The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-08-26
OF INTEREST in OHIO.
A DIARY OF NOTEWORTHY HAD.
PENlNGS.
Whist OaxNsighbors sre Do'ng-Matters OF
6snsraa and Local iInterest-Marrfags gss and
DeatAs-Aooidents. .and Cr,mes-PersonaI
Pointers.
Brief State Itenta.

Burglars entered the office of the New
Philadelphia Brewing Comrany, cracked
the safe, secured about $50, and made
good their es ape.
Sidney Crumbs barn near Delaware.
was struck by lightning and was burned
down. 1t was full of harvested crops.
Loss, $1,000; insurance, $40.
Powell Womeldorf of Shawnee, aged
~, who had his skull fractured in a run
away, died from injuries sustained. He
leaves wife and four children.
Mrs. W. F. Fackler of Dayton, has
fallen heir to an estate in Germany valued
at $4,000. Her title to the estate was es-
tablished by a family Bible in her pos
session.
A requisition was issued on the Gov
ernor of Indiana for Joseph Bowman,
who, in SciOtO County, July %, stabbed
William Stall. lie is now under arrest
at Fowler, Ind.
| Charlie Schmidt, aged 10, living at
cambridge, shot himself while squirrel
hunting. The charge tore through the
boy hand and into his thigh. His con-
dition is serious.
| Grace, the daughter OF Capt. James
r. SculthOrpe, residing near Modest, was
| accidentally scalded Ivy her father, who
| upset bucket of boiling water on her.
Recovery doubtful.
William Fink of Akron, aged 18, was
| killed at Sherman in an Erie freight
wreck. Fink was stealing ride. Two
| cars jumped the track ami he was caught
and crushed to death.
Longfellow Bros. of Marietta, drilled in
an oil we'll on the Scarberry farm. at
Macks burg, recently, and secured fifty
barrel producer. The we'll is in the Berea
sand and is very valuable find.
Hugh McCann of Upper Sandusky, who
gained considerable prominence by taking
part in the Cuban war, and becoming
prisoner, has started for tho gold fields of
Alaska. He will work his way through.
The ladies of PEBBLES are circulating a
petition, which will be presented to the
Council at its next meeting, asking 1t to
pass an ordinance prohibiting the sale Of
any intOxicants in the town except on
prescription.
Gas has been struck in a 1850 foot we'll
at Bath, Ind, west of Oxford. The sup
ply IS small but assures the stockholders
of success. They will drill $500 feet.
Hon. Edward Goff is one Of the prime
movers in the enterp rise.
There were $4,000 4 per cent. turnpike
bonds sold in Gallipolis to the First Ma
tiOnal Bank Of Centerville, Gallia County,
at premium of 81 1856. There were sew
eral other bidders, representing capital
lists Of Cincinnati, New York, Toledo and
Columbus.
Daniel Stoddard, a farmers living at
Allensville, was in town selling produce.
,T1 It'll 4 4
old. While Stoddard and wife were
waiting on buyers the child slid to the end
of the board seat, toppled over, and, fall
ing to the z round, broke its neck.
Burr Graham, aged %, of Plain City,
went to his home, and because his mother
would not give him money to buy cigar
cites he knocked her down, and beat his
sister. He then secured revolver, max
ing desperate attempt at suicide. He is
in Jail on the charge of threatening mur-
der.
Mr.. Albert Haskell of Spencerville, has
just received word of the death of bach
elor uncle in Berlin, Germany, whose
wealth is estimated at S., ,0O0, 900. He left
no will, and the estate will be divided
among four heirs, Mr.. Kaskel being one
of the fou-. He will leave shortly for
Berlin 10 assist in making settlement OF
the estate.
Mrs. Jennie Ferringer, 80 years old, at
tempted suicide at the home of her BROTH
in-law, Jack Hastings, who lives three
miles east of Oterlin. Mrs. Ferringer
stood in front of looking glass and with
a sharp razor cut her throat. The cash
was eleven inches long. A physician was
summoned and the wound was dressed,
but the woman cannot live. Dependency
over ill health caused the act.
At barn raising on the farm of Squire
W. W. Grove, north of Bellair :, large
number of neighbors and friends were in
attendance, assisting in the erection of
the heavy bents, when, without mo-
ment's notice, heavy bent fell, killing
one man and fatally injuring four others.
Charles Brown, aged %, is dead, David
Gordon, Frank Semple, Winfield Talbert
and Weldy Shepherd are the injured.
George Scott, a 19-vear-O boy living
with his widowed mother near Jones Sta
tiOn. is afflicted i'm peculiar manner.
He has two perfectly formed sets of teeth,
and it is with great difficulty that he mas
ticates his food. His peculiar case has
attracted the attention of The medical fra
ternity, but they one and all condemn any
thought OF extracting one set of teeth.
Aside from this the lad il lacking a roof
to his mouth. He is of weak mind.
The suit of Warren County VS.. Butler
County, in regard to the boundary lii e,
has been decided by Judge Fisher of Pre-
BILE County. He finds that Warren Coun-
ty is not entitled TO a slice of Butler
County, and that the old line will stand.
The suit between the two counties in
volved strip of land on the east bOunda-
ry line of Butler County, and the case has
been in litigation the past four years.
Exceptions were taken by the plaintiff.
In runaway accident at Harshman-
vile, four miles east of Dayton, Miss
Seeler and her mother, both of Dayton,
were thrown from the rig and the young
woman fatally injured, it is thought.
The runaway came to halt in collision
with telegraph pole. The horse then
proceeded to kick the buggy into wreck
age, and in the violent distribution OF the
fragments the shafts we're hurled to the
telegraph wires above, and thus remained
suspended.
Some unknown person made an attempt
TO poison the family of Edwin ShaddOek,.
who resides near Bantam, by throwing
strychnine in the spring near his home.
+ tDC uISCONciy was Induc Ili
time. This is the second time within the
las: ten months that this spring has been
poisoned.
Col. Edwin Rush Davenport, aged IS
years, died at Pomeroy from thu effects of
a paralytic stroke. He was a builder of
and contracted those at AL
On, ILL.,; Hannibal, Mo-; Saltwater, Du-
nth and Fergus Fall, Mimi. 'yahpeton,
Moth Dakota; OskalOosa, iowa, and
Charleston, w. Va.
The most prominent manufacturers ard
capitalists of Dayton are cOnsid ring
to start in that city manu-
actOry of lhOrseleSs carriages under CHI
,ago patent electricity to be the motive
power. A committee is going to Chicago
o investigate. The C m any will lie
argely capitalized.
The mysterious disappearance Of John
Black, a farmer formerly residing seven
niles west of Batavia, has been explained
a.