The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1901-09-19
Minor State Items.

ne coal Hi'pic anu ScdltS vi tiic ndli
Coal Company, near Mt. Vernon Furnace,
were blown up with dynamite.
William Schall. aged 10. was run over
and killed by a street ear in Columbus.
lie was trying to escape wagon.
Joseph KOchendorf fell from the Penn
sylvania Railway bridge at Bucyrus, and
was hit by a fast train. lie will die.
Frank Knowles, aged Is, was instantly
killed at Ccolvilie. Athens County. a
thrashing machine passing over his head.
John Bick. aged ~, was killed by the
breaking of a hanger supporting crank
shaft at Cunningham N Co.'S factory at
FOStOria.
A son of John Mast. while playing in a
sand bank at Millersburg, was buried
under twenty tons by cave-in. and was
dead when recovered.
James Conway was hit by Nickel
Plate train at LOrain. The bone Of his
right leg was driven through his abdomen.
His condition is critical.
Thieves stole 5000 from the home Of
Margaret +. Ruciie, an aged lady, living
alone at Apple Grove, Meigs County. She
had recently separated from her husband.
Bert COpus, shooter for the Hercules
Torpedo Company of Findlay, was fatally
hurt. A reel flying off the engine struck
him on the point of the jaw. The brain is
affected and COpus cannot recover.
An unknown well-dressed man, aged
about As, fell from train at East Shaw
vile Station. His neck was broken. The
second finger OF his left hand is missing.
The initials IL. b." are tattOOed on his arm.
Judge c. b. Heiserman, Judge OF the
Common Pleas Court of Champaign COun-
~. has rendered his resignation TO Gov
ernOr Nash. who Immediately appointed
Senator Z. p. Middleton as his successor.
Judge Heiserman will accept the attorney
ship for the Panhandle Railroad for the
Sixth District. made vacant by the death
of Colonel Frank Chance.
Superintendent Harry Gibson discovered
leak in the large reservoir dam north Of
WellstOn. If the discovery had been two
hours later the dam would have been
washed away and the city probably
devastated. The reservoir is built between
two large hills, and holds 81. .OOO, 900 gallons
of water. 1t was constructed only two
years ago, and was not thought dangerous.
Leo Court. the I0-year-Old son OF
Manager Nicholas Court of the Chittenden
Hotel, Columbus, died while undergoing a
simple operation for tonsiIitis at the office
of DIR. Wilson. The lad was taken TO the
physicians Office by his nurse. An
anaesthetic was administered, and the
doctor had finished his work, when the
lad gave gasp and died almost instantly.
Carl ROewer, the l3-year-old son Of Mr..
and Mrs. Herman Roewer, met death by
strangulation at his home on the Troy
pike. near Dayton. Young ROewer was
making ready to attend the Carnival at
Dayton, and while drying his face with
the long towel he became entangled in its
folds. In his efforts to release himself he
drew the towel tighter and tighter until
death ensued.
Auditor of State Guilbert has received
communication signed by one-hundred
citizens and taxpayers of Richland County
that he investigate all the financial trans
actions of the county. Practically all taxes
recovered by the inQuisitOr OF htat county
were found to have been allowed to the
inQuisitOr, his lawyer and the County
Auditor, and on that account the State
Auditor had already begun 10 investigate
the tax affairs there.
Though there were fewer saloons in
Ohio to make Dow tax payment this year
than in June. 1900, the taxes paid are in
the aggregate somewhat greater than they
were at the last July settlement. There
were 10, 92S saloons in June, 1900. There
were 1O,s40 in June, this year. The total
Dow taxes paid this July were 81 ,9O6, ,4Sl.S4,
and in July last year they wers$l, sol ,S9l.SS.
The aggregate of Dow taxes for the whole
of this year is $3.II1I .l24.56. For 1900 they
were 8, lbs, 1922
The track of the Lake Erie, Alliance and
Wheeling Railway, at Mud Lake, south
of Alliance, has been gradually sinking
for some days past, and the energies of the
have been taxed to the utmost to
prevent the rOaSibed. les and rails from
entirely: About sixty:five
carloads of gravel have been dumped into
the sink hole every twenty-fOur hours, but
bottom has evidently not been reached by
the filling, as the settling process goes
steadily on. with no prospects of abate-
ment.
Attorney General Sheets has rendered
an opinion TO Secretary Probst of the
State Board of Health, in which it is held
that Ohio has no recourse against other
states from which persons having con-
tagiOus or infectious diseases are sent here.
The inquiry grew ont of the detention of Il
at the Cincinnati Hospital.
The man was sent out of Birmingham by
friends, who paid his expenses as far as
from which place he was sent
by the authorities to Cincinnati. The At
tOrney- General holds that such persons
must be cared for and that the state from
which they come is not liable for expenses
The opinion includes smallpox,
and for this reason is of more than Ordi-
nary importance. as it has not been infre-
quent for persons having smallpox to come
from Kentucky into Cincinnati in order to
secure the care of good hospital.
Captain Thomas Morrison of Company
h. Lima, has sent his resignation TO Ad-
jutant General Gyger.
Mrs. VIM. T. Hopes of Marysville. Or
lando W. McAdOO and ID. +. Smith OF
Milford Center; Walter II. Shaffer OF
North Baltimore and John ID. Henson Of
who formed stock company
with $4,000 capital to bore for oil at
struck flowing well at a
depth of l 800 feet, and the citizens of the
village are almost wild over the good luck
The above company have leased large
amount of land around Zanesfield, and
will sink other wells Immediately.
Because mis- wife carries two $1,000
Findlay WaterwOrks five-per-cent. bonds
sewed up in her dress skirt, Fred NJ. Lib
bey, Boston broker, sued the City of
Findlay to enjOin the payment on them.
Not long ago his wife obtained these bonds
and other securities worth 900, and, he
alleges, made away with them. There is
no law by which the authorities can OBJ
ain possession OF the bonds while they
ire on the person of the pOssessOr.
Ninety people who ate CLANS at a lunch.
Incident TO the opening of a new public |
building at Cleveland, few days ago, |
rave been ill since, suffering from !
poisoning. No person has died,
Jut many are still in bed