The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-09-08
Minor State Items.


ployed at the Hoffman piano factory iii
Columbus, was caught in the elevator, :
shaft and instantly killed.
The will. of Peter Butts of Newton
Falls, has been filed. He leaves about
$50, 900 TO Hiram College, the only provi-
sion being that the grave Of the giver be
cared for.
At Five Points. Lee Shaner fell in
front of a descending pile-driver. BY
dextrous move he threw his body out of
danger, but his left hand and forearm
were mangled into jelly.
At a meeting held in Ashtabula the 10
cal Woman's Christian Temperance
Union decided to attempt the en- nforce-
ment of Sunday clos ing laws. They pro-
pose to even stop milk delivery.
Edward Holden of Toronto, was as
saulted by two men and terribly beaten.
ribs being broken, his face kicked and
otherwise injured. He was then. dragged
to pond and his assailants attempted TO
drown him. Lynching is threatened if
the assailants are caught.
A cloudburst swept across the north
eastern part OF CoshoctOn County, doing
much damage. At Mound Hill the creek
and outbuil iings down the stream. No
lives were lost. Crops all along the val
ley are laid waste. At HearI abou; so
feet of the Cleveland, Canton and South
ern Railroad track was swept out.
Michael Bauer, Il member of the fac
ulty of st. Mary's Institute, Dayton, was
drowned in the Miami near Alexanders-
vile, Montgomery County, while bath
,v,rv - tt,r, <xf
the brothers who were on days cutting
at grove near the scene. lie was ma
tive of New York, and was greatly es-
teemed by the tutors and pupils of the
institute.
The Governor has appointed the follow
ing 10 be members of the Shiloh Battle
Field Commission: Thomas J. Lindsay,
Washington C. H., Fayette County; n.
r. Park. Ada, Hardin County; X. g.
Brown, GAINESVILLE. Muskipgum County;
John Mitchell. Port Clinton, Ottawa
County; Joseph s., Laughlin, Sidney,
Shelby County; Milton Turner, Cam
bridge, Guernsey County.
State School Commissioner l.. ID. Bone
brake has received communication from
n. b. Scott, Commissioner of Internal
Revenue, in which he makes the ruling
that teachers certificates are exempt
from the operation of the war stamp TAX.
This will be welcome news, as Bernard
Bettman, the Collector at Cincinnati, had
ruled that each certificate must bear a 10
cent stamp, and it seemed that the teach
! ars must pay it in addition to the So exam-
ination fee.
The family of Ambrose Davis, at Rich
mondale, Ross County, went to bed leay-
ing one of the doors un locked by mistake.
Some time during the night thieves drove
up, entered the house and loaded up their
wagon, among the things taken being
barrel of flour, number of ham, and ff-
ty pounds of lard The family continued
sleeping soundly while the burglars
loaded up their wagon, and did not dis
cover their loss until morning. The
thieves made good their escape.
E. N. Tibbetts, who for tine past thirty
| five years has been resident of Spring.
field, where he has accumulated large
holdings in real estate and business prop
,aty, celebrated his S),h birthday ami
versary recently by having his children
and grandchildren spen1 the day with
him. Although so advanced in age, Mr..
Tibbetts is still in possession of all his
faculties, and manages his large estate.
He was born in Madison, n. h., and can
trace his ancestry back TO the Pilgrim Fa-
theirs who landed from the Maytlower.
An attempted robbery at Trenton,
village two miles from Uhrichsviile, re-
suited in the shooting of one man and the
arrest of three. For some time thieves
have been stealing hides fran John Roll's
slaughter house. Lately he has been
watching to catch the thieves, and thu
other night, seeing three men rrowling
about the door, he opened fire, wounding
one. All three were captured. They
proved to be Pearl Ruby, - Wander
blt and Herbert Smith, all OF U hrcbsyilie.
Smith was wounded in the side, but is
not thought to be seriously hurt
| AS two young men were passing
| through stretch of wood in the southern
part of Steubenville they discovered the
| lead body of a girl lying in a'small
stream of water. Her head had been
crushed in with two large stones found
| by her side, and the bOdy had been part
| ly covered with rocks. The body was
identified as that of Mary Wesley. the H.
year, old daughter of Charles Wesley, d
coal miner, residing at Mlngo Junction,
who had been missing several days. The
girl was in the habit of carrying her IA
theirs dinner, and the indications are
that while passing through the woods
where the body was found she was crim-
inally assaulted and then murd red.
Nicholas Mott of Upper Sandusky,
while cleaning a We'll, was being drawn
I'D from the bottom in bucket. When
nearing the top he became dizzy. stag
gered and fell thirty-eigbt feet 10 the bot
tom. He was removed short time after
ward, but he was dead.
| Hon. John P. Jones, State L1bor COM
miss oner, has reapponted MIR. ChaI Is
| Bertram rs Superintendent OF The Free
Employment Bureau in Colum mbus. and
| Hon. A. ID. Fassett as Superintendent OF
the similar institution in Toledo. Miss
Alberta Robinson was appointed as clerk
| in CoIumb bus, and Miss Lizzie NIlligan IN
Toledo.
Mrs. Mary Garvn, is dead at the ripe
Sri age of 112 years. The deceased was
the oldest person in Toledo and vicinity
by many years. She was born in Ire
lcnd, and came 10 this country over
eighty years ago and has been resident
of Toledo for half century.
Addison Mcdonald, 13 years old, living
at sol Armstrong street, Columbus, was
killed. and William Reyes, 10 years old,
of 4g3 School street, had his Left thigh
fractured by the collision OF street car
with a water tank wagon attached to a
traction engine. The boys were riding
on the tank IN diSUbedience of their paf-
ents' commands. Mcdonald had his
; head crushed. The attending physician
SAYS Keyes will recover.
Eight miles outSides of the city limits
of Toledo Wilson Harbarisle, an elderly
bachelor and farmer, lives alone IN farm
house. Robbers entered the house and
| seIzng Harbarisle threw him on bed
and placed a ehloroformed handkerehlel
over his mouth. They then went through
the house al their leisure and secured 81,
800 ir green backs, which was carefully
| seweG up III a mattress Harbarisle dId
not wake up until noon and when ne
searched the mattress lie found 1t ripped
open and the money gem He says tGe
persons W no rob ed him are no strangers
as they knew where b'pt his money.
Rev. +. W. Lvoa-, rsS'or of the Churcn