The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-12-07
Dlinor State Itema.

| Iotal receiptS--...... 3S62, 800 8
Cash balance November 16.... s77,47 2
Dlinor State Items
Nathan Spencer of near Neelyville,
wealthy farmer, was killed in a runaway
Simeon jackson, aged 20 years, of Belle
fOntaine, fell from wagon and his necl
| was broken.
At Sidney, Isabella Given, aged 80, wa
struck by freight train and killed. Hel
body was thrown twenty feet.
A. o. B. Corbett, convicted at Utica, N
Y :, OF bigamy, was former resident O
Dayton and member of the police force
Roy Maxwell, of q Hoffman avenue
Columbus, was found behind bill board
| where he had been assaulted and robbed
He may die.
The Toronto Council has granted Geo.
A. Maxwell of Steubenville, franchise
for street railway to connect Toronto and
Steubenyille.
Charles Smith of Kingston, was prob
ably fatally injured by being accidentally
struck terrific blow on the body with a
sledge hammer
| Cullett McWhinney, while cutting fire.
wood on his farm near MassilIOn, fell upon
rotating buzz saw and his right leg and
arm were severed from his body. He can
not survive.
Ralph Long, aged 16, was caught be-
tween an elevator and floor at GOuller's
broom works, Circleville. and mOrtally
injured. The elevator had to be wrecked
to release him.
The body of Matte PietiIa, an Italian,
10 years old, who disappeared mysterious
ly from Painesvlle several weeks ago, was
found floating in Fairport harbor. Acct
dental drowning.
Scott McAfee was alone at his home in
Urbana when an explosion of dynamite
occurred, which killed him. The house
was set on fire and totally destroyed. Nc
Afee was married recently
The buildings of Franklin College, To-
Gated at New Athens, were destroyed by
fire, caused by the explosion of an oil
stove. The college is one of the oldest in
the State, being chartered in 1925.
A team attached to the Commercial
House omnibus at COnneaut, ran away,
cOlliding with buggy containing Mr.. and
Mrs. Seymour Darling and baby. The
child was instantly killed and the parents
badly injured.
George Johnson, wealthy citizen of
Springfield, was given up to die by doe
tors and relatives. The next day he got
up, dressed himself unassisted, the first
time for several years, and said he never
felt better in his life.
The wheat crop in the Miami Valley is
being seriously damaged by the Hessian
fly. The presence of the pest is said to be
due to the unusually warm weather
Farmers report that many Of the fields are
being wholly destroyed.
The will of the late John A. Logan was
offered for probate at Youngstown. The
deceased left everything to his wife. The
document was executed in Chicago, May
IA, 1898, just before the Major left to join
MS regiment. Robert Bentley was ap-
pointed guardian of the children.
The Tiffin Agricultural Works were sold
recently to s. P. Shelley, one of the Origi-
lators of the Turnbull & Shelley Wagon
Company of Toledo. w. K. Shelley of
chicago, and S. F. Shelley of Defiance, are
Interested in the new company, which
will be incorporated as the Tiffin Wagon
md Manufacturing Company. Fifty-fve
thousand dollars was the consideration.
David Hurley, aged 10 years, who was
,uried at Springfield recently, died
rom the effects of cigarette smoking. His
ather states that the boy smoked s. worth
# cigarettes every week. He had shriy-
led up until he looked like an old man.
The main artery in his arm was opened
ew hours after death, and, strange to say,
Ot a drop of blood could be found. 1t had |
ried up.
Police Judge NJ. B. Earnhart of Column |
,us, rendered an extraordinary decision |
With regard to the jurisdiction of teachers |
yer pupils, outside of school rooms. He |
Olds that teachers have authority to gov
rn children, not only in the school rooms /
nd on the play grounds of schools, but on
heir way to and from the schoolhouse.
he decision was rendered in the case Of
hancellOr Alexander, small boy, who
'as arrested for stOning huckster wagon.
he Judge dismissed the boy in court,
Olding that inasmuch as he was Oh his
ray to school, his conduct was mjtter
)r the attention of his teacher.
Surgery for the cure of pneumonia has
cen tried in Toledo with success during
le past four weeks, in the case Of Frank
urley, son of William Turley. 1t is
laimed that very few such operations
ave been successful, although often tried.
'hile young Turley was suffering from
number Of abcesses formed
n the lungs. The operation or series of
peratiOns consisted of removing entire
Drtions of the ribs and then draining off
e abcesses. In all seven ribs on the left
de have been removed, and the abcesses
so cleaned away, and the boy, the doe
rs say, will pull through all right.
DIR. Christian VOgle died recently in
hillicothe. He was ordained to the Meth
list ministry in lS49, and held charges at
Dayton, Columbus, Marietta
Id ChillicOthe. In 1859 he took UP the
actice of medicine. John Vogle of CO.
mbus, the well-knOwn theatrical man
,er. is a son.
uc rIdHhilu Syuuicdte OF BrOOklyn, |
hich has gone under, numbered among
Ohio patrons several hundred Column
IS citizens, but none were caught for ,
ry large amounts. However. investors
other points in Central Ohio lost heavi-
1t is understood that the greatest losses
CURED at Woodstock, Delaware and Ur-
ma.
In heavy fog that blinded the masor-
sn two ears on the Westerville line of
e Columbus Street Railroad collided at
e suburb of Milo. Miss Anna Clouse
rs cut about the head and face; Miss Dora
OuSe, cheek badly cut and bruised; Miss
ties, long cash in the head; Francis Me-
dden, cut on the face; Howard d. Reif- S
ider, knee cut and breast bruised; Geo. &
att, bruised on one leg and arm; High I
ldrus, mOtorman, badly bruised and cut ,
out the head and face. The collision {
Is due to the intense fog that prevailed. '
Roderick Jones of East Greenville, was
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