The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-06-22
WITHIN OUR BORDER.
A WEEKS RECORD OF OHIO
HAPPENINGS.
An Interesting Summary of the More I'm.
portant Doings of Our NsiEhbors-Wsd-
dings and Deaths-Crimes, Casualties
aud General State News Notes.
Minor State items.

Northern Ohio.
At Butler, Hazel Gates was probably
fatally injured by falling from "a horse and
| striking her head on a stone.
Samuel Miller. aged 10 years, was struck
by south bound local freight at Miamis-
burg and instantly killed.
William Coffee, aged II. of Portsmouth,
was drowned while bathing in the Ohio
River at Indian Run. Ky.
The will of John Swim, the notorious
miser, was set aside by jury in Judge
Williams court in Columbus.
AT London the livery barn of Thomas
Largy was burned. Seven head of horses
and pair of jacks perished.
The Newark and Granville Electric
Street Railroad. which will be sold by the
courts order. has been appraised at S24S, 900.
Mrs. Lizzie Row. aged 81 years, of Mays
vile. who was in a trance for two days. and
was supposed TO be dead by her relatives,
has since died.
While fishing at Rush Creek Lake, DR..
Steinberger. of Bellefontaine caught an eel
four feet three inches in length and weigh
ing four pounds.
The SANDER suit of Lizzie LOveless of
Hubbard. against Cramer Marstiler re-
suited in verdict of $500. The parties in
vOlved are prominent.
FEEDER, Holman & Co, of Cincinnati,
purchased $4,000 of Akron refunding
bonds. paying $3.50 premium. Seagongood
d Mayer were bidders.
At Oxford, Neil Ross fell from his chair,
but rallied and managed to get to his bed.
lie screamed several times and Immediately
expired from apOplexy.
Joseph Clapper, farmer near Zanes-
vile, was bitten by cOpperhead snake
while at work on his farm. He died after
several hours of horrible agony.
John Hafner, a blacksmith living near
MasSieville. died after being asleep forty
eight hours. No dO1tOr was called to see
him. and the authorities will investigate.
AT Portsmouth, Albert J. Thompson was
sentenced To eighteen months in the peni-
tentiary upon his plea of guilty to the
forging of a 25-cent order for plug of to-
baccO.
Miss Sallie Cooper. daughter of eX-Re-
cOrder William Cooper of Adams County,
while riding on the carriage of sawmill,
was struck by the saw and one leg and an
arm was cut off.
While engaged in raising barn on
LOnSway farm, near Tifiin, part of the
structure fell and fatally injured John
Wagner, William Spayth and Charles Hin
chey, all wellknOwn farmers.
Abraham Hartman, the oldest seaman in
Toledo, is dead, aged II. He ran the first
steamer between that city and Cleveland.
He was one of the beSt-knOwn lake cap
tains, and at various times had charge of
the largest vessels on the lakes.
Warden Coffin had fifteen prisoners at
the penitentiary punished for stealing eli
garS. One of the thieves was John ThOm-
as, an old soldier with wooden leg. John
had followed ont his wooden peg, and in
side of it was found forty cigars.
At Springfield, Francis Waugh. farmer,
was arrested OH an affidavit filed by his son,
charging him with assault with intent to
kill. The son alleges that his father brutal
ly assaulted his wife, chased him out of
house with an AK and shot at him.
Two burglars entered Trumpler's general
store at Carothers, in which the postoffice is
kept, and made away with l1.19 in stamps
and $35 in cigars. The town marshal, in
his effort to capture the thieves, was over
powered and considerably bruised.
At Akron last week. Mrs. II. A. Ba,tON
fell. striking her knee against piece of
glass. The wound was considered trifiing.
The leg has now swollen to twice its nor
NAL size, and physicians will amputate the
member. Her recovery is very doubtful.
Lulu Wagner. employed in the twine
factory, in MiamiSburg, got her clothing
caught in the machinery, into which she
was drawn. 1t is thought her skull is frac-
tured and there is little hope of her re-
covery. She was removed to the St Eliza
beth Hospital, Dayton.
Charles Skinner of New Lexington, a
timer employed in GAINESVILLE, was stand
ing in front of the Stevens Block. on Main
street, when Keystone, weighing thirty
pounds, dropped from the arch of third
story window, striking him between the
shoulders and fatally injuring him.
Frank Lowder was the victim of a mys-
terious assault on crowded street in
Portsmouth at the hand of Frank Reed, his
uncle, whom he had not seen for ten years. |
They crossed from Kentucky in skiff
Reed persisted in carrying an car up the |
street, and suddenly struck Louder twice |
with the edge of it, cutting his head and |
nearly Severing his nose. Both were in |
tOXicated and are unable to give any reason |
for the assault.
WOrkmen engaged in digging up the |
southeast corner of High and Cherry |
streets, Columbus, unearthed the base of
hickory flagstaff, which was erected in 1910. |
and from which the American flag was un-
furled at the opening of the second Presi
dental campaign of Van Buren,, who was |
lnfa tnI I>x-D N
Steele, a pioneer resident of Columbus, |
states that ne saw the pole raised in the
year mentioned and also vOuchsafes the in
formation that it was cut down many years
ago by a Mr.. Felber, who occupied the
StOreroOm on the corner mentioned. The |
base is in good state of preservation and
shows the marks of an ak.
A daughter of Stephen HOuser, a we'll
to- do farmer, aged % years, near Akron.
found his lifeleSs remains hanging from
ladder. He had placed the rope about his
neck and then jumped. Death by slow
followed, as no bones were
broken. He was Respondent because of i'll
health.
Rats have become so numerous and
vicious about the livery stable of Edward
at Manchester, that they attack
the horses IN their stalls at night. The
other night the rodents attacked a fine
driving horse and ate away portion of the
inside of one of its hOOfS, causing great
pain and loss of blood
This year will mark the passing of the !
natural gas as a fuel around Toledo. The
great pipe systems, which have carried gas
to Toledo, Sandusky and many smaller
places, are being torn up. The pump sta
tions of the Northwestern Natural Gas
Company has shut down for good.
Shad. Hubbell of Adelphi, took ship
ment of lambs to Buffalo, where he sold
them for 5000. A short time later he was
and robbed, and was found by
the police the next morning wandering
through the city in a crazed condition. His
relatives were notified and went after him.
bringing him home. He is still very ill.,
spits blood in large quantities and may not
recover. No clew was discovered to the
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