The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1900-04-26
Miuor State Items.

Misor State Itema
At Youngstown Mrs. Cyrus Kramer was
struck by passenger train and killed.
Capt. Albert Douglass King, a retired
United States Army officer, died recently
at Lancaster.
Fire destroyed Mann X Bixell's clothing
store at BlufftOn. The loss is about SIS, 900
and insurance about $4,000.
Walter l.. Reid of Alliance, a bridge
carpenter, was instantly killed by a freight
train near Sewickley, Penn.
Lean Steinhauer. aged just 100 years.
died in the County Infrmary at KentOn.
She had been there for twenty years.
Mead Ramsey, aged 2, drank lot of
coal oil at BellefOntaine, thinking it was
sugar water. He is in a critical condition.
Harry Bennett, aged 2 years. Of Shelby,
swallowed a tin whistle and died from the
effects. He was the son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Will Bennett.
Miss Zelle, aged II, daughter of Ru-
dOlph Rising, was thrown from a spirited
horse at LanchaSter into barbed wire
fence and injured.
James +. Moore, for whose possession
the Ohio and Texas authorities contested
before Gov. Nash, was beund over on the
charge of blowing safe in Urbana.
At Sandusky the grand jury returned an
indictment against William j. Affieck, a
former Secretary Of the Board of Water
works, charging embezzlement of funds.
At Springfield Minnie IIessner was di-
vOrced from John Ilessner. Five minutes
later she appeared at the Probate Court
and secured a license to wed Jesse c. My
ers.
Parry. cOlOred, while stepping out Of the
road Of freight train were knocked down
by a b. 4 o. yard engine ON another track
and instantly killed.
Fire damaged the plant OF the Akron
Aluminium Company SIT 900 and the foun-
dry of the Twentieth Century Furnace
Company 5000, There is 500 insur-
ance on the property.
A. Bowen and Misses Olive and Lettie
GOss were thrown from a buggy while
racing. The two young ladies lie at the
point Of death at their home i'm Baltimore,
near Lancaster. Mr.. Bowen was unhurt
About a year ago Mrs. J. Neville, poor
woman Of Alliance, invested her savings
Of SO in mine in Colorado. Mrs. Neville
was overjOyed to receive a telegram from
the West a few days ago advising her that
her interests in the mine are now worth
5000.
Newton Updegraff was leading vicious
bull at Circleville, when the animal sud
denly made ferOciOus attack upon him.
His right arm was dislOcated, and he was
badly trampled. He saved his life by
crawling under a fence. The bull had
been dehOrned.
At q meeting Of the Trustees of the Ohio
Hospital for Epileptics in Columbus it was
decided to erect new administration
building at cost of $S5,0OO and two new
cottages which will cost $4,000 each. AL
Ohio architects will be asked to compete in
furnishing plans.
George II. Sparks, railroad engineer
on the Norfolk and Western, was asphyx
lated and then burned in the bathroom at
lis East Lincoln street, Columbus. His
young wife made the discovery, and
through the transOm saw her husbands
condition. A gas stove had asphyxiated
him.
George McGOwan was arrested at Lima
at the instance Of the Humane Society,
charged with shamefully mistreating his
7-year- old daughter. He is charged with
beating her in brutal manner aud drag
Ia - -
tached to her neck He is in Jail in default
Of $500 bail.
The committee Of citizens appointed at
the suggestion Of the Builders Exchange
has decided to again request Admiral
Dewey to be in Cleveland on Decoration
Day. if possible, and if not then to come
on September 10, the anniversary Of Com
modore Perry's victory on Lake Erie in
the War of 1872.
DIR. Alice II. Luce of Wellesley College,
was elected Dean of the WOman's Depart
ment of Oberlin College. She is gradu-
ate of Wellesley. in which institution she
is at present instructor in English Litera-
ture. She was the first American woman
to receive the degree of Doctor Of PhilOsO-
ply from Heidelberg University in Ger
many.
The Circuit Court at Lima has decided
the appeal case OF the stockholders of the
American National Bank against Gus
Kalb, Cashier, and n. L. Michael, Vice
President Of the bank, to recover SIS, 900
mysteriously stolen from the bank year
ago Christmas. rhe stockholders charged
negligence. and the lower courts judgment
for the full amount was sustained.
AC. II NJ. engine was overturned at
WOlff's Station, and Theodore Wylie, the
conductor, who was riding in the engine,
was instantly killed. The fireman and
brakeman were injured, not fatally. They
were running backward at the time, and
the motion Of the water in the filled tank
is supposed to have caused the accident.
Wylie's home was in Cambridge.
Julius Cain, iged 81, well-knOwn
nurseryman near Marietta, was found
dead in Millcreek, lying face downward in
six inches of water. He left his home in
the night and finding the creek almost dry
deliberately lay down and held his face in
the water until he drowned. He had wOr-
ried over the condition of his bride of a
few months, who has been suffering from
measles.
By an explosion of molten metal at the
furnaces of the Ohio plant of the National
Steel Company at Youngstown, James
johnson, Wallace Alexander and PrOckett
Smith were probably fatally burned. The
explosion was caused by the hot metal
flowing into water trough.
"Thitteenr has figured prominently in
the career Of William DObbert. He is 13
years old, and lives at No. Is Engle ave-
nue., Cleveland. lie was arrested ON the
18th of the month for stealing Sl.l3 from
the money box of Frank keiselbach's milk
wagon In the Police Court he was placed
ON probation until May l3.
Elmer Thompson, son of Samuel
Thompson, Fairfield County farmer near
Lancaster, left home sixteen years ago and
for ten years his folks have thought him
dead. Sunday he came home unan-
nonnced The fatted calf was killed