The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-07-06
NEWS OF OUR OHIO.
OCCURRENCES DURING THE
PAST WEEK.
An Interesting Summary of the More I'm
portant Doings Of Our Nelghbors-Wcd-
dings and Deaths-Crimes, Casualties and
General buckeye News Notes.
Minor State Items.

The famous Mack Cheek Castle in |
Logan County. erected by Poet Donn Piatt, |
has been sold to Edward Denmead, former |
ly Director of Accounts of Columbus.
Chester Fischer, butcher living at COS
Summit street, Toledo, received fatal iniu-
rieS while cleaning some bones. The knife
he was using slipped and pierced his abdo-
men.
Charles holland, an emplOye Of the Cleve
land and Marietta Railroad, fell from the
front of loaded hand car at CaywOOd and
the wheels passed over him. He will prob
ably die.
Two men handcufTed together were seen
In Springfield recently. They asked sew
eral people for file and are supposed to be
escaped prisoners. They avoided the pO-
lice and got out of town.
Rev. J. W. Magruder, pastor of ST. Paul's
Church of Springfield, formerly of Cincin-
natl, has been elected to fill the chair of So
ciolOgy at the Ohio Wesleyan University,
Just created by the board.
At BellefOntaine, Ernest Austin, accused
of numbering and cremating his mother
and sister and attempting suicide, has
mOrtgaged an elegant farm of l67 acres for
IS, 900 to defray expenses of his trial.
LimwOOd Keister. aged % years, and en-
plOyed at the farm of j. Selby, between
POastOwn and Germantown, fatally shot
himself through the head. He was de-
spOndent because his sweetheart refused to
marry him. He resided at Germantown.
Michael Tomlin, aged 80 years, and life
long resident of near West Union, went
into his wheat field during harvest and
worked cradle all day. He wore out
some of the younger men and laughed at
them as TREY Jagged behind.
At London, Judge Walters overruled a
motion for new trial in the case of Carl
Reckleben and sentenced him to fifteen
years in the penitentiary. Reckleben as
| saulted Mrs. James Hutsler, shot her three
times and then attempted to burn her up.
Sabe Cody of Bucyrus, engineer on the
Ohio Central, who handled most of the
| special runs on account of his fearlessness,
was killed while on the running board of
his engine Oiling up while the train was in
rapid motion. The driving rod cut his head
! off.
| A severe electric storm at Portsmouth
caused over $4,000 damage to the plant of
the electric railway. The Public Library
was struck by lightning and partially un-
rooted. Miss Ella Knauss and George
| Cunningham were badly shocked and
burned.
The city of Ada was startled by the an
uOuncement that Mrs. Ash, wife OF Rev.
i r., boJ xaI c,,ioid, h.-
drowning herself in the cistern at her
home She had been ill for some time and
her mind was affected. A husband and
four children survive her.
Marsalas Pofet and John II. Wilson got
into an alteration at Toledo, when POfet
pulled out revolver and fired three shots
at Wilson. The bullets misset Wilson, but
one lodged in the brain of C. Callaghan OF
Page street, and he will die. 4 second ball
struck man named Nelson, a sailor, in the
shoulder. Pofet is locked up.
Joseph Myers, well-KnOwn citizen Ol
Navarro, has become violently insane Oyel
litigation between himself and the town. A
suit for damages was decided in his favor
and the attorneys for the village have moved
for new trial. This unbalanced Myers
mind, and he threatens to kill the lawyers
: 1t requires several attendants to keep hin
in SubjectiOn.
Secretary of State Kenney has addressed
A letter to Attorney General Monnett ask
for an official opinion as to whether bill
for county election expenses must be ap
proved by county commissioners before pre-
sentatiOn to the State Auditor or not. -
far there has been no uniform practice IL
regard to the matter and an official deci
sion is desired.
Members Of the Toledo Preachers UniOl
who have been trying to find out why tn
churches are SO poorly attended, and VIII
the parks and pleasure resorts are crowded
, on Sundays, have decided to carry the Cos
pei to the people in the parks. The Par
Commissioners have given the minister
full consent to go ahead and hold religion
services in all the parks.
The S-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs. l. A
Snyder of Erhart, is at Baltimore, takin
: the Pasteur treatment for hydrOphObia
!. The little fellow was at his fathers black
! smith shop, when dog attacked the child
The bites were cauterized, but to no avail
, He was then taken to Medina for treatment
but it did not help him, as he was take
!. with frOthing, biting and scratching
Through the advice of Cleveland docto
q he was taken to Baltimore for treatment.
J. ltdevelops that there is big cOrpOratio
= back of the enterprise to establish sod
n ash factory at Barberton. The two leadin
e spirits in the corporation which is to b
e known as the Columbus Chemical COmpa
}. ny, with capital of $4,000, 900, are II.
j. Fr.ck of the Carnegie Company, and job
Pitcairn of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Con
pany, both of which concerns will use tn
product of the factory. The plant wi
turn out 10000 tons of soda ash ever
year. besides large amount of by product
+ One thousand men will be employed.
q The Ohio State Druggists, recently
# session at Put-inB Bay, will form cooper
IS ative society to prevent the sale of adulteI
j. ative drugs and will seek legislation to II
r neal the uniform poison laws. A stron
j. fight will be made against adulteratiN
:; drugs.
DIR. W. A. Dixon of Ripley, who died
the Good Samaritan Hospital in Cincir
:. natl, recently, was the oldest practicir
j. | physician III Rlpiey, anu "aS Pioii0
" Mason and Presbyterian. Hewas the own
of the Dixon Block ON Main street in Ri
'e &c ley, and was engaged in several busine
=. enterprises.
:, The American Tube and Iron COmpaI
r. of Youngstown, and the plant operated
70 the same concern. located in Middleton
y. Penn, were transferred to the Nation
ID Tube combine. The price paid is given
$500, 900. The plant will continue to Ope
ate steadily.
Clarence Dienst met with a peculiar a
r cident while playing with some tOrpedos
Is Bucyrus. The tOfpedOS were of the ca
non variety, made of small stones and
to speck of dynamite. He picked the ston
r. out of one of the torpedOs and put the bi
d. ance in his mouth. In chewing it up
ID dynamite exploded, lacerating his mou
IL. and tearing his tongue. Several tee
were Knocked out.
ii. The Secretary of State has given a de
r. sion respecting the authority of boards
.Noot;o,S ac naoaSsa,., in a CLEVELAND "a