The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-11-05

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Independent batteries-2d, Sd, 4th, 5th,
sth, 9th, 10th, 11th, 18th, 18th, 18th, goth,
2lst, 23d. oath, 26th.
Cavalry-Seventh and Eighth.
First tArtillery-Batteries D, Z, T, G, l,
X, l., NJ.
Spanish-American War-First Cavalry,
and First, Seventh and Eighth Infantry.
Brief State Items.
Julia Fisher, aged 8, was burned to
death at Cosh0cton, by crate fire.
DR.. R. C. Downey. one of the Oldest and
best-known practicing physicians in
Noble County, is dead.
Mont. Newton of Stockport, accidentally
shot his little daughter. She will die. In
changing pistol from one pocket to an
other, the weapon exploded.
Judge Reed of Sandusky, has asked the
grand jury to indict the leaders of the
mob that attacked the home Of George
Guenther and his negro bride and fred
100 shots or more.
In this, the first year of sugar beets for
the section around Montpelier. there will
be shipped to the factory in Kalamazoo,
Mich, at least twenty-five carloads. Four
dollars per ton is paid for them.
August Lampert, aged "a, died of blood
poisoning at Crestline, at the home of E.
NJ. Neff, his brother-in-law. Lampert
was the Secretary and Treasurer of the
Merchants Clearing House of Chicago.
James Isner, inspector of masonery for
the GAINESVILLE, Marietta and -Parkers-
burg Railway, is dying of bullet wound
inflicted by one of three fighting men
whom he tried to separate in Ringold.
There names are not known.
Orders have been received from head
quarters to shut down the Cambridge
works Of the American Sheet Steel Com
pany indefinitely. With the idle men
from the tin mill there are at least 1000
unemployed in Cambridge now.
Ira McGriff, young farmer residing
near Braffetsville, shot his wife two times
in the head. He then turned the gun on
himself and sent bullet into his brain.
He is most seriously injured and cannot
recover There are hopes of his wife's
recovery.
Judge Mower of Springfield. has ruled
that prisoners could not be sentenced to
the Xenia Workhouse from the Police
Court without payment of 40 cents for
each day sentenced under Section 20S9.
The county contract is for Is cents per
day each. A suit is probable.
A trolley pole on Western-Avenue
car at Toledo, slipped from the wire and
the attached rope became entangled in
Conductor Leo Lonbecker's feet, jerking
him into the air higher than the top of the
car. He fell on his back unconscious. He
was taken home and will probably die.
The marriage of Daniel Keller, aged IS,
and Miss Mary Jones, aged IS, at Newark,
discloses a little romance. The latter's
deceased brother, William Jones, and
Keller were partners in the California
gold fields for sixteen years. Jones never
married and died. Mrs Keller died and
her husband married the sister of his old
partner.
Mrs. John u. Miller, aged 46, living on
a farm west of Rockford, died from burns
received in an attempt to commit suicide.
After eating hearty dinner and finishing
the MONDAY tasks Mrs. Miller took can
of coal oil, went to straw stack, satur-
ated her clothing with the oil, jumped
into the stack and set fire 10 it. She was
found few minutes later and taken to
her home, where death followed. Before
death Mrs. Miller said she had been
warned by spirits to do the deed. She
was the wife of a well-tO-dO farmer, and
was well connected.
A series of asphyxiations resulting in
one death and five serious prostrations
occurred in Marion, recently. Mrs. Ray
Schultz, noticing that her lS-months-old
daughter did not appear well, placed the
little one in her crib. Half an hour later
the mother entered the room and found
the baby dead. She called Mr.. Schultz's
mother and the two worked with the little
girl to bring her back to life and tele-
phoned for Mrs. Schultz's mother and a
doctor. Shortly after two neighbors, Mrs.
NJ. C. Cramer and Mrs. }. Price. called.
They entered the house and were h0rri-
fed to find the little girl dead and the
mother and grandmother apparently life
less. While working over the little one
they had been overcome by the natural
gas which had killed the child. About
this time the other grandmc ther of the
child arrived. She also neglected to open
the windows and doors until she was soon
unconscious. When the physician arrived
he found six bodies. all apparently dead.
A leaky gas pipe caused the trouble.
Pea Cahall, wealthy Sink Creek
farmer, shot himself in the left breast at
his home near Ripley. A roll of money
was missing when he reached home.
Deposit certificates in his pocket book
were not taken. He is dangerously
wounded.
Mrs. Mary A. Clarke, of CoshOcton, has
received news from her brother, Henry
Piper, who has been mOurned as dead for
forty-twO years. He disappeared in llli-
nOis in 1861. Recently she advertised for
him in family magazine. In his letter,
plain his long absence.
A. K. Carri, well-known farmer of
Vienna Township. Trumbull county,
committed suicide by shooting himself
through the head. CARR had been in
Niles and on the way home had accident
ally run into another rig. He drove home
and went to bed. and later when someone
called to see him he fired bullet into his
brain. Carri was Co.'s years old and
we'll and favorably known The only
reason that is given for the rash act was
fear of arrest for the accident.
The ten-inch gas main from Southern
to Northern Ohio burst at Summit Station,
shaking houses several miles distant and
shocking number of people slightly.
The gas was no; shutOff for several hours.
The Ohio works of the Carnegie Steel
Company at Youngstown has resumed.
Five thousand men are affected.