The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-09-17
his own head, discharged the remaining

his own head, discharged the remaining
barrel.
At Berne. Ind, the home of Fred
Roher, editor Of the Berne Witness, was
almost entirely demolished by dynamite.
The family was extricated from the ruins
with slight injuries. Roher's paper has
been leading the opposition to licensed
saloons.
4 3-cent-fare ordinance was passed by
the Cleveland City Council the other
night. the first of it's kind in the city.
Mayor johnson is said to be interested
in TIE new line, which, according to the
conditions of grant, must be in operation
by april I, 1904
big Joe" Grimes, said to be one of
the largest men is the world, is dead Mt
his hame in Cincinnati. He was 81 years
OLD, 6 feet 4 inches tall and weighed 754
pounds. His brother, DR.. 9. +. Grimes,
who attended him. attributed his illness
to his excessive fat.
4 coroner's jury in San Francisco has
returned a verdict that Martin Bowers
came to his death from arsenical poi
soning, charges his wife, Mrs. Martha
T.. Bowers, with murder and recommends
that Mrs. z. c. Sutton, her sister. be
| held as an accessory.
Mike Jesey, John Cranz and Dan
Sabin, laborers, were crushed to death
| by the caving in of 16-foot bank at the
excavation for the site of a new hotel at
Sixth and San Joaquin streets, Los An
geles, Cal. The men were buried alive
under tons of earth.
AS a result of an explosion at the
of tho
Steel Company in Youngstown, Ohio,
two men were fatally injured and two
| others seriously. The explosion was
off while the men were making repairs
in q pit.
George Brandt shot and killed his wife
and mOther-in-law the other night. The
women were living at the farmhouse of
Mrs. Mary Murphy, the mother-in-law,
six miles from Spring Green, Wis.
Brandt and his wife had been living
apart for the last two or three years. A
12-year-old son of Brandt was the sole
witness to the murders. From his story
the man crept upon Mrs Murphy as she
sat on the porch of the farmhouse and
killed her with shot from behind. Then
he ran down to the barn. where his wife
was attending to the stock, and shot her,
too, by creeping on her without being
seen. Both women dropped dead at the
shots. The boy, fearing he would be
killed, hid and did not stir until Brandt
had left the place. Then he went in the
darkness to Spring Green and reported
the tragedy. A posse found Brandt in a
barn on neighboring farm. He had
scars on his forehead as though he had
attempted suicide. He admitted the
murders. Doubts of his sanity are ex-
pressed.
William A Hoffman, young farm
hand living near Maeystown, ILL.,. called
his father-in-law, DR.. William Brandt,
to the door of his house the other night
and shot him to death with Winchester
repeating shotgun. Then he rode back
to his home, told his wife that ''he had
killed the old hound, her father" gave
her 81, which he said he wanted her to
spend on the christening of their f.
weeks-old daughter Mary, kissed her and
their four children and rode into the
woods. There are two men l must kill
before kill myself" he said to his wife
before leaving. That entire section of
Monroe County is terrorized, as the fugi
tive is regarded as desperate. 1t is not
known who are the other two persons
he Intended to kill. 1t is supposed that
Honman's motive for killing his father
in-law was that the latter refused to in
crease his weekly allowance. DR.. Brandt
was wealthy and had been practically
supporting his son-in-law and family. He
gave Hoffman certain amount of spend
ing money each week.