The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-03-19
Minor Mention.

Minor Mention.
By proclamation given out recently.
Governor Nash designates Friday, April
IL, as ArbOr Day.
John ScesO, aged 81, was killed at the
Morgan Engineering COmpany's shops.
Alliance, by car.
John p. Davis of COaltOn. was instantly
killed by fall of slate. Zene Delaney
was seriously injured.
Steve BagOski, labOrer at MingO
Junction steel plant, was struck by
crane and fatally crushed.
Miss Ida Evans of fHarshmanyille. aged
25, shot herself with shotgun. 1t is said
she brooded over love affair.
The2-year- r-old child of Councilman John
Cummings of Kent, ate seven powerful
medicine tablets and died soon afterward.
William Peterson, aged 80, an inmate Of
the Seneca County Infirmary, became
suddenly insane, and raved so violently
that he broke his neck, dying instantly.
W. l.. Ieedom, prominent leaf tobacco
dealer of Manchester. fell from the second
tanning other injuries that are probably
fatal.
At the Girard local option election the
drys won by a majority Of 50. Seven
hundred votes we're pOlled. The result
puts more than a dozen saloons out Of
business.
The falling of travelling crane at the
factory of the Webster, Camp & Lane
Company, Akron, caused the death Of
Emmett Crockett, aged IS, and seriously
injured George Foss.
Chief of Police Gus Kuemmerling Of
Hamilton, has rendered his resignation.
Chief Kuemmerling has made an enyiable
record in office and his withdrawal is a
surprise to all. MIR. Kuemmerling will be
the collector for the Mason Brewing Com
pany.
At Ashtabula, Jay Wilcox, aged 81, an
American Express messenger, and Charles
Weideman, his roommate, were fo0ling
with revolvers when Weideman accident
ally shot Wilcox through both lungs. The
victim died. Weideman gave himself up to
the police.
Governor Nash has appointed Captain
E. I. Miller of Columbus, to be Assistant
Adjutant General, to succeed Colonel W.
T. Taylor, resigned. The new appointed
is well known in Ohio military circles.
He was connected with the Fourth Regi-
ment at Columbus.
The body of Matthias Blasine, wealthy
farmer, was found in ditch near his farm
at Custar, by searching party that had
been securing the country for two days.
Only few cents was found in his cloth
ing and it is generally believed that Bla-
sine was robbed and murdered.
The North Bloomfield Banking Com
pany, capital $25, 900, which will establish
a bank in North Bloomfield, organized as
follows: President, George E. Howe;
Vice President, A. E. Huntley; Secretary
and Treasurer, II. II. Howe; Assistant
Secretary and Treasurer, d. w. Russell.
The company will erect a building.
The Supreme Court lays down a legal
principal in a syllabus given out recently
that relieves municipalities of certain
liabilities in ''slippery walk" cases. Anna
Gudeman sued the village Of Leipsic for
damages for personal injuries. In the
lower Courts she was given Judgment,
which was reversed by the Supreme Court.
Mrs. NJ. B. McClanahan, who killed her
self at Piqua, by taking carbOlio acid, left
a will written upon the margin of an old
weekly paper, which was found in her
room. 1t read: "You will give all that
belongs to me to Willie's (Biddle's) fam
ily." While the bottle of acid bears the
name Of drugstore, there is no record OF
the sale, and the clerks do not remember
selling the drug. She had acted strangely
for some time.
By the failure of the Central Bank some
years ago, Jacob Korg, than Treasurer Of
Crane Township, WyandOt County, lost
$S,518 of public funds which he had on
deposit. The amount was repaid to the
township, and the last Legislature passed
a bill ordering that the money be refunded
to him. The Trustees refused to pay il
back and he brought suit. Judge Young
decided the act to be special legislation
and unconstitutional.
Two weeks ago a collision occurred
upon tie c. and o. Road at Ironton, in
which two men were killed. Frank
Jasper, a trackwalker. was very much
interested in the wreck and had photo
graph taken of the scene. The other day.
while he was standing at the spot, appar.
emily with his mind upon the wreck and
in deep meditation, he was struck by a
train and killed. The fascination of the
spot must have been very engrossing, as
ordinarily he was a very careful man and
wide-awake to all that was going on
about him.
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