The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-08-06
WESTERN.

old, has ridden 700 miles from Chicago
to Batavia, \. Y, on a bicycle.
Dr. Charles W. Littlefield of Alexan-
dria, Ind, is said to have created life in
the form of animate atoms from simple
chemicals.
Three men who were stealing a ride
were seriously injured and one of them
may die as the result of train wreck at
Moxon, Mont.
The pleasure boat Wisconsin. with
fifty passengers aboard, sank at Stevens
Point, in the Wisconsin river, but all
were rescued.
Albert Swanson, a 5-year-old boy, lost
IN the swamps forty miles from Duluth,
was found by an Indian guide almost
dead from hunger.
The Sun and Moon transformer plant
at Idaho Springs, Colo, has been dyna-
mited. A miner was shot dead while
running from tie scene.
An explosion of natural gas in the rear
of Cordells saloon, III North High
street, Columbus. Ohio. killed two women
and injured dozen men.
Four were killed and twenty-five or
thirty injured in collision between the
Twin City limited on the Chicago Great
Western and a fast freight train.
A collision occurred on the Navarro di-
vision of the Canton-Akron electric line.
in which three persons were injured. A
New Philadelphia car collided with
work car near Navarro. Ohio.
Robert ]. Burdette, in first sermon as
pastor of Los Angeles, Cal. Baptist
Church. declared prosperity is in the air,
bat Moses and Joseph once were as rich
as Morgan and Schwab are now.
At Delaware, Ohio. the Circuit Court
in a decision declared the criminal clause
Of the Valentine antitrust law to be un-
constitutional. The case will be carried
to the Supreme Court of the State.
Lucky" Baldwin has Incorporated a
city on his ranch near Los Angeles, nam
ed it Arcadia. had himself elected Mayor.
and proposes TO have personal liberty"
there with a great race course for the
chief attraction.
Extremely hot weather prevailed
throughout Nebraska and western Iowa,
the maximum in Omaha being 9S The
humidity was great. At Schuyler. Neb.,
one death, that of Robert Barnoe, was
caused by the heat.
An extraordinary service was held at
st. Joseph Catholic Church in Okla
homa City. where high mass was said by,
Father Albert, the first full-blood Indian
ever consecrated in the Catholic Church
In America or in the world.
In Tacoma, Wash. FIRE destroyed the
Cascade Cereal Company's plant and the
Deming- Berry Pulley plant adjoining.
causing loss of $150OO0. The Denver
House and the St. Paul House and sew
eral residences were damaged.
Mrs. Catherine NJ Northrup was shot
and killed by James Sanford at the lat
ter's home on a fruit ranch twenty miles
from Almira, Wash. Sanford had leased
the ranch from Mrs. Northrup. A quar-
rel arose and she tried to evict him.
Heavy rains in nearly every county in
the Kansas corn belt have been hailed
with rejoicing among the farmers. The
drought of the past few weeks had
threatened the corn crops, but the heavy
downpour insures the success of the
crops.
The wrecked mine ut Hanna, Wyo.,
in which over 100 bodies of the victims
of the explosion of June 80 are still
buried, is flooded with water below the
twentieth level and but few bodies will
be recovered until the mine has been
pumped out.
a Norfolk and Western switch engine
collided with a passenger train in the
pennsylvania yards at Columbus, Ohio.
The passenger train carried q Columbus
camping party bound for Mount Vernon.
The two injured women were members
Of this party.
The Rock Island system, through the
medium of the St. Louis and San Fran
cisco Railroad. has acquired the control
OF the Evansville and Terre Haute and
its subsidiary lines by taking over the
holdings of the syndicate headed by Ed
ward S. Hooley.
The Colorado General Assembly ad-
journed at / o'clock Sunday morning af-
ter having passed general appropriation
bill, for which the session was called.
The House defeated the Senate joint res
olution calling upon the worlds fair
board to disband.
In St. Louis Judge Ryan sentenced five
former members of the house Of dele
gates, four of whom had been convicted
OF bribery and one of perjury in connec-
tion with municipal franchise deals. They
were given prison sentences ranging from
four to six years.
A work train running at high speed
near Gates Mills, Ohio, on the Cleveland
and Eastern Electric Railway, ran into
an open switch and plunged down a
sixty-foot embankment The motorman
and conductor sustained injuries which
probably will prove fatal.
All the street car lines in Detroit were
tied up longer than two hours Wednes-
day morning at the time travel is usually
heaviest by strike of thirty-fve firemen
at the power house Of the Detroit United
Railway. The men struck to enforce
demand for an eight-hour day.
Thirteen persons were injured, one
probably fatally, in collision on the
Compton Heights and Fourth street lines
Of the St. Louis Transit Company. One