The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1905-10-12

insane and that insanity Is not an extra
ditable offensc.
Judge Swing Of Cincinnati has decided
that 50 bill Is not legal tender for
car fare. The case involved the putting
Of a woman off car because the CON
ductor was unable to change a bill, and
she had no other money.
Papers valued ut over $4,000, which
were found on a Cincinnati street by n
15-ycar-old boy, aro the property of
James Jefferson, who lost them while
passing through that city on his way to
Virginia from the Northwest.
a. passenger whose name Is supposed
to have been Michael Shields, either of
Bakersfield, Cal. or Portland, Oregon,
committed suicide on Texas and Pa
clic train between Dallas, Texas, and
Fort Worth. He cut his throat.
A bull fight, in which the animals and
the men were armored In football cos
tunes, was held near Los Angeles. Not
bit Of gore was spilled and wild out
burst from the arena followed the decis-
ion of the judges In favor of the bulls.
Albert Mesel of Leavenworth, Kan.
and II. B. Osborne of st. Joseph were
drowned in Lake Contrary, near st.
Joseph, Mo. The men lost an oar while
| crossing the lake in boat. In trying to
recover the oar the boat was overturned.
A mischievous boy tossed lighted
match through an open window Mt the
| dyeing establishment of Cook & McLain
In Chicago. and firty-gallon tank of
benzine exploded. Panic and fire re-
suited. in which several persons were
| hurt.
4 home for foundlings, with infant
incubators, will be erected by John ID.
| Rockefeller in Cleveland for the HUI
nane Society. ~ am opposed to race
suicide" he is reported TO have said in
announcing his plans to the Humane So
ciety officers.
The National Cash Register Company
| in Dayton, Ohio, rejeo ed the demand
| of committee of the machinists' union
| for the reinstatement of 300 men dis
charged. A general strike involving ev-
cry department Of the plant is threat
ened as n result.
An entire block of wholesale houses.
| bounded by Salmon. Taylor and Front
streets and the Willamette river, burned
| In Portland, Ore. The loss was $110,-
| 600. The fire started in the basement
of the New Era Paint and Oil Company
| from spontaneous combustion.
Newton G. Dougherty, president of
| the Peoria, ILL.,, National Bank, head of
that city's schools and prominent in ed
| ucational and financial circles throughout
the country, has been indicted by
grand jury, charged with forgery and
misappropration of school funds.
While awaiting the arrival Of patrol
wagon after his arrest OIL forgery
charge, Thomas G. Connor, 40 years
| old, committed suicide in st. Louis by
drinking carbolic acid. Connor was ar
rested on the charge of passing two
worthless checks, aggregating $50.
George L. Dobson, former Secretary
of State of Iowa, has resigned as consul
general at Hangchow, China, after only
few weeks of work. He has written
to friends in Washington complaining OF
the mode of the life of the Chinese. He
says the natives are rude and coarse.
Owing to u reduction of the salaries
of the clerks at the postofIlce in Gold
field, New, from $120 month to $S3
n month, by direct orders from Wash
ington, ten men walked out and only
were persuaded to return by Postmas-
ter Collins personally guaranteeing their
former pay.
AS the result of brush in the road
with fast horses Charles Grishaw and
George Dowell, rival real estate dealers
of kokomo, Ind, fought a duel on the
street with pocketknives. Both mems
faces were badly mutilated, Dowel's
nose being cut off. Neither is fatally
hurt. 1t Is thought
The east-bound Great Northern pas
senger train leaving Seattle at 8 o'clock
the other night was held up by gang
Of bandits ten miles out from that city,
Hundreds of shots were exchanged be-
tween the train crew and the robbers
and the express car was blown to pieces
by three charges of dynamite.
Chicago and Northwestern fast lin
tied passenger train, north bound, had
a narrow escape from n bad wreck In the
Sheboygan, Wis, railroad yards by
dashing into an open switch and into
the rear of line of freight cars. Twelve
passengers and trainmen received in
juries, most Of them of minor nature.
In Butte, Mont, the police have ar
rested man whom Chief of Police
Mulholland declares is Pat Grove, the
alleged kidnaper Of the son of Cudahy,
the Omaha packer. The Omaha chief of
police, according to dispatch from that
city, does not believe the arrested man
Is Grove, but will take steps to have
him identified.
Tho Wisconsin Congregational con-
vention adopted the following resolution:
"Resolved That the officers of our Con-
gregational benevolent societies and our
churches should neither solicit nor in.