The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-04-28
Minor State Items.

Another route will be surveyed for the
Brice line extension from Athens to New
castle. 1t will be an air line.
While attempting to alight from NOV
ing train in Carrollton w. C. Mcconnell,
a barber, received fatal injuries.
At Massilon lightning struck George
Jones, blackening his entire right side.
Three hours later he was able to walk
about.
Herman Raehr of Bucyrus, stabbed
himself near the heart with penknife.
He is mentally deranged. He has slight
chances of recovery.
John Kanaur, aged 63, teamster for the
Mansfield Lumber Company, was caught
between moving car and the wall of the
engine house and crushed to death.
The Upton Masonic bodies and U. S.
Martz proprietor of the canning factory,
will erect Masonic Temple and ground
floor opera house to cost $4,000.
The Pennsylvania and Ohio Railway
was granted a franchise to construct an
electric line from Unionvile to Conneaut
through Geneva, Ashtabula, Kingsville
and Saybr ook.
Peter JOngrass shot himself at Youngs-
town because his wife did not love him.
The bullet passed clear through his body
and inflicted mortal wound. JOngraSs
was jealous of his wife.
Miss Addie Ryan, pretty, IS years of
age and accomplished, died at Ravenna
after an illness of forty eight hours. She
jumped a rope 100 times without stop
ping, which caused her death.
George Russell, aged II, was instantly
L -iIloi ot hy alaatrip liU ht
wire. He had climbed the light pole and
grasped the wire by which the light is
lowered for replacing carbOns.
Miss Stella Roberts of Winchester, the
young lady who was bitten by large
| rat, is still in agvery serious condition,
her right hand and arm being swollen 10
nearly double their natural size.
Mrs. Sarah A. Butler died recently in
Chillicothe. She weighed 425 pounds, and
when the hour for the burial came it was
found that the body would not go in the
hearse. 1t was hauled to the grave in
wagon.
| Mail Carrier Heimberger of Delaware,
handled letter, the address Of which was
imperfect. He opened it to see if 1t was,
as he thought, for NJ. J. Haney, an in
surance agent. His wish to save time lost
him his job.
Gold in smalliquantites has been found
in white gravel in COttsville Township,
Mahoning County. 1t is alleged Tho dirt
will yield 20 cents to the pan. A machine
necessary to work the gravel has already
been ordered.
Markell II. Merrill, formerly Nickel
Plate Yardmaster in Cleveland, left home
in Conneaut, ostensibly TO see doctor.
He was found dead by boys in the ceme-
terry, where he had suicided by shooting.
He leaves a wife ana son.
| While examining thirty-two caliter
revolver at Waveyly, young man of the
name of Sayers, living at Buchanan, Pike
County, accidentally discharged the
weapon, shooting himself in the stomach.
The wound is thought to be fatal.
At meeting of the Rebekah Lodge l.
o. o. F. of Bowling Green the ladies OF
the society rendered their services to Gov.
Bushn to become nurse, in the army
hospital and on the field in case of war
between the United States and Spain.
The large buildings covering and sur
rounding the Ohio and Pennsylvania
Company's works at Steubenville, and a
number of surrounding buildings, were
destroyed by fire. Loss $4,000. The
works were TO have been sold at receiy-
er's sale in a few days.
John G. McClelland, who raised sl0O
on a forged $1,000 draft in Portsmouth,
pleaded guilty and was sentenced 10 two
years in the Penitentiary. acquisitions
from Arkansas and Tennessee for the
same crime will be honored as soon as his
term at Columbus expires.
The Supreme Court has affi med the de-
cisiOn of the Common Pleas and Circuit
Courts in the case brought by Dexter
Daft against the Mt. Adams and Eden
Park Inclined Railway Company fol
damages for injuries received by being
struck by one of the cars of the company.
lie received a verdict of $4,000, and can
now collect from the company.
Charles and James Hodge, arrested al
Sciotoville for burglary, have confessed a
long series of crimes, including the burn
ing of a Norfolk and Western Railroad
pumping station and store at Pine
Creek, burglary at Manchester, one a
Greenup, KY, and various less serious
crimes committed along the river be-
tween Greenup and Vanceburg, Ky.
The lock on the Ohio Canal near Canal
Winchester was blown up and totally de-
stroyel. The people along the line ol
that part of the States canal system are
indignant over the delay by the Legisla-
turs in providing for the abandonment O
the southern division of the Ohio Canal
The wreck was caused by dynamite and
it will take 81, 500 to replace the lock.
For several months past Springfield ha:
been overrun with slot machines of al
kinds, but all at once every one of then
was taken out boxed and shipped away
The Law and Order League had com.
pletcd arrangements to cause the arres
of the agents and destroy the machines
Some one tipped the boys and they de-
cided to withdraw the machines.
O.. II. Penn of SomertOn, Belmcn
County, aged 35 and unmarried, wa
struck by b. & o. passenger train a
New Concord, aid instantly killed. Penr
was a blacksmith and had been in ZaneS.
vile looking for work. He determined
to 90 to Cambridge, and was on his way
there when he stepped out of the way o
a passing freight and was struck by tht
passenger train.
A. j. Chevalier. Frenchman, and res
ident of COlum bus, is grieving over thu
death Of favorite dog, called Diana
Out of respect for its decease IN
placed Grape on his door and gave the ca
nine first class funeral. The body o
Diana was placed in pretty white coffin
bearing silver plate suitably inscribed
He wanted to lay the remains in his Owl
yard, but the Department of Health for
bade it. Mr.. Chevalier had requested /
local minister TO deliver the funeral ora
ton, and closed his bus mess until afte
the interment. About fifty employees o
the grief-stricken man attended the fu
neral services.
Mr.. Paul Ochiltree of the Count,
Clerks office in Dayton, has in his pos
session a rare and valuable relic in
twenty-dollar continental bill issued by
act OF Congress on September 70, lHs
The bill is redeemab!e in "spanls
milled dollars"
The police OF Portsmouth, lowed L
shore a floating skiff in which Frand Ly
| on, bod baan nj cod at some DOllt ND tn