The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-09-23
BUCKEYE BRlEFLETS.
NEWS OF THE WEEK CONCISELY
CONDENSED.
an Interesting Summary Of the More Inn
portsnt Doinss of Our Neishbors-Wed-
dinss and Deaths-Crimes, Casualties, and
General Ohio ITcws Notes.
Minor State Items.

| At Ctllnd tile livery Darn Oh d. IL. HAN
cock, with seven head of horses, was
burned.
William Messenger Of Marion, was
kicked in the stomach by his horse and
died few hours later.
George Bartram, Hooking Valley
switchman, was run down by coke car
and killed at Columbus.
Oil was struck on the J. Breeze farm,
near Round Head, Hardin County. The
well is now overflowing.
At GallipoliS, Fred Gordon shot Ernest
Cousins fatally while foOling with an air
gun. which was accidentally discharged.
ii. B. Wood. wealthy farmer, 20 years
old, was killed by Like Shore freight
train while crossing the track near his
home.
| AT Newport the young son of Yves
Pritchett shot his brother in the back
with 80 caliber revolver, and the lat n
will die.
| Jacob Little, young man, was burned
to death at the Cochran well. in Amanda,
at the western edge OF the new Hume
pool, by an explosion of fuel gas.
As Mr.. Mathew Woods of New Bich-
land, was returning from the fair at Ken
ton he was struck and instantly killed by
the Cincinnati and Detroit flyer.
| The Columbus Coal Exchange has de-
cided to advance the price of coal to 81 30
| for lump and 81 % for nut coal. The rise
is in anticipation of an advance in freight
rates.
| John Weldger, married, aged 40, was
killed at Empire. A stone weighing sew
aral tons on which he stood Wa dis
lodged and carried him down steep de-
clivity.
| The surviving members of the Fl nous
old Cockerill Battery, which was made
up in Adams and Brown Counties, will
| hold their fourth annual reunion at
Youngstown on September rs and 20.
George Norris, an Akron travelling
man, has sued the Erie and the Pittsburgh
and Lake Erie Railway Companies for
$1,000 damages because a conductor took
up his mileage look and put him off the
| train.
| In the Greene County Infirmary there
may be seen family of four generations,
| consisting of mother. son, grandchild and
great-grandchild. Thename of the family
Is Shingledeeker, and they hail from
Cedarville.
Milton, the son of c. II. Frank. years
| old, and Clarence, the son oil W. j. Eilber,.
also years old, were drowned in apOnd
two feet deep in the City Hall Park, Co
lumhus. Nobody was in sight when the
children fell into the water.
A deal has been consummated by which
the property of the Old Dominion Liihia
Water Springs Company of FOstoria and
Clarksville, Va, passes into the hands of
New York capitalists, for term of years,
for consideration of $1,000.
Joseph Somers of Brooklyn, n. Y, has
been in youngstown fer the purpose of
negotiating for the removal OF large tin
plate plant to that city. The deal has
been practically concluded, and the work
of removal will be commenced at once.
Mrs. Ike Shipley of Massieville, beat
her mother, who is I5 years of age, into
insensibility with club, and afterward
dashed bucket of scalding wafer over
the prostrate form. A warrant was is
sued for the arrest of the inhuman daugh-
ter.
Ground has been broken for the cree
ton of a glass factory in the northern
part of Tiffin. The company is known as
the Co. operative Glass Company. and the
stockholders are Tiifin capitalists. The
factory will employ large number oil
workers.
Eight damage suits htv, been fiie1 in
the courts of Wood County against the
ONO and Indian L ,rl g 10 Company that
put the shot in the Grant we'll at Cygnet
VIII ch caused the I. cent fatal oil and gas
explosion which killed nine people and
wrecked several residences. Nearly "a
score more of suits will be filed.
Hon. James Russell of Salineville, aged
30 years, is the Oldest eX-memter of the
4 lot, Itx,fv ,,,t tI,aS ~.
He represented Jefferson County in the
Lower House in lSi9 Mr.. Russell still
holds the Office of Justice of the Peace in
Salineville. He is hearty and active, and
recently srent day squirrel hunting with
his son.
At Weston the Postoffiee was entered,
the safe blown open and $50 in money and
s75 in stamps we're carried away. Straws-
burg's jewelry store was broken open
and every piece of jewelry was thrown
into trunk and taken by the marauders.
The value of the property stolen was
placed at 1920. The robbers then broke
open c., H.&. ID. section house and Sc
cured hand car. On this they escaped
with their plunder.
The effort to have the mechanics lien
law declared unconstitutional failed. The
test came before the Circuit Court at Up
per SanduSky in the case of William IL.
SNYDER VS.. William q. johnson, and the
point was argued that inasmuch as the
same Court recently declared the subcon-
tractor feature unconstitutional the en-
tire law was invalid. The Court, how
ever, held that one wrong feature does
not kill the whole, and granted Snyder
the lien prayed for.
Clarence Loveberry, the Tiember of the
Archaeological Society who has been in
vestigating the site of the supposed town
of the Mound Builders, which Gen. Fin
ley believed to be located al the head wa
tiers of the Olentangy, has returned to
Columbus. Gen. Finley named the town
site Seccaium, but Mr.. LOveberry, after
patient investigation, finds nothing to
warrant the belief that such town ex-
isted. Gen. Finley is not satisfied with
the report, and will investigate for him.
self.
The right of the builder of mill-dam
to exclusive use of the water is in ques-
tiOn in suit filed at Warren. Jennie
Miner of Niles, asks that the Mahoning
Valley Electric Railway Company of
Youngstown, he enjoined from using
water from the same source for its power
house.
John Allen. a resident of New Guilford,
met with a tragic death on the farm of
Allen Clark near that village. He was
engaged in cleaning an old well and was
overcome with carbOnic acid gas while
attempting to recover his tools. He was
prominent in local G.. A. II. and K. of p.
circles.
Mrs. Sherman Blackburn, who resides
near Toronto, Jefferson County, was
fatally shot by her 1O-year-old son.
Willie, and is dying. The boy had taken
a shotgun from a closet and placed she'll
ill one of the barrels. While fooling with
the gun it was discharged, the contents
striking his mother in the breast, infiict-
ing fatal wound.
The much talked of and much looked
for gold mines in Adams County,
three miles East of Preebles, are more