The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-10-07

plate plants.
Suit for $40, 600 damages was begun at
Marysville by Hamond Ingram ag inst
| John Brown for alternating the formers
wife'S affections. Both parties are we'll
| to-dO farmers.
Rev, NJ. j. Cradle, pastor of the Chris
tian Church in Salem, has received an in
vitatiOn from the official board of the First
| Christian Church at New York to take
the pastorate of that church.
A lot of blood-stained clothing was
| found on the beach abont four miles
| above Racine b. a couple of boys, but no
clue 10 the owner has developed. The
| authorities are investigating.
An ordinance has been passed by the
| City Council of Moscow which cOmpels
all children under Is years to be in off the
street after o'clock. The bell rings at
that time, and the streets are soon
| cleared.
While Jasper Hank, farmer living
west of Macarthur, was putting his horse
in the barn, some unknown person fired
at him with shotgun. Only few Of
the shot took effect in his neck, not seri-
ously injuring him.
For the third time in as many years
Benjamin Beers store in Unipolis was
| buIglarized recently and everything
worth taking carried away on a hand car
on the Ohio Southern Road.
Henry Austin. colored, was shot and
instantly killed by Walter Helt, bar
keeper in the Drum saloon at Ports
mouth. Young Helt has disappeared.
The shooting is said to have been acci-
dental.
Notices were posted up at the works of
the American Tube and Iron Company oil
Youngstown, notifying employees of an
| increase of 10 per cent. in wages, effective
October 26. Three hundred hands are
employed.
Fire at Circleyile burned big hole in
the roof and Quilted the floor of the n lght-
engal Block. Loss, 81, 800; partially in
sured. An hour later George b. Carr's
stable on Union street was completely
destroyed.
Announcement is made of the purchase
of six acres of land inside the city limits
of Marietta for the erection of large
glass manufacturing plant, work on which
will be commenced as soon as the prelim-
inaries are arranged.
Frank Horsley, aged 30 years, of Buena
Vista, fatally shot himself while squirrel
hunting. He was going down steep
hill when the rife fell from his arm, the
hammer striking stone, discharging the
weapon. The ball penetrated his groin.
Ed Aheren, a Big Four brakeman, was
struck In the head by stone while on
top of a car ip the yards at Springfield.
He was rendered unconscious and fell TO
the ground. An awful cash was cut in the
side of his head. His assailant is I'M
known.
Fred Smedley, north of Xenia, stepped
in front of harvester, when the sharp
knife of the machine, with saw motion
cut through the flesh and nearly severed
the bone of one leg, as we'll as the large
artery. He lost great deal of blood, and
is in critical condition.
Cincinnati parties continue to drill
good wells in the Big Lick Marion oil field,
east of Findlay. The Mecca Oil COmpa-
ny has drilled in new well west of the
Mott Company's gusher. which is good
for 100 barrels a day. A large guSher
was drilled in the same field by L. c.
Kelley of Findlay.
John Smith, an aged resident of Otse-
go, Muskingum County, was burned TO
death, and there is strong evidence that
he slIicded in the most terrible manner
possible. When the cabin where he re-
sided was discovered on fire it was blaz-
ing from all parts of the tulding.
Smiths body was discovered in the ruins
and there is evidence to support the be-
lief that the man poured oil on the build
ing and set fire to the structure.
John Rose, colored, of Steubenville,
who was convicted of numbering Clara
Sigler and sentenced to death, and who
was granted new trial by the Circuit
Court, pleaded guilty of murder in the
second degree and was sentenced to life
Imprisonment in the Penitentiary.
John Ritner, 15-year- old boy, is un-
der arrest at Bridgeport charged with
turning a switch which wrecked Cleve-
land express and injured half dozen
passengers recently. He was discharged
from the cOmpany'5 service and swore
vengeance, it is said. George Ballinger,
another discharged emplOye, Is under ar
rest for completely.
At Chillicothe, short time ago, Albert
Foucb, aged 20, secretly married the
widow of Samuel Lewis, aged 20, and
the union was made public later when the
pair separated. The bride objected to
llIr NOutHlul uuS Uduu UciOuSlus5 W thS
Salvation Army. Mrs. FOuch will ask
for divorce.
At Xenia. William MCGEE made de-
termined effort 10 cut his wife's throat,
holding her ON the bed while he endeav-
ored to open his knife. The woman
struggled desperately for her life, and
succeeded in eluding his grasp, when he
laid her head open with stick of wood
and fled. He is now being hunted by the
police. Jealousy was the cause OF the
trouble.
While the laborerS were loading the
gravel dumps in the quarries near Cleve-
land they unearthed large mastOdon
tusk, about ten feet long and weighing
10 pounds, of pure ivory and in perfect
condition. The diameter was eight
inches. 1t was presented to DR.. I'll. f.
Anshutz by Messrs. Rucker & Donnelly,
and is now on exhibition at his place ON
Broadway. This is the finest OF several
specimens found in this gravel pit. 1t
was taken about thirty feet under the
surface, and in what looked TO be an EDDY
deposit.
The frame house of Mr.. and Mrs. Rey-
nolds, No. 103 Valley street, Akron, was
entirely destroyed by fire. Loss $1,000;