The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-09-10
WESTERN,

Bear Lake, Minnesota, by the overturn-
ing of rowboat.
A severe storm visited section north
of Mankato, Mimi, and for miles corn
was cut down by hail.
-Four men were arrested in Montana
charged with conspiring to hold up a
Great Northern train.
Six lives were lost and heavy prop
erty damages reported as the result of
floods in Nebraska and Missouri
At O'Keene, o. T., FIRE within two
hours destroyed an entire block of bust
ness buildings on the west side of Main
street.
The State Bank of Silver Lake, Mimi.
was robbed of $4,000 in cash and all
notes and securities. The safe was COM
pletely destroyed.
The central conference of German
Baptists, which has closed its conyen-
ton at Cleveland, Ohio, will meet in
Chicago next year.
A mob attacked the Jail at Shawnee
town, ILL.,, in an attempt to lynch a negro
assaiIant of woman, and feeling be-
tween the races runs high.
Ralph Pulitzer, son of the proprietor
of the New York World, was bound over
at Choteau. Mont, on the charge of
killing game ont Of season.
The shortage in the salmon product
on the Pacific cpast is now said to
amount to 100000 cases, and prices
have considerably advanced.
A Wabash train carrying the ST. Louis
and Cleveland American League baseball
teams was wrecked at Napoleon, Ohio.
Several of the players were hurt.
The New Mexico Worlds Fair board
has decided TO exhibit a turquoise mine
in actual operation as one of the features
of its display at the st. Louis exposition.
Extensive coal fields in Bureau Coun-
ty, Illinois, have been procured by the
Northwestern Railroad, which also has
leased the De Pue, Ladd and Eastern
line
Mayor Charles s. Bosch of Hamilton,
Ohio caused the arrest of his own broth
er. Fred Bosch, on the charge of permit
ting gambling at his house, the Hotel
Atlas.
In cross complaint, Joseph Pohlman;
at KOkomo, Ind. asserts that his wife
Sarah Pohlman has twelve other hus-
bands living, eight in Ohio and four in
Indiana.
Receipts of live stock this year to the
end Of July at Chicago, Kansas City.
Omaha, st. Louis and st. Joseph. Mo-,
the principal markets, amounted to H.
134, ,S47 head.
A bank thief. arrested in Milwaukee
after sneaking $500 from the Germania
Bank, was identified as Joe Shea, whom
the police say has an unsavory record in
New York and Chicago.
Judge ]. C. Ellis, one of the best law
yers in western Kansas, died at his home
in Pratt. He had followed a theory of
fasting to cure dyspepsia and had gone
thirty-seven days without food.
Fire caused loss of $4,000 at S. H.
Taft & Co.'S lumber yard in Cincinnati
The charred remains of two tramps were
takef>from the ashes of box car that
burned while OH the siding of the lumber
yard.
Superintendent Matthews discovered
"vire tappers' Mt work at the Delmar
track in St. Louis, and in q fight between
the 'tappers" and Matthews men one
Of the former was shot in the face and
badly wounded.
Three men were asphyxiated by sewer
gas In the North avenue sewer in Mil
waukee. They were: r. J. Hickey. sew
q contractor; Supt. c. III. Schunke of
the city water department, and u colOred
man, name unknown.
Two runaway engines and sixteen
heavily loaded freight cars, running 100
miles an hour, were destroyed at the foot
of Ute Pass. Colo. by colliding with a
switch engine. Seven men on board
miracuiously escaped injury in the wild
ride.
Northern Arkansas is to have a new
railroad TO be known as the Morning Star
line, projected from Yellville to Newport,
q distance of 100 miles through the coun-
ties of Searcy. Stone and Independence,
opening up a large undeveloped mineral
territory.
Fearing collision. the passengers on
q crowded BILE car in Kansas City be-
came panic-stricken on the Twelfth
street viaduct that spans the railway
yards and several jumped from the
swiftly moving train. Three were seri-
ousiy hurt.
With one of the bullets left in his re-
volyer after the murder of his bride,
whom he had secretly married a month
before, Harry F. Keevil, son of a we'll
known merchant, ended his own life in
6t. Louis. He left no message of sorrow
or explanation.
A new wage scale has gone into effect
tn every union mine in Missouri, Kansas,
Indian Territory and Arkansas. The in