The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1885-04-16
FUGITIVE PARAGRAPHS
OF VARIED INTEREST CAPTURED BY
THE CAREFUL CONDENSER.
Picked Personals and Politis Al Pointers
Breatwinners' Battles and Trades
Observation-Disclosures Rumblings
and Foreign Filterings.

The police commissioners of Cincinnati
have passed resolutions to suppress gambling
tunko and street walking, but passed b,
more elegant prostitution.
| Returns to the department of agriculture
Indicate reduction in the area of winter
| wheat of over 10 per cent, the shortage il
all states being 5000, 900 acres.
Bob Cassidy. of Lexington, KY, attempted
suicide ct Millersburg by taking four grains
| OF morphine. He was almost dead, hu
by the aid of two physicians his life wa
saved.
A secret organization is being formed by
prominent citizens of Chicago with view t
a vigilance committee, II that should b.
necessary, to protect tie ballot box and sup
press crime
An epidemic Of black tongue fever is rag
| ing In Overton county, Tenn. Over thirty
deaths in the past few days. Physicians are
puzzled and unable to manage it, every case
proving fatal
Mrs Vinches aud Josenh Fisher, held at
Canton, o., on the charge of poisoning the
formers husband, were released, an examina-
tion having revealed no poison in the de-
ceased's stomach.
At Mendoza, Ill, Paul Mauff, teacher of
German in the public schools, committed
suicide by shooting himself through the head.
He had been Tilted by a young girl He was
about twenty-seven years old.
George n. Mills was hanged for wife mur
der at Brooklyn.
At Worcester, Mass, the Worcester Gre
laation Society was formally organized.
It is reported that the bad weather and
cold have ruined the fruit crop in Missouri
The imports of dry goods at the New York
port for the week ended April 10 were $780,
7:a,5.
The April crop report Of the secretary of
state of Michigan shows the condition to be
above par.
VIM Eageman committed suicide By
hanging himself to pear tree in the suburbs
of Cincinnati.
Indians at Frog Lake, B. A., killed eight
whites, among them Indian Agent j. ].
Turin. Other forts are surrounded, and set
tiers are in great danger
The wheat crop of 1885, will fall thirty per
cent. short of that of 1884.
James Ellis & Co., -four merchants. of
Bradford, Pa, have failed, with liabilities
amounting to $500, 600
Theodore Taylor, the horse thief, who es-
capped from the Allegheny penitentiary, was
recaptured at Salesville, O.
Hiram Foulks was murdered on his farm.
near Independence, Kas, and his BODY
thrown into we'll All the mans wealth
$1, 700 was found in bag concealed on his
person.
The body found in Coney island creek, and
supposed to be that of S. s. Conant, the miss
ing editor of Harper's Weekly, has been
identified as that OF Erastus Hart Haight. a
Jersey City stenographer, who has beer miss
ing since the 9th of February last.
Rich gold fields have been discovered in
the Santa Rosa mountains, Mexico. The
gold lies in quartz, and is described By old
CalifOrnians to be the richest they have ever
seen.
The death sentences against William Mead
ows, Fred NJ. Ray and Mason P. Holcomb.
who were sentenced to hang at Fort Smith.
Ark, have been commuted to life imprison-
ment
The Baltimore and Ohio telegraph COM
pany is extending its lines from Seymour to |
Indianapolis, by way Of the JeffersonviIle, |
Madison and Indianapolis railroad.
The imports of general merchandise at the |
port of New York for the week ended April |
were 81, 81, ,O92, and of dry goods, 81 ,S69,-
RS.
Frank Rankin, of Shelbyville, KY, was
'onceueou u uie HHprlSOnnenG 1Or the mur-
ler of Martin Cody
A supposed case of cholera in Cleveland,
j., proved to be only case Of colitis, an in
antile disease
The Excelsior knitting mills at South Beth
chem, Pa, were destroyed by fire. Loss
"a, Goo
The Akron, CO., Volksblatt suspended pub
ication Saturday.
Thomas Williams and his nephew, near
1ameski, III were murdered by colored
nan whom he had employed about the place.
he man attempted to kill Mrs. Williams
nd niece. He also fired the house, but the
re was extinguislled.
Miss Irons, Jarvis, Ohio, paralyzed from
he waist down, resorted to prayer for cure
fter giving up the doctors. Wheter faith
r not she is cured. Great excitement and
ig religious revival