The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-09-10
Minor Mention.


while building barn, was struck on the
head by piece Of timber and fatally in
iured.
Mrs James Foster and her daughter,
lnez, aged years, of Warren, Ind, were
killed by freight train on the Lake Divi-
sion of the b. & o.
Mrs. Mary E. Vitter, aged IS, drowned
herself in cistern at Toledo. She had
been i'll two years, and for the past week
has been deranged.
While limiting, gun carried by Orie
Butler of Winchester, was accidentally
discharged, the contents of the barrel en-
:ering Eliza Stratton's thigh and causing
death.
An unknown man was killed by a
freight train near Millersburg. There
was nothing about his person by which
he could be identified. He had been SELL
ing wire coat hangers in town.
William Benneman, prisoner in the
police station at Columbus, committed
suicide by cutting his throat with the
handle of a tin cup. Benneman was
Ocked up for soaring children.
Elmer f. Garrison, formerly one of the
wealthy and prominent business men OF
Steubenville, has squandered fortune,
and is in the work -hOuse on charge OF
forgery. His wife, who was Miss Tope
Of New Cumberland, has applied for di-
vOrce.
A negro, giving the name of Charles
Fred, was arrested at Bradford, for car
breaking. Alleged stolen goods were
found on his person. He had certificate
Of membership in the Prisoners League
sf the Ohio Penitentiary issued to L..
Cummings.
George Fowler, who has spent twenty
six years of the fifty-two years of his life
N his country's service, enlisted for the
eighth time recently at Columbus Re-
.ruiting Station. 1t is his ambition to
serve till he is placed on the retired list,
Tour years hence.
The State Board of Appraisers and
Assessors has began appraising the tele-
phone companies of the state for taxation
purposes. The aggregate valuation will
be greatly increased, because all the sys-
:ems show a wonderful growth during the
past year in new phones, number OF miles
,f wire and gross receipts.
The Hercules Torpedo Company's plant
n Bradnor, was destroyed by an explo-
ZION, the force of which was felt many
miles away. Hugh Easton and Verne
COpus, who were employed in manufact-
lring nitro-giycerin, escaped unharmed
and witnessed the explosion from a
distance. The ingredients ignited when
hey were mixing them, and the men ran
'Or their lives. The building and ma
,hnery were completely wrecked:
With his companion lying dead but a
'ew feet away, himself suffering intense
pain from injuries to both legs, Carl
Glodde, aged 20, of Ross street, lay for
hree hours on the tracks of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad, near Canton. The COM
3anion, Ferd Harwart, aged "a, of 72S
Ross street, was killed by the same train
which ran over Glodde. Both were found
by neighbors who were aroused by
Ilodde's screams. 1t is supposed that the
men were hit by an east-bound through
freight.
Probate Judge Black OF Cincinnati, has
been advised, by the authorities at Wash
ngton to give no more naturalization
papers until the matter is tested in the
Courts. BY arrangement candidate for
naturalization will appear before Judge
Black, and upon his refusal to hear the
application Judge George B. ,Okey will
commence suit in the United States
Court at Cincinnati to compel the local
Court to hear the application. The object
,f the suit will be to determine the juris-
fiction of Probate Courts in naturalization
matters.
To be maid, wife and widow all with
n three days was the strange fate of
oretty Grace Gibbons, whose husband
was killed in the Big Four Railroad yards,
At Columbus. lie was Lawrence Allen,
who uuder the preceding administration,
vas special officer in police headquar-
.ers. There he met his wife, who was the
laughter of the police matron. On the
18th of August they were married clam
iestinely, and only day or two ago their
secret came out. Allen was employed as
car inspector. He was run down and
his legs were cut off. On the way to the
lospital the ambulence in which he lay
was wrecked, and he had to be trans
'erred to another. A few hours later he
lied in the arms of his weeping girl wife
IL st. Francis Hospital.
Nearly seven years ago the Shelby
County authorities sent to the peniten-
;iary convicted thief who gave the name
of Frank Jones. He had been detected in
burglary, and because he refused to give
ais true name or tell of his antecedents,
The Court imposed sentence of ten years
1t hard labor, remarking that he believed
he prisoner to be confirmed criminal.
That opinion is not shared by the peni-
eptiary officials who last week permitted
aim to 60 free, his sentence having ex-
pired. They believe that he is Of good par
,ntage, but rather than tell of his family
he has preferred to suffer in silence. No
word has ever come to him from the out
side, nor has he sent out a scrap of paper.
Nothing that he has said or done has
.ended to betray his identity. His secret
IS safe and the prison authorities will
make no further efforts to penetrate 1t.
Mrs. Fannie Stanley was fatally and
Misses Elizabeth and Mary j. McNaugh
/ n were painfully burned in fire at
Eighth avenue and High street, COlum-
bus. A servant set fire to clothing in a
room, and the three persons burned had
10 pass through the flames to escape.
An Ohio druggist asked Attorney Cen
eral Sheets if the sale of ''rock and rye
and glycerine" in a prohibition town
would be violation of the Beal law. The
Attorney General said that he would hold.
il an official opinion should be asked, that
such sale would be in violation of the law
if the compound were sold as beverage.
Three sudden deaths occurred at WASH
lngton, c. H., one day recently. Alonzo
Burnett, aged So, dropped dead in front
Of his home, being stricken with
apoplexy. Mrs. Hugh Rogers, wife of a
prominent Good Hope farmer, was found
dead from heart failure. County Record
er NJ. Sturgeon found his wife dead in
bed. She had been an invalid for years
John j. Perrin, Superintendent oi
WOodlawn Cemetery, at Toledo, has
fallen heir to money in England. Mayor
Jones received letter from London at
torney stating that a woman had diad in