The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-03-02
Minor State Items.


Charles Davis, a 7-year- old forger con-
victed in Darke County. was pardOned
by Gov. Bushnell on a promise to leave
the State.
Mrs. Andrew Vordeman, an aged wom-
an, fell down stairs at her daughters
home in Akron. Her injuries are con-
sdered fatal.
Briggs, Todd & Co. of Cincinnati, have
been awarded $41. 900 debt refunding
bonds OF the city of Tifiin at ~ per cent
They brought 81, 66S.
J.. W. Neer, dealer in sewing machines
and bicycles at Urbana, has made an as
signment to John Mayze. Assets and Ii
abilities are placed at 81, 900 each.
Financial Agent DIR. John NJ. Parker
of the Ohio Wesleyan University, has
been elected and has accepted the chair
oil sociology in the Boston School of The
OlOgy.
Mrs. Eliza Sparks, aged q years, was
adjudged insane by Probate Judge Nc
Campbell at Marysville. She went in
sane on religion and was very violent a.
times.
Miss Anna Mason, aged Is years, has
been sent bone, said to he suffering from
nervous prostratiOn, stated to be the re-
suit of attending religious revival in
progress in Newark.
Alex Ailshire of Rome, aged 90 years, is
dead, and was probably the oldest SOL
der in the State, having been 81 years
old when he enlisted. lie was member
of ths Fifth Virginia Volunteers.
A serious runaway occurred on Front
street, Toledo, in which Peter Mist and
r., H..
buggy. The girls, aged and II years, are
fatally injured and Mist severely hurt.
Near Quincy, AL Wilson, while drunk
and stealing a ride on an Ohio Southern
train, fell from the car twenty feet
through trestle. landing on his head.
The train backed up and Wilson was
found unconscious. He will recover.
w. P. Cooper OF McComb, was instant
ly killed in Findlay while loading logs
onto car. His head was caught be-
tween the log and car, and his skull was
crushed. He was employed as buyer
for Huffman Bros. of Fort Wayne, Ind.
Biker Meyers of Brilliant, an employe
of the Eina Standard Steel Works, at
Mingo Junction, sat down on a rail of
the c. & r. track, near Brilliant, and was
struck by an east bound passenger train,
sustaining in juries from which he cannot
recover.
George, the IA y sar- old son of George
w. Muir, Secretary OF the Cleveland
Baseball Club, met with tragic death
while play ing in a church in process OF
construction. He accidentally ran into
an iron crane, and the force OF the blow
broke his neck.
Elias Winkler, who came to Shiloh
about ten days ago from Adams County,
was found hanging in shed at his
brother in laws. William Franz. He
| had bought farm there and was waiting
for the arrival OF his family. No cause is
assigned for the act.
The barns and store houses at the Or
phans' Home, in the eastern suburbs of
Newark, were destroyed by a fire recent
ly. 1t was probably started by an incen-
diary. The loss will probably reach So
| 900. and includes FIVE horses and five
cows. 1t was insured for 81 300.
The body of George Brown, coal
dealer of Toledo, was found eucased in
eighteen inches of ice on the river by ice
yachtsmen. The Coroner had the body
cut out in slab of seven feet square,
and with ice tongs it was towed to the
| shore and Browns tody chiseled out.
Christen Britenbacker of JacksOnburg,
vas found hanging by buggy line to
rafter i'm a shed on the Overfield farm.
| lie had evidently been dead several days.
Breitenbacker's wife recently sued for
| divorce on account of the alleged cruel
| treatment she received at his hands.
Charles Lewis and Harry Davis, who
urglariZed store at Gallon and shot an
officer who was trying TO arrest them,
| we're given sentence Of a year each TO
The penitentiary on the burglary charge.
On the charge Of shooting with intent to
kill the sentence was withheld until some
| future time.
A considera Bile number OF counterfeit
| silver coins. dollars and halves, have ap-
| oeared in circulation in GAINESVILLE. They
bear the dates OF 1890 and 1898, and are
yery cleverly executed, and save that they
are too light in weight, are calculated TO
deceive even the experts. About fifty
pieces of the spurious money have turned
up thus far.
Samnel Roethlesberger, a wealthy mo-
torman and ex-train d is pate cher of Toledo,
is dying OF burns mysteriOusly received
| n month ago. 1t was first thought the
| burns were received from a gas explO-
sion, but doctors now say they were from
some chemical, probably chloroform.
Rothlesberger knows nothing about how
he was burned. He slept in the house
alone His wife and he were separated.
The police are mystified.
| The State Board OF Emergencies was
| in session recently in the Governors Of
| fice The following amounts were al
lowed: The Central Insane Asylum.
| Columbus, $4,000 for new plumbing
asked for in the annual report and badly
needed. The State Hospital at Massil- =
Ion, S14. 500 for fitting up additional
wards for the accommodation OF patients
now asking for admission. Thirty-four
| hundred dollars to the State Institution
for the Deaf and Dumb for the new
foundation.
| William McGlumphy, prominent
| young business man of Martins Ferry.
| is critically ill of blood poisoning result
| ing from a metal collar button worn in
the back OF his shirt. 1t rubbed the skin
| off one leader and the metal poisoned it,
| causing partial paralysis in addition to
blood poisoning.
The Marietta Board of Trade recently
J called large meeting of citizens and an
/ pointed committee, consisting Of j. Fl.
Grafton, A. ID. Folleti, II. l.. Nye. I'D. b.
| TOrpy and Z. X. Alderman, to so to
| Washington 10 make a fight for the res
| toration OF the Marietta dam apprOpria-
ton in the river and harbOr bill.
A message received in Akron an
nounced the death at Phoenix, Ariz., of
| Mrs. Grace Peterson Reed. She resided
| in Akron until her marriage 10 Hon. w.
| F. Reed of Kansas City. Mrs. Reed was
a sister of Mrs. Charles Dick and a
| daughter OF the late DIR. j. II. Peterson.
] In Akron she was general favorite.
| The next Legislature will be asked to
appropriate in the neighborhood of SOD, :
| 900 for the purpose of remodeling and re-
| furnishing the interior OF the present
| Statehouse, after the Supreme Court and
| other Offices have been removed to the
addition now fairly under way, which
will be completed by the time the Gem
erai Assembly meets. A complete new
system Of ventilation and heating is re-