The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1901-04-11
Minor Mention.

| Minor Mention.
| The Western Ohio Electric Railway
will be extended ten miles west OF St
Mary's to Celina.
Homer Taylor, a carpenter. aged ~
was instantly killed by a fall of stone al
the Casparis quarries near Columbus.
A passenger engine backing by the de-
pot at Lima, hit W. W. Miller of Alexan-
dra, Ind. probably fatally injuring him
| Arrangements have been made for the
! resumption of four sheet and two bar mills
| at Niles. Two hundred men will be en-
| ployed.
| Fruit growers say that prospects for a
| good crop, especially of peaches, were
| never brighter, owing. principally, TO the
mild weather.
The blast furnace operators of the Ma
honing Valley have acceded to the demand
| of the furnace workers of an increase of 20
! cents per day.
MIR. and Mrs. David Nash. aged respect
| lively 20 and 6S years. died simultaneously
at Port Clinton, of old age. They were
| inferred in one grave.
l.. ID. Wing died at the Protestant Hos
piial. Columbus. from injuries received
| when he was run over by two men racing
| their horses on West Fifth avenue.
DR.. James Lucas, veterinary surgeon
of Steubenville. who has been in the habit
of taking small doses of wood alcohol to
induce sleep, took too much of the poison
| and died.
Governor Nash has issued a requis.tiOn
Oh the State of Kentucky for Charles H..
Simpson, now under arrest at Lexington,
KY, and wanted in Springfield for EN-
bezzlement.
\ three-stOry frame business block
owned by J. J. Crawford Oh Main street.
Toronto, was destroyed by fire. Mrs. Mary
O'Neill was taken from a third-story
window by iiremen.
The Dayton. Fort Wayne and Cincinnati
Railway Company has closed contract
for the surveying and engineering, and
work will be started at once. The distance
of the entire line is 326 miles.
Frank Kelly, an oil pumper of Monte
yuma. while under wagon shed during
thunderstorm. was struck by lightning.
IIfS pdCh dEu iillS NCiC NuihOu " a SiioP
and his clothing fired. He will die.
Edward B. Beverstock. Inspector of the
Ohio Dairy and Food Commission. has
begun crusade at Toledo. against Ar
buckles Aricsa coffee by causing the
arrests of number of grocers who handle
il.
A bridge in Adams Township, Lucas
County, gave way while Jas. White was
driving over it with load of lumber.
White was pinned in the water and held
there for three hours before assistance
came.
The Standing Committee of the Grand
Army Encampment to be held at Cleve-
land. next September is preparing TO
furnish free quarters for from 2b,000 to
3, 900 veterans. The committee will con-
tract for 1900 cots, and school buildings
win be used.
School children found the dead body of
a child lying behind the Nickel Plate track,
near Green Spring. and carried it 10 school.
The child was apparently three months
old and was exceptionally well dressed.
1t is supposed that the child was thrown
from passenger train.
Theodore Dicker, aged 50. died at his
home on Scranton avenue, Cleveland, from
a peculiar wound. He was pattern
maker at the GObeille Works. and while
wiping his pattern knife on his apron, the
blade penetrated his clothing and pricked
the flesh, making the wound which caused
his death.
A number of manufacturers and hotel
proprietors of Dayton, have been notified
by some of the coal dealers that if the
strike continued in Southern Ohio coal
fields the supply would be cut off i'm
mediately. Many large consumers were
warned to make preparations. Unless the
trouble is adjusted it is feared that serious
consequences will follow.
The State Board of Equalization has
decided to adjourn at midnight May t. ac-
eording to law, and will take their chances
Of being paid by the next Legislature. No
delegations will be heard after April Is.
The Board reduced the tax valuations of
farm lands in the various counties as
follows: Trumbull, 10 per cent: Shelby,
per cent: Tuscarawas, 10 per cent;
Columbiana, 2 per cent; Portage, per
cent; Butler, 20 per cent.
Major Heath of the War Department.
has wired Col. William Heckert, inventor
of the Heckert universal mill for rolling
seamless tubing, at Findlay. that he VIII
be there soon for the purpose Of inspect
ing the plant of the Heckert Eatzley Bill
let Company, which recently went into
the hands of receiver. to ascertain its
adaptability for Government use. The
plant, which was formerly the Kellogg
Tube Works. has never been run eu cceSs-
fully.
party of children, ranging in age from
9 to IL. at the residence of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Brarton. l22 Main Street. Hamilton,
met with an accident that may have serious
results. The children began cake walk
on the second-story porch. and when they
reached the lower end of the porch the
banisters suddenly gave way and six OF
the little ones were pitched headlong to the
pavement, twelve feet below. Char'es
Ogg, aged II, sustained fracture Of the
skull. Lena BevingtOn, left arm dislocated
at the wrist and elbow. The bruised were
Anna Leacock, Carl Kaefer and William
Welsh.
Henry Clay Borden, resident of the
Masonic Home at Springfield. was fatally
burned in most peculiar manner. Mr..
Borden suffered stroke of paralysis two
years ago, and lately he has developed a
mania for lighting matches, which have
been kept from him by the attendant. The
other day. while sitting in his room clothed
in bath robe, he took advantage of his
attendants absence, securing match and
lighted it. The match broke, setting fire
to the bath robe. Owing to his helpless
condition he could not extinguish the
flames. and he was horribly burned about
the body. face and head.
The State Association of Commercial
and Special Teachers, in session at Co.
lumbus, elected officers as follows: Presi-
dent, A. j. Wilt of Dayton Vice Presi-
dent, A. Z. Hall Of YOungsOwn: Secre-