The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-08-24
Minor State Items.

family ate poisoned ice cream, and all are
seriously ill.
j. T. Reams of Huntsville, opened
;mall pimple with pin any may die of
blood poisoning.
Lena Wise, domestic at the Steinberg
Hotel, Wapakoneta, took poison by mis-
take. She will recover.
George E. GarlOugh. wealthy farmer OF
Pitchin, died from injuries received by a
gravel pit caving in on him.
James CLAY. farmer near ChillicOthe-
frank some ice water while working in the
harvest field. and died in few hours.
Philip Meyers, a German laborer, %
years old, was crushed to death at the
steel plant south of Columbus while loading
pig IRON.
Fred Bodmar, blind man, was chlOrO-
formed and robbed in his home at Mariet-
ia. His clothing, some iewelry and $50
were taken.
Wallace Campbell, a coal miner at Pal
nyria, was run over by train on the Al
lance and Northern Railroad. He had
both legs severed and bled to death soon
afterward.
1t is announced that leading Warren
manufacturers expect to establish factory
Tor making automobiles. A company will
be organized, it is reported.
James Barnett, who has family at
Wheeling, and who was employed as fore
nan by the Bell Telephone Company at
Marietta, is mysteriously missing.
At the monthly stock sale in Jamestown
horse driven by Mrs. Arthur Creamer
became frightened, and Mrs. Creamer was
thrown out. receiving serious injuries.
Homer Main the 7-year-old son of W.B.
Main of Delaware. died of lockjaw. The
BOY fell from a tree recently and sus-
aimed compound fracture of the arm.
At Toledo Albert E. Beer has been held
% the grand jury on the charge of murder
n the first degree without bail for the
shooting and killing of Daniet Leininger
'ew days ago.
Representative citizens of ProctOrvilIe,
.wenty miles below GallipOlis, state for a
positive fact that there is another outS<eak
If smallpox in that town. seven new cases
developing last week.
At Tiffin. Messrs. George and Samuel
Diemer have entered suit against the
American Strawboard Company for s. 900,
alleging damage by the escape of refuse
rom the eompany's reser v0ir.
George Morrison, laborer of Findlay,
was working on the road when the hot
'ayS of the sun ignited some matches in his
alp pocket, severely burning him, and ac-
ually burning his shirt off his back.
Frank Smith, sent up to the Toledo Asy
um from, Lima two years ago, escaped
rom that institution the other day and
walked to his home in Lima, where he was
arrested and returned to the asylum.
Mrs. Alexander Taylor of Toronto, who
apparently died few days ago and came
back to life to tell of wonderful visions of
Heaven, has since died. She again saw
more plainly before she died the same
wonders and described them while gasp
ing for breath.
William Davis stood over a man-h0le ON
Market street, Akron, and attempted to
light his pipe. The sewer was filled with
gas, and terrific explosion followed
Davis was blown almost across the street.
de was seriously injured.
William Highsmith, bridge employe,
while driving rivets at the National Steel
COmpany's works, recently, made a mis-
,tep and struck the cement foundation,
sixty feet below, killing him instantly.
4ighsmith was single and resided at Rich
nond, Va.
A cd ht- Of
Newman Of Rarden, claims that the entire
,ode of ordinances of that village is nulli-
y. 1t appears that they were never pub
ished as the law directs. Newman was
arrested for drunkenness and fined, but
appealed the case on the above ground.
A scaffOld at the new Holy Name Catholic
Church gave way at Steubenville and pre-
.ipitated three wOrkmen to the ground, a
distance of forty feet. Lewis Lanhart had
Jour ribs and thigh broken and cannot
i've. John MeCaster and Lewis Leifheit
are seriously injured, but may recover.
Massillon has a wild man who roams the
woods west Of town. Searching parties
are out day and night. but fail to capture
he individual. He has been seen, how
,ver, and is partially nude, and carries an
ax. Miss Tillie Refs, whom he assaulted
asst week, is in precarious condition.
Three of her ribs were broken by kicks ad-
ninistered by the maniac.
A cigarette caused the death of Homer
Leslie, the SmOnths-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs Thomas Barnett of Akron The in
ant was playing about the yard and found
partially smoked cigarette. He put it in
lis mouth and chewed it for some time. A
title later he was taken violently ill, dying
n few hours after suffering great agony.
Nicotine poisoning was the cause.
A fight to a finish is on between the Ohio
Match Company, with plant at Wads-
worth, and the great trust known as the
Match Company. 1t has been
by the action just filed, in
which the trust seeks to collect 100000
or the alleged infringement of patents by
he Ohio Company. The latter named cor
,Oration is preparing not only to vigorous
Y contest this action, but it expects to give
he trust the hardest kind of fight COM
A telegram received at Marietta states
hat Mr.. Z. r. Dale, one of the most prom
nent business men of that city, died of ap-
pleyy on a train near Springfield, Mass
lie was on his way to Boston with his
amily for an outing.
Theodore III. Davis, who was reported
Tiled in the charge of the Seventh Regi-
nent on the heights of Ell Caney, walked
nto the County Clerks Office at Columbus
he other day and greeted his friends
here. He had no knowledge that he had
een reported killed. but has been in Mich
gan ever since being mustered out of ser
ice.
Separate actions for damages have been
egun in the Common Pleas Court of Mans
eld against the Pennsylvania Railroad
company by twenty -four property owners
;ho reside near the Pennsylvania track on
laims aggregating Sl7, $50. These damage
ases are a sequel to the big flood which
Inundated the lower portion of the city
fter the clOudburst the night of June 10.
laintiffs claim that the railway company
a natural water course. Twenty
lore of these suits will be begun immedi-