The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1900-05-31

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ness.
Allen Archer, prominent young farmer
near BellefOntaine, has been taken to the
Toledo Insane Asylum. At the depot he
| thrust his head through a car window to
drive witches" from his brain, and was
painfully injured.
Two hundred acres of valuable timber
together with a saw-mill, were de-
str0yed by forest fires near North Jackson,
MahOning County. The property was be-
ing cleared by Pittsburgh firm. Loss is
estimated at $4,000.
WOrkmen, while excavating for the
C0Xey steel plant south Of Mt Vernon.
struck vein Of black California gold
sand. Experts have estimated that the
sand will yield so per ton. The location
of the vein cannot be accounted for, and
its discovery has caused much excitement
Augustus Elliott of Steubenville, the
youngest and one Of the most popular en-
gineers on the Panhandle, was instantly
killed at New Cumberland. Elliott's en-
gine was about to collide with a freight,
after running into an open switch, and in
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killed.
Patrick Dwyer, aged 90, was found dead
in his room at Akron. The other day he
was robbed Of $110. After making search
for the money he started on a spree. He
wept from morning until night, grieving
over the loss of his money. As result Of
his spree and grief it is believed that he
suffered stroke of fapoplexy, which caused
his death.
A movement has been inaugurated in
Toledo to raise funds to erected a 5000
monument to the memory Of Peter Ma
varre, the famous scout, pioneer and war
riOr of Northwestern Ohio. Navarro was
the Daniel Boone of Northern Ohio and
was the faithful scout for 'Mad" Anthony
Wayne, Gen. W. H. Harrison and Others
Navarro was born in Detroit in 1854 and
died in 1874.
An incendiary fire on the farm of Isaac
COe, near Mansfield, nearly resulted in
the loss Of five lives. Frank Thomas,
Maggie and Amanda Jackson and Miss
Mary ScOville, who farm the place, were
asleep upstairs in the house and awakened
just in time to save their lives. Their
household goods, clothes and money were
all consumed.
Mrs. Frank Fowler, aged E8 years, re-
siding at 100 Mound street, Springfield
committed suicide by shooting herself in
the left breast. She was found by her hus-
band upon his return from work. On one
side Of her lay the revolver and on the 9TH
er bottle of chlorofOm. She left a note
saying that she had suffered terribly with
her lungs and could not longer bear the
pain.
G. F. Walters several years ago drilleda
gas well on his lot in Findlay, but it never
amounted to much and was abandoned.
The other day Walters discovered that it
had filled up nearly to the top with oil,
and he put in an ordinary wooden pump.
He worked the handle hard all one after
noon and pumped out four barrels of the
fluid, now worth over a dollar barrel.
The well is good one.
Lizzie Betz, daughter of dairyman liv-
ing three miles southeast of the city limits
of Cincinnati, was brutally assaulted by a !
negro in broad daylight in a lonely spot
and left for dead with fearful gashes on
her neck. There is but little hope Of her
recovery. She was able to give but a
slight description of her assailant. Farm
ers began search and the Cincinnati po-
lice also joined in the search.
The citizens of Pike Township, In the
northern part of Madison County, are ter
ribly aroused over kidnapping case.
While Mrs. William Yearian was in the
r1o ax.l
an in buggy drove up to the house and
the latter went in. Mrs. Yearian thought
that some neighbors had called. She went
to the house and found the rig and occu-
pants gone, together with her boy, year
and a half old, which had been stolen
from the bed it was lying in. The alarm
was given, but no trace of the child has
been received.
Daniel Milestone, an influential citizen
of Bowling Green, was run over by fran
tic team and so badly injured that he can
not live. II. Brill, the driver of the team,
was thrown from the wagon and sustained
very serious injuries, among them being
several broken bones.
Roberts Gates, aged "a, leader OF the Or
chestra on the steamer keystone State,
dropped dead near Gallipolis while play
ing for passengers in the cabin. Heart
failure was the cause. He was an inces-
SAINT cigarette smoker. He was from Gin
einnati, where he has mother, sister and
brother.
The six Smith brothers of st. Marys. all
hale and hearty, had their pictures taken
recently. A photographer named Smith
did the work. Their combined aged is 4l2
years. A. II. Smith is II years of age; A.
A. Smith, IS; A. J. Smith, ~; IL. B. Smith.
IS: ID. NJ. Smith. 81; j. +, Smith, 50.
+. ID. Williams got verdict at Cleye-
land of $40 and interest, amounting to
A.02, against T. l.. Caldwell. Williams
owned corn and Caldwell owned sheep;
he sheep ate the corn. Williams demand
ii $50. The case has been tried five times
md the costs run up to sl.S00. Of which
500 is charged against Caldwell, Since
he suit was begun in 1895 the elder Cad
vel! died. His son carried on the suit.
The annual cOnclave Cf the Grand Lodge
Knights of Pythias, closed recently at San
husky. DIR. William S. Taylor of Cincin-
lati, and William KerShner OF Dayton.
we're chosen Trustees of the Pythian Or
'hans' Home. The per capita tax for the
OF the Home was increased
rom 40 to 50 cents. Springfield was Sc
ected as the place for holding the next
One hundred dollars was voted
o each organization of the uniform rank
hat can muster 100 swords for the Mil
vaukee meeting.
Mrs. Susan Weleh died in Springfield
rom being scalded by boiling water. She
ripped and fell while carrying boiler
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