The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-09-24
WESTERN.

The new city directory of Portland,
Ore, gives the city 123, ZOO population.
The State normal regents have made
Hays City, Kan, dry town after a
stirring fight.
First monument erected in Ohio in
honor of William Mckinley was unveiled
at Toledo, Senator Fairbanks being the
orator.
Rev. Dr. J. D. Hammond, manager of
the Western Methodist Book Concern.
will be tried by a Methodist Episcopal
Church at Pacific Grove, Cal.
A distinct earthquake shock was felt
at Boulder, Colo. 1t was felt also at
Eldora, Ward and other points in the
vicinity. No damage was done.
Bitter feeling among union men at In
dianapolis against d. NJ. Parry, presi-
dent of the Manufacturers Association,
resulted in the fatal stabbing of one en-
plOye.
Indian Agent Harvey of the Pawnee
reservation is charged by an inspector
with whipping an Indian girl pupil of the
agency school with a strap and yardstick
until she is permanently injured.
Excessive moisture retards the matur-
ity Of crops in the Mississippi and Mis-
souri, valleys and lake region. The
drought in the Ohio valley and Southern
States is reported as more serious.
Mrs. John McQuade, formerly school
teacher in Chicago. has been declared a
leper. She went with her husband some
time ago to San Jacinto. Cal. but always
wore veil in the presence of strangers.
Grasshoppers have destroyed the crops
of the Picuris Indians in Taos County.
New Mexico, and the government will
have to help the victims through the
winter and supply them with seed grain
next spring.
Jacob Curtis and John Toland, aged
residents of Springfield, Ohio, while on
their way home from the country were
struck and instantly killed at a grade
crossing on the Pennsylvania Railway by
freight engine.
Thirty passengers on an east-bound
Great Northern train were injured in a
wreck at Dassel. MINI. An unknown
man, stealing a ride on the truck of a
day coach, was killed. The entire train
went into the ditch.
A special excursion train OH the Wis
consin division of the Chicago, st. Paul,
Minneapolis and Omaha Railroad went
into washout at Kempton, Wis. -Four
passengers were killed and number of
others hurt. none seriously.
In Columbus. Ohio, fire which start
cd in the Columbus Transfer COmpany's
building resulted in a loss of $4,000, as
follows: Columbus Transfer Company,
$4,000; c. c. Aler Paper Company,
$4,000; goods in storage, $4,000.
The first bear to he killed within the
city limits of Duluth was shot near the
State normal school in 9th street by DIR.
Peter Kraft. 1t was fine black bear,
weighing about 800 pounds. last season
fifteen or. more bears were killed near
Duluth.
Henry Shroder. saloonkeeper at
Dayton, Wyo., was shot and killed and
Edward Simms, his bartender, was seri-
ously injured by Jack Hanley as the re-
suit of a dispute concerning money lost
at cards. \ posse overlook Hanley. He
was captured.
A fire destroyed a section of the South
ern Pacific Railways freight warehouse
on Townsend street, San Francisco, and
burned score of freight cars. The cause
OF the fire Is mystery and the firemen
are unable to explain the rapidity with
which it spread
W. w. p. Mcconnell, Minnesota dairy
has issued an order, effec-
tive Jan. l next, forbidding the use of
ani!ine or coal tar coiors for butter-mak
ing. This action is taken under the new
State pure food law. it being held that
such colors are injurious.
Patrolman Albert Schaneman was kill
ed in Seattle, Wash, by William S.
one of three men who held up
the Willard bar. Thomas and a COM
panion had been recognized by Schane-
man on his beat as answering the de-
scription of the highwaymen.
Upon the advice of Richard Cornelius
of San Francisco, representing the Inter
national Union of Street Railway EN-
ployes, the strike of the street car men
in Seattle has been called Off After
the situation Mr.. Cornelius
decided that the fight was hopeless.
Senator Russell A. Alger of Michigan,
formerly Secretary of War. has beer
sued for So for failure to cut the weeds
On property he owns in Kansas City. The
law provides that nonresident owners
shall cut the weeds on their property or
pay for the work if the city has it done.
Samuel V. Hull, lately City Auditor
Of Hamilton, Ohio, member and clerk of
The Board of Education and Deputy Re-
corder of Butler County, shot himself in
a saloon and died in ten minutes. The
only known reason is q run of hard luck
IN the races lately. He was 43 years old.
A letter received at Tulare, Cal. from
George E. Hale of Chicago, secretary of