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

has been sentenced to serve fifty years
in the Deer Lodge penitentiary.
| Gov. Johnson Of Minnesota refused to
honor a requisition from the Governor of
Iowa for Thos. Moran, who is now serv-
ing n sentence ut the Saltwater State
prison. Moran's sentence will expire in
a short time. He is wanted in Iowa for
larceny.
A cloudburst occurred at Bellefontaine,
Ohio, and the city was flooded. Every
street was a raging river and many fam
lilies were forced from their homes. Hun
dreds of dollars damage has been
wrought to the macad dam streets recently
built all over the city.
In the Merchants Bridge case, from
st. Louis, the Secretary of War has de-
cided that there is no warrant for the
government to take possession of the
| structure, and that there has been no
violation of the contract between the
bridge company and the government.
Except in a few scattered localities
| Missouri was dry State the other day,
| Gov. Folks order TO enforce the Sunday
closing law being generally observed. In
| st. Louis only three viOlators were ar
rested, and the usual Sunday exodus to
| the Illinois side of the river was re-
peated.
Charles McGinty, a wife beater, re-
| ceived twenty lashes on the bare back
| in Portland, Ore, being the first suf-
| ferer under the new State law. The
| lashing was performed by the county
| jailer under the direction of the sheriff
and physician. The whip was braid
ed blacksnake made of rawhide, with
| four lashes.
The first annual report of the settle
| ment of the estate of the late James L.
Blair of st. Louis, who died Jan. Is,
1904, was filed in the probate court by
John f. Lee, executor. The report shows
that the estate comprises notes amount
ing to $27 27.354.12; stocks, $31 $50; cash
in bank, 81 ,634.70; total balance now on
hand, $6O,03S.S2.
Charles A. Bailey. aged 80 years, of
Berkeley, Cal, has been killed near Yo-
semitic, Cal, by falling from the preci-
pice of Ell Captain, distance of l 800
feet. With ]. c. Staats of Mount Yer
non, Ohio, Bailey attempted to climb the
almost perpendicular face of the 5000
foot cliff, feat which has never yet
been accomplished.
The trustees of the John Huntington
estate in Cleveland, Ohio, announced
that S500,000 would be spent by the es-
tate to erect an art gallery in Wade
Park, facing Euclid avenue. The wills
Of II. B. Hurlburt and Horace Kelley
each provide for like sum for the
same purpose, and three-structure
building will be erected.
By the side-swiping of the engine of
Lake Shore freight train by a switching
engine Fireman l. A. Hayward of Ash
tabula, Ohio, was killed and Engineer
Herbert Adams of the freight engine,
who also resides in Ashtabula, and En-
gineer David Lewis of Youngstown were
injured. Fireman Hayward was making
his first trip after being married.
The Edgar County National Bank on
the north side of the public square in
Paris, ILL.,, was wrecked by dynamite at
o'clock Thursday morning. The charge
also demolished Bradshaw's jewelry store
and Wetzefs shoe store, which are adja-
cent to the bank. The vault was wreck
ed. The smaller safe, in which were
the bank funds, was overturned, but is
still intact. A strange circumstance is
that Walter Juntgen, the bookkeeper Of
the bank, has broken arm, which he
says was caused by brick flying into
his window across the square from the
| explosion.