The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-12-09
Minor State Items.

Minor State Items.
T. j. SInedley pleaded guilty to forgery
at Springfield. and was sentenced to two
years in the Penitentiary.
A little son of W. ii. Miles of Bellefon-
taine, fell through large window glass,
sustaining serious injuries about the
head.
Sheridan Cox Of Rome, went hunting
and accidentally shot himself in the right
jaw. The wound will probably prove
fatal.
A movement is on foot to ask the Leg
islature to pass law extending the term
of Office of Mayor OF Columbus 20 four
years.
Lydia Davis of near Sydney, has sued
for $1,000 damages the Ohio Southern
Railroad for injuries received by being
struck by the cars.
w. f. Myers, principal owner of the
Ohio Valley Sewer Pipe Works at Torou-
to, was stricken with paralysis and is in
a critical condition.
Several months ago Charles Myers as
saulted with intent to rob DR.. w. T. Me-
Lean, at his office in Elyra. Myers has
just been sentenced to the Penitentiary
for eight years. He is well-known
crook.
Near Bellefontaine, William Clough
and j. b. Duncan shot at some rabbits
and hit Ed Thrift. One shot struck him
in the left eye. lie was already blind in
the right eye, and will now lie totally
blind.
| Edward F. Neil, young married man,
employed at the Panhandle shops in
| Columbus was knocked off box car
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duct, and was cut to pieces under the
wheels.
Rotert j. Blum, aged % years, of Ma
riOn, married one month ago, drove across
the Big Four tracks in front of train
and was instantly killed. The horse he
| drove was also killed and the wagon
| wrecked.
Mr. Jacob Lenhardt, prominent farm
er near Bellefontaine, while removing the
tusks from boar, had the animal turn
on him and before help arrived he was
frightfully torn. The mans injuries may
prove fatal.
The 5-year-old daughter of Richa rd
McGrievy was frightfully scalded at Lima
by the contents of coffee pot being
spilled over her shoulders and back. A
month ago their oldest daughter was so
Dauly burned Sno Qfe0.
An unknown man attempted to hold
up j. A. Hines, Mansfield groceryman,
in his store. Hines resisted and was
probably fatally shot. Bloodhounds
from the Ohio Reformatory were placed
on the track of his assailant.
Fostoria once had the distinction
of having the best-regulated of nat
ural gas system in the country. The
North Ohio Natural Gas Company has Or
dered gas turned off the lines December
81. The city will be given summer serv-
ice.
The young society ladies of Martins
Ferry, will give a minstrel show at the
Opera House for the purpose of raising
money toward purchasing a town clock.
About forty will have their faces black
ened. There are nearly $iG0 in the town
clock fund.
Fire was started in the Cooperative
Glass Company's plant in Tiffin recently
for the first time, and the plant will be in
full operation soon. The officers of the
company are Tiffin capitalists. They will
manufacture bottles exclusively.
James p. Lingafelter, receiver of the
City Electric Railway of Newark, was
granted permission by Judge Wickham
to issue labOring mems car tickets, ten for
20 cents, and school chldren's tickets,
eight for 25 cents. The tickets will be is
sued within certain hours each day.
Benjamin Snevely, after an absence of
over twenty-nine years, during which
time his Whereabouts was unknown to
his folks, returned to his home in Sidney
recently. He has spent the time in New
Orleans, Baton Rouge and Ethel, La.
working. He ran away when he was
only 13 years of age.
Ed Mackey, a school, teacher, while
hunting near Pretoria, fell with his gun
while climbing over fence, which caused
it to go off, the contents blowing off one
hand and part of the other.
Johd Z. Offutt, for many years proprie-
tor of the Offutt Hotel, at Amelia, has
been appointed Postmaster at Hamlet.
IIr. Offut is S4 years old, and claims to be
the oldest Postmaster in Ohio.
Lewis Sides, residing with his parents
near Fairfield, Greene County, has Teen
employed at work at Dayton, but was
discharged recently. He returned home
and took dose of arsenic with suicidal
intent, from the effects of which he died.
At Oxford, James Ryal, aged Is, son of
Woodford Ryal and a brother of the no.
tOTIOuS ny NHo hoiio"ty
capped lynching a few years ago, was
probably fatally injured while hunting.
While climbing hedge fence his gun was
accidentally discharged, the load taking
effect in the side of his head. The jaw
bone was torn away.
Ernest Nash, aged s years, of Kent,
found an old musket. He called his three
little brothers and sister, laid the weapon
across a chair and said: ''Now watch
me kill rabbit" lie pulled the trigger,
the gun held fire; he looked into the bar
rel to see what was wrong, the load en-
tered his breast and he fell dead. The
parents were absent at the time.
Joseph Oser is dying from the effects OF
a peculiar accident. He is a clerk in
hardware store at Doylestown, ten miles
south of Akron. He attempted to draw
oil from barrel by means of rubber
tube. Todo this he placed one end in
the barrel and the other in his mouth,
then by the force Of suction he brought
the oil to the surface. He drew so hard
that quantity of the oil went into his
lungs. Acute Inflammation at one fol-
lowed.
At Youngstown, the jury in the case Of
Thomas Edmonds, charged with murder
ing John HALEY of Niles, announced
verdict of murder in the second de-
gree. Edmonds' sentence will be impris-
qamspt for life.
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