The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1900-11-15
NEWS OF OUR OHI0..
OCCURRENCES CURihG THE
PAST WEEK.
An Interesting Summary of the More I'm
portant Dolngs Of Our Neighbors-Wed-
aings and Deaths-Crimss. Casualties and
General Buckeye News Notes.
Minor Menf,on..


woman, died at Middleton of heart disease
She was So years old.
The branch store Of Clark Bros, of Cadiz,
located at DeersyiIIe. was totally consume
ed by fire. Loss s6,50D.
Charles Schronorer of Columbus
brakeman on the Hooking Valley. fell
from car and was fatally hurt.
George LaBarge, farmer near Toledo,
had his arm torn out at the shoulder by
getting it caught in corn shelter He
will die.
Frank Hanes of Georgetown. cut Gus
| Armbuster's throat during an argument
over politics, severing the iugular vein and
| he will die.
Marke Rifle. a farmer of near Circle
vile. was killed in a runaway accident. on
| East Mound Street. Circleville. His neck
| was broken.
ThOs. Thomas of Youngstown. aged %.
| an ex-Jrstice of the Peace. was striken
| with he's. disease and died while kneelIng
in the attitude of prayer.
| Two lads named oder and llauptfurer
| were playing together at Canton, sshen
rifle was accidently discharged, the butler
| entering Yoder's cheek. He may recover.
| William Irwin of Wellston. aged 10, was
shot and badly wounded by Ed Vincent.
miner working at the Wainwright Mine.
| He said he thought Vincent did not shoot
him purposeiy.
BY agreement with the city authorities.
Frank Kelly has closed the Poolroom he
has been operating at Columbus for over
year. The pending cases against Kelly in
the Probate Court were dismissed.
| DR.. W. Mosgrove, one of the best known
practitioners in Urbana. was found in
an clubhouse with gunshot wound in his
right side. His friends insist it was due
to an accident. His recovery is very
doubtful.
john F. Luttenberger, timer of Toie-
do. slipped off the roof of the Toledo
Bridge Works and fell to the ground. 20
feet below. receiving fatal injuries. Lut-
tenberger is % years old and lived at lls
| Floyd Street.
| John Crosby. an aged eolored man,
known to almost every resident Of Colum--
bus, died at the altar of the Arlington
Baptist Chapel just as he finished peeul-
iarly fervid prayer. He was possessed of
considerable property.
| Washington Homes, hod carrier. fell
from the top of the Breen building at
Marion and alighted on his head. The
load of brick he was carrying fell ON him.
lie recovered from the shock and resumed
work in thirty minutes. 1t was mirac-
ulOus escape.
Richard Burns, the aceomplice Of Tim
| Hogan, the noted mailbOx robber, died at
the penitentiary, as the result of a gas ex-
plosion. 1t was his duty to light the gas
in one block of cells. prisoner named
| Hall had neglected to turn off the gas in
his cell, and when Burns entered the cell
with his torch the explosion occurred
Burns was hurled over railing 10 the
floor. twenty five feet below. His skull
was fractured
| An unsuccessful attempt was made to
wreck the b. and o, westbound passenger
train recently. A pile of railroad ties were
laid in the middle OF the track and across
the rails. The bridge gang coming along
a few minutes before the train was due re-
moved the obstruction, but the last tie had
barely been removed before the train
pulled through. The place where the OBJ
struction was placed was at lonely spot
about mile west of Tiffin.
The Central Ohio Teachers Association
in session at Columbus, concluded its work
and adjourned to meet next year in Gin
| cinnati. This action is in line With the
plan to secure great gathering of Ohio
teachers in Cincinnati next year. The ma
,ional and state teachers association, "a
we'll as the Central Ohio. will be enter
tanned in 1901 by the people of the Queen
| City. Refore adjournment officers were
| elected as follows: President. II. A.
Stokes, Superintendent of the Schools of
Delaware: First Vice President. a. B.
Graham, Superintendent of Township
| Schools, Clark County: Second Vide Pres
ident, S.J. Wolfe, Principal of Schools,
Lancaster: Secretary. Miss Eudora C.
Baldwin, Urbana; Executive Committee,
VIM. Orthner, Dayton: E. G. Smith, Hills
boro: John NJ. Mulford, East High School,
Columbus.
John n. Zeller, a4armer 80 years of age
living near Gallon, went TO feed his hogs
as usual. When he did not return within
an hour his sister became alarmed and
started out to see what was wrong. Ar
irving in the lot where the hogs were kept
she found her brother lying on the ground,
his clothing torn to shrsds, his nose bitten
off and his face literally chewed to pieces.
Standing over his prostate form was
vicious hog. On seeing the woman the
animal left his victim and started for her.
but she managed to get quickly out of the
/ IN. ft,a bx, ,d
summoned another and hired man. They
returned to the lot. whers the man had
long battle with the hog, finally hacking
The animal almost to pieces with all AK be-
tore it would give up. Mr. Zeller was
picked up and taken to the house. He re-
covered conciousness sufficiently to tell
the story of his terrible struggle with the
hog. which he said attacked him from be-
hind, throwing him to the ground. lie
lived only a few minutes after telling the
story.
Mrs Margaret Price, a widow, Of North
Columbus, went out for drive. apparent
ly in the best of health. While in her car
riage she was stricken with heart disease,
and, although her driver drove home at full
speed. she was dead when taken out of the
carriage. e.
Miss Jennie NJ. Day, clerk to Superin-
tendent Chalmers, of the 'fofetto Pubsfc
Schools, was frightened and perhaps fatal
Iy burned by an explosii9n of gasoline.
The explosion took place IN the basement
] of the house where Miss Day resides, while
she was cleaning some kid gloves with the
| fluid.
| The State Teachers Association will not
hold its annual meeting next year, on ac-
count of the large conventions of eduea-
tional interest to be held at Cincinnati and
Detroit. The state Teachers Association
will go over to June, 1852, according to the
decision of the committee having the mat
ter in charge.
Detectives believe that the gang of rob-
bers that blew open the Farmers and
Merchants Savings Bank at Jackson Cen
ter have headquarters at Beilefontaine in
stead of at Lima. \ brown soft hat Dis
covered under the bank debris led the
| officers at once to Bellefontaine. Theiclew
is the most important Yet obtained; and
| ives promise of leading To definite results.