The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-12-31
WESTERN.

San francisco.
The Illinois Steel Company mills in
South Chicago closed without notice and
6,500 men were made idle.
Lillian Albano, one of the Albano sis
tiers. musical artists at vaudeville houses,
died at Detroit of typhoid fever.
DIR. Z. o. Nash has effected cure of
Chicago maltese cat which has been
suffering from asthma by sending it to
Pueblo.
The jury in the case Of A. Wilson,
charged with robbing the Rawlins Coun-
ty, Kan, treasury in 1901, returned a
verdict Of not guilty.
Gov. Bliss of Michigan paroled Frank
who had served but eighteen months of
a fifteen years sentence.
John W. Terrell, the Indiana murder
er. who slew his son-in-law for taunting
the girl he was forced to wed, was given
life sentence by the jury.
Gifts 10 the University of Chicago
amounting to nearly S3.O00,0OO were an
nounced by DIR. Harper at the institu-
tons forty-ninth convocation exercises.
James Gillespie was indicted at Rising
Sun, Ind, for alleged murder of his sis
ter, Elizabeth: Belle Seward and Myron
Barbour and wife were held rs acces-
sories.
Inquiry into the death Of Mrs Charles
W. Graves Of Des Moines, whose char
red remains were found by her husband,
resulted in verdict of murder. No ar
rests have been made.
After being out for three days the jury
in the case of Mrs Cora Weeks dis
agreed in Bedford, Ind. She was tried
Mrs. Susan A. ireland.
Three cracksmen robbed the Bank of
Kennard, Neb.. securing $4,000 in cash.
and escaped. The safe was blown open
with nitroglycerin. In escaping the men
stole a team and covered wagon.
Rather than face cherries Christ
mas. Cleveland machinist killed his wife
and three children and committed sui
eide. \ letter TO friend told of the
tragedy, and discovery 81 the crime was
made.
john Kernel, the veteran Irish come
dian. who has been i'll at Grace hospital,
Detroit, is dead. He was suffering from
acute ncphitis. Mr.. Kernell had been
behind the footlishts for more than thir
ty years.
Two h;gilwaymen held up an Evanston
avenue electric car in Chicago, but met
with so warm reception from the car
crew and Deputy Sheriff Albert Tempke
that they fled without having secured
any booty.
Tie American Dressed Beef Company,
recently chartered at Guthrie. 0. T.. has
entered into an agreement with the Com
nereial Club of Lcavenworth. Kan, TO
construct n packing plant in that city TO
cost S250,OOo
1t vas stated in Cleveland that DIR. w.
I. Howard, city bacteriologist and Il pro-
fessor of Western Reserve University.
had discovered the smallpox germ and
that an announcement of his find would
be made known very soon.
Fred Pflugradt, Il Chicago hardware
merchant, ended prolonged spree in eel
ebration of the birth of a child by shoot
ing his wife 10 death and then killing
himself. Mrs. Pfugradt was killed while
she held the baby in her arms.
James Rial, one OF the original Ran
dolph slaves, died at the county infirm-
ary in Piqua. Ohio. His age was be-
tween 102 and Jos years, he having no
knowledge as 10 the date of his birth.
He had lived in Piqua since 1916.
At Guthrie, Okla. Judge Hainer SEN
fenced Rufus Il. Connella, the bank
president. TO ten years imprisonment at
hard labor for forgery. Mrs. Kate Wy
att, indicted for harboring criminals, re-
ceivcd sentence of two years at hard
labor
The Great Northern and Northern Pa
citic officials say that 4 conspiracy to rob
the two companies has existed i'll Seattle
for four years, and that losses running
into thousands of dollars have resulted.
Freight cars have been robbed of their
contents.
The Christian party has issued a call
for its national mass convention TO be
held in ST. Louis May 1 and 10 nomi-
nate 4 candidate for President. The call
Is signed by William Rudolph Benkert,
chairman of the national executive COM
mittee.
BY ruling of the United States De-
partment of the Interior, which has just
been announced, the State of Minnesota
is confirmed in its title to swamp lands
in the Cass Lake Indian reservation,
which are valued at several hundred
thousand dollars
THE Meteor" the fast train Oh the
St. Louis and San Francisco Railway
which left Fort Worth Sunday afternoon
for Kansas City. was wrecked at God
frey. fifteen miles south of Fort Scott,
Kan. Nine persons were killed and more
than twenty were injured.
The liabilities of the Bank of Chicka
saw Nation. in Ardmore. l. T., which
failed recently, are $4,000, according to
a supplemental report by Receiver Fos-
ter, who says assets of S167.000 are of
little or nc value. Receiver Foster init
mates that fraud has been practiced in