The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-05-25
NEWS OF OUR OHIO.
OCCURRENCES DURING THE
PAST WEEK.
An Interesting Summary of the More I'M
portant Doings Of Our Neighbors-Wod-
dings and Deaths-Crimes, Casualties and
General Buckeye News Notes.
Miuor State Items.

DIR. A. j. LOngfellOw, pioneer ply
sicaD OF FOstoria, died of heart trouble
| lie was 6S years of age, and had prac-
ticed medicine in Fostoria for forty years.
| William Palmer, foreman for the Bruon
Stave Company of Ottawa. cut Sherman
| kissebeth, laborer, below the heart.
| Kissebeth will live. Palmer was ar
rested.
| J. S. Coxey, he of 'gOod roads" fame,
has purchased the "Little Daisy" lead
NINE at Joplin, Mo. lie is tickled with
the outlook and says the ore is so per
| cent. pure.
Oil has heen struck on the Rightmire
| farm at MilIwoOd. The we'll has been
| plugged until it can be shot. About all
| the land in the eastern part of the county
has been leased.
The management of the Crystal Glass
| Works of Bridgeport has announced that
the plant will be shut down indie fniteIy
| unless the 200 boy strikers return to work
at the old wages.
Rev. r.. II. Kohr of Westerville. was
released from The pastorate of the Pres
| byterian Church of that place, at his
own request. Internal diSSensiOnS in the
| church caused his action.
Theodore Root, arrested at Monroe
vile, turns out to be John Pen field, al las
George Thompson, wanted at Kalama-
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 teen drinking no notice was
taken of his threats.
Henry Woodruff was fatally injured at
Delphos. He was planting corn with
drill when his team ran away and he
was thrown under the planter and
dragged quarter OF mile.
Word has been received n Youngs-
town of the death of Robert WOodbridg
| at Denver. lie was a youngstown boy
and years ago was private secretary 10
Congressman William Mckinley.
While digging vault in park at
Newark the workmen unearthed a grave
of mOundtullder at depths Of little
more than four feet. But one bone, a
small part of the femur, remained.
The receipts of the Lima Postoffice this
year increased more than 81. 900 over the
preceding year. and more ,rriers will be
put on. POstmaster's salary is increased
from 81 800 to s.. 800 by reason of the in
creased business.
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 state tax levy for the year 1899 will
be "a mills. according 10 State Auditor
,,,ilt I,a I;,,;y Id T.I
General revenue fund. l mills; sinking
fund. 3; Ohio State University, A. and
common school, mill.
Columbus physicians belonging to the
homeopathic school have formed society
for the erection of a hospital in some
convenient location in that city. A
charter will soon lie secured from the
State and suitable building erected.
Harry Smith, alias Harry Stratton,
who broken from the Huron County Jail
several months ago, has been convicted
at Kalamazoo for the rObb!ng of 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 81 cents to 81 cents a ton precipi-
tated strike at tie 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.
Surgeons Flagg and Kennedy of the
United States Barracks IloSpital, in CO.
lumbus, are in very serious condition
from blood poisoning. Several days ago
they performed post mOrsem operation
without making use OF the protection af-
fOrded by rubber gloves, and both con-
tracted blood poisoning as a result. Sc
riOus results are feared.
At Akron, Ella O'Connell, girl at the
plant OF the Goodyear Rubber Company,
becoming angry at Dan Hahn, mes
,enger boy at the place, threw a pair of
heavy shears at him. The blades struck
him in the abdomen, entering the intes-
tines. He ran to his home, where he be-
came uncOnsciOu 1t is feared that the
injuries will prove fatal, as blood poison
ing is anticipated.
The physicians OF Hamilton have been
1uly notified TO report all cases of cere-
bro spinal meningitis as cOntag iOus
disease, and report at once to the depart
ment of police. Placards have been
printed which will be placed on the
houses notifyin the public of the exist
ence of the disease. The placing of
spinal meningitis under the head of con-
tagiouS diseases Is an innovation.
The rolling mill and blast furnace
plant of the Ohio Iron Company at
GAINESVILLE has been transferred to b. NJ.
Gilbert Of Columbus, representing the
National Steel Company of Chicago. The
purchasers OF the property say they will
put it in operation in short time. The
property has been idle since 1898 and has
been in receivers hands part OF that
time. The price paid is understood to
be $22. so per 500 share.
The Humane Society of Lima investi-
gated case of divine healing, in which
a little 10-year- old daughter of j. A.
FOar, suffering from appendicitis, was
given no medical attention, the parents
being converted 10 the belief that prayers
would save her. NeighhOrs finally re-
ported the matter to the society. The
parents, under threat that the child would
die, removed her TO the City Hospital, but
there are slight hopes of her recovery.
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
ing the streets and to dispose of the re-
fuse gathered.
Secretary of State Kinney has turned
into the State Treasury on the compile
tiOn of the second quarter of the fiscal
year, sol 4S2 81, which IS more than was
collected the entire previous year. The
items are rs follows: Fees, $9l, S00.S2:
venders' licenses, $50; llowe's histories,
$76; year book, $l.50; geologies, 81 80.
Total, SOL 432 SO.
The Shelby Cycle Manufacturing COM
pany of Shelby, having an output of 49,
00) wheels per year, is included in the
list Of those sold 10 the Bicycle Trust in
New York recently. 1t is stated that the
combine will take charge of the plant
Immediately. A. w. Gump, manager of
the company, has been in New York
several days on the deal.
1t is understood that the chain indus
tries of the country are to he formed into
trust, with capital of Sd, 900, 900, with