The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-10-27
Minor State Items.

iIStSs
Twelve cars were piled m in wreck
on the Chicago and Erie Railroad near
Hepburn.
From impure water in we'll on the
premises OF Frederick Grummcl Of Tiffin,
there are fifteen cases of Uphold fever.Il
The Great Southern Gas Company has
announced that it would supply Zanes =
vile with natural gas by the first OF next
month.
George E. Scrho'h, ex-Prosecuting At
terney of Seneca County, has been ap-
pointed COmmiss ioner of bankruptcy in
that county.
Walter Brown, prom;ne farmer of
near Marietta, died of blood poisoning,
resulting from slight cut in the finger
received while cutting corn.
At MarysvilIe arrangements have been
made TO give rOuSing welcome to Com
pany ID, Fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry,
on its return from Porto REQ.
Frank Nixon, aged 81 years, brake
man on the Fort Wayne railroad, was
struck by a train while. crossing Union
avenue bridge, at Alliance. and instantly
killed.
The largest shipment of oats from an
inland city was made recently in Toledo
by Southworth &s Co. to Liverpool, Eng
| land. The consignment consisted of 320,-
| coo bushels.
Dayton Kirby, aged 10 years, residing
| in the northeast part of Morrow County,
| lied from the effect of bee sting re-
ceived last May. Blood poisoning de-
| veloped.
Joseph Heron, wanted az Lima for at
| tempted criminal assault on the 4-year-
DID daughter of Wellington Brown and
wife, was captured in Sidney. He did
not deny his identity.
John Hannah and J. c. Kelley, two of
TOrontO's beSt-known merchants, have
been closed by executions. Mr.. Kelley is
| TorontO's pioneer merchant and has
lone business there twenty-seven years.
Frank Evans. aged Is, lies dead at his
home on East Water street, Chillic0the.
For long time past the boy has been
wild, and has run away several times.
His physician attributes his death direct
y to exposure.
| Walter Sharp, who had been on a spree
for several days, was found dead near
Gordon's billiard hall, in North Lewls-
burg. Sharp's death, according to the
COroner's verdict, was due TO alcoholic
poisoning and exposure.
One entire floor of the Protestant Hos
pital in COluml US has been secured for a
soldiers hospital by order of the War
| Depar tment. Only soldiers will be adj
mitted, and the pital is opened to beth
branches Of the service, regular and vol
ynteer.
| The common schools OF Conversion
have made the first contribution 10 the
lafayette monument fund. State School
| Commiss ioner Bonebrake received it,
amounting to So IS. From the indications
the schools of Ohio will contribute large
ly 10 the fund.
Louis Adams, bookkeeper for Neuhau-
sci Bros. OF Toledo, got off his bicycle to
adjust the lamp on his wheel, when he
was struck by club while STOPPING
over. lie was robbed as he lay on the
ground. His skull is fractured and he
cannot recover.
Miss Clara Spencer was found roaming
Ihe streets of Ravena clad only in her
night clothes. A policeman caught her
after hard chase. The woman had s-=a.-
ienIy become insane Erooding over a
small mortgage she recently placed on a
farm. Miss Spencer is 10 years old.
A flock of sixteen quail, while badly
frightened and in dazed condition, few
into the Southwestern Limited on the Big
Four on the farm of DR.. Steinborger,
north of Bellefontaine, and dashed their
brains ont. DIR. S;einborger gathered up
The birds and enjoyed quail supper.
At the ruins of the Union Elevator fire
at Toledo, while force of men was
clearing away the grain, the rotten tim
bers OF the bins gave way, and some
| twenty labOrers were buried under the
grain, but all were taken out in time to
save their lives. They were all severely
bruised.
| Otterbein University is just $500 ahead
| through a decision of the Supreme Court
in the case of the Trustees of Otterbein
University against Lester Sutton, ad-
| Griffith, deceased. The Court decided
that the promise made by Griffith holds
good in law.
| The verdict of the jury in the case of
barley Flickinger vs.. Frank Brown, a
prominent lumber dealer of Massillon,
will be a warning to hunters in the fu-
lure. While shooting quail on the Leep-
er farm Brown fired IN the direction of
Flickinger, one of the shots destroy ing
The latter's right eye. The jury allowed
Flickinger 81, POO.
| At Upper SanduSky, the other morn
| ing, an alarm of fire was turned in from
Fred Plates residence, and when the de-
partment responded they were dumb
founded to find neighboring women on
the house-top working like beavers in an
endeavor to put out the fire. They were
successful, and received three rousing
cheers and ''tiger" from the gathered
spectators.
| Vegetation around Upper Sandusky is
In remarkably advanced state for the
season of the year. The raspberry bushes
are bearing their second crop OF fruit,
ounces are forming and some few early
apple trees are showing buds, but the
most remarkable thing Of all is that
Michael Cain, gardener, residing east
of town, enjoyed for his dinner the other
day potatoes that had been wicked from
vines from which two months ago the
first crop had been taken.
| John Sprankle's 2-year-old child was
| fatally burned at Medina. The babe
| crawled upon table, on which a lamp
was standing. The child was so horri-
bly, burnt that it was hardly recognized.
Its stomach was literally burned out and
| its nose was burned off. Death came in
| half an hour.
| At Chillicothe Ezra Sans has been con-
| victed the second time OF murderously as
| saultng Jacob Grubb. Sans son, Ed
| ward Sans, made atfitivit during the
| trial that he and not his father had as
saulted Grubb. The jury decided that
the younger Sans had merely itried to
| save his father.
William c. Claremont, a bicyclist,
was on his way from Chicago to New
York awheel, on the Lima Northern Rail-
road track. In going around sharp
curve near Napoleon, Claremont heard a
rumbling noise, and was about to dis
mount, when he was suddenly lifted
from his wheel and thrown in mid air,
and landed headl0ng in gravel bank
nearly twenty feet from the track. He
was struck by train, ut escaped with
few bruises. The rear tire of his bicy
Gle stuck in the Stats of the engine pilot