll the face and Sorici was shot once in
the abdomen. There seem to have been
no eyewitnesses to the affair. Both men
We're taken to st. Joseph's hospital,
where it is said they cannot recover.
The Indiana Supreme Court affirmed
the judgment Of the lower court in the
suit Of the coroner to oust Sheriff John |
S. Dudley, of Sullivan County, for fail |
ure to protect the negro billiard last win
ter. Suit was brought under a law de- |
claring the Office Of sheriff vacated for |
such negligence. The lower court de- |
cided that the law was unconstitutional. |
The Supreme Court did not pass on the |
question of uncOnstitutionality, holding |
that the coroner had no interest in the |
office of sheriff, Two Of the FIVE judges
iissented.