The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1905-06-15
WESTERN.

in Chicago started panic tnal was
stopped with great difficulty.
A ferryboat capsized in the Elkhorn
River near Hooper, Neb. Daniel Foley
and E. G. Neal We're drowned.
Announcement has been made at 81.
Louis of the consolidation of the Star
and Chronicle, evening newspapers.
While Henry Davis was being arraign-
ed in Newark, Ohio, for larceny his child
drowned. The indictment was quashed.
A cloudburst covered the Rock Island
tracks to depth of over foot and
washed out the track between Belleville
and Scandia, Kan.
Three persons were killed and seven
were injured in storm which swept
southern Michigan. Many buildings were
destroyed by wind.
The President has established a forest
reserve in southern Colorado to be known
as the San Juan reserve and to contain
about 100000 acres.
George Gudgeon, aged 40 years, city
foreman of construction of the Western
Union Telegraph Company of st. Louis
committed suicide by shooting.
The Masonic Temple in Toledo, Ohio,
the most elaborate building of its kind
in the country, and furnished at cost
of S425,00O was dedicated Tuesday.
John Wythe Lewis of Fulton, No.,
junior, has won the first prize of $50
in the George Augustus Sandman orator
ical contest in New York university.
Three men were killed and two seri-
ously injured by a cap blowing off one of
the boilers at the American Steel and
Wire Company's furnace in Cleveland.
Attorney ]. d. O'Brien was brought
back to Vinita, l. T., from Lewiston,
Idaho, and placed in Jail on charges of
forgery preferred by the federal grand
jury.
At meeting of the trustees of the
John Huntington estate at Cleveland it
was announced that the sum of $500, 900
would be expended to erect an art gal
lery.
Z. n. Welsh, farmer, who resided
three miles north of Nevada, Ohio, COM
;nitted suicide by shooting himself in the
head. He had been in i'll health for
three years.
Frank Z. Snow, student at Michigan
and member of prominent Detroit fam
ily, was probably fatally injured while
learning railroading as brakeman near
Hammond, Ind.
George Craner, aged GO, and Mrs. Ben
iamin Craner, aged 21, are dead and
Benjamia Craner and Harry Winters
are in serious condition from damp in a
we'll at Marion, Ohio.
Gen. William J. Palmer of Colorado
Springs has given 100000 and Andrew
Carnegie has donated $4,000 as a nu-
eleus to the 100000 endowment fund
the Colorado college is raising.
Fond du Lac city and county, Wiscon-
sin, have been swept by flood, entail
ing a loss of S150,000. Buildings were
torn from their foundations and shat
tered. the fragments passing out into
the lake.
The Colorado Supreme Court has affirm
ed decree permitting the United States
Mortgage and Trust Company to sellsthe
Brown Palace Hotel of Denver on a fore
closure of mortgage amounting to
S650,000.
President Roosevelt has proclaimed a
new forest reserve in California to be
known as the Lassen Peake reserve.
which covers part of the northern Sierra
range and contains fraction under 90O,-
600 acres.
James r. Broderick, wealthy st.
Louis contractor, has married Miss
Martha Matilda Bemarkl, waitress.
The romance began in restaurant
where the groom was served by the
future bride.
News from Sheridan, Ark, says John
r. Sneed, while perpetrating a practical
Joke, was shot and killed By his best
friend, Will Woolum, who mistook him
for wild animal he was initiating IN
the darkness.
John Frazier, a negro, was hanged a,
Des Arc, Ark. for the murder of Web
ster Southerland Nov. ) last. The kill
ing was over a dispute about money.
After the tragedy Frazier escaped, but
was captured.
Jesse James, son of the famous bandit,
was acquitted by n jury in a Kansas
City justice court of the charge of exact
ing usurious interest on loan. The YER
dict was that the evidence did not sup
port the charge.
1t is asserted that the United States
grand jury in Milwaukee has found
three indictments against Frank G. Bige
low and four against Henry G. Coll in
connection with the defalcation in the
First National Bank.
Nels Nelson. butler to Gov. Herrick
was awakened and saw two men in ths
lower hallway of the Governors resi-
dence in Columbus, Ohio. He called the
police, but the men escaped after being
shot at twice by the police.
The train of the Gaskill Carnival Com.
pany was wrecked in the Atchison, To
peka and Santa Fe yards in Atchison
Kan. -Four cars We're piled up and Jack
Osborn, Harry Teeter and Henry Witt
employees, were badly hurt.
Clarence B. Young, who attempted tc
rob the express car of the Northern Pa.
ciic train two miles east of Bearmouth
May 81, after he had dypamited the car