The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-04-23
Minor Mention.

Minor Mention.
Dominic Marish was killed by the cars
at Akron, while standing on the track.
Frank Barlow, a deaf mute, of Milan,
was ground to pieces by W. and l.. Z.
train.
Burglars entered the store of the King
Supply Company, at Bellaire, and stole
$500 in cash by blowing the safe.
Captain Roy E. Layton of Company l.,
Ohio National Guard, has forwarded his
resignation to the Adjutant General
At Dennison. George Ashman, aged IA,
was instantly killed by coming in contact
with a wire charged with electricity.
Old age and its consequent infirmties
caused Louis Moore, of GAINESVILLE, to
commit suicide, cutting his throat with a
| razor.
Raymond Slee, aged Z, fell from the
third story of the new Mckay Hotel
building at Steubenville and was fatally
| injured.
The professional women house cleaners
| OF BellefOntaine, are organizing union
to demand an increase of wages to sl.50
F, per day.
Elmer Williams, aged 80, was killed at
"Dead Mans Crossing" near Plain City,
by a train.
The grocery firm Of Green Wise, of FOs-
toria, established 30 years ago, made an
| assignment at Tiffin to c. W. Hughes.
Assets and liabilities each about $4,000.
The body of Edward Cauvault has been
found floating in Lake Mercer. at Celina.
With John Stutler he went duck hunting
and it is supposed their boat capsixed and
both were drowned.
The union mOlders have notified the
manufacturers of Springfield that 10 per
cent increase in wages would be requested
on May 1, The minimum scale at present
is $2.75 for floor men and $3.50 for bench
hands.
While digging a ditch on the farm of
Henry VerhOff, near Croswell, Abe Bear
unearthed several mastodQn bones, some
of which crumbled to dust on exposure to
the air. Some of the bones measured
twenty inches in circumference.
Smith W. Bennett, in an opinion to DIR.
o. c. Probst, Secretary of the State Board
of Health, holds that under the code a
health officer who has been appointed for
a definite term cannot be removed from
office or reduced in rank or pay without
cause.
Augustus Rowe was arrested at Akron
upon the charge Of killing horse. 1t is
alleged that he tied chain about the
horses neck and fastened the other end to
a wagon, and, whipping up the other team
attached to it, dragged the horse through
the streets.
The Commissioners of Union County
have granted franchise for 20 years to
the Toledo, Columbus, Springfield and
Cincinnati Electric Railroad to operate
through that county. A bond of $1,000
was given to have the road completed by
April next.
Governor Nash has pardoned Adolph
Klein, convicted at the April, 1895, term
of the Cuyahoga County Common Pleas
Court for arson. He was sentenced to
serve fifteen years. Klein has been out
on parole for two years and wants to
leave the State because of ill health.
uc OOtcEuOI udo oppOiuICu JdmcS H.
Foster of Waverly, Pike County, a Trustee
of the Athens State Hospital to succeed
Samuel B. Lightner. Frank Tyler of
Monroe County, was appointed Trustee
of the State Deaf and Dumb Institution,
vice George W. Glovers, whose term has
expired.
An amusing incident occurred in the
court room during the Harris murder case
at Springfield. A mouse ran up the
trouser leg of the defendant, William
Harris, cOlored, who is being tried for
killing George Farrell. Harris weighs
about 400 pounds, but he danced around
for few minutes like a kitten. The
mouse made its escape.
A stranger accosted Officer Jack Craw-
ford, near the e. H. and ID. depot at Find
lay, and asked to be taken to the police
station until he could recall his name.
He said that his home is in BlufftOn, Ind,
and that he has a wife and three children
there. A letter in his pocket was ad-
dressed to George +. Corson, but that this
is his name the stranger denies. A de-
scription has been forwarded to Bluffton
for Identification.
formulated report on the matter of the
State erecting hospital for tuberculosis
patients. The report will be presented tc
the Governor next week. 1t will hold that
consumption is durable and that Ohio
climatic conditions are favorable to cures
The report will say that a suitable sana-
tar;qm may be erected for $500, 900, but
no d finite recommendation as to an ap-
prop1iation will be made.
1t has developed that a number of min.
Ors voted at the recent municipal election
in Urbana. The boys were ushered to
the polls, it is said, by ward politicians
and since the election some of them have
admitted in public that they voted. On !
account of prominent family relations ths |
boys may not be compelled to suffer fol
their serious Offense. When a demand |
was made for an inspection of the poll |
books and tally sheets. City Clerk Berry
refused to allow an inspection, and said |
that he would keep the documents under |
lock and key. The fact that minors voted |
has caused sensation.
Governor Nash has announced the ap-
pointment of Chas. Foster of Fostoria, as |
a member of the State Board of Arbitra-
ton, to succeed Geo. w. Grouse of Akron. |
j. S. Jones of Delaware, was reappointed |
to the Board of Trustees of the Ohio Sol
diers and Sailors Orphans Home, Xenia. |
The monuments in the Catholic Gene
terry, east of South Charlestown, have been |
badly demolished. Every marble mOnu-
ment has been overturned and broken but |
two. The work has required the efforts |
of several men. as some of the monuments |
are quite large. The Trustees of the |
township will be asked to offer reward. |
The badly mangled body of a man about /
30 years old, was found beside the Wheel |
ing and Lake Erie track, in Bedford. |
Evidently he had been killed by train. |
A card was found in his pocket bearing |
the name A. l.. Haffmer, and indicating |
that he was member of the Iron Molders' |
Union of Cincinnati.
While blasting Stumps on the Neil |