The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-03-04
Minor State Items.

Minor State Items.
| Il. 4. Davis's saloon and beer depot
was burned at Ashland, together with
200 kegs of beer. Insurance, $1,000.
Maurice Lustig, liquor dealer of FIRE.
mont, has made an assignment to j.
Youngman. Assets and liabilities un-
known.
James S. Baker, leading merchant of
Wheelersburg, has assigned to George NJ.
Osborn. Assets estimated at $1,000; lia-
bilities $1,000.
Harry Ambrose, the son of John Am
brose, was found hanging by strap in
S. S. Davis's barn in Ashland. He was
cut down and will live.
Logan is to have a public library.
The City Council has confirmed Lewis
| Green, j. B. Dollison and Professor Il. Z.
| Raymon as trustees for the library.
George Owens, derrick builder in the
oil field, was killed at Cygnet by large
plank falling 80 feet and striking him on
the head, dashing out his brains. He
| leaves family at Adrian, Mich.
| Burglars entered the res sidence OF SAM
uel Walker at Manchester and took all
|
saying they were sorry they had no cards
to leave. So far there is no c!ew.
Mrs. Carrie Coxey, the divorced wife of
General j. S. Coxey, has been taken to
the Aultman Hospital OF Massillon, where
she was operated on. The case is criti-
cal one and gives her friends great alarm.
Raymond, the 4-year-old son of Mr..
and Mrs. John Maher, of Erie, Pa, died
| in Marion of starvation. Last October
The child swallowed concentrated lye, and
ever since had been unable to receive
nOuriShment.
Mayor Allen of Columbus, signed the
| ordinance passed by the Council reducing
The salaries of city officials and employees
IN the aggregate OF s31, 700. The measure
1ispences with q places hitherto occupied
by clerks and other employees.
The contract for the construction of the
new $4,000 school building on the
grounds of the Girls Industrial Home
near Delaware, was awarded by the
Board of Trustees to Newton Bernett,
Washington, c. H., for sl7, 900.
George Crawford, convict, becoming
angered at the foreman of the cigar shop at
the Penitentiary, was fOiled in his at
Tempt to strike his superior, and drove
cigar knife into his own breast near the
heart, inflicting two dangerous wounds.
The Waverly Stone Company organized
in Waverley about six years ago with a
capital stock of SIS 900, has gone into the
hand. of a receiver. David Lorback was
chosen receiver. Liabilities from $500
10 $1,000; assets less than half the latter
amount.
Harry j. Lockwood, who has been in
The County Jail at Delaware in default of
1900 bail, on charge of attempting to
blow up his mOther-in-law and his wife
with dynamite some time ago, has been
released from prison at the instance of
ais sureties.
Stephan Dugas, a well-known SlavOn-
AN of Youngstown, was placed in the
County Jail a raving maniac, caused by
starvation. Dugas, his wife ana five
children had nothing to eat for four days.
He was to proud to ask the Township
Trustee for aid.
The Kanawha Salt Works. the leading
furnace in Pomeroy Bend and located at
| Minersvlle, has shut down indefinitely,
| .hrowing a large number Of salt workers
and miners out of employment. The low
price OF salt and the unsettled state OF the
market is given as the cause.
A fellow giving the name of plain John
Smith succeeded in working off several
forged checks on merchants in South
Charleston for sums ranging from Sl2 to
| S20. The checks were signed by N. }.
| Pancake and Nassen Corbitt, both promi-
aent farmers Of Madison County.
Near Winchester, James Wilkerson and
Oliver Tombleson. two neighbOr farmers,
rot into dispute over line fence.
WillSerson was badly teaten up about the
head and face, besides being cut several
times about the body with pocket knife.
Ills injuries may prove fatal.
Arguments were made the other day
at Ashland for new trial for EliasKeis-
ter. He was given new trial, with the
understanding that he would plead guilty
! to murder in the second degree, which he
did after much persuasion. Judge Dun
can sentenced him Immediately to the
Penitentiary for life.
w. b. Stewart, aged IS, of Cambridge,
was strnck and instantly killed by the
,econd section of Ii. & o. passenger
rain No. 103. He was walking on the
C. & NJ. tracks, and, hearing freight
rain approaching on that track, he
stepped off onto the B. & o., but did not
see the passenger train on the latter track.
He was struck in the right side and
thrown some distance.
Wesley McHenry, driver in the mines
near Cambridge, was electro Cuted by
falling against live wire in the mine. &,
McHenry stumbled over apiece of coal,
and in order to save himself from a fall,
he cutched the wire. Other workmen
ran to his assistance, but upon taking hold
of him they also received severe shock.
The electricity was finally turned OFT anu
the body removed, but life was extinct.
Henry Foltz, an employe OF the Penn
sylvania, at Crestlne, while at work went
violently insane, and at the same time
was made totally blind. The cause OF
Foltz's misfortune dates back seventeen
years, when he kept stIre in the village
of Crestline. One night burglars attempt
ed to break in, and as Foltz was sleeping
in the store he fired at them, killing one
of them. The other burglar was sem
fenced to the Peniteltiary and his time
will soon expire. Before he went to
prison he swOre he woul1 kill FoltZ as
soon as he got out of the Penitentiary.
Foltz has looked forward with fear TO
his release, AMI his constant brOOdin5
over it has made him insane.
A brakeman neglected to close switch
on the Erie road at West Salem. Engine
No. 154 ran upon the open switch and
dashed through the warehouse of Salem II
Wanemaker, going in one end and out
the other, sinking into several feet of mud
in the street. Neither the engine nor
warehouse was much damaged.
The police in Chillicothe are on the
track of Cora Swisshelm, wanted for mur-
der at nillsboro. The girl killed her
new born baby a short time ago, but ow-
ing to her precarious condition was not
arrested. She recovered sufficiently to
make her escape and went TO Chillicothe,
where she is belieTed TO be still in hiding.
irwin McCallister, well-knOwn resi-
dent of Chillicothe, was arrested on the
charge of embezzlement, the affidavit be-
ing sworn out by George w. Hall, agent
of 4. Rowe & Sons of indianapolis. The
amount of the embezzlement is over $500,
and after preliminary hearing Metal
lister was bound over TO court under
$500 bond.
Prof. George Ryan, Superintendent of
s