The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-10-22

| committed suicide by hanging himself In
the engraving plant. Worry over finan-
cial matters was the probable cause. He
was 30 years old and unmarried.
; The members of the Nebraska State
! Bankers Association voted almost unan-
imously in favor of the repeal Of the
present bankruptcy law and u resolution
asking the Senators and Congressman
from that State to work to that end was
] adopted.
Ex-President Cleveland. speaking be-
fore the Commercial Club of Chicago,
! called for new crusade which shall
rescue the political holy land from the
infdels of corrupt methods, and urged all
| good men of every party to join in the
movement.
| At the risk of his life United States
Senator Clapp stopped runaway on n
crowded street in st. Paul and saved
many pedestrians and Israel BOushala. Il
peddler. who was driving the horse. The
| Senator was injured, sustaining severe
cuts and bruises.
The Mercantile Club has authorized its
president TO appoint a committee to Sc
cure signatures to a petition of suffi-
! cient number of resident property own
ers to call a grand jury to investigate the
alleged bOOdling of certain members of
the school board of Kansas City, Kan.
The official canvass of the vote in the
indianapolis city election has been COM
pleted. The official figures for Mayor
are: John A. Hoffman, Democrat, 90
52S: Charles A. Bookwalter. Republican,
ID, 102: George Hitz, Prohibition and In
lananAant XII. HaIt,,,onss itx-
S26.
If the courts sustain the Kansas At
torney General, who has rendered an
opinion that marriages performed in a
county other than the one the license
was secured. several hundred Kansas
couples will have to be remarked. The
opinion has created widespread discus
sion.
Six sticks Of giant powder wexs found
OIL the Northern Pacific tracks near
Birdseye, eight miles west of Helena,
Mont. A very heavy freight train pass
ed over the dynamite without exploding
it. George Hammond was arrested half
Il mile from where the explosive was
found.
Frank Elgin, territorial patient from
a. hS SOuhtss ih iuLA AoA AaSahS
persons at Norman, Ok, died there the
other day, it is alleged, from the effects
of a beating Oct. 5 by ]. W. Sewers, an
attendant. Sewers has fled, and a war
rant for his arrest. charging murder, has
been issued.
Despondent because of continued i'll
health, Bernhard Schultz and his wife,
Anna Schultz committed suicide in Mil
waukee by inhaling Illuminating gas.
They were found in the parlor of their
home, seated OH couch with their
hands clasped and the room full of gas
from an open jet.
John Mccarthy, aged GO, applied per
sonally to the Probate Court at St. Paul
to be committed to the Rochester insane
asylum. He felt that unless he was jn-
carcerated he would murder his family.
He was once n millionaire contractor,
but lost heavily on real estate. His re-
quest will be granted.
William Beals, an aeronaut, was al
most instantly killed while making a de-
scent in San Francisco. He fell from a
parachute forty feet to the ground. Maud
Henney, who was riding OIL a street car,
leaned out too far in an endeavOr to wit
ness the descent, and her head struck an
iron post. She was killed.