The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1900-05-10
Minor State Items.

sisges and Dsaths hs-AoelAsats and CPiDeo
-Persenal Pointers About OAis People
Minor State Itema
The United States War Department has
appointed Capt. Barbour Of Marietta, to be
military instructor at Marietta College.
Some miscreants, thought to be fresh
men. entered the high school at Findlay
and stole the hands off all the clocks in
the building.
William Parks, a farmer near Belle
fOntaine, was boiling salye. 1t exploded
and frightfully scalded him. He is in a
critical condition.
Columbus was treated to new sensa-
tion the other day when an automobile
| took fire and burned. The machine was
| operated by Oil; hence the blaze.
Lloyd Burnham, at one time a prom-
nent citizen Of Wayland, N. Y, aged 80
years, died in the Police Station Hospital,
in Toledo, Of exposure and starvation
The Penitentiary Board Of Managers has
appointed DIR. David Jordan Starr Of
Hamilton County, Chaplain, and DIR.
Byron Palmer Of Columbus, assistant
physician.
Miss Mary Berley went to drug store in
Cleveland and asked for carbOlized glyee-
rim. BY mistake she was given carb0lic
acid and used the acid for chapped cheeks.
Her face was terribly burned and she may
be disiigured for life.
John WazowsOki, aged IS years, Of S22S
Lucas street, Toledo. while making a gas
connection dropped dead in the trench in
which he was working. either from sewer
gas or apOplexy. He leaves . widow and
four small children.
Because Of mistaken identity John Burke
has languished in the Columbus Work.
house as an habitual criminal for year.
On the discovery Of the mistake the other
day Burke was released. The right John
Burke has disappeared.
Capt. J. B. Allen. clerk Of the Supreme
Court. will be one OF the members Of the
Vicksburg Commission to be appointed by
Gov. Nash. Capt. Allen was in the battle
Of Vicksburg. and naturally has some
knowledge of the subject.
Mrs. Emma Ruckmaster Of Lelpsic. who
had been confined to her bed for several
weeks by sickness. during the absence Of
her attendants, left her room, and, going
to the cistern, plunged headforemost into
the water and was drowned.
The police Of MassillOn ran to earth HO-
mer Stautz, who burglarized Navarro
store. Among the things taken was
wheel which Stautz said he stole to reach
MassillOn in order to keep date with
haicNy Cran rh ha tn
E. G. Coffin, who for the past FIVE years
has held the position Of Warden Of the
Ohio Penitentiary. has retired and Colonel
William Darby will assume control Of the
big prison. Warden Coffin thanked his
old associate officers and spoke Of the re-
forms which had been introduced in the
prison.
William Weimert, a well-kn0wn young
ta-mer near WapakOneta, unmarried, was
large tree, while telling timber, crushing
his skull. Although his brain was ex-
posed. he bravely walked from the car
rage to the doctors Office. He will not
survive.
The interurban electric railways have
won another victory in the Council at Co.
iumbus. That body granted the Column
bus, Buckeye and Newark Traction Com
pany permission TO enter the city. An Or
finance was also passed regulating the
speed 0f automobiles to six miles an hour
in the city limits.
The cage Of the Central Coal Company's
mine at MassillOn dropped to the bottom
Of the shaft. Engineer Edward Reinoehl
and his nephew, Ivan Ziegler, miraculous
ly escaped death, but both were terribly
hurt, the boy losing leg. Fireman Kern,
in lowering the cage. lost control Of the
engine. The shaft is 800 feet deep.
Four human skeletons, probably those
of Indians, were unearthed on farm east
of gainesville. The find was made by Ia
bOrers who were excavating for the fOun-
iatiOn of sawmill. The teeth were
intact and the bones were well preserved.
An Indian village is said to have existed
near the site of the excavation about $50
years ago.
At Patterson it was discovered the bell
Of the church had been removed. The
good parishiOners were awaiting its tune
full taps calling them to worship, but no
taps came. 1t was then discovered the bell
was missing. Diligent search for several
days was rewarded by finding it buried in
a field near by. Who the authors OF the
trick were has not been discovered.
Assistant Attorney General Bennett
says the game laws were bungled by the
last Legislature. According to the law
passed ducks may not be shot on any body
of water. They are not in the habit of
sitting in the dust. WOOdcock may not be
killed in the middle Of winter, when there
is not wOOdcOck within thousand miles
of Ohio. 1t was the intention to make
thirty-day open season for doves, but they
are protected for two years.
The wife Of Squire Turvey, one Of the
best known residents Of Byers, committed
suicide in remarkably premeditated man
ner the other evening. She retired as usual
A search revealed her shoes near the open
well near the house and her body was
found floating in the water. She had evil
IDENTIFY gone to the well, calmly removed
her shoes, let herself deliberately down by
the rope and drowned herself. Life had
been extinct some hours when she was
found. She had been very i'll, and it is
supposed drowned herself to put an end to
her SufferingS.
Wood Dickinson, the son Of wealthy
farmer at Wood Grove, near McCOnnels-
ville while returning from prayer meet
ing, shot his sweetheart, Edna Wilkinson,
and then sent bullet into his own brain.
The girl, who is prominent schoOlteach-
er, cannot recover. Dickinson lived only |
a few minutes. The shocking tragedy was |
the result of quarrel and the refusal Of
the girl TO longer keep company with him.
Dickinson was formerly married to "a Miss
McCracken Of Muskingum County, who |
deserted him, and it is thought this caused
a arrangement of his mind, as he had fire. |
quently threatened suicide.
James Armstrong, a well-knOwn resi- |
dent near ChillicOthe, was shot and in |
stantly killed by Wilson Poland, one OF |
his best friends. They had started hunt |
ing together and on the way decided to |
run foot race. Both started at the top Of |
their speed, when POland's gun, which |