The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1904-02-04

! VIII recover Inc loss Is esuihateu ~
100000.
T Passenger triin NO. II on the Bur
! lington collided hcad-on with an extra
freight at Ashland Neb. Engineer Gra
bill of the freight train was instantly
killed. Two passenger cars were thrown
from the track and n number of people
| injured, but none seriously.
| A threat 10 wreck every train running
through the San Joaquin valley unless
the Southern Pacific Company paid W
sum of $4,000 has been made to the
company through anonymous letters. De
tectives are working on the case, hut
have found no clew to the writer.
The Ohio House of Representatives
adopted n joint resolution offered by
Representative Hill of Columbiana Coun-
ty making the scarlet carnation the State
| flower. The concurrence of the Senate
is assured. The scarlet carnation was a
| favorite of the late>President Mckinley.
Because Thomas y. Clcage. who re-
Gently led the successful wheat corner in
| st. Louis. refused to move in his seat in
| street car TO allow IN invalid to sit be-
side him and threatened to strike the sick
and in the affray Cleage was roughly
handled.
Forty members of Company G.. Colo
RADIO National Guard, took possession of
the 'arlnory building and contents in
Pueblo. Colo. and are holding it for
money due them for services in the Grip
pie Creek strike. What action will be
taken by the authorities has not been
determined.
\ panic broke out in Havlin's Theater
in st. Louis. caused by cry of fire
balcony seat. Cool action on the part of
the employees and members of the COM
pany and the prompt opening of the
exits prevented anyone being killed or
badly injured.
Awakened by his pet dog, Paul W.
Deichman ran into his drug store in St.
Louis, fought pistol duel with one
burglar, and instantly killed another.
The burglar whom Deichman first en-
countered fed, but it is believed that he,
too, was wounded. Deichman's drug
store is the Cass branch of the postOffice
Mayor Carter III. Harrison, Fire Chief
AIushan, Building Commissioner George
Williams, Manager Will J. Davis and
Edward Loughlin, William Sallers.
James Z. Cummings and William Nc
Mullen have been held responsible for
the Iroquois Theater fire in Chicago by
the coroner's jury in 4 sweeping verdict.
Mayor Harrison of Chicago, by order
Of Judge Tuthill i'll habeas corpus pro-
eeedings, was discharged from the Gus
tody of the sheriff, was declared to have
no part of blame for the Iroquois disas-
ter, and the coroner's jury was censured
for having gone beyond the evidence and
the facts in holding the Mayor to the
grand jury.
Since Jan. $50 cases of typhoid fever
have been reported in Columbus, Ohio,
and there have been nineteen deaths from
the disease. The health authorities claim
the prevalence of tile disease is due to
contamination of the water in the Scioto
river at the west side pumping station by
leakage from a sewer at the Columbus
State hospital.
p. B. Boultbee, who recently arrived
in Portland, Ore, from Toronto to as
sumo position in the Canadian Bank of
SViAihShSV- w 40 pAVpdpiy
at the Multnomah Athletic Club. With
out noticing that the swimming tank had
been drained, he dived from the spring
board, his head striking the cement bot
tom twelve feet below.
Major Hoyt Sherman, the last of the
famous Sherman family, died in Des
Moines, after a long illness. He was
born in Lancaster, Ohio, Nov. l, 1927.
He was a brother of John Sherman,
Gen. w. T. Sherman, United States
Judge Charles 7. Sherman Of Ohio and
of James and Lampson T. Sherman,
early settlers ut Des Moines.
A party of young people, among whom
was Lewis Flicker, a farmer, started
Blaine. The young woman accompany
ing Flicker had her arm around him and
after a long silence on the part of young
Flicker she discovered to her horror that
he was dead. The coroner decided that
death was due to heart failure.
The Standard Oil Company has made
an appropriation for the construction of
4 pipe line to connect the new Kansas
and Indian Territory oil fields with the
refinery at Whiting. Ind, near South
Chicago. The project involves the lay
ing of 100 miles of line at cost of $3,
and this, with pumping stations,
will make the total over S4.OO0,000.
Carl Copper. 80 years old president of
the Carl Corper Brewing Company and
for many years prominent in Chicago
German circles. committed suicide in the
office of his brewery by shooting himself
in the right temple with Il revolver. Ill
health and the recent appointment of a
receiver TO conduct his brewery are sup
posed to have caused Mr.. Corper to be-
come respondent.
President W. B. Schiller Treasurer
John ID. CulbertsOn and otner officials
Of the National Tube Company have
been in consultation with President Dan
iel +. Coolidge and General Manager
Suppes of the Lorain (Ohio) Steel Com
pany in reference to the merger of those
two corporations. 1t is understood the
two companies are to become one. with
Offices in Pittsburg.
More than twenty persons we're in
jured. some of them fatally. when two
ears Oh the Broadway line colided in st.
Louis. Both cars were nOrth-bound and
travelling in a smoke fog so dense that
it was impossible TO make out an object
rs far as a block away. The accident
occurred while the front car was sta
ionary, owing 10 quarrel between the
CONDUCTOR and a passenger over fare.
The second ear was coming at high
;peed through the fog. the motorman,
Christopher Juergin. ringing his gong.
When less than 100 feet away. the front
.ar loomed through the fog. Juergin
stuck to his post. but it was useless TO
-ry to avoid a crash.