The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1896-10-29
WITHIN OUR BORDER,
a WEEKS RECORD OF OHIO
HAPPENINGS.
An Interesting Summary Of the More I'M
portant Doings of Our NeighbOrs-Wed-
Iings and DeatIis-Crimes, Casualties,
and General State News Notes.
Minor State Items.

Frank Barnes, railroad man. while
handling revolver at Newark, shot his
little daughter through the head. She
will live.
Andy Mulloch, aged 80, suicded at
| Spencerville, shooting himself with Flo
bert rifle. a prOtracted spree unbal-
anced his mind.
| Marietta city per cent. street bonds to
the amount of $15 900 have been sold to
Rudolph KleybOte e Co. of CincinHat
at premium of s.;
In a laborers' camp on the c., A. & c..
twelve miles north of Wooster, Mrs. Anna
Peters shot and probably fatally wounded
Mrs. Julia HargrOve. Both are laborers'
| wives.
Patric Cuslck, one of the best known
| farmers of near Marion, has filed a deed
of assignment 10 Edmund Molloy and A
c. Edmunson. Assets, $4,000; liabilities.
$4,000
Earl Whitaker, Arthur Calhoun and
| Arthur Ferguson, boys whose ages range
| from II to IA years, burglariZed the salOOr
of Charles Laubley of Portsmouth. They
were arrested.
DIR. F. W. Reinhart, a physician Of
lrOntOE, was arrested on the charge of
failure to report to the health authorities
case of diphtheria under his care. This
is the first arrest here under this statute.
| Canal Commissioner Daniel Hartnett
died at Napoleon after lingering illness
from brain trouble, aged 50 years. Mr..
Hartnett was prominent citizen in that
| part of the State, and his death was Sc
we're shock to all.
| of fba
ers' National Bank mt Portsmouth, an
nounces second dividend of 10 per cent,
making the total amount so far paid AZ
per cent. He states that the bank will
pay 70 per cent. and possibly more.
Helen Hull, 10 months old, in Starke
County, was fearful eaten by rats. The
face of the infant was literally bathed in
| blood, the rodents having feated on baby
flesh, gouging out its eyes and tearing the
flesh into shreds. No hope of recovery.
DR.. Abraham Eller of Hamilton, aged
20 years, met with serious accident at
EighthS and Heaton streets. Ills horse
became frightened at an electric car, up
set the buggy and threw the doctor out,
dislocating his shoulder blade and badly
bruising his head.
a tramp entered the Office of the Acme
| Milling Company at Alliance, and grabbe5
$50 from the open money drawer. HIS
rushed out before the clerk could raise an
| alarm and started for the woods half a
mile away. A large crowd started in pur-
| suit soon after, but so far have failed 4:
find trace of the bold robber after he en-
| tered the woods.
A body found floating in the Ohio ter
miles below Portsmouth was taken il
charge snd buried by the township au-
| thOrities over I week ago and was not re-
ported TO the Probate Court. The de-
| scription Of the body and clothing tallies
| closely with that of Frank MOeller, whe
| jumped into the Ohio two weeks ago to
| avoid an officer, and has not Eeen seen
since.
Milton Miranda of Springfield, received
| word few days ago, that his aged father of
Morrow, had been fatally injured by the
| cars. There seems to be strange fatality
| over the family, as Milton had seven
brothers killed by the cars, after being
| railroad men for years. He also had one
brother drowned and one accidentally
killed, and now his father meets violent
| death. His father was the Oldest settler in
Morrow.
Rev. DR.. Herman Eust, who has been
| occupying the Chair of Church History in
| the Heidelberg University for the past
| twenty-five years, has resigned, and DR..
L. Ilerbruck of Dayton, has been elected
to fill the vacancy. DR.. J. l. Swander La.
resigned the Chair of Practical Theology.
and Rev. John Ii. Bomberger of Column
| biana, will enter upon the duties of that
position Immediately. DR.. Rust's sue.
teSSOr will enter the university neXt year.
Strong arguments in favor of according
to Ohio women the full right to vote in all
elections, were made at the convention in
Niles of the Woman's Suffrage Associa-
tion of Trumbull County. The associa-
tiOn reports show large gain in member
ship. The work is to be carried on with
increased energy. The association elected
Mrs. NJ. Z. r. Ingraham of Niles Presi-
dent, Mrs. E. Sigler of Cortland Vice
President, Miss Myra K. Pelton of Burg
Hill Secretary, Miss Jeanneatte Freer CT
Warren Treasurer.
P.J. Williams, a prisoner confined in
the County Jail at Dayton, awaiting trial
on charge Of grand larceny, attempted
suicide by hanging. He secured a piece
of wire which is said to have been in the
straw in his mattress. This he twisted
about his neck and, fastening it to the
grating neal the top of his cell, was about
to swing off when the alarm was given
by others prisoners. Sheriff Anderson
and Deputy Wright rescued him, though
he fought hard. The cause of Williams
dependency was a letter concerning his
wife, who is in Indiana.
The Cleveland, Berea and Elyria Rail-
way Company has been incorporated with
capital stock of $500, 600. The new
company is a consolidation of the Cleve-
land and Berea Street Railway Company
and the Cleveland and Elyria Electric
Railroad Company. The consolidation
has been effected under the fifty-year
street railroad franchise act enacted last
spring. There were also incorporated:
The o. l.. BOnck Company of Dayton,
amendment changing name to The Day.
ton Lumber and Manufacturing COmpa-
ny of Dayton; The Valley Cooperative
Coal Company, Shawnee, capital stock
$500.
John Harcha and Ellis K. Mccall, bar
bers of Buena Vista, have made novel
wager. In case Bryan is elected, Mr..
Harcha agrees TO wear a straw hat all
winter and to shave and cut NIr. McCall's |
hair free for one year. Mr.. Mccall agrees
that if Mckinley is elected he will do a |
similar service for Harcha.
Mrs. Mary Hockberry, living near La
grange, was fatally burned by the explO-
sion of a lamp. Her clothes became ig- |
nited and in an instant she was enveloped |
in flames. Her cries brought her hus-
band, who, in attempting TO eXtinguiSh |
the flames, was seriously burned, his ILL |
juries being regard d as dangerous.
Thomas P. Wallace, proprietor of the !
Marion Deposit Bank, established in 1S4O, /
has assigned, conveying all his realty, |
consisting of valuable city property and |
farm lands in this State and Florida, and |
his personal property, to L. e. Allen and
A. Ii. King for the benefit of creditors.
The cause is failure to realize on securi-
ties.
When little boy, George Fauldner OF
Bellefontaine, who is now 50 years old.
accidentally shot himself in the left hip.
The bullet never gave him any trouble
until few days ago, when an operation
was performed and the lead removed from
his thigh, into which it had worked dur
ring the many years elapslng since the
accident.
A case growing outrof the removal of !.