The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-01-12
Minor State Items.

| was BADLY burned i'll gasoline explV-
sion, is dead.
Miss Gertrude Morgan, aged 22 years,
| died at Greenfield from burns. Her
| clothes caught fire from CRATE.
Burt Williamson. recently convicted in
Chillicothe of murder in the second de-
gree for the killing OF John Mitchell, was
sentenced to life Imprisonment.
At Lorain, Frank Carter fell from the
boiler house of the blast furnaces to the
| ground, receiving fatal internal injuries.
The roof of the boiler house is about sew
| enty feet high.
The little 12-year- old daughter of Au-
gust kochheiser, wealthy farmer, re-
siding near Beliville, was seriously
| burned while blowing out large lamp.
Her clothes caught fire. She will die.
Attorney Chittenden hasjust discovered
| s., 900 worth of millinery goods hidden in
| barn on Hicks street, Toledo, the prop
crty, it is claimed, OF the preferred cred
itors of Gage Bros. 6 Co. of Chicago.
An unknown young man was struck
and fatally injured at Massillon by
Pennsylvania train. His neck was
broken. In avoiding one train be stepped
in front of another. He was neatly
dressed.
While T.. ID. Moore, Nickel Plate
brakeman, was passing over some NOV
ing ears at Lor hin, he slipped and fell
between them, the wheels severing his
head. Moore lived at Bellevue and leaves
a widow.
Word was received in Delphos from
Chesawing, Mich, bearing Intelligence
of the death of Martin Wrochlage, aged
A years, a former resident of Delphcs,
and one of the original founders of the
present town site.
Tho action commenced by Agnes
Loomis, at Akron, to recover S15, 600,
which she alleged was due on q marriage
contract with Charles Ii. Palmer who is
forty years her senior, has been settled.
Both parties refuse to state the terms.
The Cleveland Liquor Dealers Asso-
citation has brought SUIT in the Common
Pleas Court asking that the city be 70.
strained from enforcine the ordinance
comDellng the closing OF all saloons at
midnight. Their contention is that tbs
ordinance is illegal.
An attempt is being male by the Board
of Trustees OF the State Imbecile Asy-
lum, located in Columbus, to purchase
lands near Harrisburg, a suburb of Co
lumbus. upon which to institute the Gus
todian department of the institution, as
authorized by the law of last winter.
The Ohio State Board of Health has
settled the vaccination question by mott
flying the Youngstown Board of Health
that vaccination was not compulsory,
except where smallpox prevailed. The
board insisted on all school children
showing a vaccination certificate, under
penalty of being arrested.
The law firm of Sherman, Laughlin &
McGiffert, of Ashtabula. has been dis
solved by the retirement of Judge Sher-
man from active practice. The Judge Is
S. yea old, and has followed his pro-
fessiOn continuously for sixty -four years,
fifteen of which was spent on the Com
mon Pleas bench OF Ashtabula County,
his services there ending in February,
1892
The eighth annual report of the State
Hospital for EplSptics has been filed
with Gov. Bushnell. There were 693 pa
tents there at the opening of the year
and SD at the close. Thirty five were
discharged as cured and 81 as improved.
There was balance of S117, ,1S0l7 at the
opening of the year; appropriations,
s1s6 5S; disbursements, sl97, ,628. 90;
balance on hand. s1O6. $50 9j.
Laborers exhumed skeleton on the
farm Of Mr.. j. G. Hayes. near Urichvlle.
1t was much larger than that of an ordi.
nary person, and is supposed to have be-
longed to the period of moundhuilders.
It was in the last stages of decay, and
was so far advanced in that respect as to
render its preservation imposs ible. This
is the second one unearthed on the Hayes
farm with the past two weeks.
Roy Tigner was saved from an awful
full death at GAINESVILLE b. the strength OF
a shirt which he wore. In attempting to
no 'rd a freight train his foot became
wedged between the brakeshoe ard
beam, and he lost his hold on the car
He was dragged 200 feet when his
shirt was caught in switch frog and he
was pulled from under the wheels. He
was badly injured, but will live.
W. III. Packer of Cleveland, has in
vented ramie defibrator, which is said
to be a success in every particular, and
will, it is believed, Ievolutionizs the
manufacture of fabrics. Other inventors,
it is stated, have been at work on a ma
chime of the same kind for the past thirty
years, and, although large amounts OF
money have been expended and pre-
miums have been offered by governments,
they have not been successful.
About seventy heirs of the famous Mary
Ball Brown estate, situated in the very
heart of the city of Philadelphia, met IN
Springfield recently. The States of Penn
sylvania, Indiana, Illinois, Oregon and
Ohio were represented. The certificates
of members hip were placed at S.. and ir
was decided TO secure an abstract and
survey of the estate at once. The latest
is estimated at S25, 900, 900.
Another mee' ing will be held in the near
future.
Contractor Sullivan, representing the
Westerville and Worthington Streer Rail-
way Company, was in Delaware recent
ly, endeavoring to secure the right of way
through the property OF some residents
OF that city for new street railway he is
projecting from Delaware to Flint VIII
lage, thirteen miles south. He has al
ready secured the right of way for two
thirds of this distance. When built this
line will connect with the Flint and Co.
lumbus line, and unite Delaware with
Columbus.
Dwight Dustin, farmer u years old,
suicide near Akron by hang
ing himself to team in his haymow. He
lied the rope to his neck while stand ing
On the floor, and deliberately drew his
Ieet up, strangling TO death. He leaves
widow and child.
Eddie. the 3-year-old child of Mr.. and
Mrs. E lward McGovern of Cleveland ave-
hue, Columbus, dropped lighted paper
IN the cradle of his 5-mOnths- old sister,
Z la. The clothing of the cradle caught
ire, and before the flames could be ex-
lnguished the little child was burned to
4 crisp. Mrs. MeCovern is Frustrated by
the accident.
A $25, 900 damage suit has been insri-
uted by Thomas McHugh, at Jefferson,
against the Nickel Plate for injuries re-
'eIved at Cleveland December %, 1895.
lie was knocked off refrigerator car
while fire. ght was going through shed.
lie CLAIMS negligence in not placing
warning rop's up.
Rev. n. j. Myers and Rev. W. III.
who have f,E ,ot;po