The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-09-10
Minor State Items,

MINOR state lrem9s
Crude oil has been struck on the farm
| of Farmer Stubbs, at West Elkton. Fur
| tber investigation will go on.
Mrs. Peter Folz, who was badly burned
| at Dayton by the explosion of kerosene
| lamp, is in a precarious condition. The
| physicians have hopes of saving her life.
Willie Frease, young man residing
near Halleville, while working in gravel
| pit, was buried, together with his horse,
| by cave-in. Both were dead before they
| could be dug out.
The wife and family of John NJ. Day,
| the Panhandle freight agent of Hamilton,
| were poisoned by eating tainted cheese.
1t took two hours to get the family out Of
danger.
Boys playing in Halls Park at Akron,
found the dead body OF manoabout 30
years of age. A revolver lying near, and
ahole 1.-The temple, told the tale. The
body has not yet been identified.
| A portion of the main building of the
Ohio State University at Columbus, gave
way, precipitating Charles Dennis and
Burt Hopkins, wOrkmen, 25 feet below.
They were both seriously if not fatally in
| jured.
j. Pierce Spalding, a wellknown con-
| tractor of GAINESVILLE was coming down a
stairway, when he tripped and fell the en-
tire length of the stairway, his head
striking on a chair. lie sustained injuries
from which he died.
| Mrs. Margaret Meadow celebrated her
| 91st birthday anniversary at Chillicothe
a few days ago. Five generations of direct
descendants are living. She was born
there in 1905. when Chilicothe was Moth
ing but Wilderness, and has lived there
ever since.
Austin, the 6-year-old son of Mr.. and
| Mrs. Robert Chenoweth of London, met
with serious accident while visiting Oak
| Hill Cemetery with his grandfather, Ma
riOn Chenoweth. The little fellow was
| playing among the tombstones, when he
accidentally pulled one over on to him
self, breaking his right leg Letween the
knee and hip.
Miss Hannah Reutner, the daughter of a
| farmer living near Beaver Pond, is in a
| dying condition from the effects of an
overdose OF arsenic. Miss Reutner's face
| was pretty, barring the freckles on it, and
| she had been taking arsenic for the pur-
pose OF removing the defect in her COM
| pleXion. When found in her room she
was violently ill and refused to tell what
she had taken, hut finally admitted the
| facts as stated.
| John H. Collins, aged 40, died very sud-
| denly at BarbertOn. lie was served with
| summons on a suit for divorce instituted
| by his wife. lie went home, presented
| his revolver to a friend, and gave his
pOcketbOok and money to his wife, who
| was still living in the house, saying that
| he would have no further use for them.
| He was taken sick and in two hours he
was dead. No trace of poison was found
| in a pOst-mortem examination, and the
cause of death is mistery.
A determined move is being made by
the Anti-SalOOn League at Columbus to
have enforced the law torbldding the SELL
| ing of liquor within radius of Two miles
Of the State Fair. Several arrests were
made, among them Samuel Harmon
League agents ought VhisSy at his Har-
bor road saloon and poured the liquor into
bottles. The crowd IN the saloon threat
sned to mob the agents and chased them
up tho road Harmon was fined, but said
the Liquor League was behind him, andi
he would sell openly. More ARRESTS are to-
follow.
Three masked burglars Battered in the
| front door of George Bei0fer's residence
at GAINESVILLE the other morning, and, go
ing Immediately to the bedroom occupied
by Beidler and his wife, awakened the
pair, who struggled, but was choked into
insensibiIity. Beidler is q cripple. His
wife grappled with one of the men, and
succeeded in tearing the mask from his
face before he Overpowered her. A son
hearing a commotiOn from his bedroom
above, jumped from second-story win
dow ami gave the alarm TO the neighbors,
| frightening the burglars off. Beidler re-
sides about two miles and half from the
city, and is reputed to be quite well-to-do.
The burglars got nothing.
E. l.. Harper, Jr., of Cincinnati, while
bathing in the Miami River at Dayton
found human body floating in mii-
stream. 1t was that of a woman appar-
emily % years of age, completely clothed
and very much decOmposed. The body
was brought ashore and taken to BOyCr's
undertaking establishment, where it
awaits identification. The police are at
work on clew which promises to lead to
sensational developments. A few days
ago two men are said to have called upon
| a leading local attorney to consult him
concerning their degree of culpability il
they knew of the sinking into the river of
the body of young woman who had been
| murdered. Later the attorney, whose
name is at present withheld by the police,
left the city on legal business, and could
| not be consulted.
The village of Rising Sun, six miles
north of Fostoria, is all agog over an
affair. The parties are the village Mayor,
Ezra Day, his 17-year-o daughter, and
| G. C. Shelter, for seveal years the
| principal of the schools. The Mayor
| found letters in the mattress of his
| daughters bed from the teacher. He
| confronted her with them, and she ac-
| knowledgd that she was in correspond
| ence with Sheffller. The irate father
| hastened to the office of Shelter, who, in
addition to his school duties, is an attor-
ney, and proceeded to take the law into
his own hands to such an extent that the
pedagogue was left senseless on the floor.
| The Mayor then went and secured war
rant for his arrest, but before it could be
served Shelter had recovered and left, it
is supposed, for Canada.
| Willie Lembake, aged IL of Whining
ton, was probably fatally injured by be-
ing hit with base ball. The boys were
| playing ball at the South Park, Lembake
| behind the bat, when a foul ball struck
| him in the throat. 1t is thought he will
die.
The corners stone of the Jr. o. U. A. M.
Nationsl Orphans Home, the first Nation
al institution of the kind ever established
by any order in the United States, was laid
| in Tiffin with interesting exercises. In
honor of this important event the city was
ablaze with flags and bunting, and Junior
Mechanics were present from many neigh
| boring cities and towns.
Enoch Farmer, the wealthiest man in
Defiance County, was brought 10 Hicks
vile in an insensible condition, with
fractured skull and one eye destroyed,
the result of fight with George Gee, one
of his tenants.
| Maggie NJ. Lyons Of Greenwood, has
| filed suit for S. 900 damages for breach
| of promise to marry against Charles N.
Becker, prosperous farmer. She al
leges that he proposed to her in 1890. and
she has stood in readiness to carry out her
promise until last July, when Becker
! married another woman named Lucy
Kinnery. Both are prominent, and the
| filing of the suit produced quite sensa-
ton among the friends of the young peo-
/ Dle.