The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-03-16
A WEEKS RECORD OF OHIO
HAPPENINGS.
An Interesting Summary of the More I'm
portant Doings of Our Neishbors-Wed-
dings and Deaths-Crimes, Casualties,
and General State News Notes.
Minor State Items.

Instantly killed. lie did rot near the
whistle.
William Scott. a Nickel Plate bridge
carpenter, was struck on the head by Il
heavy piece of timber at Fostoria, and
fatally injured.
At Bellefontaine Mrs. Sarah Richards
had portion of her eye shot away and
her nose pierced by bullet from tar.
| get rifle. Her son was carelessly hand
| ing the gun.
The plant OF the Akron Soap Company
was sold TO Josephine Robinson, trustee,
for $4,000. 1t will be transferred TO y
new company. which will operate it te
| the full capacity.
The question of the erection OF a mag
nificent soldiers memorial hall in WASH
ingtOn c. ii. will be voted on at the COM
ing spring election. The indications are
that it will carry.
Jacob Miller, aged 22 years, was found
guilty of abusing his sister. When first
arrested he acknowledged abusing two Of
his sisters. His family are prominent
people in Dunkirk circles. This was his
second trial.
At New Cumberland Gilbert & Duff
of Cleveland, have struck big oil we'll.
They hold 1. 500 acres of land. and the oil
was struck in Rerea rock at 800 feet. The
well is flowing beyond CONTROL without
being shot.
Employees at the steel works in Bellaire
have received notice that they would re-
ceive volunteer advance in wages. The
lower the wages the greater the increase.
The top filters received an advance of 10
cents day.
At a meeting of the Executive Com
mittee of the Lake Carriers Association
| held recently in Cleveland, it was de-
cided to advance the wages of the men
employed on vessels So per month for the
coming season.
A suit of citizens clothes and rope
prepared with hook were found in
| sewer at the penitantiary. Ii had evil
tently been hidden bv convict prepar-
| ing for an escape. No clew has been
found to the convict who hid the stuff.
James Alexander, railroad fireman
Of Bridgeport, has received notice from
the Patent department at Washing
ton that he has been granted a
patent on device for consuming smoke
and cinders on locomotives. He had
| worked on the device since 1874.
Rose Harbaugh of New Cumberland,
| was placed in Jail on complaint of Alfred
| Waltz, who swOre out warrant fot the
| arrest OF Beatty Scott on the charge Of
| burglary. Waltz says the Harbaugh girl
| said she would shoot him if he prose-
| ted Scott, as he was her husband.
While oiIing his engine atINevada a east
| of Lima, Engineer Barber, of the Pitts
bnrgb, Fort Wayne and Chicago railroad,
was crushed to death while leaning over
| one OF the drivers Oiling one of the ec-
| centres. His engine was the first Of a
| double header and had to be Giseonnect-
| ed before his dead body could be gotten
| out.
The min nority stock holders of the Rob-
insOn Glass Com pany of GAINESVILLE have
| procured the appointment Of L. E. Bag
| ley as receiver of the concern upon the
| representation that the managing inter-
Ssts are about to dispose at needless
sacrifice of the goods in stock. The COM
| pany has not had its plant III operation
for some time.
A company has been organized in Chill
iicothe to purchase the property of the
Nebraska and Ohio Coal Company at
! Byers and develop it. DIR. Charles Hoyt
IS President of the company and Tim
mons Harmount is Secretary. The deal
will be completed in a few days, and the
| new company expects to erect big Ere
brick mandatory at Byers.
In the Circuit Court at Columbus
among other cases decided was that of
Alex.W. Reynolds, State Dairy and Food
| Inspector, who wanted a writ of man.
| Janus compelling the Capital City Dairy
Company to submit to him some of their
| products for investigation under the pure,
| food law. The Circuit Court dismissed
| The petition, claiming that he has no war
| rant to bring suit in the name of the
State.
Marshal William Davenport of Bowl
| ing Green, probably has the largest in
come of any man in Ohio who serves on
| he police force. Marshal Dtven port has
| large oil interests and Que we'll alone
| brings him an in come of $50 day. He has
| several others which net him amounts
| that would keep an ordinary man in idle
aess the remainder of his life. The offi-
| cial, however, makes the rounds and
| 1oes his duty, and besides he has recent
| iy taken on the job Of truant officer at
the meager salary of Sl0 per month.
Col. John Kilbourne, President Of the
Ohio Centennial Commission, has named
| .he following gentlemen as honorary
mem bers of the commission: On recon-
mendatiOn of Hon. L. ID. Donaldson of
the Sixteenth Congressional District.
| s. h. Mclaughlin of Herford, for;
Harrison County; George c. Mckee of
| Bridgeport, for Belmont County; Thur
man Spriggs of Woodsfeld. for Monroe
County; 1. b. Woods of Del Roy, for
| Carroll County. On the recommenda-
| ton of Hon. l.. j. Fenton of the Tenth
Congressional District 7. w. Ellison of
| West Union, for Adams County; W. c.
Il y - IL e. G.xfl
ID. w. Williams of Jackson, for Jackson
County; Thomas L.. Collett of Ironton,
for Lawrence County, S. N. Cutler, of
Jasper, for Pike County; Hon. Thomas
Funk of Portsmouth, for Sco County.
| Aaron DOughman had miraculous es--
cape from instant death near Pleasant
Plain. He is fireman on the Baltimore
and Southwestern, and fell from his en-
zine while the train was running with a.
speed of about 80 miles an hOur.iiH He es-
capped with a crushed arm and other
| bruises.
| At meeting of the faculty of Scio,
| College recently it was decided to hold
the spring term of the college in New
| Philadelphia. The citizens of. New
| Philadelphia have made an energetic ef-
| fort to secure the college permanently,
and it now looks as though they would
| succeed.
Burglars attempted to gain an entrance
| to the res idence OF Wallace Hutton, at
Spencerville, but were discovered by Mr.
| Hutton's daug hter, who gave the alarm.
Mr. Hutton grabbed his repeating rifle.
and started to oust the burglars. One of
| them drew a revolver and commenced
firing at MIR. Hutton, who in turn opened
fire at the robbers and succeeded in hit
ting his man, but not enough to check
him sufficiently for apprehension. Hut--
ton had sold some property, and the
burglars thought he had money in the
| house.
At Columbus Charles Curley swal-
lowed earbolc acid and cut his throat
| because his wife Of two months quarreled
| with him. He will probably die.
The second well drilled by the Big
| 4 our Oil Company at Bellaire proves To-
| be very valuable. Tie company has :wo
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