The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-08-12
aSinor Mention.

.sInor Mention.
Mrs. Jacob Krawl, aged 49years, moth
er of 1our clnlurclI, was fatally burned at
| Marion by the explosion of Il gasoline
| stove.
The Falcon Iron and Nail Company.
sheet, plate and puddle mills at Niles
| have started up. The mills employ about
| 800 men.
| Fremont Adams, well-known black
| smith at Kionsville, village just nor'h
| of Mt. Sterling, was drowned while fish
| ing in Deer Creek.
| One Powell, working for Peter Dorm, a
failner living near Midway, Madison
| County, was killed by being thrown from
horse which he was breaking.
| Eddie Negosia, aged s, was arrested in
| Huffman's grocery in Akron and con-
{essed to having entered the place several
Zines lately and taken various sums OF
money.
Frank Wright OF De Graft. was found
| lying dead on his wife's grave with a bull
let in his brain. Wright was former
resident of Springfield, but lately lived in
New York.
Frank McGutchen, aged Is, cripple,
living near Bladensburg, drowned while
bathing with two other Ioys. His body
| was recovered about two miles below
Bladensburg.
Edward b. Wheeler was fatally injured
at Akron. Wheeler is machinst and
was working at luffet, when nut flew
off and struck him just above the eye,
| fracturing his skull.
The Board of Education of Salem has
| elected Prof. w. B. Burris of Bluffton,
Ind, as Superintendent of the Salem
| Public Schools at salary of ST. 700 to
succeed NJ. E. Hard, Democratic nominee
for State School Commissioner.
Three spans of the Cincinnati and Mus
kingum Valley Railroad bridge that
spans the ScotO River, one mile west of
Circleville, were destroyed totally by fire.
Ashes from west-hound excursion train
ignited it. Loss, s25, 900; no insurance.
Near Delphos thieves stole sixty chick
ems from Ed Brahler, and, leaving ten in
the coop to perish, set fire to the building,
hoping thereby to cover up the evidence
of the robbery. The flames did consider
able damage to Mr.. Brahler's house and
barn.
From thirty to forty bushels of wheat
per acre is the average yield reported by
threshers around NIilersburg. Ssme
farmers will have from 800 to LOO BUSH
els this season, and many persons are
disposed to hold ON to their surplus wheat
for better price.
While at a picnic at Rea's Run, in
Washington County, Tune Stewart was
called away from the crowd by Ernst
Adamson and deliberately stabbed.
Adamson escaped into the wllds of West
Virginia. Steward will die. An old
grudge is the cause.
Mrs. Julia Reed, aged 10, wife of John
Reed, the well-knOwn farmer and stock
dealer two miles south of Winchester,
arose from her bed some time during the
night and hanged herself. She was in
good health and spirits when she retired,
and no cause is known.
Fireman James Kelly fell frOm:the ten
der OF his engine in Bellefontaine and had
very narrow escape from death. He
alighted between the rails and two cars
passed over him. He was struck by the
breakbeams, but suffered no injuries be-
yond some severe bruises. =
Mary Stout, young lady of Crcleville,
swallowed a half ounce of laudanum with
suicidal intent, because her parents repri-
manded her for unladylike conduct. She
was discovered in time to save her life.
Hor SISTER Sulciutu III SOiuHiDuo ScNCidA
years ago under the same circumstances.
The State Board of PardOns, after a
thorough consideration of the grounds for
the request that the sentence OF Frank
Mueller, the murderer OF Mrs. Saluda
Miller of Black Lick, be cOmInuted TO life
Imprisonment, has formally transmitted
its refusal to the Secretary OF the Board.
A rattlesnake's den was found on the
farm of David Jewett, near Ports
mouth. Jewett and John Wiley, with
their shotguns, killed twelve or fifteen
that were found summing themselves in a
blackberry patch. One was the largest
ever seen in this part of the country. 1t
was five feet eleven inches long, weighed
twenty-seven pounds and had twenty
four rattles and a button. This snake
will be mounted.
The boiler of threshing machine en-
CINE blew up near Bergholz, mining
village at the southern end of the Lake
Erie. Alliance and Southern Railroad.
Henry Fawcett, aged 40 years, owner of
the thrasher, was blown distance OF
seventy feet, death resulting instantly.
Albert Hess, young man name BOYD
and another helper, name unknown, were
fearfulIy scalded. Hess and Boyd may
die.
Word has reached Batavia of serious
cutting affray at Moscow. Clay Larkin
and John Bennett became intoxicated and
began to abuse each other. Larkln sud-
denly drew a knife and slaShed Bennett
several times across the arm, chest and
back. Benefits right jaw was broken
by vicious blow from Larkin's fist.
Larkin in turn was hammered about the
face, and will be disfigurei for life. Ben
nett was taken to his home, where he lies
in critical condition. Larkin escaped
to Kentucky.
George Bennett shot and perhaps fatal
ly wounded his wife, Elizabeth Bennett,
at Wilmington. lie then shot himself,
inflicting only flesh wound. Each was
Jealous of the other and they had been
separated for two months. They met up
town and the husband asked the wife II
she would live with him. She sad she
would not and the tragedy followed. Mrs.
Bennett is cOlOred woman oil the most
pronounced type and the husband white
man. They were the first couple 10 he
married in Clinton County after the pas
sage of the law permitting the intermar-
rying of whites and blacks.
Thomas Buskirek, a farmer near Cir
cleyiile, attempted suicide by taking
Strychnlne. lie was lounu IN an uucon-
scious condition on the roadside Upon
regaining consciousness he said that he
had tried to kill himself because his
daughter persisted in keeping company
with man to whom he objected.
"Divine Healer" Schlatter, who says he
is the only original, has been in Canton
for several days living on diet OF whisky
and milk, treating many. He has crude
stand in front OF the Courthouse. Ex-
State Senator L. C.. Snyder, who has car
ried cruteh for twelve years, processes
to have been cured by the healer.
A few days ago Frank Be kett, farm
er living near Cadiz, had hfs horse and
COW bitten by mad dog. While killing
them he became infected with the dis
ease and has since had all the symptoms
of hydrcphobia. DIR. S. b. MeGowan,
member of the Ohio State Medical Board,
will take Beckett to the Pasteur Institute,