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

| bed. He had been frozen to death.
Thomas Ewing, president of the Ewing
Clothing Company. committed suicide il
his store in Lincoln, Neb., by shooting
| himself in the heart.
President Harper in an address to Uni
versity of Chicago seniors declared that
institution is not Baptist, and that Jews
of Chicago made it possible.
Lake Michigan, for the first time since
1880, is frozen over from shore TO shore
and the few winter boats are forced tC
buck their way through the ice.
DIR. ]. W. Hill, physician of South
Bend, Ind, believes he 'can change the
skin of the negro and produce a white
race and test is to be made of his the
ory.
The Russians in Ellis County, Kansas,
are becoming citizens of the United
States. They give as the reason that
they do not want to be drafted into the
Cars army.
Runners in from Texanna, l. T., report
an uprising among the full-blood Chero-
kee Indians, ard ask the protection of
the officers for the whites who live in
that county.
Fire has destroyed the Crandon and
Hartzell blocks, containing number ST
stores and Offices, in Niles, Ohio. Loss
estimated at $4,000, partially covered
by insurance.
Two train hands were killed in rear
end collision between two Burlington
freight trains near Brokenbow, Neb.
Taylor, fireman, and an unknown
brakeman are the dead.
One child was burned TO death, another
was so badly burned that it will die and
the third, n baby, was rescued from the
burning home of Frank Hoffman, a few
miles from Cass Lake, MINI.
Edward T. Reynolds. well known as
football player, committed suicide in
Kearney, Neb.. by shooting himself. The
only known cause is that he was greatly
troubled with his hip, which was dislo-
Gated in a game.
Alderman John j. Brennan's petition
for release on a writ of habeas corpus in
Chicago was denied, and, with Charles
A. McCarle. who met like fate, he has
been returned TO the bridewell to again
become mo. 317.''
Sheriff Mcbride of Plattsmouth. Neb.,
has received word that the bank in the
village of MurdOck was robbed of 81 1000.
Cracksmen broke open the bank door.
bored a hole in the vault and blew the
safe with dynamite
Charles and Henry Nelson. under SEN
tence of death for the murder of Henry
krier of Owatonna, Mimi, last summer.
will not go to the gallows. The board of
pardons commuted their sentence to i'm
plisonment for life.
j. X. Heino, who has been on trial in
the United States court in st. Paul Oh
charge of having embezzled $1,000 of
government money while cashier of the
local customs office. was given verdict
in his favor 10y the jury.
As the result of an accident that oc-
CURED in the StrattOn Independence
mine, located near the center OF Victor,
Colo, fifteen men are dead and one other
severely injured. An elevator cage fell
i,5O0 feet TO the bottom OF the shaft.
Elmer Gardner. n student at the State
Agricultural College in Manhattan, Kan,
was scalded to death by falling into a
pump pit that furnishes hot water for
the institution. The earth caved in, pre-
cipitating him into the boiling water.
An unknown man threw carbolic acid
into the eyes of Miss Virginia Butts as
she WAS passing along North Broadway.
St Louis, and it is believed she will lose
hei sight. She was found screaming in
a snowdrift and taken to a physicians
Office
L. c. NJ. Rand Was given a verdict for
81 800 by the jury in Judge Lewis court
in st. Paul. in Rand's suit against Rus
sell Sage for services in connection with
Sage's trusteeship of the Hastings and
Dakota land grants. Rand sued for
$4,000.
Thousands Of cattle and sheep are dy-
ing in southern California as Il result of
the drouth. which is unprecedented in the
history OF the section. The hay crop is
a failure owing to the lack of rain. Hay
Is being imported from the middle West
in large quantities.
The mystery of the disappearance of
]. c. Sullivan of Minneapolis from Black
Duck, Minn., last spring has been solved
by the finding of his bones in the forest
of the Little Fork country, where he had
been eaten by wolves.
Three small children of Henry Feisin-
ger of Rockport, Ohio. were burned TO
death in fire that destroyed the farm
house. Mrs. Feisinger, aged 30, was IA
tally burned in attempting to rescue the
who were sleeping in a room
above the summer kitchen.
The Denver express an the main line
IF the Burlington road was run into from
he rear by local passenger train while
taking water at Gardeene Creek, about
'orty miles north of st. Louis, and three
passengers were killed, four seriously IN
ured and seven badly hurt.
Nineteen babies, housed in the south
wing of the State public school in |
)watonna, Mimi. were rescued from |
ire which destroyed the greater part of |
he building, only to be exposed to the |
cold weather. Some of them |