The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-05-27
OF INTEREST IN OHIO.
A DIARY OF NOTEWORTHY HAP.
PENlNGS.
What ufNeighbors are Doing-Matters Of
General and Local Interest-MarrIages ges and
Oeaths-Accidents.. ..and Crimes-PersonaI
pOinteru.
Brief State Items.

| The City Council Of Springfield. 1t was
in force just three weeks.
Peter Miner, aged co. Of Highland
| County, was held to the United States
Court charged with making and attempts
ing to pass counterfeit money.
| At Echo Dell, a camp near East Liver
pool, Miss Florence Reeder of the latter
| place, fell from a porch and fractured her
| skull. She will probably die.
Mayor Glidden of Portsmouth, gave four
of the strikers who assaulted Joseph Pay
cite, the limit of tie law, $40 and costs.
Three others were fired 81 each.
Fifty laborers employed on the big
onion farms of Henry Edwards, on the
Scioto marsh, east of Lima, have struck.
Their wages were reduced from Sl.25 to
so cents day.
Miss Bessie Brown, the 16-year-old
daughter of a wealthy farmer near Lima,
eloped with David Fletcher, young col
ored man employed on an adjoining farm.
1t is thought they went to Indiana.
Rudolph Kleybolte & Co. of Cincinnati,
were successful bidders for 100000 per
cent. waterworks bonds, sold in Delphos.
A premium of s9O7.77 was bid by the
Kley bolte Company.
A stranger, about % years of age, was
run over by Big Four freight train at
Sidney and killed. The name G.. L. Mu-
ther was tattoOed on his left arm. Kan
sas City was stamped on the inside of his
shoes.
Judge Crew has sentenced William r.
Scott of Bristol Township, near McCon-
nellsville, convicted of criminal intimacy
with Ada Dingey, his wife'S sister. to ten
years in the Penitentiary. The girl is but
Is years old.
George Lincoln of Kenton, once a
wealthy farmer, but lately an inmate of
lhe County lntirmary, suicided by using a
knife and disembowelng himself. His
mind became deranged OH account of
financial losses.
Mrs. p. W. Snyder, aged 46. took
large dose of carbolic acid at the home of
her mother near Kent, and her death is
expected. Her home is in Ravenna, where
her husband is prominent citizen. Poor
health is the cause assigned.
John Held, aged Y years, a retired sa-
loon keeper of Sandusky, while prepar-
ing to take bath, during the absence of
his family, fell into the bath tub before
iisrObing and was drowned. The de-
ceased was subject to attacks of vertigo.
Rev. John Sargent, a prominent minis
ter of Greenspring, is dead, aged 80 years.
His death was due to hiccoughs, from
which he had been suffering for the past
six weeks, and which the best ply
sicians of the county were unable to re-
leve.
Frances r. Steward, of the marble firm
of Steward Il Co. of Mannngton, W. Va,
vas IN Tiifin recently and caused the ar
rest of Joseph f. Thorn, their agent
there, for utterirg false contracts. upon
which it is alleged he secured $50 COM
mission.
A few weeks ago Ulrieh Byler, an aged
bachelor of Sugar Creek Township, near
Wooster, decided his farm CT $50 acres to
parties who were to care 1or him during
life. Bvler died very suddenly recently,
and relatives have called on the Coroner
to investigate.
The Board of Education of Yo1lgs-
town has adopted rule requiring all
lady teachers to sign contracts that they
will not marry during the school term.
The board has been much inconvenienced
by teachers resigning to get married, and
the rule was made to prevent it.
A soldiers monument will be unveiled
at Betheda Cemetery, in Franklin Town.
ship, Columbiana County, May go. The
monument will have inscribed upon it the
names of all the soldiers of Franklin
Township. Lieut.. Gov. Asa W. Jones
will be the principal orator for the occa-
sion.
A mammoth turtle, of the salt water
variety, was discovered in ditch along
the Big Four tracks north of the yards in
al tnr fIn ic ca1 70, ha,
escaped from an express car while being
transported to some of the large inland
cities. The Tammany Club will give
turtle banquet.
William Tullis, living northeast of
Lima, was arrested charged by an insur-
ance agency there with burning his resi-
1ence. David Ginger was arrested at
Flint, Mich, by Marshal Rice of Ada,
for firing the house. He claims Tullis
paid him s25 to fire the house. He will be
brou ght to Lima.
Martha A. Blair, widow. aged 80, of
Lisbon, has begun a 5000 suit against
Godfrey Crawford, a widower of 46, for
breach of promise. Crawford is pros
Porous merchant with three children.
Last weak he married Mrs. Fannie Nor
Ian of that place, aged 40. Mrs. Blair
has ten children, and Mrs. Morian is the
mother of four.
Mr.. James Blair, a farmer living south
Of College Corners, is owner of Il dun
mare aged % years, which a few days ago
foaled a fine. well-deyeloped colt having
five legs. The extra appendage is the
OutgrOwth from the pastern joint on the
right front leg. 1he foot proper is turned
half around, and possesses but little
strength. When the colt moves around it
goes with a kind of hop step and
jump gait. Mr.. Blair will endeavor 10
raise the little equestrian curiosity.
Godfried Balske, aged So years, of De-
fiancc, committed suicide in a most horri-
BILE manner. He was gunsmith by
trade, and constructed of piece of gas
pipe a cannon which lie fastened to
block of wood. BalShe seatel himself on
a chair i'll front of the cannon, opened his
shirt, deliberately ignIted the fuse and
waited for death, which was instantane-
Gus. lie use1 a piece of iron for tcilet.
and was found in the chair after the load
lad passed through his heart. LII health
is given as the cause.
Frank Kish, an employe OF the Ohio
Steel Company OF Youngstown, offers a
reward of $500 Ter information that will
lead to the Whereabouts Of his wife,
When Kish returned from work recently
his wife and son, considerable jewelry
and SAL in money was gone. Two other
children were left behind.
,crge w. Williams. IL years OF age. of
Bellaire, is in Jail charged wi h making
counterfeit money. The charge is mad,
by Robert Mason, the notorious counter
feter arrested some time ago and now in
Jail at Steubenvile, where lie was COM
mitted by United States Commission
Richards. Williams was arrested.
At Van Vert, the infant daughter of
John Salezaber was playing in the back
y ard with anoiher child. The child came
running in saying: ''She'S hiding in the
cislern." Before rescue was possible life
was extinct.
William Elliott, a locomotive engineer
OF Indianapolis, arrived in Circleyile re-
Gently and took quarters at the Coleman
House. During a conversation he OBJ