The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-12-15
Minor State LIENS.

broken. Blood poison set in and he died
William Babcocit. aged gS years. th,
oldest citizen in Ottawa County, died re.
Gently.
The Trumbull County Agricultural Sc.
ciety has reorganized and will give a fail
in September of next year.
Tom Orms bee, an Ohio Southern con-
ductOr, was found dead late at night OF
Sycamore street; Spring field. Heart dis.
ease was the cause of death.
The Magnolia Coal Company, recently
organized in Akron, has closed contract
for ), 900 acres in Tuscarawas County. II
IS believed to be valuable coal field.
Emerson Collier of Springfield, was
found guilty OF criminal assault upon a
Miss Diffenbach. They were engaged tc
be married, but he broke the engagement.
At London, james Mccarthy, indicted
| for shooting with intent TO kill, was
found guilty and sentenced to the Peni-
| tentiary for three years by Judge May
nard.
Mrs. Sarah GIendenning, who was ar
rested at North Lewisburg for fraudu-
lenty obtaining pension, was released
by refunding the money, amounting to
Sl,u43, tDuS obtained.
Mrs. Nancy Curl has filed suit in tine
Common Pleas Court for 81 ,0OO damages
against Fielding A. Thompson, Mayor of
Marysville, for alleged malicious prose-
cution and false Imprisonment.
At Toledo a crowd of Hungarians en-
gagged in a free for-al fight, and Louis
Schultles was so badly cut and beaten
n n hat hQ fytl
others were seriously injured.
Samuel c. Martin, proprietor of the
Maple City House. IN or wark, convicted of
selling liquor on Sunday, was sentenced
by Judge Wildnan 10 pay $50 fine and
sent to the Canton Work house for thirty
days.
II. NJ. Hook, aged - years, was struck
by Cincinnati and Muskingum Valley
passenger train at GAINESVILLE and in
stantly killed. lie was picking up coal
along the track to keep his family from
freezing.
Ravenna has received a smallpox scare.
A boy tramp was found in box car sick
and with eruptions on his face and body.
He was taken in charge by the Trustees
and placed in quarantine. Physicians
call it German measles.
John Whitman of Bar arberton, has
started an action for $4,000 damages
against the village of Doylestowu and X
Il. Young. ii merchant, on account OF i'll
jurieS sustained by the explosion of a
cannon at a Fourth of July celebration.
The meeting of Eastern stoneware
manufacturers in GAINESVILLE to formulate
selling agreement, failed utterly. 1t is
confessed that it is hopeless to try TO get
the Western men into line while the East
erp men cannot agree among themselves.
One month ago Fred Melinger, an en-
plOye on the new Courthouse at Upper
Sandusky, was struck on the head by
falling brick. He Immediately began
suit for 1000, but the case has just been
settled by the payment of sldOctor's
bill and $3.50.
SayerS, the tele ephone man of Denmark,
Morrow County, has put phone in the
NJ. +. Church OF that village, and ar
ranged it Immediately in front of the pull
pit, so that MS aged mother, who cannot
20 to church at night, may have the bell
eft of the evening service.
Elliott Wightsell of Pickering ton, Fair
field County, during fit of insanity in
1icted ten gasheS in his scalp with
hatchet in an attempt to destroy himself,
although his hallucina alton is the fear OF
bodily injury. He was removed TO the
State Hospital in Columbus.
An affidavit has been'filed against John
Jacobs Of New Carlisle, for shooting
quail for the market. d. T. Moores was
arrested for purchasing the same. There
we're fifty birds and it will be an inter-
esting test case, as thew are liable under
the law for fine of s25 for each bird.
Nathaniel Roger, 2l years old, brake
man on the Iron Railway, was killed in
IrontOn by being thrown from his train
under the wheels and ground TO pieces.
Robert Roger, the father of Nathaniel,
was killed on tile same road six months
ago by the explosion of the locomotive
John Campbell.
1t is rumored that the Brew pottery
plant, located in Tiffin, and owned by
Ralph ID. Sheath, will be opened soon,
and large number of people put to work
again. This is one of the very few pot
leries in the State that are holding out
against the pottery monopoly now being
formed over the country.
In the case of Jane Rawlins VS.. Caro-
line Wasmer for $4,000 damages, the
jury at Ironton awarded $500 damages.
Mrs. Wasmer sold William Eawlins
whisky. Rawlins. while in drunken
'lupor, lay by the roadside all night and
was so badly frozen that both his legs
md one arm had to be amputated. This
is the second trial. the jury of the first
rial giving $500 damages.
A case of wholesale poisoning occurred
N Miamisburg to number of families
hat purchased buttermilk from coun-
ry woman named Redwood. Soon after
thinking the buttermlk they were all
aiken sick. Mrs. Frank Greth, Mrs Mary
Kline and Mrs. Harriet Zimmerman, aged
aides, are in critical condition, with
ioubts as to their ultimate recovery. The
younger members of the families are i'm
proving.
William Dague of Akron. stu lent in
Kenyon Military Academy at Gambler,
vas, it is feared, fatally injured while |
)elnG initiated at the school. Ills father, !
J. W. Dague, received telegram calling |
lIm to Gambler, it being stated that his |
on would probably not recover. Dur |
ng the initatory exercises Dague was |
truck over the head with such force that |
of the brain followed. He is |
IN only son, is years of age.
It is feared that the old State shop |
in the Penitentiary, which was
,ult IN 1888, will collapse. and measures |
ire to be taken Immediately to strengthen
t. Any accident in this building would
mean the death OF large number of
iris onerS, as hundreds of men work there
very day.
Warden Coffin OF the Penitentiary, has
ecitiei 10 recommend Frank ID. Craft,
Who is serving three years sentence
rom Auglaiz, County for cutting to kill,
or parole at the next meeting OF tie
5oard of Managers. Mr.. Cof1in's interest
vas aroused by letter from Crafts 40
ear -old daughter.
Jacob Ii. CARRIER, prominent basi-
less man of Whipple, committed suicide
" shooting himself through the head
With revolver. CARRIER was President
+ the Whipple Milling Company, which
vas compelled to make an assignment
ecause OF the abscondng of its Secreta-
Y, Andrew Hart, who is now In hiding
n West Virginia.
Patrick Shacker of Portage, reported TO
he police that he was held I'D on the