The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1900-02-08
Minor state Items.


Point Pleasant by the accidental discharge
of a revolver with which he was toying.
The County Commissioners Of Warren
County passed a resolution offering a re-
ward of 81, 900 for the arrest and convic-
ton of the murderers of Ifezekiah Sites.
Miss Lenox of Port Clinton, who was
shot by tramps, is recovering. The three
suspects arrested have been released, their
innocence having been conclusively es-
tablished.
Charles Williams of New Poston, was
killed by wagon loaded with logs col
lapsing and falling upon him. He was
frightfully crushed, dying in two hours
after the accident.
The old soldiers of Perrysburg have
raised 1000 and will erect monument in
that village in memory of the soldiers who
participated in the War of the Rebellion
from that section.
News has reached Chllicothe that Mr..
Charles ii. McNeill, one of the known
business men of Chillicothe, died recently
at ThOmasville, Ga, where he had gone to
spend the winter months.
The Summit County Fish and Game
Protective and Propagation Society has
called meeting of Ohio spOrtsmen for the
purpose of taking steps to secure new and
more efficient game laws.
Miss Sallie Demaranville, aged 80 years,
died recently at Ashtabula in the house in
which she was born. She never was TWEEN
ty miles from home. But once during her
life had she ridden on a railroad train.
At Eaton Isaac Shively, a Dunkark dea-
con, suicided by hanging. 1t is thought
that his mind may have been unbalanced
by sickness. lie came from Peace, in In
diana, last July, and married wealthy
widow.
w. j. Brown, who resided near New
Philadelphia, was crushed to death in the
coal mine at Vickers, north OF New Phila-
delphia, by a falling rock. His age was
90 years, and he leaves wife and three
children.
A strike at tha Aultman & Miller Com
pany's works in Akron was quickly end
ed recently. One hundred and twenty
five moiders went out for an increase of 10
per cent. in their wages. 1t was granted
to them and they resumed work.
August. the 7-year- -old son of Peter Hur-
ley of UnillicOthe, found his fathers shot
gun under the bed, and pulled it out to
investigate. While pointing it at his sister
Dora, aged IL years, it was discharged,
tearing away her right thigh. She cannot
recover.
DR.. c. l.. Strasberg of Cridersville, on
complaint of the Secretary Of the State
Medical Board, was arrested for practicing
medicine in Allen County without Ii
cense. He belongs to the school known as
vitOpathy. He was released on bond and
the case continued.
Lenora j. Brant, administrative OF the
estate of James Brant, has filed suit al
Mansfield against the Pennsylvania Com
pany for $4,000 damages. Her husband
James Brant, an engineer, was killed July
9, 1899, at Little Beaver Station by strik-
ing his head on water plug.
rhe representatives of the sixteen fire
brick companies in the Portsmouth dis
trict held a meeting in Portsmouth recent
ly to further consider the proposed combi-
nation. The combine is practically COM
pleted, and will consists of the plants al
Ashland and Fire Brick, KY, and at Iron
ton, Oak Hill, South Webster, SciOtoviile,
and Portsmouth. 1t will be the largest fire
brick combination in the country, and will
be heavily backed by Eastern capital.
Rev. James Cole, pastor of the colOred
Methodist Church at Felicity, was stabbed
in the left breast with large knife in the
hands of William Gaten. Gaten is Bap-
tist and attended services at the Methodist
Church. Shortly before the meeting was
over he left the church and waited in hid
ing for Cole. AS the latter passed dark
recess, he was fatally stabbed several times
Difference as to religious views was the
cause which actuated Gaten in his crime
Peter Cory formerly owned one of the
fnest farms near Xenia, but through Sc
ries OF misfortunes became bankrupt
several years ago and was finally reduced
to such poverty that he became an inmate
Of the County lnfirmary. But the whee
of fortune seems to have turned in his IA
vOr, as he has just received word that ar
investment in California Irrigation Com
pany which he made in his more prosper
Ous days, but which he had considered a.
worthless and had almost forgotten, has
become valuable and will bring him about
s3SO 600. Mr.. Cory is now over 20 year.
old.
The limerick family, of which Jonathan
limerick is the head, living near st. Johns
Auglaize County, claim to be heirs to the
f0rt Ofr -, loft hy
John Nicholas limerick, who came to this
country from Germany with three brothers
over 100 years ago. He was associated
with John Jacob Astor in the shipping
business, and together they accumulated
much property, which has since enormous
" increased in value. A branch of the
family live in Pennsylvania, another in
Ohio, and third in Oregon. The mill
ions have been tied up all these years, un-
til the recent finding of will in church
in Philadelphia indicated that the estate
should be held in trust, and then the heirs
advertised for by the German Government.
The heirs in Auglaize County, if they
prove their claim, would receive about
SIC. 100000.
Ohio sewer pipe manufacturers from
Cleveland are back from New York, where
they met promoter Charles r. Flint, and
they report the combine organized, en-
bracing thirty plants. All the Ohio Val
ley plants have gone into the combine.
The 3-year- old son Of John McGarvey
was burned to death at Wellston. Tho
child's clothes caught fire from an open
CRATE The mother had left it alone in a
room for only moment. The child had
crawled up to the fire, and its mother, on
returning, found it in flames. This is the
second child burned to death in Wellston
within week.
"Tom,'' the famous bulldog owned by
Jack Meyers of Alliance, whose wonder
full feats along the line Of telepathy have
been witnessed by dog fanciers from all
over the country, has been purchased by
Samuel Steinfeld, the well-known Pitts
burgh clOthier. 1t is said the price realized
was $1,000.
Mrs. Augusta Dodd, wife of John Dodd,
died at the family residence oil East Ere
mont street. FOstoria, ased 62 years. The
deceased was native of Hamburg, Ger