The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-02-02
Minor State Items.

Gen. Monnett has flied a quo warrantO
petition 10 the Sunreme Court 10 test the
In nfirmarv law. The case is that Of Luz
ther B cal of Butler County.
DIR. Cleveland, who was appointed Cor
oner of Franklin County by tue County
Commissioners. yielded his place to DIR.
Birmingham, the regularly elected OIL
cial.
The contract for the new depot of the
Pennsylvania Road at Eaton has been let
TO L. n. Drury of Richmond, Ind. II is
20 be of brick and stone, and will cost
$4,000.
Hon. NJ. Stuart of R9yenn1, is dead al
Ter several weeks illness. For forty-five
years Mr.. Stuart had practiced law in
Ravenna, and was the oldest member OF
he bar.
Lieut.. F. NJ. Russell of the United
States Navy, has been commissioned by
Secretary Long to take charge OF the
United States photographic Office at
Cleveland.
DR.. Henry W. Owen, one CT the best
known men in Northern Ohio, for twelve
years Auditor of Huron County, died re-
,entlv at The home OF his son, in Detroit,
aged 70 years.
Ferd SanGerson, an employe of the Del
aware electric light plant. fell from sew
.nteen-foot derrick One arm was
broken, back wreDched, and head and
shoulders dangerously cut.
Baker Bros of Toledo. will enlarge
their immense foundry plant to almost
.wice its present dimensions at cost oil
;125 900. This extension will give en-
,lOymen to 325 additional men,
President Mckinley has signed the pa
,ers of Hon. J. g. Gest, for ten years ed
tor of the Washington C.. H. Cyclone
Republican, as Postmaster of that city.
The name will be sent to the Senate at
)nce.
The first American flag TO float over
Manila has been received at Tiffin by E.
NJ. Harley, and will be presented to the
William Ii. Gibson Post, G. A. r. 1t is
,orn and frayed, but is none the less
highly priced.
Samuel Allard, the aged McConnels-
Vile citizen who died recently, expert
,nced strange phenomenon before
death. After being totally blind for fif-
teen years his vision suddenly returned
Just before he expired.
William Jones OF No. 542 East Naghten
street, Columbus, died of pneumonia re-
,ently. He was private in the Fourth
Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and
caught cold while waiting at the State
House for the medical examination.
The friends of DR.. j. V. Newton OF To-
edo, who had one of his fingers severely
acerated by a pet dog, do not entertain
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.hOwed no symptom of rabies, and was
.uffering from an injury to the throat.
At Spring. field the Trustees OF the Base
oall Company are arranging to bring suit
recover the baseball park and contents
which were sold recently at Sheriff's sale
,or 500. They claim the grounds belong
o the Trustees and not to the Directors,
who were on the note.
A horse belonging to George Hadley,
residing one mile eaat of Marietta, was
suddenly and unaccountably stricken
with hydrophobia. The mad animal bit
pig chunks of flesh from his own body.
The animal was shot. The stall and its
contents were burned.
Thomas Morgan, one of the best known
business men of Columbus, and for years
President of the Board of Education,
lied at West Kirby, England, according
a cablegram received in Columbus by
lis sister, Mrs. William Jones. The re-
mains will be brought back TO this coun-
ay as soon as possible.
Attorney General Monnett has brought
uit to oust from office John W. Canary.
who was appointed by the County Com
nissioners of Wood County to act as
Prosecuting Attorney for the interim
made by the recent law. The grounds
lpon which the suit is brought are the
;ame as those pleaded in the cases
brought under the Sheriffs' act, which
was declared unconstitutional by the Su-
preme Court.
John Taylor, respected citizen Of
Kunkle, committed suicide by hanging.
He had been Respondent and may not
have been in his right mind. His wife
Upon going to the barn was Mortified at
seeing him suspended by a rope about his
leck TO a rafter above. DIR. Frazier ran
o Mrs. Taylor's assistance The man
was taken down still breathing, but it
was too late. He leaves wife, son and
wo daughters.
Prosecuting Attorney Albert Lee
Thurman was made defendant in a $40. :
100 damage suit in Columbus for alleged
defamation Of character. The plaintiff is
Attorney Wesley c. Bates, late candi-
late for Secretary of State on the Prohi-
ton ticket, who claims that MIR. Thurman
in open court accused Bates of offering
Second Assistant Prosecutor ID. B. Sharp
money for his trouble in nolling an in
iietment against Farmer Dan Thomas,
who was charged with shooting to kill.
A 31,OOO-pound gun, iron of the kind
Known as "racers," was cast at the Rarig
plant, in Columbus, recently, for use in
coast defense work by the Government.
1t is the largest piece ever cast in
that city, and the operation required
thirty minutes to complete. AS soon as
the minor parts of the mortar are put to-
gether the Rarig Company will assemble
The gun and give a preliminary test, to
which the membe of the Board of Trade
and prominent business Hen OF the city
have been invited. 1t is expected that a
special train will be run to the Rarig
plant and the occasion will be gala one.
A vein of coal has been discovered
among the hills in the vicinity OF OceOla,
nd IA the territory of Lykens. Work
has been instituted to determine IL ex-
tent of the find. The vein Is apparently
six feet thick and thirty feet below The
surface.
John Marsh. farmer near Bucyrus,
has been keeping his money IN binder
box in the barn. Marsh went out to mis-
bank to get some eish. He found that
some one had found his hiding place and
all his money was gone. Mash went to
town to lay the matter before the police,
and incidentally he opened an account
at the First National.
At the home OF Colin Gardner. in Mid
iletown, the 2-year- old daughter of MIR.
and Mrs. Joseph Aulthouse was fatally
burned. The child was playing in the
nursery with Mr.. Gsrdner's son Colin,
when her clothing caught fire from can
lie. The Gardner boys screams attract
I'll the attention Of the little girls moth
er, who extinguished the flames, burning
herself severely. The child's face and
body were burned in horrible manner,
and it is thought she inhaled the flames.
State Food Commissioner Blackburn
has made ruling that every jug or
small vessel of molaSseS or syrup sold by
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