The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-11-04
Minor Mention.

der attachment.
While hunting, Ii. Riley of Dunkirk.
was accidentally shot. His wounds are OF
a serious nature.
John E. Lewis was sentenced at Column
bus 10 five years in the Penitentiary for
cutting to kill his wife.
At Bridgeport. Thomas Weiss, 10 years
old, put dynamite cartridge in the stove
and had his hand blown off.
W. III. Mitzer, and old man, WIS prob
ably fatally injured by being struck by a
train on the Salem road at Salem.
Ed Heap, aged II ars, son OF j. K
Heap, while hunting near For r. cDvery,
was accidentally shot and may lose his
left foot.
Charles E. Fowler, an old soldier of
Cleveland, has teen sentenced TO the PEN
itentiary for life. He was convicted of
assaulting his daughter.
Vincent III. Rowe, piano turner, aged
29years, of Marion, was run ever and in
stantly killed by an Erie freight train.
He and his brother Henry were starting
on hunting trip.
| Walter Craig of Leetonia, laborer
engaged in sinking a coal Shaft on the
| Waugh farm, had both eyes blown out
and his left arm frightfully lacerared by
a premature explosion of dynamite.
| 1t is understood that the negotiations
which have been in progress for some
| time past for the purpose of taking the
Marion Wagon Works TO Chilicothe
have been successfully terminated.
| o. w. Mahr of GIeen Camp, came near
| lying from dose OF laudanum and ar
'enic he had taken because objections
we're made to his marrying a 16-year-old
girl with whom he had fallen in love.
A well-dresseI unknown man was
found on the railway track at Nelsonvile
with bis skull fractured. Circumstances
indicate that he was placed there to hide
! crime. The officers are investigating.
William F. Snyder, aged 30, of Cam
bridge, was instantly killed by b. & o.
freight near the tunnel, west of that place.
His body was carried distance Of three
niles, and was so badly mangled that it
could hardly be recognized.
James l.. Moffit has filed suit in the
Common Pleas Court at Marysville for
50, 900 damages against Drs. w. F. White
and c. ID. Mills for unsuccessfully per-
forming an operation upon his wife,
whereby her health is said TO be injured.
An explosion occurred in the drying
:oom of the Piqua Hosiery Company,
wrecking part of the building and seri-
)usly burning Miss Lizzie Berk, who was
at work in the room. Gasoline was ex-
9lOded, it is believed, spontaneously. by
The high temperature in the drying room.
The Findlay, Fort Wayne and Western
Railroad Company has moved its Office
from Fort Wayne to Findlav. John Jt-
,oh Astor, President of the road, is eX-
oected to visit Fihdlay about the Goth of
his month, at which time the matter of
IN Eastern outlet for the road will be de-
,ided.
Pearley Evans, farmer living near
Scipio, shot magnificent specimen of the
golden eagle on his farm. The eagle
measured seven feet from tip to tip of
wings, stood three feet h gh. and weighed
fifteen pounds. 1t is the first specimen
seen in that part of the country for ever
IN years.
John Lindower, miner of Wellston,
irose, complaining that he did not feel
light. He went TO work in the mine, and
afer a short while came out, borrowed
" pay lHStdIlHCiItB
returned to work and al O'Clock he was
killed by fall of slate. He was a good
citizen, and leaves large family.
The fact that the Government of the
United States intends 10 establish mill
AIRY school at Columbus has aroused eX-
raordnary interest in that city. The
Kelley farm south of the city has been in
'pected and surveyed by Government Of
icals, with view to making it rost of
he kind designated. 1t contains S01
,crcs. Col. Poland of the Seventeenth
United States Infantry, is of the opinion
hat such post will be established. But
,ne other place has been inspected, but
hat has been found unavailable.
Department Commander Henry Kis-
singer, of the G. A. r., has announced the
appointment of the following additional
,ides on his staff: p. P. Stanherry, POM
.roy; Jerry Wenger, Vandalia; Allen T.
Miller, Dayton; Levi RAIDER, Jamestown;
w. w. Lindergreen, Geneva; William Fl.
Bettes, Randol h; George V. Cord,
Xenia; Peter 5. Eickenberry, Eaton;
George Shierey, EnOn; Creed Milestead.
Portsmouth; S. Shry, Zileski; j. S. Cher
,ington, Pine Grove; S. G. Barnett Card
ngton; w. s. Carlisle, Dayton; w. A
Coleman, Painesville; j. W. Ponntis,
Circleville; n. T. Longwell. Delaware;
Homer Shrock, Delaware; II. G. Miller,
jackson; James Eckley, Wellston: II. E.
Fold, Burton; David Lentz, Antioch; j.
r. Stafford, Gallipolis; NJ. V. Briggs,
Chill icOthe.
Electrolosis, the insidiOus electric dis
ease that attacks. corrOdes and destroys
"a ,,r
its destructive work on the underground
water pipes in Dayton to an extent that
has caused the Board of Waterworks
Trustees to sound tina alarm and ask that
such legislation he had as may serve tc
protect and save the plant from the dead
Iy influence of the fugitive electric eur
rents. The pipes that lie along and I'M
1erneath the rails and tracks of the trolley
systems are first attacked. Then the
electric microbe, like that which infests
the human being, spreads along the line
Of pipe. 1t is probable that some radical
legislation will be enacted, else the entire
pipe plant may be destroyed
by the silent but powerful agent that
slowly but continuously eats into lead and
ron.
Gordon Reed, aged II, clerk in the Bank
u OttdWd dt Ottd"d. VI " NHich ldthcl
DR.. ". n. Reed, is President, was acci-
1entally shot in the head and killed by
Bert Schondle while hunting with party
Of three others. Reed was Immediately
taken TO his fathers office, where he lived
but a few minutes.
Deputy Sheriff Hanback, found a bot
lie floating i'll Meyers Lake, near Canton,
note which reads: ''Finder
will please inform family am at the bot
tom of the lake. John A. Lerch-" A
man named Lerch suddenly disappeared
rom there some years ago and no trace
If him has yet been found.
Frank Weber of Upper Sandusky,
who is believed to be burglar OF some
reputation. has pleaded guilty 10 having a
Kit of burglars tools in his possession
md was sentenced to the Mansfield Re-
He is the first prisoner from
Wyandot County to go to that place.
William Barnhart, aged 81, and Sarah
iOodin, aged 81, living near Dunkirk,
vara Oh rapantIy EiTtv ya,rs aOa