The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-08-13
An Interesting Summary Of the More Inn
portant Doinss Of Our Neighbors-wed-
dinxs and Dcaths-Crimes, Casualties, and
General Ohio News Notes.
Minor State Items.

| lor its certificate of increase of stock from
| S11, 600, 900 to SIS. .O00,000. The fee paid Ey
the company was 5000.
| Robbers have Just made tlc;r fifth raid
in three weeks on Kent. They broke into
j. S. Cooks shoe store, and stole forty
| pairs of fine shoes from the stock. The
| police think It is the work of trampS, who
| are numerous. No clew.
| Abraham Miller of Company T, Sixty
first Battalion, o N. c., Hamilton, re-
| ceived letter from Washington, contain
ing his honorable discharge. Mr.. Miller
enlisted July 3, 1868, and served three
years in the Union army.
A dozen children are sick with diphthe-
ria at WillIamsport. Eunice Tlmmons,
| daughter of Mayor A. l.. Timmons. died
a few days ago. Charles O'COnnor and
| TOmmie PhebuS, sons of Abe O'Connor
and Rein w. Phebus, respectively, have
| died since.
About fifty young tarantulas are dis
| played in Circleville. They were Matched
| by the sun from the eggs found in nest
| in bunch of bananas. The mother ia
| rantula was guarding the nest, and stung
Ed Mack, with almost fatal results, while
| he was unpacking the fruit.
While working on public school build.
| ing at Covingtan, the scaffOld gave way,
| and Emanuel Fox, a contractor of Marys-
vile, was carried with it and instantly
| killed. Homer Maddox, of the same place,
also received injuries which will probably
| result fatally. Several other workmen
had narrow escapes.
| Mrs. Nicholas CoIford of Lorain, was so
| badly burned by the explosion of can of
kerosene that she died from the effects of
her injuries. She started a fire with kero-
sene. The top of TIE can was blown en-
tirely off. She rushed to the home of
neighbOrs, who succeeded in smothering
the flames, but not until she was fatally
burned.
To such financial straits has the Toledo
Board of Education been reduced that the
local banks have refused 10 make any fur
ther loans to it except for current eX-
penses. The board had arranged to spend
$4,000 in new buildings, but its peculiar
methods have created distruSt of it, hence
the action of the banks. At present the
board has only 81, 200 in its treasury, and
owes s3S, 900.
Mrs. Chatter, near PortSm Outh, had no
confidence in banks, So she kept 81, 400 in
bills in her cellar. The cellar was Hooded
during a recent storm and the money was
soaked. She attempted to dry it by plac-
ing it in an oven. She forgot it and soon
afterward returned to find her savings
burned to a crisp. a part of it was saved
sufficiently to show the numbers and de-
nominations of a portion of the money.
These bills will be sent to the SUBJ Treas
ury for redemption.
A portion of the business part of South
Charleston, Ohio, was destroyed by fire.
The fire is supposed to have caught from
the bakery oven. The flames spread with
incredible rapldity. All efforts to stop the
flames proved unavailing, and the follow
ing were burned: The McCullOm two
story frame business block, at the corner
of ChllicOthe and Mound streets, opposite
the Farmers National building. This
block included Clemens grocery, hard
ware and provision store, Union barkery,
McCullum'S millinery store. Horneck's
saloon, WilderSOn's barber shop and the
residences of Frank Horneck and Will
Anderson. Most of the contents of the
buildings were saved, and the estimated
loss is $4,000
Hon. A. T. IIolcomb and F. M. Smith,
asslgnees Citizens Saving bank, which |
failed June q, 1893, have filed their re-
ports. 1t says that between June 81, 1898,
and August 81, 1894, when the bank was in |
charge of its officers under the recOgni- |
Zance, tOtatOf $l0,71S was paid to credi- |
tors, the per cent. paid ranging from 10 to |
70 per cent. The claims of the creditors |
who have received no dividend at all ag |
gregate s97, ,5O6.C6. The net indebtedness |
is s3lS, 1913. The assignees report on |
hand notes and claims uncollected |
amounting to S231, ,S54, only small per |
cent. of which is good. Any further div
idend must come from this, which shows !
the creditors will get but little more than
nothing. The assignees have less than
1000 on hand.
Mrs. Henry Webster, living near Hicks
vile, was aroused from her slumbers the |
other night by man in the room. She |
called TO her husband, who opened his
eyes to see a pistol flash directly in his |
face, the ball grazing his head. Mrs. |
Webster attempted TO jump from her bed
when second shot was fired, the ball
piercing her body from the right to the
left side, coming out just below the heart.
She SAYS she knows who fired the shot
that will kill her. Webster sprang from
his red and grappled with the assassin,
who tried to get away. The men strug-
gled until the lower floor was reached,
whereupon the murderer dropped his re-
vOlver, there being no light in the house.
The struggle was continued until Web
ster was felled to the floor with sung
shot, and the intruder made his escape TO
the woods. Wcbster's son is suspected.
VIM. Ebert, machinist of GAINESVILLE,
was struck and instantly killed by west
bound Z. & NJ. V. passenger train as she
pulled into town. lie stepped off b. IL
o. track to avoid a coming train, not hear
ing the approach of the train that kill ed
him.
William Folks of Chillicothe, has placed
in the hands of a lawyer suit to recover
the ground upon which the City Building
at Philadelphia, Pa, stands. He claims
that his great grandfather leased the
ground for 80 years to the city of Phla-
phia, and that the lease har expired. He
is one Cf thirty-five heirs, and will fight to
get the property back.
John Wise of Portsmouth, boiler
maker, was found in an alley with his
skull crushed. AS he is unconscious and
probably will never recover, no clew can
be found as to his assailants. Robbery is
supposed to be the cause.
The arrest of William Williams at
IOIiSHiOutIl, cHdTSeu WIFI attempting 10
steal Farmer Arnold's wheat crop, has re-
vlved interest i'll the mysterious dsap-
pearance of Joseph Van Duren, alias
John Howard, several years ago. The
woman who accompanied Williams was
llOward's sister, and the authorities say
they secured clew from her that tends TO
show that Van Duren was murdered, and
also insinuates the identity of his MUIR
dererS.
Hon. G. o. Probst, Secretary of the
State Board of Health, Investigated the
diphtherla scare at COalton. He reported
thirty-twO cases, and advised that the
town be thoroughly cleaned, as its sani-
tary condition is bad
The other day Mrs. Marie Beaton of
Columbus, said to her husba John: 'It
looks as If we were going to have very
hard time of it this coming winter" The
husband replied: "Well, if other people
have to starve, | guess my children will
have to starve. too. Later Beaton was
four h,, ,,,,.. l,,.