The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1900-01-04
Minor State Items.

Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad yards
st Alliance, was fatally injured.
Lewis Stout, Councilman from the Third
Ward, Circleville, was found dead in bed
recently. His doctor prescribed morphine
pills for neuralgia. but Stout took a double
dose.
Oil Inspector Charles l.. kurtz has filed.
his annual report with the Governor fo1
the year ending October 81, showing to-
tai inspection of 300, ,S4S barrels, on which
the inspectors fees amounted to SIS, ,S03.6l
Josef Cazayda, employed at Ontario.
near Mansfield, in putting in overhead
crossings for the Erie Railroad, was j..
stantly killed the other night by a train.
When found next morning his body was
frozen stiff.
Charles p. Griffin has resigned his posi-
ton as Trustee of the Ohio Institution for
Feeble Minded Youth. Representative.
Grifiin's resignation was necessary under
the law before he could take his seat as d
member of the House.
The Florida ostrich farm at Jackson
vile. Fla, has made an application for
space at the Ohio Centennial. The ostrich
breeders want 800 square feet ON which to
establish, during the Centennial model
ostrich farm and exhibit.
Samuel Allenworth, farmer of East
Springfield. was crushed under heavy
log which he was unloading at a sawmili
on the Flenniken farm, and died in few
minutes. He served in the Fifty-seeond
0. V. /. during the Civil War
Tic annual report Of the Dayton State
Hospital has been fled with Gov Bush
nell. 1t shows that since it was organized
in 1855. nine persons have been confined
there who were not insane. twenty-eight
became unbalanced from spiritualism. ~
from religion and three from political ex-
citement. During 1899 the disbursements
were sl41, 1850, leaving balance Inland
Of s67 ,053.s6.
A mountain lion or some other great ami
NAL is at large in the hills near Rome. Ii
has carried off several hogs weighing 100
pounds each, and several other head OF
stock. Cliff Cattell and Ernest Wamsley
were 'pOssum hunting and came upon the
animal, and the dogs would not attack it.
1t has been seen at different times. The
hunters Of the community will make
combined pursuit.
The Presidents Of Wooster, Ohio Wes-
leyan and DenisOn Universities and 0ber-
lin and Hiram Colleges met at Wooster
recently and prepared memorial to be
presented to the Legislature asking that
the Ohio State University be made post :
graduate institution, They claim the State
is working great hardship On its univer.
sites that are kept by private endowment
by supporting an institution in competition
with them.
The twelfth annual report of the State
Board of Pardons has been filed with the
Governor. There were 127 cases presented
during the year, which. with II left over
from last year, made 139 considered in all.
OF these pardons were recommended in f3
cases and combinations in %. There were
IS cases rejected and are still pending.
for clemeney were made by
81 second degree murderers, and were
granted in the case of IA.
Alice, the 6-year-old daughter of Will
lam Aichholz Of Plainville. fell into ket-
tie of hot lard that had just been rendered
and was horribly burned. She went 10 the
yard where her uncles were working with
the lard, and while there her attention was
drawn from her surroundings by them and
she began to walk backwards. laughing at
them, and struck the kettle which they had
Just removed from the fire and fell into it
backwards. She will die.
Hector Fontanari, received from Cincin-
natl, March 49, 1897, to serve ten years for
was almost instantly killed re-
Gently in the hoe shop, at the Ohio Peni
Tertiary. Fontanari, with a feilow-eOn
vict. was engaged in lacing large belt for
a fve-fOOt iron pulley wheel, working
upon a seaffold at a fifteen-foot elevation,
when his clothing caught in the wheel.
For several minutes he was whirled around
at tremendous speed, his limbs crashing
against the machinery framework with
terrible effect. His left leg was severed at
the ankle. and his right leg and both arms
broken. As soon as possible the ma
chInery was stopped and Fontanari's body
fell to the ground. He was still alive, but
and died few moments after
being carried to the prison hospital.
Mrs. Mary Garrett. one of the most noted
females ever confined in the Ohio Peni-
Tertiary, received the Christmas pardon
from Gov Bushnell. She was originally
sentenced to death for burning her two
at her home in Spencer,
Medina County. in the spring of 1888. The
children were idiots, and in order to get
rid of them burned down her residence
and the children were cremated. She was
aa;, ,-aI p bn natnbor =
1855, under sentence of death, She re-
manned in the annex until January follow
ing. when the sentence was cOmmuted by
Gov. Foraker to life Imprisonment. Mrs.
Garrett always asserted her innocence OF
the crime. While confined in the Medina
County Jail she became the mother of
child. and she kept it with her while COIL
fined in the annex for some time. II was
named Warden Garrett Iby
Warden Coffin. Mrs. Garrett will return
to her former home at Spencer, where she
will reside with her sister, with whom her
son has lived since her Imprisonment.
l.. y. Coon of Newark, brakeman on
the b. & o. Railroad, was seriously in
jured in a freight wreck at Lewis Mills.
Several car load of hogs were killed.
An unusual coincidence occurred at
Akron recently in the deaths of two prom
inent contractors Of that city. Samuel
Wall had been ill for some time. and death
occurred shortly after midnight Thursday
The news of his death was ear
ried to his partner. Abner W. Barnes, and
it so affected him that he was seized with
paralysis. dying few hours afterward.
Barnes was 90 years of age; Wall was 81.
and died of consumption.
A disastrous fire broke out at the home
of William Goudy at Bridgeport. Mr..
Goudy's family all being awa,, he ar
rived home some time after midi. ight. His
laughter inlaw. who lives in the same
went into his room about
o'clock and found Mr. Goudy sitting in
front of the CRATE fire. resting his arms on
his knees, his head between his hands.
She asked him why he did not go to bed,
and his reply was that he was comfOrt-
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