The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-05-18

was loaded with boiler weighing 8, 900
pounds. The wheels crushed his skull
fiat.
Fred Rockey's horse ran away near
Pataskala and was struck by Il. 4 o.
passenger train. The horse was killed
| and ROckey had his right ankle mashed
and left leg broken.
The management of the Crystal Glass
Works OF Bridgeport has announced that
the plant will be shut down indefinitely
unless the 200 boy strikers return to work
at the old wages.
Theodore Root. arrested at Monroe
vile, turns out to be John Pen field, alias
George Thompson, wanted at Kalsma-
zoo, Mich, for horse stealing. He was
taken to Kalamazoo.
Henry Ranker committed suicide at
Tiffin by taking strychnine. He told his
brother he was going to kill himself, but
as he had been drinking no notice was
taken of his threats.
The large dry goods and clothing es-
tablishment of Joseph Goodman OF Dun
| kirk, was thrown into bankruptcy by
creditors and closed by United States
| Marshal Shannon Of Toledo.
Henry Woodruff was fatally injured at
Delphos. He was planting corn with a
| drill when his team ran away and he
was thrown under the planter and
| dragged quarter OF mile.
Karl Alberty, member of good family,
was found in the mill race back of Frick's
| Mill, Chillicothe. He had been with a
fishing party in the vicinity, and walked
| into the mill race and drowned.
| t..
Newark the w0rkmen unearthed grave
of moundbuilder at a depths of little
| more than four feet. But one bone, a
small part of the femur, remained.
Anna Meyer, aged Is years. o: Cleve-
land, was taken from an Erie train at
Akron. Five recruits en- route to Santi-
ago had induced her to accompany them.
saying she could have position as a Red
Cross nurse.
| The Akron manufacturers OF sewer
| pipe deny that the Federal Company has
taken possession Of their plants. They
expect to continue business as hereto
| fore until the money for the property has
| been paid them.
The receipts of the Lima Postoffice this
year increased more than s., 900 over the
preceding year, and more carriers will be
put on. Postmaster's salary is increased
from 81, 800 to 81, 900 by reason OF the in.
creased business.
Director OF the Census Merriam. at the
request of the President, will appoint
Gen. Americus V. Rice OF Lima, Pur-
chasing Agent of the Census Bureau.
Gen. Rice for four years was Pension
Agent at Columbus, retiring two years
ago.
| Harry Smith, alias Harry Stratton,
who broken from the Huron County Jail
several months ago, has been convicted
at Kalamazoo for the robbing of a bank
at that place OF several thousand dollars,
and sent to the penitentiary for seven.
teen years.
A cut in the wages OF steel heaters
from 50 cents to S7115 cents a ton precipi.
tated strike at the Burgess Steel and
Iron Works of New Boston recently A
meeting was held, attended by President
York, and the former rate has been or =
dered restored.
| At Marietta, Wilford Stiles, captured
in Monroe County, pleaded guilty to a
charge of cutting Wesley May with in
tent to kill, and was sen ten ced to two
years in the pententiary. They quar-
relied about v woman. May was slashed
in half a dozen places.
| j. w. Gunnels, A. K. Basore, Charles
II. Hays and Edwin Mercer pleaded
guilty at Toledo to the charge of using
the mails for improper purposes, and
were fined by Judge Kicks as follows:
Gunnels. $500; Basore, 5000; Hays, $500;
Mercer, $500, and cost in each.
The Dayton and Springfield Pleasure
Resort Company has been organized.
with $4,000 capital. The company will
build park at Osborn. The company is
composed of the same people who are
represented iE the Dayton, Spring field
and Urbana Electric Railway.
Several cases of tyrotoxicon or cheese
poisoning have been reported within the
| last few days from the lower part OF To.
ledo. The six children of Mrs. l.. j. Orth
were taken down, and three of them
came near dying. Several other families
have also suffered from eating the poi.
soued cheese.
The contract system of street cleaning
| has been done away with in Columbus,
and the City Board of Public Works has
decided to establish a plant to be owned
| by the city, both for the purpose of clean
| luS tuc ottSCtS anu W oicpOSO VI tAO IL
fuse gathered.
Charles Jett was found dead in his
| buggy at Gallipolis. His horse trotted
down Second street, which was filled
with vehicles, but the Angel Of Death,
and not Mr. Jett, though he was sitting
in the buggy, was the driver. Pedes-
trlans noticed his strange posture, and,
| going TO the rig, found him lifeless, heart
disease causing his death.
The body of man was found in a
| creek near the Erie Railroad, at Wind .
ham. He was we'll dressed aged from 25
| to 80 years, weight about 140 pounds,
| very light beard, dark hair, mark on
shirt bosom sc. H." old scar on right
temple and one on right cheek. There
was bullet hole in the right eye. bullet
wound on forehead, and part OF his low
er jaw mangled. On the inside of a new
pair of shoes he wore was the name OF
| Wigart & Hooper. 1t is thought to be a
case of suicide.
A bill book containing checks, drafts,
and cash amounting to about 81, 600 was
lost Or stolen from the pocket OF III. l..
| BOdley, collector for the First National
Bank of Gallon.
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