The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1900-01-04
NIifor State Items.


tember 3 to 5. This was the recommended
tion of the State Board Of Agricultural
William Cornplanter, milkman of
Toledo, was fatally injured by his horses
running aw-y and throwing him from the
wagon.
The body of BARLEY Hines was found on
the railroad track near Bridgeport. He
had been run over and killed, his body
being cut in two.
p. b. Martin and little son OF Springfield,
were seriously injured in a runaway acci-
dent at Albuquerque. The injuries are
considered fatal.
John Disher. former school truant officer
at Toledo, died of heart disease. Physi-'
clans say that bicycle riding produced the
disease, which caused death within ten
days.
One of Gov. BushnelFs last official acts
was the honoring OF requisition from
Gov. Mount of Indiana, for Charles
Roberts, under arrest at BelIaire, for grand
larceny, committed at Richmond, Ind.
A fire at barn at IS Ontario street. To-
ledo. burned to death five valuable horses
belonging tc I. Younts. IIneendiarism is
the cause alleged, and Mike Coffin of q
Michigan street, was arrested on suspi-
eiOn.
William Bochard of Adelphi, who went
to MiddlepOrt. a hill settlement, to ask his
wife to return to their home, was shot and
Instantly killed by young man named
Hedges, with whom BOchard found his
wife. Hedges was bound over to court
without bail, and is in jail
Miss Emma Pickett of Gal,ipolis, sui
cided In novel manner She fastened
rifle to sewing machine, attached string
to the trigger, and, placing the muzzle OF
the weapon over her heart, pulled the
trigger by operating the machine. She had
been in i'll health for year, and her mind
was affected.
One of the last official acts of Gov. Bush
nell was to appoint two Commissioners Of
Deeds in Cuba. They are to take proper
iecords of cOnveyances in which Ohio
parties are interested. They are George
Underhill of Havana, appointed at the
recommendation of Gen. John p Brooke.
and Senior Luis Mercinia de Bergera O6
Cienfuegas.
Gov. Bushnell has pardoned David Ross,
who has been serving life sentence in the
penitentiary for murder committee in
Ross County in 1880. He also commuted
the sentence Of Frank Tandy, Mont
gOmery County murderer, so as to release
him at once. There is some doubt Of
Tandy's guilt.
1.-THE charity authorities 6Akron found
Mrs. August Diesz and her S-year-old child
ON the verge of death from starvation.
Mrs. Diesz is i'll and was unable to work.
The woman was too proud to beg. For
tnore than week she had not tasted q
Ilorsel of food. The woman and child
we're so weak that they could scarcely
talk.
The fourteenth annual report of the
Ohio Dairy and Food Commission has
been filed with Gov. Bushnell by Commis-
SiOner j. +. Blackburn. Among other
things he says that the use of oleomarga-
rine is on the increase, and that next to 10
whisky is more generally adulterated than
any other article. Out of 266 prosecutions
1s5 were fined.
The Ohio Association of Presidents and
Secretaries of Fairs and ExpositiOns met at
Columbus recently. A committee reported
recommending that the Legislature be
asked to increase the amount allowed by
the State Beard of Agricultural to county
societies to encourage them to better work,
fixing the limit at S4OO. The officers elected
were: President, Charles III. Ganson Of
Urbana; Vice President, T. c. Maher Of
Greenville; Secretary, G. W. Carey of
I.Onton; Executive Committee, Alfred
Hale of Akron, W. l. Tenny Of Troy and
c. ii. Wilson of Summerferd.
Three lads-Forest Gano, George Stoner
and Albert Flenner-went hunting near
Green Springs. Being unsuccessful in the
pursuit of game and in spirit of jocularity,
1t was decided to fight duel, young StOner
proposing it. 1t was also stipulated that
Iiano should be the other principal, and
that each should have the others gun.
The required twenty PAGES were measured
OFF and both parties took their positions.
At the word from Flenner (referee) both
snapped their triggers. GanO's gun ex-
ploding the contents entered StOner's neck
and breast, killing him instantly. Stoner's
gun was not loaded. GanO is wild with
grief. All parties are prominent in Green
springs.
A house on Riverside street, Chillicothe,
occupied by Mrs. Mary MOnce, was
wrecked from a leak in the natural gas
main. The house had no natural gas con-
nectiOn and the leak in the main was on
the other side of the street, but the escap-
ing gas made its way through the soil and
collected under the house in consider
able quantity. Finally it penetrated the
floor and was ignited by the kitchen fire.
and Mrs. Monce hurled from the chair in
which she was sitting. An investigation
showed that the cellars of all the houses in
the vicinity were full of gas.
Representatives of various interurban
electric railroads will meet at Columbus
soon TO form State association. Probably
some legislation to facilitate the eonstrue-
tion of electric roads will be introduced.
Probably the Strehli law. which now acts
as bar to the entrance of interurban lines
into.e cities, will be amended
Tie clothing of the 5-year-old child of
Henry Maupin of near Crown City, caught
fire while she was playing ina room with
two other small children The other two
little girls, and years old, undertook to
put out the fire, but in SO doing their cloth
ing caught fire also. The mother extin-
guished the flames, but the children may
all die. J.
Lizzie Haekstewdt,. an employe Of the
Troy Steam Laundry Company. Toledo
had her long tresses caught in a set of IRON
ing rolls or mangles the other afternoon
while attending to her duties, and before
the machinery could be stopped her entire
scalp, together with both ears, was dragged
from her head and passed through the
rolls, which held it fast while they did
their awful work. The poor girl was taken
to the hospital, but there is no hope enter
tanned for her recovery.
A fire of unknown origin practically de!
stroyed the new Winoldt Block at Massii-
Ion. and considerable property, with most