The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-10-01
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employed as messengers.
Three persons were injured in the col
lapse of frame cottage at 1852 West
Eighteenth street. Chicago.
Omaha, Neb., officers discovered hear
iy 1000 young children working in the
packing house and ordered them sent tC
school.
John Doyle, 30 years old, whose home
was in Chicago. was so badly injured il
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad yards
at Sandusky, Ohio, that he died.
Cyrus z. Gillespie, successful in
ventor. drowned himself in well near
his home in Edwardsville, Ill. No rea-
son, except illness, is given for the deed.
Former United States Senator Charles
6. Farwell. for half century prominent
in the political and business life of Chi
cago, is dSld at his hoSe in Lake For
est, Ill.
One robber was fatally wounded and
another is believed to have been injured
while attempting to rob the hardware
store of Bronson & Griswold in Trini-
dad, Colo.
Edward Butler. political boss under
sentence for bribery at st. Louis, Mo-,
declares that Joseph Folk. the district
attorney who convicted him, should be
elected Governor.
Negroes overpowered the sheriff at
Luxoia, Ark, took out a negro named
Hellem and hanged him to a water tank.
Rellelu WAS charged with attacking two
little negro girls. aged 5 and 10.
Amid great excitement the City Coun-
eli OF Toledo, Ohio. tabled the franchise
ordinance vetoed by the Mayor granting
a twenty-five years franchise to the To-
ledo Railway and Light Company.
-Four masked men held up Brrling-
.on passenger train near st. Joseph, No.,
blew open the express safe, and are said
to have secured from $1,000 to $4,000
None Of the passengers was mo!ested.
Prof. Fred C. Clarke of the Ohio
State University committed suicide in
Columbus by shooting himself in the
forehead with a revolver. Prof. Clarke
leaves widow and two small children.
Commissioner Richardson of the gen
eral land Office has decided to retain the
ocal land office at Cass Lake. Mimi. in
stead of removing it to Bemidji. The de-
.ision has been approved by President
Roosevelt.
Near Harrington, Neb., August
Schmidt. while hunting, pointed his gun
at John Houser and pulled the trigger,
killing Houser and seriously wounding
ais brother. Peter Houser Schmidt is
under arrest.
Wives of several Toledo councilmen
received anonymous letters saying that if
The wishes of the people We're not met
and the Mayors veto of the railway fran
,hise sustained. the lives of the council
men would be in danger
Installation of the block signal system
along S4S miles of the Rock Island Rail
road has been begun, and it is officially
stated that the work will be continued
until all the main lines of this company
have been thus improved.
According to published story. ]. d.
Rockefeller contemplates expending be-
tween S30,000.000 and SS0.0aj 900 in the
downtown part of Cleveland within the
next few years in the erection of sixteen
skyscraper Office buildings.
4 $4,000 fire occurred at the Missouri
State fair grounds in Sedalia. three large
frame horse barns and two beef cattle
barns being destroyed. In addition ten
Missouri, Kansas and Texas freight cars.
some of them partially loaded.
An automobile containing six persons
plunged over an embankulant and struck
fifteen feet below in the bea of the
river near San Jose. Cal, in
iuring all of the occupants, one of them,
Mrs. DeSaissett, probably fatally.
Left penniless in his old age. after a
loss of $G5,000 in the Juna food. dis
and Respondent, senry Mock
ley, proprietor of the Riverside packing
house in Kansas City, committed suicide
by sending bullet through his brain.
At North Vernon, Ind. City Marshal
August Schwake was shot and killed by
William III. Wilkerson, whip few mo-
usents afterward committed suicide. Viii
kerson was of n wealthy family and the
third of three brothers to co nmit suicide
Samuel Thompson, aged IS years,
murdered his son. Leroy Thompson, aged
81 years, and then killed himself ut their
home two miles south of Norwalk. Ohio.
Two years ago the younger Thompson
deserted bis wife. which angered his
father.
Col. B. F. Morley, manager of the
Buena Vista smelter and oi the Mary
mine at Romley, Colo, and
Adolph Abrahamson, superintendent of
the mine, were killed by foul air while
the mine. The bodies were
Robbers blew open the safe of the
Baxter Springs, No., posto1ice and Sc
cured $500 worth of postage stamps and
about 5000 in money. The explosion
the building and blew the safe
thirty feet through wall into an ad-
Joining drug store.
The unusual occurrence of castro