The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-04-14
Minor State Items.

JoIn W IiSHt, JT.s NeIl-tO-uO FARMER
of Mefflin Township, Wyandot County,
hanged himself with rope to rafter in
a cow shed. This is the fourth suicide in
Wyandot County in five weeks.
Mr.. j. o. Arnold of Dayton, claims the
cred it Of suggesting to President McKin-
ley the formation of the "Mosquito
Fleet" lie has letters from the Presi-
dent and Secretary of War thanking him
for the suggestion.
1t is announced in Akron that deal is
all the art tile works in the country, about
dozen in number. The largest are at
Trenton, n. j., GAINESVILLE and Barber-
ton, suburb of Akron.
This Board OF Managers of the Peniten-
tiary have paroled two prisoners, Fred
Lehmars, Tuscarawas County, received
February 5. 1894 15 years for assault TO
rape, and Leonard Williams, Clermont
County, seven years, cutting to kill.
Notice of the accidental killing of W.
l.. Booth, in Tampco, Mexico, has
reached Massillon. Mr.. Both, when in
Massilon. was chief clerk for Superin-
teudent Stout of the W. & l.. Z. Railway.
His father is the com Dany's General
Traffic Agent.
of Burkhardt MoSer, who are suing for
realty worth s15, COG, 600 in the anthracite
coal regions of Pennsylvania, dropped
dead while signing pension paper. De-
ceased was a member of Company Ii, Sew
enteenth Ohio.
Policeman O'Brien discovered burg
lar in Crosson's grocery, ne having gained
an entrance by breaking a window.
O'Brien crawled in, got the drop and
landed his man in the station He gave
his name as James Hartzell, and claims
to live in Lima.
Charles FentOn OF Warren, who has
served term in the Penitentisry for rob-
berry. was found guilty of second degree
murder. Fenton and Louis Yura, now in
the .Penitentiary, entered the home OF
Isaac Hill for the purpose of stealing,.a
Hill was shot TO death by Yura.
Burglars blew open the safe in the Wa
bash freight Office at Defiance. They
| were discovered in the act by Officer
Wahi and several shots were exchanged,
but none took effect. The burglars took
the steel money chest away with them.
1t contained but a small amount OF
money.
Charles Albert, retired farmer near
Lewisbuig, Preble County, was run down
| and killed near BrOokville by a Pan-
handle passenger train. His son Lewis
escaped with slight bruises. The scene
of the accident is in the northwest part OF
Montgomery County, and is the third of
the kind that has occurred in the imme-
diate vicinity in the past year.
The following prisoners were sentenced
at Lima: Reubon Maxon, to the Mans
| field Reformatory for pocket picking;
Curtis Hall, six years, for burglary; lr-
win, Smith and Heeley, three tramps who
| held up a freight train on the Chicago
and Erie Road and shot at the crew, were
given eleven, ten and one year, respect
| lively; James O'Brien, one year for horse
stealing.
! The Gibson House Company of Gin
cinnati, has notified the Secretary of
| State that it has increased its capital
stock from 100000 to 100000. The
Johnson Company of Lorain, has been re-
Incorporated as the Lorain Steel COmpa-
ny, with a capital stock of $4,000, 900.
The original johnson Company had Il
capital of 81 000.010. \ fee of s9 900 was
paid the State for the -reincorpOration.
Mr.. Archie Routledge of Dayton, has
received information that he had inber-
tied SIPS, 900 from an uncle who resided in
Brookshire, England. Mr.. Routledge is
a carpenter by occupation and was work.
ing at the bench when he received the in
formation from an English solicitor
through Chicago bank. He continued
work until the noon hour, when he in
formed his employer. He will leave at
once for England.
Samuel Stout, aged 10, of Attiei, was
instantly killed. Through an error he
| Ixt.. ,%1I f,- pni
timore and Ohio at Chicago, Ohio. The
train does not stop, and being late the
conducted refused to give the signal to
slow up. After short discussion young
Stout rushed to the platform and leaped
from the train. He was hurled conS!d-
cradle distance, his head striking pile
OF ties and crushed.
Four men broke into the home of Jo-
seph Hoffman, near Caroline, in the east
ern portion of Seneca County, bound and
gagged Hoffman, his wife, hired man,
two granddaughters and two guests, then
robbed the house, securing $3.50 and two
gold watches. One OF the men got loose
after the burglars left and succeeded in
releasing the others, and the neighbors
were aroused Fresh tracks indicated
that the men left by carriage, and blood
hounds failed 10 track them. The burg
lars were unmasked, and are supposed to
be the same gang that has been operating
in Fostoria and vicinity recently.
The wife of DIR. S. j. Krkwood OF
Wooster University, has received tele-
gram from Tungchow, China, which an
nounced the death there OF her sister, Mrs.
C. W. Mateer Mrs. Natter has spent3t
wears as a missionary in China, and with
her husband founded the first Christian
college in that land. She had visited her
native land but twice in all these years.
Mrs. Mateer graduated from Delaware
College, and for several years before her
marriage taught school at Mt. Gllead.
The highest honors ever paid a foreign
missionary by the Chinese Government
were conferred upon Mrs. Matter i'll rec
ocpition of her services in famine relief
some years ago.
Mrs Brock of Venice, says she saw, tho
other day, the body of an infant floating
down the Miami River while she was
standing on the bridge below Venice. 1t
is possible that it was one OF IN, Witt
man children who were drowned and
washed away in the recent floods.
The Atlantic Trust Company has filed
!. suit in Toledo asking for the foreclosure
of mortgage on the property OF the Put
in Bay WaterwOrks, Light and hallway
Company. The mortgage Is upon the
electric railway property and plant on
= South Bass Island to secure Sl25,COO OF b
, per cent. gold bonds. The petition was
filed in the United States Court.
William l.. Carruthers, an old sold er,
> aged 81 years, of Toledo. committed sui
eide bv shooting himself four times
through the right temple with twenty
Two calfter revolver. The first three shots
D lid not produce death, but the fourth
passed through the brain. The deceased
e had prepared himself for burial by dress
ing in white shrOut.
! The blighting frost has proved the
: death of the Athens County peach crop,
e the loss OF which will reach 500, 900. Sen
{ ator James Dew, owner OF the largest
!. peach farm in the Stale, says the recent
t blizzard settled all chances for peaches,
o cherries and plums, as the trees were al :
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