The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-03-16
NEWS OF OUR OHIO.
OCCURRENCES DURING THE
PAST WEEK.
A, Interesting Summary Of the More I'm
portant Doings Of Our Neighbors-Wsd-
dings and Deaths-Crimes. Casualties and
General Buckeye News Notes.
Minor State Items.

James Young, an employe of the Buck
| eye Brick Company of ROseville, was Sc
riously injured by the explosion of a
bucket of lime.
Anderson Shane's planning mill was de-
stroyed by fire at Steubenvitle, The work
| OF incendiaries. Loss 5000. An attempt
was made to burn the mill Two weeks
! ago but failed
After a long ard vigorous fight the
City Commissioners have granted a
twenty five-year franchise TO the Akron
Street Railway Company. In return the
company gives 4-cent fares.
| During heavy windsiorm derrick in
the oil fields near Lima was blown down,
and three carpenters carried with it,
They fell about seventy feet. Tut dropped
in the mud and escaped unhurt.
Maggie johnson, a domestic employed
in the family of J. &. Gordon of IL ,nes-
vile. was found dead IN bed aud the gas
| in her room was turned on full force
She was given lamp, but did not use it.
| A middle aged man was found uncon
scious i'm front of LOhne's store, at Dom
nsllsvile. When he regained conscious
ness he refused to give his name. but
i sdu uC was ..
The YOUNGSTOWN Steel Company has
shipped fifteen cars of wash metal to
New York, where it will be put on
boat and sent 10 a con Germ in Man chester,
England, TO be used in making armOr
plate.
| william Diningpr bought farm near
Bucyrus Tor s., 900. He went home after
his purchase. but was sd wrought mp over
the matter that he went insane. He has
been adjudged insane and taken to the
asylum.
The Board Of Managers of the peniten-
tiary has appointed William Kelly OF
Tuscarawas County, and August Collins
OF Miami County, Id take the places of
two of the pefitentiary guards recently
released.
| At Lima, Detective Croy arrested
Charles Admission, wanted at Hastings,
Mich, for burglary ar d larceny. He de-
MED the name at first, but his identity
was disclosed by papers in his posses
| sion.
Mrs. Mary McGill, who recently tried
to shoot Editor Huntington Of the Press
Post, Columbus, has been committed to
the State Hos pital for the Insane. Her
physician appeared and testified that her
mind was affected.
| The pOsioffice at White Cottage, near
Zsnesviile, was burglarized, and about
s25 worth OF stamps and small sum OF
money taken. Goods worth 500 we're
taken from the store of NJ. w. Printz,
which is in the same room.
The various merchants of Chillicothe,
except grocers, have formed protective
association for the purpose of protecting
themselves against "dead BEATS" The
yrocers, landlords and doctors of the city
have already formed similar associations.
| The Directors of the Marion Manufac-
turing Company have decided to sell the
concern to the new thrashing machine
combine The promoters say that all the
manufacturers in the country except three
will be included. The Huber Company
Of Marion, IS out.
| A pair of white coons, which have been
owned by F.W. Kerr of Bucvrus. have
been sold and shipped to the Chicago
Geological Gardens. They are possibly
the only white coons living, as the spe-
;ies is very rare. The coOns were cap
tured near Bucyrus.
The Central Union Telephone Compa-
nv has filed mortgage with Recorder
Martin of Greenville, for $4,000, ,000. 1t
is given to the Old Colony Trust Compa-
ny of Boston, Mass. 1t required $500 of
| m ternal revenue stamps. 1t will cover
sixteen pages Of record.
The Fos;o or ia Bulb and Bottle Company
Is the name of a company. soon to be Or
yanizad to do business in Fostoria in the
manufacture of in incandescent lamp bulbs
and bottles. Tiffin and Michigan parties
are interested. The company gets cash
bonus of s.. 900, two acres of ground and
building.
| Enoch Carey and Calvin Rundy were
engaged in saving log, near Xnnia,
when the saw got stuck and the log was
split Within the hollow was found an
immense grounding. The saw had cut
off both of its tore legs, but the ami
NAL had never wakened up from its six
weeks sound slumber. The men kicked
the animal around for some time when it
finally opened its eyes and tried to crawl
off
| Rev. h. L. Kemp, colored, of Mechan-
icsburg, was fined S. and costs in Police
Court at Springfield for being drunk and
disorderv. The tears rolled down his
face when Judge Homer announced his
fine. He created disturbance on the
street, and when taken TO prison bit
Capt. Wilson's leg and kicked the turn
| key across the lobby. He says he is
cousin of Gen. Maceo and that he re =
| Gently returned from Cuba.
For town of 1,6O0 inhabitants Jeffer-
son has probably been the home OF more
| prominent men than any village of equal
size in the State. Among the number are
| one Vice President, Benjamin F. Wade,
| Congressman Joshua X. Giddings, Novel
iSt w. d. Howells, Hon. W. c. HOwells,
Major General James +. Wade, Lieu
tenant Governor Z. l.. Lampson, Con-
gresham E. S. Northway, Rufus P. Ran
ney, Darius Caldwell, Judge Hamilton
" Oodbury, Colonel Kellogg, Lieutenant
Paul HOwland, Lieutenant Charles How
land, Captain W. K. Allen, Irving p.
| Dudley, Minister to Peru, and others.
Four presidents have been guests of the
village-Fillmore, Garfield, Hayes and
Mckinley. All the original members OF
John Browns Harper's Ferry raiders
came to jefferson before the raid, and the
five who escaped from Virginia were
hidden in Jefferson and vicinity part of
the time after December 1, 1859, 10 July 1,
1861.
SOlno llnio ago My Ttio u. udHuys dSeu
16 years, of Vermillion, answered mat
rimOnial advertisement, and cOrrc-
spondence resulted between her and John
G. Rlddell. who says he is a wealthy
mine owner. He went to Vermill ion and
the couple were married, and will go 10
San Francisco.
At SciO, the Harrison County boom oil
town, five barns, with their contents, in
cludimg eleven fine horses, two tanks of
oil and two derricks, were burned. The
loss is heavy, as most insurance compa-
nies have withdrawn from ScO. The
fire started from an oil tank overfiowing
and igniting from boiler.
The grand jury at Cadz has returned
40 ind ctments, double the number ever
found in the history of the county, at one
| session. One hundred and sixtren were
against Scio saloon keepers for violating
the liquor and gambling laws. The
Sheriff and posse brought eight vio-
1oto-, from, Co;o who Uoro hold in from