The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-05-13

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was recovered.
Oren IIendren was placed in Jail at
NOrwalk charged with the burning of the
barn of Commissioner William Gutridge.
| Hendren is a suitor for the hand of the
laughter of Gutridge.
While A. C. Wallace of Manchester.
with two companions, was attempting TO
cross Island Creek. which has been swol-
len by cloudburst, the wagon was over
turned and he was drowned.
Billy Kahn, driver for tGs Standard Oil
Company at Plain City, was fatally
crushed by falling beneath the wheels of
1 tank wagon while driving down small
lill in the outskirts of that city.
Samuel Vernatii and his son James,
farmers near Muncie, depart for Browns
vile, WASH, soon, and the yonng man
will bring home with him So, 600 pre-
iented to him by amillionaire uncle.
Charles McCann of MurdOck. Franklin
County, while plowing in a field during
thunderstorm was terribly, and perhaps
fatally, shocked by the same bolt of
lightning that killed one of his horses.
The Looking Southwark Publishing
Company, Cincinnati, was Incorporated
with $780, capital stock, by +. c. Rot-
.rtson, II. X. Shockley, f. A. Draper,
William +. Hart and ID. J.. Baumgarten.
Whooping cough is prevailing at Deca-
.ur, ten miles south of Winchester. The
situation has become alarming. A child
)f Postmaster Rodgers died and several
other children are in a dangerous cond!-
lion.
A large barn belonging TO Green Teach
nor. near Decatur, burned, with all Of its
contents, consisting of two valuable
horses, cattle. hogs and grain. Mr.. Teaca-
nor estimates his loss at about 81, 900, with
very little insurance.
Dora, the 4-year- old daughter of Mrs.
Alpha Osborne of Columbus, while play
ing about the kitchen stove, was terribly
turned. The father rescued the child
from fatal burning only at cost of Sc
yere burns on his on hands.
Allen McClintock of Lima, brakeman
m the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton
Railroad. was instantly kil.ei at Wapa-
,,oneta by slipping and falling under the
wheels of freight train. He leaves a
wife and three children.
DIR. Fl. X. Shumaker of Tiffin, a grad
mates of Heidelberg University, and later
Of Startling Medical College of Columbus,
has been appointed by the United Breth-
rem Board of Foreign Missions as medi-
cal missionary to China.
The counting of the funds in the State
Treasury shows the following on hand:
General revenue fund, S6l5 1874; sink
ing fund. SI92.3S5.19; common school
fund. s135. .29l %: State University fund,
;73,S77.S2; total. 81, OH, ,294.lS.
Del Peterson, prominent young man
living in Bradner, was founded deTd
along the ra lrOad track north of that VII
t,ga. death being caused by apOplexy and
ifink. His father was killed at LOngiy
by Hooking Valley train last year.
Superintendent Postius of the County
WorkhouSe at NIassiliOn, reports that
there are now 1l6 prisoners i'll the insti-
ton. the largest number serving time
there in the history of the place, and, con-
trary TO all expectations, he says that the
workhouse may provo self-sustaining
this year.
Maggie Clair, 10 years old, committed
su u;c;de at Lima by taking morphine. ste
went TO Lima from Mansfield. The other
night she quarreled with her lover. and,
alter writing a letter to her parents at
Paulding and her sister at Speneerviile.
went TO her room and was found dead
soon afterwards.
Fay l.. Miller was going along the
st eet in Van Vert with his hands in Ii s
pockets ami carrying an xhlade under h 5
arm. He stumbled, and III his effort tn
save himself lie caught the ak with his
hand, and as he fell the weight Of his
body drove the blade through two fingers,
cuftir0 them off COMPLETELY,
Pan handle passenger train No.
struck an unknown German west of
Union Station, almost decapitating him.
Deceased was perhaps 40 years o.d. M.
S." in red ink is tatoOed on the right arm;
on the left appears a deer's head. with
crossed swords; German notes announced
his arrival from Bremen in 1888.
The mysterious disappearance of Wade
Porter, an inm1te of the Soldiers Home.
has been so we'd by the discovery of his
dead body at the foot of an abutment of
Big Four Railroad bridge that crosses the
Miami River two miles south of Dayton.
A fuilet hole was in his right temple, and
a 3S- caliber revolver and an empty bottle
were at his side. The supposition is that
he committed suicide.
The body of an Ineant apparently 8
months old was washed ashore on the
bank of the Ohio a few miles above
Portsmouth. An iron stove lid was tied
about its neck. 1t is suppose TO have
been thrown from some passing house,
tOat.
The Circuit Court at Mil!ersburg has
affirmed the decision OF the Common
Pleas Court, holding the special act of
tie Legislature authorizing Hardy Town
ship TO issue $40. 900 in what is called i'm
provement bonds to be unconstitutional
and granting perpetual injunction
against tine levying OF a tax to pay inter-
est Oh principal of said bonds.
John Newlan of Columbus. sing'e e and
aged A, fell from the roof OF Slooum Lii
brary at Wesleyan College, Delaware, to
the ground floor, fOrty-three feet, break
ing his neck. He was wiring the tile
roofing, and broke through the second
floor Getting, al ghting on stone lawn
roller. His body was removed 10 the
home of his father in Columbus.
WOrkmen have been tearing away an
old landmark i'll Winchester. II is the
Stephen j. Lawwel property, on Man
STREET, and was erected by m pam d
Bailey over 100 years ago. The house was
o. ginally built of logs, and so d for
many years about two squares elst of its
i resent location. 1t was afterward re-
moved and weathertoa led.
The East Liverpool and Wellsvil!e
Street Hallway has b'e purchased St
Sheriff's sale y Herbert Pavson, trustee
of the Cleveland ayings and Trust Com
pany, for s1C2 900. lie was the only bid
der and deposited $50, 000 in bonds ioc ST.
curity.
James McShaifery will leave in q few
days for his old home in Duuayillc. Ire
land, TO claim the eStite 10 which the
death of his father entities him. Me-
Shaffery has lived in Akron for several
years, and having teen out OF work for
months, has been in siraiiened c.rcum-
stances. lie was wild youth, AMI was
driven from home hy his fa'her. The es-
tate is worth about Sl2 900 in money, and
ariBgs in an income of about S.. 900 year.