The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-11-26
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Fessenden, N. D., was destroyed, entail
ing loss Of $4,000.
Fire destroyed the Cass County cour
house at Fargo, N. D. The loss is abou
SIZE, 600, fully insured.
Wilberforce University, a school fol
colored pupils at Springfield, Ohio, wa.
damaged $4,000 by fire.
In a duel between Jack Carlton and
Benjamin Hopkins, wealthy cattle men
at Grant Okla, Carlton was killed.
Robbers blew open the safe in the
First National Bank of Lyons, Neb
They secured $1,000 in cash and escaped
The Egan, s. D., State Bank was
closed by the State examiner. The de.
posits were $4,000. Slow collections
caused the collapse.
W. B. Hatton was arrested at Luverne
Mimi, for setting up forged mortgages
for $35, 900 on land owned by Edward
Walsh, of Saltwater
General Francis Marion Drake. for.
mer governor of Iowa, died of diabetes
after brief illness at Centerville, Iowa.
He leaves a large estate.
Theodore Hayes, aged 10, of st. Jo-
seph, Mo-, is alleged to have fired a bull
let into the brain of his 3-year-old broth
er because the infant annoyed him by
crying.
At Minot, n. D., Mrs. Frank Downing.
a bride. jumped into the Mouse River to
rescue her young sister. who had broken
through the ice. Both were carried under
and lost.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has de-
cided that the Milwaukee city clerk may
make his own appointments. thereby
striking severe blow to the civil SER
vice law.
Thirty-one men are killed, fourteen
injured and three missing Us the result
Of collision between freight and work
trains Oh the Big Four Railroad near
fremont, Ill.
The Indiana National Bank of Elk
hart has been closed by the Comptroller
of the Currency. National Bank Exam
iner c. II. Bosworth has been directed
to take charge of the bank.
While clearing stumps off DIR. J. B.
Hartman's stock farm near Columbus,
Ohio, Jesse n. Dyer, John Cox. Richard
Cox and a man named Schlitz were
blown to pieces by dynamite.
Arthur Morris Potter, son of L. H.
Potter, president of the Rocky Mountain
Bank at Central City, Colo, says he has
been disinherited for marrying Miss
Clara Long, daughter Of Philadelphia
banker.
Mine No. 8, of the Sunday Greek Coal
Company, near Corning. Ohio, has been
set on fire, and it has been sealed up to
stay the flames. The tipple and adjcin-
ing buildings have been destroyed. The
loss will exceed $4,000.
Joseph Francis Furlong, Of st. Louis,
the travelling salesman who shot and
killed Irving Mcdonald, a young St. Jo-
seph millionaire, at the Hotel Metropole,
was acquitted by corouer's jury and
discharged from custody.
The Missouri Supreme Court held that
the statute prohibiting the giving away
of liquor in local option counties is con-
stitutional. and fined Boney Handler and
Joel Smith for giving drinks to Charles
Smith in the town of Phelps.
The Mccormick Harvesting Machine
Company has announced that it will pre-
sent to all employees who have worked
for it for five years stock in the Inter
national Harvester Company equal to 5
per cent of the total wages earned.
Edward Dubsky, "a years old. walked
to the rear Of his saloon. 1902 Loomis
street, Chicago, and shot himself in the
head, dying instantly. Neither Mrs.
Dubsky nor any of her friends could fur
nish possible motive for the suicide.
In Youngstown, Ohio, the casing in
the Wilson avenue sewer gave way and
buried six workmen under ten feet of
sand and gravel. Martin Timlin and Ra-
phael Chillo were killed. John Massero's
legs were broken and his condition is
critical.
Tom Horn, long renowned as a scout
and Indian fighter, friend of Gen. Miles
and Buffalo Bill, and one of the most
noted figures of the mountains and the
plains, was hanged in Cheyenne, Wyo.,
for the murder of Willie Nickel, 15-
yearold sheep herder.
In panic in the Roman Catholic
Church at La Puente, Rio Arriba Coun-
ty. \. NJ, caused by wax taper set
ing fire TO the altar trimmings, two chill.
1ren were trampled to death and fifty
ldults were hurt, having ribs and ankles |
broken or otherwise injured.
Frank Siegel, former president of the |
lefunct Siegel-Sanders Live Stock Com
mission Company. charged with embez-
ling $4,000 of the funds of that COM
'any, was acquitted by the jury in the |
.riminal court in Kansas City. This is |
he second acquittal of Siegel
With the Chicago flyer due at that
'oint in ten minutes the big Pere Mar
Iuette Railroad bridge spanning the
liver at Lee. Mich. was discovered on
ire. Section men with the aid of a
andcar stationed a danger signal just