The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-06-01
Minor state Items.

The Toledo Traction Company has
made voluntary advance of per cent.
in the wages of 70) employees.
The Northern Construction Company
OF Bryan. was incorporated with capi-
tai of s5O,O ,OO), by Ffei j. Bollmeyer and
others.
At Marysville, William Archery, while
en- route to school. was struck by New
York, Like E-ie cnd Western passenger
train an fatally injured.
Fire destroyed the residence of Deputy
Revenue Collector Higgins, on South
Main street, Georgetown. 1t was valued
at 81, coo and insured for 81, 500.
At Lima, Harry Bowsher was riding
wheel, and while going at very RAPID
pace the front fork broke and threw him
TO the ground head frs. lie may die. .
John Arnold threw some cartridges
into the fire and was shot twice-in the
leg and id,--'y their discharge. His
condition is seri: u'. lie lives rn Gal
lipolis.
Poindexter Johnson, agel II years. OF
Cambridge, undertook to crawl under
locomotive when the cars were In mo-
tion HIS right leg was crushed and he
will die.
Frank III. Cramer. foreman in Ports
mouth factory. was probably fatally IN
jured by the breaking OF the front forks
of his bicycle while coasting six miles
from town.
A team of mules owned by Marquis E.
Ling, near CosEoetOn. became unman-
ageable and ran away. throwing Ling ont
of the wagon upon his head and killing
him instantly.
The First Presby teyian Church of AL
lance has extended a call to Rev. Robert
A. Carnahan OF the Forty first Street
Presby teran Church, Chicago. The call
has been accepted.
A badly bruised heel caused the death
of Mrs. Mary Grum, aged 40 years, at
the County Infirmary in Columbus. She
bruised her heel few days ago and gan
creme set in at once
Miss Carrie Pinkerton Of Mt. Vernon.
has been awarded $4,000 By jury
against the c., A. & &. Railroad. She
was stuck by cut OF cars, and her back
was broken last summer.
Mrs. Steven Davis of Mingo junction,
left her hus bands side, went to the river
a short distance away and suicided by
drowning. The woman left note say
ing she was tired Of living.
The body of Miss Cora Millikin, daugh-
, ter OF Robert Millikin, prominent
| farmer near London, was found hanging
, in a corncrib. Dependency is the sup
| posed cause of the suicide.
| Massillon's oil boom is on. A good
| flow has been stI uck on the Everhard
| farm adjoining town by the st. Mary's
| Company of Lima, at depth Of 657 feet.
Great excitement prevails.
The Board of Directors of the Wheel
| ing ami Lake Erie Railroad met in To-
ledo the other day and completed nego-
tiations for the purchase of the Cleye-
| land, Canton and Southern Railroad.
| Lon Fisher of Nevada, section hand on
the e,Pennsylvania, was struck by mail
| train and killed. lie had just finished
four yeats enlistment in the United
States Army, and saw service in Cuba.
The Ohio Coal Mining Company has
commenced proceedings against the Ce-
real Coffee Company, which has large
| plant in Akron, asking that receiver be
appointed to take charge Of the business.
In locating a water main leak at Day.
ton workmen unearthed main that con :
tanned hoe in its side nearly foot In
diameter, caused by electrotysis. The
pipe lay beneath the track OF an electric
car line.
Mrs. Jenkins was badly burned al
Schlappacasse's fruit-store at Mt. Yer
non. She leaned over the fruit stand and
the trimmings of her hat caught fire from
the gas let and tn ned it on her head.
Her face and hair were terribly burned.
A gusher has been struck at Somer-
dale. Ut c.ieally an abandoned mining
town. Oil shot twenty feet above the
pipe. A MassiIlon mining company owns
2)O houses there, all empty. Since the
strike preparations are bsing made tt
start three more wells.
c. E. Cain, photographer Of Spring
field, found four 81, 900 bills under the lin
oleum on the stairway to his gallery.
Secret Service officer pronounced them
worthless. They are thought to have
been made eight years ago by man, nov
dead, who occupied the studio.
!. At ChillicOthe Prof. Richard Zanic, the
!. fortune teller who was convicted OF bum
, cling Mrs Louise Sehenk out of $3.50. wa
sentenced to one year in the penitentiar5
In sentencing him Judge Douglas states
that if he had been one Of the jurors d
would never have convicted him.
Charles Kurtz, F. F. Thomas and sew
eral other gentlemen have quietly Sc
cured options on abour q, 900 acres OF LAM
i'm the southern part of Lorain County
and have drilled oil wells, which appea
to have a heavy flow OF very good quail
ity of light oil. The country about tn
place is enjoying boom.
Afidavits have ,n prepared agains
grocers, cigar deaiers and saloon keeper
OF Columbus by committee from In
= Retail Grocers' Association. charging
them with keeping open on Sunday. Po
lice Judge Earnhart recently ruled tha
, grocers mus. keep their places closed o
Sunday, and in retaliation the Reta
Grocers' Association proposes to close u
every other busir ess place found open o
the Sabbath. Evidence has been secure
|. against many business men, and pro
ceedings will be begun at once.
. A peculiar story comes from northwes
!. of Upper Sandusky. Newton Yates ha
: a valuable horse choke on 0,ts severs
days ago. A neighbor was called upo
a for assistance, the latter taking rs
: means of relieving the horse an ordinar
, buggy whip, which he tn ust into I'll
animals throat about threa feet. III
horse bit off the whip and then tried
: swallow it. but without success. Tw
= veterinaries were called in, who decide
! TO operate on the horse. The neck an
: throat were opened. The whip cut
two, the several pieces being pulled OF
n with the aid of forcsps. The animal su
!. vived the oper ration.
John Van Meter, the veteran merchai
> OF Yellow Springs, fell down stairs wit
a lamp in his hand. The lamp explode,
setting fire to the store and burning NJ
Van Meter seriously. Much OF his stot
d was destroyed and the building bad
s damaged. He is 80 years old and 1t
e doubtful if he will recover.
o Mrs. Emma l.. French, wife OF Alfrt
o A. French, one of the best known arch
:. tects of Cleveland, suicided few da.
n ago. She had been i'll, and feared 81
Il was becoming insane. She requested HI
q husband to arise and get her glass
a water, and while he was away from b
; | room she shot herself in the temple, d.
;, ing at once. A note explained the caus
"a | Sb, Iaayas thraa QmalI philiran