The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-07-14
AROUND A BIG STATE.
INTERESTING ITEMS OF LATE
OHIO NEWS.
What Our Neighbors Are DoIng-Mstters
of General and Local Interest Mar
riages and observation-disclosures and Crimes
Personal Pointers About Ohio People.
Minor State Items.

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of tOiier.
Finley Hart, E. 6 o. bridge carpen-
ter, fell under the wheels of a hand- car at
Hoytsville and was SO badly injured that
he died a short time after.
Hyman G. Coates, aged so, fell from
second-story window Of his sons resi-
dence in Findlay, and died three hours
later. He was asleep when he fell.
Mice in a church organ at Olive Chapel,
south of Washington C. H., started fire
in the organ by nibbling at matches, ,caus-
ing fire that almost destroyed the build =
ing.
Alexander Kelser. aged So years. was
struck by b. tS o. freight train in Shell
by. Both legs were shed and his body
badly mangled. Kelsef died soon after
ward.
George Thorley, aged 10 years, was
drowned while bathing in One Leg
Creek, near Linden Tree, north of Canal
Dover. 1t is believed he was seized with
cramps.
Frank Dugan. the Big Four brakeman
injured in Kenton, died at st. Antonio
Hospital shortly after surgical opera
ton. The remains were taken to Sam
dusky City.
At Sidney James Anderson, aged So
years, was run over by c., III. and d.
passenger train, and instantly killed
while attempting to get on after the train
had started
Maurice Fredericson, Norwegian
sailor. fell among thieves on Water street
in Toledo, and was relieved of wallet
containing 500, the savings of three years
in this country.
At Gallipolis fire destroyed the furn-
ture store of Capt. w. p. Small and the
shoe store of John Keubler, and badly
damaged the Aleshire Block. Loss esti-
mated at $1,000.
Prof. F. S. Coultrap, who has been SUI
perintendent of the Public Schools in
Nelsonville for twenty one years, has re-
signed to accept a similar position with
the Athens schools.
At Akron, James Scroggle and John
Stranick were sent to the Reform Farm
for petit larceny. The boys are only IA
years of age, and have carried on sys-
TEN of thieving for nearly year.
Two perfect skeletons were unearthed
at the farm of A. f. Wheeler, south of
Lima. The skeletons were in a sand pit
and were in excellent condition. They
are supposed to be those OF Indians.
George Walter of Lima, grew to conf
Dental with hobo in Toledo, and spent
considerable money setting 'em up.
When Walter parted from his hobo friend
he found he was s24) short in his cash ac-
count. The hobo has disappeared from
the city.
Prof j. S. Young, A. NJ, an Ohio man
who has been located in Colorado, has
been chosen by the Board af Education OF
FostOria to secceed Prof. II. l.. Frank,
who refused reelection at a salary of
S1,6O0 4 year, as Superintendent of
the City Schools.
August A. Hill, aged ST years, a
wealthy farmer and stock raiser near
Martsville. committed suicide by shoot
ing himself in the right temple with a re-
volver. The cause of the suicide is al
legged to be family trouble and financial
EN- mbarrassment.
Lizzie Moore, one of the most notorious
piekpOckets in the country, has gone
crazy at the prison in Columbus. Lizzie
was received at the prison from Cleve-
land on November 90 1895. to serve five
years for her favorite line of work. She is
hHOWh as lCldlnOhu
The ceremony of raising the stars and
stripes from flag staff on a church was
observed in Toledo the other day, for the
first time in the history of that city. The
ceremony took place at the Central Con-
gregational Church, which has one of the
most aristocratic congregations in the
city.
1t has developed in the reports of the
Supreme Court that the constitutionality
of the Pugh law, requiring signers of
party petitions to pledge themselves to
vote the ticket petitiOned for, was not
passed upon in the recent test case
brOnght by the Prohibition party. The
Court merely passed upon the old law re-
quirlng petition.
In an argument between two crowds of
men on Long street. in Columbus, over
the war, Henry Watkins of 3S5 Mound
street, was shot in the breast by Oliver
Smith. The wound will not prove fatal,
and Watkins is under arrest. The ques-
ton in dispute was as to whether Spain
or the United States lad the better of it
N the fight at Santiago.
Philip Koehler, one of the prominent
business men of Canal Dover, died re-
Gently after three weeks terrible suffer-
ing from lock jaw ami blood poisoning.
While fishing in the TuScarawas River
about fortnight ago the stone on which
he was standing rolled from under him.
He fell il, discourse, and the bones and
flesh of one leg were crushed. He was
taken home unconscious, and when he
recovered his senses he was seized with
lock jaw, and later blood poisoning at
tackled him and hastened his death.
Five persons were drowned in the lake
at Cleveland few days ago. I'll. II.
Fralick and Miss Jeanette Kaiser lost
their lives while bathing, in the presence
OF several hundred persons. They were
floating on log, when Miss Kaiser lost
her hold and sank. Fralick tried to save
her, and both went down. Two unknown
men rocked boat, which capsized, and
both drowned. One man was a cripple.
In the pocket of the other was an enyel-
ope with the address, ''Mr. Brown, Mid
iletown, n. Y" Frank Shubeck, news
agent, lost his life while bathing.
Wind and lightning caused great dam
age al Cortland recently. One-third of
the Methodist Church, built of brick. was
blown in on crowd during services.
Mrs. o. Churchill sustained serious in
jury, but no others were hurt beyond
scratches. Several barns are reported
destroyed.
An aeronaut travelling with the Charles
TILES Amusement Company of Cincin-
matt, known as Prof. Alvini, made bal
loon ascension in Ripley, and alighting
in the river just above town with his par
achute, became wrapped in its folds and
was drowned in sight of a large crowd of
horrOr-Strc,tu DeODle
Ernest Houser, of Wabash avenue, in
a kron, was shot in the hand recently.
Tony Hoover was giving an exhibition of
his ability as a markSman, and after
cigar from Houser's mouth
proceeded to shoot at a cake of soap
which Houser had in lis hand. Hoover
missed his aim, and the bullet inflicted a
painful wouad in Houser's hand.
Judge Morris. of the Common Pleas
Court in Toledo, has handed down an
decision affecting the status of
slot machines. He holds that slot ma
chimes are not necessarily gambling de-
vices. The Court also holds that the city