The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-04-13
NEWS OF OUR OHIO.
OCCURRENCES DURING THE
PAST WEEK..
An Interesting Summary of the More I'M
portant Doings of Our NeiShbors-Wed-
dinxs and Desths-Crirnes. Casualties and
General Buckeye News Notes.
Minor State lite ms.

M1uOT StatC
Milo G. Preston fell dead at his home
in Kenton from spinal meningitis.
There is an epidemic of measles at the
Harrison County ChiIdren's Home. Out
of 80 inmates 43 are afflicted.
Fire in the Lima Clothing Company's
store at Lima damaged the stock 10 the
extent of I0,000. partly insured.
Samuel Oppenheimer of Marion, has
filed petition in bankruptcy at Toledo.
Liabilities, 81, 93S; assets, nothing.
Charles Hemrick, a son of Capt. Henry
Hemrick, was drowned in Sandusky Bay
by the capsizng of hunting boat.
Tobin and Hines. the two men arrested
at Gallipolis charged with burgl ary, were
bound over to court in the sum OF $500
each.
Jesse Bescher, aged IL years, died at
London Of blood poisoning, brought on
from gunshot wound received while
hunting.
The 5-year. old daughter Of Jesse Hal
linger strangled to death at Massillon-
The child secured bottle Of whisky and
took a drink.
Sheridan Riser was locked up in Jail in
Toledo by United States officers on the
charge of cOunterfeiting. He was arrest
ed at Larue, Marion County.
At Barton an unknown man was run
down and killed by a Cleveland and
Wheeling freight train. 1t is believed he
was an escaped lunatic from the Colum-
bus Asylum.
Ethan A. Dry was accidentally shot
and instantly killed at Upper Sandusky,
I,;I lr,x n, AIx-nr
| barbed fence. He had just made appli-
tiOn for divorce.
Albert Weller, who shot and instantly
killed Sol. Wise, business man of Otta-
wa while exhibiting revolver to him.
was found guilty of manslaughter and
sentenced to one year.
Ed Mooney attempted suicide in the
lookup at Y Youngstown, by seyering his
windpipe with broken bottle. TIE loss
of an arm while working on railroad
engine induced dissipation.
The little s-year-o old son Homer of Hem
nv Vanness, near Bellefontaine, went to
the top of straw stack. when he slipped
and fell, alighting on straw knife, that
| laid wide open his bowels and stomach.
An epidemic of mumps has broken out
at the United States Barracks in Colum-
| bus, and it is feared it will run through
| the thousand new recruits gathered
there The post physicians are taking
active measures to head of the threatened
affiiction.
Mrs. Katharine Scott died in Ironton,
| aged S5 years. She was the wife of the
| late Robert Scott for many years promi-
nently identified with the iron business
| there. She was the mother -in-law OF
| Marshall Field, the Chicago millionaire
merchant.
| Gov. Bushnell has appointed X. E.
| Jones of COlum bus, as a member OF the
| Board of Trustees of the Boys Industrial
| School at Lancaster. Mr.. Jones was
originally appointed to fill the unexpired
term of Z. w. Poe, deceased, and is now
appointed for the full term.
| At Chillieothe Gilbert Carnes attempt-
ed to burn his wife to death by setting
| fire to her clothes with lamp. Neigh
| bors who were attracted by her screams
interfered in time TO save her life. Carnes
had recently returned from the asylum,
where he was discha rged as cured.
| Mrs. Matilda Davidson, the last repre-
| sentative of the first family to settle on
the ground now occupied by the city of
Columbus, died recently. She lived on
the old plat of the original settlement
made by her grandfather, Abraham
Deardurff, in 1873. She was 90 years old.
The palatial residence of Gov. Bushnell
| in Springfield has been burglarized.
Every drawer in the house was ran
sacked and the contents scattered over
the floor. The only things missed are
band ring and hat. All the valuables
were taken to Columbus by Mrs. Bush
nell.
William Wright, President t of the
Phoenix Brewing Company OF Pitts
burgh, died at the Hotel Buchtel in
Akron, of heart failure. His business in
| Akron is not known. He snent money
lavishly, buying champagne freely. He
! was taken sick, but appeared better.
| While physician was at his bedside he
suddenly gasped and fell back dead.
Wright was very wealthy.
The Dayton and Eastern Traction
Company, Henry b. Prudence, Seereta-
~, has commenced laying tracks along
its right of way between Xenia and Day.
ton, starting at the Galloway farm, ad-
ioing Xenia City on the west. This
company has already given ample assur-
ance of the early construction OF the road
proposed, and with the extensive opera
tions now going on will soon be able to
carry its road 10 completion.
DR.. E. c. Lewis of Canal Dover, per-
formed an extraOrd mary surgical opera
tion upon Mr.. Edward Hardesty of
Wooster avenue. that place. MIR. Har-
desty is 16 years old, and was born with
six toes on one foot. The extra toe caused
him great annoyance, and by reason of
it he was obliged to wear shoes OF diff
f.rent sizes. The toe selected for the am
putation was in the middle of the foot,
which had to be split back far enough so
that all the bones OF the toe could be re-
moved. The operation was successful.
Robert Sherman was taken to Toledo
from Paulding County and placed in Ill
on the charge of defrauding pensioners.
The scheme was to promise a penslOner
to have his pension increased through
the in fiuence of Hon. John Sherman and
Gen. Nelson A. Niles, whom, he claimed,
are his relatives. Through such repre-
sentations, it is alleged, he swindled old
pensioners out of large sums OF money by
securing advanced payments from them.
Sherman is about SO years old and claims
TO be nephew of ex-senator John Sher-
man.
Twenty-f five inmates of the State In :
dustrial Home for Girls, in Chillicothe,
armed with! butcher knives, and other
weapons, made break for liberty re-
Gently. They drove back the guards, but
were finally run down and captured by
the police after long chase.
The Republic Iron and Steel Company
is the name of the corporation which IS
TO control thirty bar iron mills west of
Pittsburgh, including three in lounss-
town. The capital stock is to be $50,
OOO, 900. The details of the organization
will be completed in few days, when Of
fcers will be elected. The new company
will erect steel plant in Youngstown.
William Rabbon of Medina County,
was taken before United States Commis.
} sioner Folger at Cleveland and bound
over to the United States Grand::Jury un-
der the charge OF counterfeiting. Secret
Service Agent Webb has for some time
been seeking the makers of counterfel'