The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1900-03-29
Minor State Itena.

Day proclamation. setting apart April 20
for the celebration.
| Hon. T.. +. Mallory. ex-Treasurer OF
MeieS County. died suddenly. lie had
held many important positions.
Charles Himrod, proprietor OF restau-
rant in Lancaster, has lost his eyesight
from an attack of the grip.
Mrs. Esther Thomas. an innate of the
County lniirmary at POmerOy. has just
celebrated her lGoth birthday.
| A.. j. Williams. aged 46. Of Upper San
! GuSky, well-knOwn horseman. died at
Bucyrus of a complication of diseases.
| AT Springfield, Lawrence Do1ds, i 3-
year-0ld boy, fell over stove. His clothes
caught fire and he was burned to death.
Anthony Luney, aged TO years, of East
| Columbia street. Springfield. was kicked
over the heart ny his horse and died half
| an hour later
w III. Henderson of Springfield. was ar
rested in Findlay in demented cOndl-
ton. lie claims he is preacher and over
a million years old.
| Frank Goodwin, a waiter at KentOn.
took strychnine, hut failed To get fatal
amount. lie is said to have been despOnd-
ent over love affair.
The Ohio Central Traction Company has
! decided TO extend the electric line from
Bucyrus to Upper Sandusky by way OF
Nevada and from Gallon to Crestline.
| Emory McElroy Of York. and Frank
Berry of West Mansfield, were arrested at
| Marysville and bound over on charge of
stealing Flora Sigler's horse and buggy.
William Statler, a wealthy farmer of
near Butler, was thrown from his buggy
against picket fence and literally scalped.
He was internally injured and cannot live
James Dill of near Chillicothe, died re-
Gently from exhaustion, caused by cOntin-
ual brOoding over the idea that he had
contracted hydrOphobia. lie first went
| mad.
Austin Shupe, son OF $. A. Shupe, WAS
| killed in Massillon by being kicked in the
head by horse. The boy was playing
about the horse when the accident oc-
| Cured.
Caroline Salmon, II years Of age, of
| Akron. has filed divorce petition in court.
She alleges that her husband, William
Salmon. has been drunk for five years. She
is an invalid. He is worth $4,000.
information has been received in Buoy
rus of the loss OF the steamer Fanillac,
bound from New York to Havre. The
boat had on board the exhibits of several
| Bucyrus firms for the Paris Exposition.
David Wegley. farmer of near Dayton,
! is under arrest on lunacy charge. Dur
ing snow storm he compelled the mem
| bers of his family to enter the fields with
plOws and horses and furrOw the ground.
The Western Reserve Brick and Tile
Company was organized by Warrer zen
and land purchased for the industry. The
| stockholders are {. Il. Loveless, George f..
BOyes, w. III. Loveless. George Beach and
| Charles Wood.
Herman Warwick, a H-year-Oid boy,
was found hanging in a cell at the Jail at
Springfield by Turnkey Lee. He had
been arrested for stealing % cents from his
mother. He was revived after several
| hours work, taken to court and dismissed.
Pat Oestreicher was taken to the City
Hospital in Columbus for the doctors to
dig three inches of hatpin out Of his flesh.
lie was To have been married TO Lena
Gauch, but his sweetheart. it is alleged.
jabbed him with her hatpin, and both the
pin and match broke off.
Fire in the Mills Block at Caldwell de-
stroyed $500 worth of goods in Wayne
YOung's department store and caused S.
| 900 damage TO the building. The fire
originated from large number of matches
beinS ignited by the nibbling OF mice.
Losses fully covered by Insurance.
The Allen .S Croft Company has leased
considerable land in Medina County and
begun drilling for oil on the Ed Smith
farm, about one mile southeast of Medina
When down 800 feet gas was struck, and
shot up with such force that the tools and
derrick We're blown galley west"
Indications point TO 4 tremendous at
tendance of old soldiers at the exercises
consequent TO the visit at Columbus in June
of Admiral Dewey. Nearly all the Ohio
G. A. R. posts will be represented, many
Of them probably in body, while the
Spanish-American War survivors are also
preparing TO be on hand in force.
James Cummings, who was terribly in
iured in a drunken brawl at Chester, Op-
pOsite East Liverpool, has since died. 1t
is claimed Cummings was assaulted by
John Purvis and Joe Willis, who smashed
his head with neck yoke and single tree.
Purvis is in Jail at New Cumberland, W.
Va. but Willis escaped.
Ellsworth Day. farmer living north
west of Westerville, died recently, the re-
suit of an accident. He was logging and
had a large log on the wagon when it
rolled back on him, crushing both legs. He
was by himself and laid in this pitiful pO-
sition for seven hours. His wife finally
discovered him and by the aid Of neighbors
relieved him.
Charles y. Haskell, the railroad pro-
moter, was in Lima recently, and in talk
ing of the future of the Columbus North
western, said that the road would be eX-
tended about 100 miles to the west from
st. NIary's. but that there was nothing
definite known about the terminus, except
that il would be with some big line which
does not touch that territory. lie init
mated that work would commence at once.
At Springfield Frank COe, who murdered
his wife and attempted suicide December
p, was sentenced TO one year in the peni
tentiary. He was charged with man
slaughter. Mrs. Coe was formerly Miss
Ella Hester of Cincinnati.
At SanduSky Mrs. Leonard Wagner shot |
and instantly killed her husband as he lay |
asleep in bel. Then she walked TO an
other room and sent bullet through her |
forehead, death resulting instantly. The |
murder and suicide, it seems, was premed- |
itaied. as the woman had threatened to /
kill her husband. Of whom she was ieal- !
Gus.
Al Lima Henry \. Mcintosh. brake
man on the Lake Erie and Western Road,
hastened approaching death by cutting his /
throat in the presence of his wife and sew
eral friends, who Were nursing him during
his dying moments. Mcintosh was suffer
ing from lung trouble, and had been grad
ually dying for several days. Owing to
his difficulty in breathing he occupied
reclining chair, and was sitting in it when
he committed the act.
Al meeting of the Board of Trade of