The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-09-17
WESTERN.

A man, supposed to be @. 7. Barden, a
travelling salesman of Boston, jumped
into Lake Erie few miles east of Cleve-
land and was drowned.
Robert Fullerton, of Des Moines, has
been appointed disbursing officer to han
die the $5,OO0,O 900 appropriated by the
government for the St. Louis exposition.
The wholesale paint and oil house of
o. l.. and P. Fl. Whitelaw of st. Louis
was partially destroyed by fire, with a
loss of over $4,000 to stock and build
ing.
Two persons we're killed and a num-
Der injured as a result of automobile ac-
cidents at Detroit and GAINESVILLE. Bar
ney Oldfield had a narrow escape from
death.
Mrs. Ferreil and her 2-year-old boy
were instantly killed il storm that
passed near Wichita, Kan. They sought
shelter IN a school house. which was de-
molished.
Owing to car famine in Kansas the
grain dealers are piling wheat on the
ground and covering it with canvas.
There are 10000 bushels IL one pile at
Hays City.
Fire at Marshall, Mo-. des, -oyed two
blocks of small buildings, causing an ag-
Sregate loss Of about $50. 900. The heav-
lest loser Is the Lacrosse Lumber Com
pany, $4,000.
4 bold attempt to hold up the Bitter
Root express Just east of Stevensville,
Mont, WIS frustrated by the vigilance
of tho crew. A pile of ties had been
placed on the tracks.
"heeping company" or strolling in
pairs, has been strictly forbidden among
the 500 young people IN the Catholic
school in the parish Of Our Lady of
Lourdcs at Marinctte, Wis.
The Uniform Rank, knights of
Pythias, colored, whose supreme lodge
recently held conclave in St. Louis,
paradcd several thousand strong and
made very crcditable showing.
Officers raided an illicit still at ID
Evergreen avenue, Chicago, seized 300
gallons of whisky and captured two men
and a woman who were in charge of the
factory, which was sdmirably equipped.
Fifteen hundred spectators were
thrown into a panic by a collapsing grand
stand at Fort Leavenworth, Kan, twen-
ty-four being seriously burt and twice
that number badly bruised. Three may
die.
A bad wreck occurred on the Frisco
road one mile south of Baxter Springs,
Kan, in which twelve people were in
jured, two fatally. A local passenger
train ran into freight standing on the
main track.
Robbers entered the store of NJ. ].
Daniels of Columbus, Ohio. and stole
S1l 900 worth of diamonds which he was
removing from the window preparatory
to closing his store for the night The
men escaped.
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.
Fire broke out in the clubhouse of the
Woman's Federation on the State fair
grounds at st. Paul. and the building
was destroyed, entailing loss of about
$4,000. A valuable collection of paint
ings was ruined.
The district attorney and sheriff Ct
Watsonville, Cal, are investigating the
death Of Mrs. Elvira Scales Greene, an
aunt of Bill Nye, the humorist. Mrs.
Greene's death recently was attributed
to gas asphyxiation.
Frank Kausaan, Joseph Velatine and
Morris Vanulte were instantly killed and
two other men and a boy badly injured
L. g 70 in, ha do
mine in the Monte Cristo district Of the
State of Washington.
Specials from northwest Of Denver tell
Of earthquake shocks felt in Boulder,
Loveland, Longmont and Fort Collins,
Colo The shocks caused doors and
windows to rattle and at Boulder the
houses shook quite perceptibly.
The temporary lull in the hostilities
in the Sage creek country, Montana,
where the range war is in progress, was
broken when several unidentified cattle
men approached the sheep camp of John
Allen and fired 100 shots into it.
The Blackdom Townsite Company was
Incorporated at Santa Fe, \. NJ. with a
capital stock of $4,000. The purpose is
to establish n colony of negroes from the
Southern States in Chavez County, the
name OF the town to be Blackdom.
Martin Zidmair, who was to be hang
ed, was found dead in his cell at Lud-
ington, Mont. He is thought to have
been deranged He killed George o.
Reider. lifelong friend, on Trail creek
two years ago, and then secreted the
body.
At Schurz, New, an aged Indian nam
ed George Sam, unable to witness the
sutferings of his young son, who was
sick, killed the lad with a shotgun, and
then, placing the -uiuzzle of the gun at