The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-12-21
Minor State Iteu.

The Armour Packing Company of Chi
eago, has purchased 800 acres of land in
Wood County near Toledo, and it is re-
ported will erect pork-packing house
and stock yards at a cost of $500, 900.
tbs announced at Springfield that Hon.
John W. BOokwalter will present to that
city the Bookwalter art exhibit now at the
Cincinnati Art Museum. The exhibit was
collected from all parts of the globe by Mr..
BOOkwalter personally and is valued at
$4,000.
The Ohio Centennial Commissioners
have adopted report by which they will
ask the Legislature to appropriate 81
OOO, 900 to aid the exposition. The Build
ing Committee recommends erecting six
teen buildings on the grounds at cost of
SS0O0, 900.
Hon. E. l.. HOskins of Sidney, who has
recently been elected Grand Master of the
Grand Lodge Of Odd Fellows Of the State,
has made the following appointments:
Grand Marshal, Henry Maser Of Wapako-
meta; Grand Conductor, f. E. Hanson,
Magnetic Springs; Grand Guardian, Fred
Isslow, Marion; Grand Messenger, George
II. Davis, IrOnton.
Alexander Mccoy, aged 5S, and single,
was struck by falling tree on his farm,
near East Liverpool, and fatally injured.
living but twenty minutes after the acei-
dent He served as First Sergeant Of
Company c, One Hundred and Fourth
Ohio Volunteer Infantry. in the Civil War,
and was a member of the State Legisla-
tr,ro 1909 10 Ta
in Grand Army circles and quite infuen-
tial in State and county politics.
Gov. Bushnell has granted pardon to
Peter Becker for the second time, with the
usual string attached that he abstain from
the use of intoxicating liquors. Becker
was received at the prison in 1881 from
Jackson County to serve a life sentence
for murder in the second degree. Gov.
Foraker granted the pardon the first time
in 1880, and he was returned in 1897 on the
complaint Of his daughters that he was
drinking. Judge Galloway in letter says
that he has since learned that the evidence
against Becker was not true. Becker said
that the fact that he had pair Of horses
and wagons that his children wanted was
the cause of their complaint
Edward Ryan, who has a contract for
building the Dayton, Springfield and Ur-
bana Railroad, found the skeleton of hu-
man being in gravel pit near Midway
that is attracting widespread attention.
The skull contains four horns, two on each
side of the head. They are uniform in
size and about two inches long. They are
situated above and below the ears. Those
above turn upward and those below down.
ward. On the right side of the head the
skull is badly fractured, indicating that the
being had been killed by some sharp in
strument. The skull is about twice as
thought to be that of an Indian, but the
horns indicate that it is the skeleton of
some race who inhabited these parts be
fore the Indians. Another skeleton was
found in the same pit, but the skull con-
tanned no horns.
DIR. l.. f. Niles and l.. l.. WOOley of
Springfield, announce that they have dis
they can make daylight" The gas is a
high explosive, very powerful and at the
same time very eheaply generated. The
diseoverers say that a dozen of these lights
would brightly illuminate New York city,
and that the cost per night of running one
of the lights of 800, 900 candle power would
not be greater than Is cents. WOOley is
the inventor of the are light, the dynamo
and 200 other electrical inventions. inciud-
ing the new magnetic telegraph, which dis
penses with batteries.
the Shelby Tube Works, Shelby. made a
misstep, fell into the wheel pit and was
instantly killed. He was q years old and
leaves wife.
A Cleveland, Akron and Columbus pas
senger train collided with a switch engine
near the State Insane Asylum, Cleveland.
In the cab of the switch engine were En-
gineer A. G.. Sherman, Fireman Charles
Ehlers and Conductor Harry Schultz.
They were crushed under the tender and
terribly sealded by escaping steam. Sher-
man and Ehlers are dead and Schultz will
probably die. Three other trainmen were
injured. The passengers did not suffer
beyond a severe jolting.
Gov Bushnell said recently in a speech
at Mitchell Post camp fire, Springfield,
that he would recommend to the Legisla-
ture in his next message the erection of
monument to the 155 Ohio soldiers who
died in AndersOnville Prison; also mon
ument to be placed on the battlefield OF
Shiloh and every other place where Ohio
boys fought and died. He stated that IL
would cost at least s53, 1000, but he was GO
ing to ask for the expenditure.
David Winget, of the Soldiers Home al
has arrived in the penitentiary,
and will remain in the annex until May III.
The crime for which he will pay the death
penalty is the killing of Frederick Conrad