The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-09-01
NEWS OF OUR OHIO.
OCCURRENCES DURING THE
PAST WEEK.
An Interesting Summary of the More I'm
portant Doings of Our Neighbors-Wod-
dings and Deaths-C Grimes. Casualties and
General Buckeye News Notes.
Minor State Items.

clothing firm OF Vetter & Sons of Ports
| mouth, was struck and killed by street
| Ear.
| Debt extension bonds of the city of Tiff
fin to the amount of S25, 900 were sold to
the highest bidder recently, Seasongood
and Mayor of Cincinnati.
Miss Mamie Miller, aged 50 years, was
burned TO death at Manchester before the
occupants of the house were all up. How
she got afre is not known.
10 Wah, a Chinese laundryman, was
neld up in Toronto by two men at
The point Of a revolver, who secured about
H0, all the money the Chinaman had
Mrs. A. j. Lonsway of New Reigel,
| lied from injuries received by the explo-
Iion of gasoline stove. Flames envei-
oped her body and literally cooked her TO
| 1eath.
| The body of an umbrella mender named
Brown, claiming Youngstown as his resi-
1ence, was found on the B., Il. 4, C.. Rail-
| road tracks near Caldwell with his brains
knocked out
Joseph Parks. aged 81 years, felt dead
Of heart disease on the street at SteubeE-
vile. Mr.. Parks was a resident of Co
lumbus, and was watchman at the Asy-
lum for the Blind.
DIR. d. b. Taylor of Norwalk, who has
just returned from Costa Rica, has been
offered the position of Assistant Surgeon
in the army, and has gone to Washing
ton. He will be sent 10 Camp Thomas,
Chickamauga.
\ William Il. McKeon, a prominent Erie
| Railway man. fell over unconscious at
| Kent Just after meeting his daughter,
whom he had not seen for years. lie had
suffered compile stroke of paralysis, and
death is expected.
| The 7-vear -old son of Addie Lynch of
near Tiffin. was badly injured by being
kicked by horse which he was lringing
from pasture. His right leg was broken
between the knee and ankle, and he sus-
tanned other injuries.
| The remains of Mrs. Mary C. Wolfe,'
laughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Z. Misamore
of BellefOntaine, were buried in that city
recently. She lived near Kings Creek,
and died from the result of being bitten
On the finger by rat about nine weeks
| ago.
| Preparations are about completed for
the holding of the Montgomery County
Fair October 4. 5. s and Z. 1t has been a
1umber of years since fair was held,
| and it is the intention OF the Agricultural
Board to rival some of the noted exhibi-
tions of the past.
Oil leases covering 1000 acres in Van
Buren and Mclean Townships, Shelby
| County, were recorded recently. The
leases were to the Ohio OIL Company.
The Chris Boesel oil well in Van Buren,
Township has come in. 1t is making
over $50 barrels day.
The 1-year- son of Jacob Rickles of
Bowling, was scalded to death while the
mother was cooking lard. The little one
caught hold of the side of the kettle, tip
ping it over, and the boiling hot grease
literally covered it from head to foot.
The child lived only few minutes.
William Dillworth, laborer at Bar
ber;on, became insane because Of the ex-
cessive heat. He returned to bis home In
the evening, and, tearing calico dress
into strips, made rope and hanged him.
,elf. His wife is dead and he leaves two
children in destitute circumstances.
Representatives of the American Straw
ooard Company of Dayton, are in the vi
| cinity of ChillcOthe for the purpose of
selecting a location there for the estab-
lishment of branch factory. They pro-
pose to erect forty-tOn factory, employ
ing 200 men, and have practically decided
to locate it there.
The Business Mems Association of
Lima has been organized by large num-
her of the leading merchants of the city.
The following officers were elected:
President, W. X. Boone; Vice President,
A. F. Vortcamp; Secretary, 7. A. Rob-
inson; Treasurer, G. E. Blume. The OBJ
iect is to promote the interests of Lima
and her business enterprises.
A story is afioat in Columbus that III.
Persch of Cleveland, representing COM
bination of capitalists, is endeavoring TO
form State combination of brewers.
Messrs. Born, Schee and HOster, owners
Of the three Columbus breweries, abso-
lutely deny any knowledge of such a
proposition, however. They have not
been approached either directly or indi-
rectly with that end in view.
Mrs. J. o. Bonnell of YOUNGSTOWN, is
at the Rockingham Hotel, NarraganSett
Pier, r. |. She had two diamond rings
which she priced very highly on account
Of associations. When she went 10 the
beach the other day she suddenly missed
her jeweiry. She quickly returned TO her
room in the hotel, where the rings we're
left upon a stand, but they had been
stolen. a detective is working on the
| case.
Attempts to escape from the Peniten-
| tiary have become SO numerous of late as
to seriously annoy, if not alarm, the off
cials. The other night Guard Blocker
discovered John Ray, a fifteen-year man,
from Knox County, digging hole in his
| cell wall. He had cut through the wall
| for about foot and was within eleven
| feet of the south wall of the prison. Ray
| was sent up for shooting to kill and was
received in 1895.
Hon. Calvin ). Brice has given $50 to
the Denmark Methodist Church to put in
a memorial window to his revered father.
His father was a very faithful and much
| beloved pastor of the Pres byterian
Church at Denmark, Morrow County,
| back in the fOrtieS, and in that village
Brce was born. The inscription for tie
/ window is: Sin memory of Rev. Will
lam Kirk patrick Brice, Pastor of Presby-
terian Church, Denmark, Ohio, in 1916"
The Bonner Rail Wagon Company of
! Toledo, has decided to operate its electric
! vehicles in Bowling Green on the tracks
/, Of the Toledo Bowling Green and Fre-
mont Company. The company proposes
to 90 into the country after freight and
grain, and then deliver it at the Toledo
market.
The internal revenue receipts in the
| Toledo District, which comprises twenty
six counties, amount to about $500 day.
| The war tax receipts are about 81 per
| cent of all collections. The collections
] amount to about five times as much as
they did last year for the corresponding
period.
| Mrs. George Schweiter of Chillicothe,
| made a desperate attempt at suicide by
| jumping into the SciOt0 from a-twenty-
| foot embankmept. She was pulled out
by a passing boatman and resuseltated.
Some tine ago her husband and daughter
left her and she has been in a half craz.d
condition since.
| The repor. from Porto Rico that Harry
/ Hupman of Springfield, member of the