The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1900-05-24
Minor State Items.

Minor State ItemA.
Mrs. Samuel Boyer. aged 40 years. OF
Degraff, complained of pain in her head
and dropped over dead.
Rev. Charles ID. Lafferty OF Ravenna,
has been extended a call by the Episcopal
churches of Bucyrus and GallipOlis.
Arrangements are being completed for
the establishment of seven new free rural
mail delivery routes in Allen County,
Frank Davis. a well-knOwn character of
McCOnnelsville. known as white Eye ~
committed suicide by taking poison.
Miss Harrington, of No. 26 Eleventh
street, Toledo, attempted suicide by taking
morphine. She will die. No reason is
given for her act.
At BellefOntaine, Lillian Boyer, aged
years, overturned boiler of hot coffee,
scalding herself terribly. She is in a
critical condition.
Lutz & Brown, one of the oldest merchant
tailoring houses in Tifiin, has filed deed
OF assignment. The assets are $500 and
liabilities 5000.
Mrs. Louis Levecke OF BellefOntaine,
has brought suit against the Big Four
Railway Company for 900 damages On
account Of personal injuries.
Miss Annie F. Sill, formerly Of Morgan
County. fell down stairs and broke her
neck. She was Is years old and had lived
in Columbus for ten years.
A jury at Newark returned a verdict
for the defendant in the $4,000 breach of
promise suit brought by Miss Ethel Smoke
against William Emswiler.
Mrs. Isabel Maria Carroll, aged 62
years, died in Toledo from injuries re.
ceived a few days ago from being run
down by careless bicycle rider.
The contract for building the big Michi-
gan Central grain elevator in Toledo was
awarded TO Stewart & Co. of ST. Louis, for
something like half million dollars.
Benjamin Hodge of Redwood, twice un-
successfully attempted suicide by hanging.
Fellow employees had him locked up.
Hodge, who is - years old, had quarrel,
it is said, with his sweetheart.
James Bear, aged 45, pipeman Of the Ssrc SSrc
department of Dayton, died from the ef-
fects Of fall received while making a
run to fire short time before. Bear fell
from the wagon and fractured his skull.
The body of Lincoln Campney, a Pitts
burgh and Western car inspector of
Painesville, who disappeared mysterious
ly on the evening of January Ii. has been
found in FairpOrt Harbor. lie had fallen
from bridge.
Hazel, the 7-year-old daughter of Will
lam Miller of Findlay. while playing,
found an old rusty revolver in a rubbish
pile. She pulled the trigger to see if it
would shoot, and 32-caliber ball went
through her thumb.
The l3-year-Old son of Charles Lemky
Of LOrain, was drowned recently. The
boy. with several companions, went SWIM
ming in the cold water of a quarry pond,
and he was taken with cramps and
drowned. The body was recovered.
The indications are that before the sea-
son is over the consumers of ice in Lima
will be getting ice for almost nothing be-
cause of the building of an artificial ice
plant. The price OF ice has been cut one
fourth, and the fight has only just COM
menced.
The Kanawha and Michigan railroad
bridge, near Carpenter, was completely
destroyed by fire recently. The burning
structure was discovered by little girl,
who told her parents in time to signal pas
senger train. which would have certainly
gone through the bridge.
A tall. masked stranger dressed in deep
black is at present terrOrizing citizens in
the western portion of BellefOntaine. The
man accOsts young men and ladies in dark
thOroughfares and then silently hugs the
startled pedestrians in close embrace be-
fore allowing them to pass.
Relatives of Andrew Lutzes of Toledo,
received word at Toledo that he had
died on board the steamer Reynolds on her
recent trip from Toledo to Buffalo. Lutzes
was employed on the steamer, and shortly
after leaving port drank pint of whisky
at a single draught on wager and died
in an hour from its effects. Lutzes was .
years old.
The physicians at the State Veterinary
Hospital, in Columbus, removed half a
dollar from the stomach of a French
poodle belonging to A. T. Rohr, Of that
city. The coin had been in the dogs
stomach for three weeks, and was slowly
killing him. After the operation the dog
appeared all right, and was placed on a
diet of milk.
After hearty laugh Charles Steinbach-
er, a well-knOwn young man about Find
ley, completely lost his voice. He had
been talking to some friends, and was in a
natural voice, when accidentally it failed
him, and he has since been unable to talk
above whisper. Physicians have exam
ined his throat. and are at loss to under
stand his case.
A horse stolen four years ago in Clinton
County from Mrs. Allen Brown, now oil
Cincinnati, has been recovered and turned
over to its rightful owner. Two or three
days ago a Mr.. EmmOns Of MaSSieyille,
saw the horse on the streets of Chillicothe
and at once recognized il as the animal
which had been stolen. He at once notified
Mrs. Brown and she went to ChillieOthe
from Cincinnati to press the matter. At
ter hot legal battle she secured posses
sion of the horse. 1t had changed hands
half dozen times, but was finally traced
back to man named Kern of Clinton
County. and he was arrested at Whining
ton.
The Gallipolis and Mt. Pleasant Rail-
way has suspended business and dis
charged all its employees. The road has
not been making expenses and suits have
been filed for s. 900 damages on account OF
smoke and dirt from their power house
1t is said that the track will be taken up.
At Wellsville a 4-year-Old child of Geo
Noble, Wellsville saloon keeper, was
run down by street ear and frightfully
mangled. Death was instantaneous. The
child's father witnessed the accident and
carried the remains into his house. The
motorman was not held, as the accident
appeared unavoidable.
William JukeS, a Cleveland game
chicken fancier, who is known in all the
big cooking mains in Ohio, is dying from
blood poisoning. While feeding the
chickens few days ago one Of the game
cocks gated" him in the leg with his
spur. Blood poisoning followed, and the
doctor says Jukes cannot live.