The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-03-31
Minor State Items.

Bucyrus, is dead in his S9th year.
b. +. Durkn of Youngstown, aged 2S
years, fell from building in Admission,
Ala. ard was instantly killed.
Henry Kieser, printer, aged about 40
years. of Toledo, was killed in the Penn
sylv"nia Railroad yards by being run
over ly a coal car.
q 'o-ge Malcom of Sidney, aged about
20 years, took carbolic acid for cough
syrup and was sew rely poisoned. lie is
in I; 'rious condition.
John Courtney and William Ban field,
supposed members of gang of burglars
and sneak thieves, were sent to the Coun-
ty Jail at Athens for burglary.
Theodore Brannich, aged IA wears. COM
mited suicide at Bridgeport, by the re-
vvlver route. He went to lonely spot
on the hill back Of town to commit the
deed.
Henry Bowman was killed at Mingo
junction by a timber falling on him.
Bowman was at work on the new W. and
l.. f. Railway bridge when the accident
happened.
william franklin, aged IS years. resi-
dence South Center street, Springfield,
died from injuries sustained by falling
into an excavation on Center street few
days ago.
A. J.. George, Panhandle fireman, aged
81 years, died at his home on Denmead
avenue, Columbus, from injuries re-
ceived by being knocked from train a
few miles out of the city.
The 15-year- old adopted son of Theo-
dore ST uhldreyer of Massillon, has disap-
peared, taking with him all the Stuhl-
dreyer's portable valuables, including
important notes and papers
The City Council of Wapakoneta has
sold $4,000 5 per cent. street improve
ment londs at premium of S4,3S) to The
Society for Saving of Cleveland. A large
number of bidd IT'S were present.
At a special meeting OF the Bowling
Green Council it was decided 10 purchase
the waterwOrks plant, subject to the rati-
fcation of the voters at the spring cleo
tion. The price to be paid is 100000.
John II. Anderson, aget about 40
years, of Youngstown, was run down and
killed by passenger train No. s. An en-
envelope from the Bayview Coal Com
pany, Mich, was found in his pocket.
At Akron a company of 100 men has
rendered its services TO the Government
in case of war. The members were all
soldiers in the Franco Prnssian war ami
belong to the AlSace- Lorraine. Society.
Quincy Kinney, an oil well driIler of
Bowling Green, was seriously injured at
Rudolph. A heavy flow of gas was struck,
and in putting on the casing he'd it was
blown into a thousand pieces. The mans
head was terribly cut and his skull
broken.
AL Smith of Neisonville. aged 2S years,
miner, was frightfully injured by the
breaking of wire rope by which cars are
hauled out in the Hooking Valley Coal
Nine The rope knocked his eye out,
burst an ear drum, and. it is Thought,
fractured the skull.
Lyman Smith, aged Al. prosperous
farmer near Upper Sandusky, committed
suicide by shooting himself. He took the
p~ecautiOn of sitting on log ten feet in
the air with rope tel around one end
and his head in moose, so that If the
shot did not prove fatal he would fall off
and:break his neck.
A large force OF men employed by
Treat & Crawford have started to work
unloading and distributing pip, upon the
principal streets of Nelsonvile, to be
used in furnishing that city with natural
gas. The wells are situated in the Corn
ing district, thirteen miles from Nelson
vile.
Harry Mccoy of Findlay, who shot his
brother John the other day in a saloon,
is crazed with grief. and would have cut
his own throat but for the timely action
of fellow prisoners, who caught him with
a knife which he was about to use for the
purpose. John Mccoy, who was shot, is
still alive, but it is thought that he can
not recover.
A. st. John of jamestown, has large
land turtle bearing the name of l.. c.
Harness and date April, 1SiS. The let
ters had been placed on the shell of the
turtle when it was quite small and are
now almost grown out. Mr.. l.. c. Har-
ness was one of the early settlers of that
section and has been dead several years.
His descendants relate the fact that SINH
lar acts were sort OF mania with him.
Barney Pollock, aged 40 years, living
near AgOsta, while driving home, fell
forward from his buggy with his head
between the shaft and wheel. The latter
had been repaired with nails, the ends OF
which lacerated his face and tore his
head so his brains exudad, causing death.
Mrs. Jennie Or,h, wife OF }. +. Orth,
saloon keeper of London, committed sui
eide by hanging herself in the woodshed.
She was discovered by her daughter Nora,
who had her attention attracted TO the
place by the family dog. The body was
warm when found, but life was extinct.
Her neck was broken. There was no
known cause for the act.
Mrs. Garrett Wheeler OF Xenia, is the
owner of a mongrel dog which shows al
most human intelligence in its grief for its
master, who died eighteen months ago.
At the time of MIR. Wheeler'S death the
dog followed the body to the cemetery
and evidenced great grief at the grave,
attracting the attention OF all the people
assembled. Afterward the dog was
missed for day or two each week, when
it would come home very weak ant ap-
parently nearly starved. Investigation
showed that the dog went to the Gem 1tery
and lay on its masters grave and
hOwled piteously. And this habit the dog
has kept up every week for eighteen
months, the sexton of Cherry Grove ceme-
tery vOuching for the truth of the story.
Ten prominent oil bumpers near Ru-
dOlph, south of Toledo, have been arrest
ed on warrants sworn out by joint COM
mittee from the two churches. of the "il-
lage on the charge of pumping oil on
Sunday. The interference means much
to the bumpers, and the oil men threat
Ell TO make a test case OF 1t.
Some months ago Robert Pollard, for
many years resident OF Kent, went to
Gallon, where he died suddenly, leaving
an estate valued at $1,000 and no heirs.
The dead mans money was claimed by
both Crawford and Portage Counties un-
der the law for their school funds. The
case was compromised before it came for
rial, the money being divided between
,Iie two countieS