The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-03-18
OF INTEREST In OHIO.
A DIARY OF NOTEWORTHY HAP.
PENINGS.
What 0ufNeishbors sre Doing-Matters OF
GensralanA Local Interest Marriages and
Deaths-Accidents.. ..and Crimes-PersouaI
P0lnterS.
Brief State Items

| Brief State Items
| Arthur j ! :, q ed IL. lost hand in I
joining machine at GallipoliS.
Burglars blew open the rosie flee safe
at Luckey, ST curing about 800 and let
of stamps.
The little son of chair peddler named
Nelson of Franklin, ate quantity of
morphine and died at Manchester.
Brakeman Salem Dubois, who was in
iurned in the b. & o.. wreck at Deep Cut,
died at the City Hospital in GAINESVILLE.
The food in the Big Miami River has
carried away five large bridges at Kings
Mills, South Lebanon and Morrow. The
loss will reach $500
The Council in special session awarded
the $1,000 sinking fund refunder bonds 10
the Second National Bank of Hamilton,
at their bid of s7,149.
At Springfield, Lewis Forbes, distant
'elative Of President Mckinley, is mys-
eriously missing. No reason can be as
signed for his disappearance.
The Warren Y. NJ. c. A., which closed
IT'S doors some weeks ago, was open again.
Liberal support has been pledged by the
zoo young men who are members and
others.
David Furbay, aged SO years, but rs
chipper and spry as a majority of man 40
years old, and Mrs. jacob DatOu, a widow,
aged 81 years, were married the other day
at Cadiz.
William Rogers, living thrt miles
north of Winchester, was arrested charged
with assaulting his aged father with a
slungshot. The old man is believed to
be fatally injured.
Near Sandusky, while John Pye, aged
21 years, was hunting ducks his gun
wasl accidentally discharged, the load
entering his abdomen and infiicting a
wound from which he may die.
A telegram received at Marietta from
Los Angeles, CAL, states that missing
Katie German has been found in that city
with Henry Bickert, and that both will be
held by the police until the arrival of the
girls father.
Mary Lanigan, an 11-year-old girl, and
an attendant at the FELTON, Avenue school,
Columbus, dropped dead while playing
with her classmates. Death probably was
1ue to the bursting of an artery at the
base Of the brain.
While Joseph DObbins was riding or
The street at BellefOntaine, he swallowed
two ounces of carbOlic acid. He died
soon after icing taken home. lie leaves
wife and eight children. Poor health
caused the suicide.
William Howard was arrested at Hills
borO by the police force in the act Of
,etting fire to McKeehan, Hiestand &c Co.'S
wholesale grocery warehouse. There have
been great many incendiary fires here in
the past two years.
| j. C. Outcalt, Cincinnati travelling man,
while eating dinner at the Park Hotel in
! Columbus, found in a raw oyster pearl
ior which he was offered $50 by guests,
out he refused. He will take it 10 Gin in
natl and have it polished.
The Adams County Agricultural Socie-
ty has elected the following officers for
The ensuing year: w. X. Coleman,
President; P. W. Ellison, Secretary;
Henry Scott, Treasurer. The fair will be
held the second week in September.
Mrs. Mary Sloan. gypsy woman, and
The wife of Sylvester Sloan, lies at the
point of death a: one of the city hospitals
in Columbus, the result of terrible burns
received in their wagon while en- route
from Washington c. H., to Columbus.
| A stranger giving the name of Rev. J.
| y. Field of Dayton, was arrested in Ur-
bana on suspicion of attempting fraud.
He was soliciting and collecting money
for the benefit of the orphans of the coun-
ry. lie was made TO disgorge and he
hen left the town.
At Lisbon, DR.. William Moore, ply
,ician well known throughout that sec
| ion of the State. where he has prac'iced
| medicine for fifty years, has just cele-
GRATED with his wife the fiftieth anniver-
| ;ary of his marriage. DR.. Moore is full
cousin of President Mckinley. their
mothers being sisters, and both born in
Lisbon.
| The First National Bank of Marietta
,ashed checks amounting to sS5 for
Waverly teamster. Charles Lutes. The
checks were signed by his employers, w.
II. Taylor and Sc. Haines. The bank
officials later questioned ths genuinenes'
of the signatures and had Lutes arrested.
| Part of the money was recovered. Lutes
is in Jail.
Maria Vanse, aged IS, living at Clark
| burg, was found dead by the roadside.
| The old woman, who was harmless
lunatic, started to walk six miles to-visit
friends in Pickaway County. Btcomin.
| exhausted, she crawled behind a clump cf
bushes in fence corner and died froL'
Exposure. Her nephew found her bOds
after it had lain by the road d day and
| night.
Charles Boyd. age IS, of Portsmouth,
was killed at Carrollton Station, seven
niles south of Dayton, by c., III. & ID.
rain. Boyd, together with Alfred King
md ThomaS Moore, also Of PO tSmOuth,
was beating his way on freight train.
which lay on siding at the station. He
jumped out Of box car upon the main
track Just as SOUTH bound train cams
along. lie was killed instantly.
George Ward, aged 40, was attacked by
masked mer at his home near Resaca.
Rumor charged Ward with beating to
death his mother-in-law, aged 20. A mob
burst Oren the door with a fence rail,
seized Ward and carried him into the
yard. There they tied him TO tree and
wore out two buggy whips in lashing his
body. When they had finished Ward
sank down by tree. Bling unable to
walk, he was dragged into the house, and
the visitors took their departure. His
condition is still serious lut he Will re-
cover
About twelve years ago George Page.
an aged cclored Bian Of Dtcaiur, ten
miles south of Winchester. accid 'ntally
shot himself in the head while careleSsly
handling revolver. The other night lie
died, and as the bullet had never been To-
Gated his death is supposed TO have re-
suited from the old wound.
James Ilarbaugh, a well-known lum-
dealer, Suicded at CuStar. When his
wife and children returned from church
they found him hanging in the kitchen.
A small rope was fastened TO a clothes
hook. The wife ran against her dead
husband i'm the dark and fell in faint.
business reyerses was the cause.
At Gallon, duncan A. Mitchell, aged
rs. a protector of the Wooster stage line.
is dead He was 7fterward in the United
States mail service of the Big Four Rail-
way, during the war engaged at Nash
vile, Tenn, buying horses for the Coy
ernmcnt, and employed as guard at Ohio
Penitentiary during Forakers admins
tration.
Tho clerks in thp Deputy Warien'S