The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-12-10
Brief State Items.


}. O'Donnell, a Lake Erie and Western
brakeman. was fatally injured by falling
from train at st. Mary's.
Edward Hill, aged II, while hunting
near Salem, was accidentally shot by a
companion and died in a short time.
Lawrence Eekstein. a Kingston painter.
was killed in Elmwood. His clothes
caught in belt and his neck was broken.
Burglars entered the hardware store of
the j. NJ. Kerr Company at Gallipolis and
stole several hundred dollars worth of
rcvOlvers and knives.
During shooting match at the home
of VIM. Alspach at Delphos, a glancing
Alspach in the back of the head, produc-
ing fatal wound.
Richard Franzel, travelling piano
tuner, who gave his residence at st.
Louis, Mo-, was found dead in the Nc
Daid hotel at Manchester. Death was
due to heart trouble.
Carl Erskine, aged IL, son of DIR. Rob-
ert Erskine of Lowellville, was mortally
wounded by a shot from rifle in the
hands of a man named Murray. The rifle
was accidentally discharged.
In Havana the large Touring mill and
elevator of the Hyeman Milling Company
burned, together with several residences
and small buildings. The loss is esti-
mated at 5000, partially covered by in
surance.
Col. Howard, general foreman of the
Wabash car shops in Toledo, has re-
ceived orders to reduce the force in the
local shops 10 per cent. One hundred
men are affected. The shop is two
months behind in its work.
Louis BOlus and A. b. Lee of Wooster
say they have discovered gold and silver
in npayingquantities near Warsaw, Coshoc-
ION county, and have made arrangements
10 work Their leases, which they think
will pan pay ore next spring.
An incendiary attempt was made to
destroy an abandoned barn on the oil
farm in Liberty Township, Hancock
County, owned by J. Bonsham of Gin
,innati. A tank containing $4,000 gallons
Of oil stood within two hundred feet Of
the barn.
The circuit court of Butler county has
granted the motion for a stay of execu-
lion of the sentence of death passed upon
Alfred A. Knapp for the murder of his
wife. The execution was set for Decem-
per II, and stay has been granted for
thirty days.
Hugh Jones, a tailor of Sharon, who
was hit by street car in Youngstown a
month ago, suffering a broken neck, is
alive and will recover. 1t is necessary to
support his head with straps, but never
Iheless he is able to transact business in
the City hospital.
C. P. L. Butler, aged 47. a prominent
member of the Columbus bar, shot and
killed himself in his room. Butler has
aeen in i'll health for some time and since
The death of his mother has been subject
20 moody periods. 1t is supposed that in
one of these he took his life.
State Dairy and Food Commissioner
Ankeney has given out statement show
ing what the Dow tax inquisitors of his
department have been doing. They have
visited every county in the state, and in
sestigations have been conducted in 4S9
cities and towns. The number of cases
investigated was 1,16S, and SOS delin-
luents were brought up to the treasurer's
office. and if a half years tax is collected
she state will be enriched by $4,000.
Fire broke ont in the basement Of cot
tage B, of the Ohio hospital for epilentics,
fiallipolis, and destroyed the entire first
floor. Attendants Dell Walters and
stephen Woods. by heroic work, safely
took fifty male patients, some of them un-
conscious, through a sec0nd-stOry win
dow and down a ladder. The patients
cost nearly all their personal effects. The
ire ragged for nearly an hour. Its origin
IS unknown, but itprobably started from
elandestine smoking.
The thirteenth annual report of the
Trustees of the Gallipolis Hospital Of
Epleptics asks for an appropriation Of
100000 They ask for almost half Of
his amount for new buildings and re-
pairs. They think 100000 would put in
satisfactory new structures, and that
sS5, 200 would repair the old ones. They
also want s2l, 900 to buy land for the pro-
posed new buildings, and $4,000 for
electrical machinery. The current ex-
penses this past year were S12l ,422. The
superintendent reports twenty-nine cures.
The per capita cost was s1i7.29.
Five members of the household of
Chas. Krebs, superintendent of the jew
EFT Car Work at Newark, were desper-
ately i'll at the Krebs home, on Church
street, from ptOmaine poisoning. Their
lives were despaired of, but now the doc
tors pronounce the patients out of danger.
For supper Charles Krebs and wife. Louis
Krebs, Mrs. Krebs's brother, Oscar Frank
nauser. and Bessie DOrnberger, domes-
tic, ate freely of canned salmon. They
felt no i'll effects until morning, when all
five became very sick. Early in the morn
ing Louis Krebs managed to drag himself
to Miss Stewards residence across the
street, but as he rang the door bell krebs
fell unconscious to the porch. NeighbOrs
inspecting something wrong at Krebs'
iurried there to find the other four per-
sons unconscious, but quick medical as
sistance and skilIful care saved all five
lives.
The second attempt within few
months to fire the large furniture estab-
Iishment of j. A. Mahaffey of Canton was
made one night last week. Next morn
ing employees found burned paper and
carbon oil had been scattered over the
floor. A few months ago a dynamite
bomb was fouad in the store and was only
discovered in time to prevent terrible
explosion.
The City Council Of COshOctOn muy per-
nit the members of the police force 10
resign. as there is no money in the treas
Try to pay salaries for the last two weeks
md no funds are available.
Twenty-Five men from all sections OF
the state, representing ten Ohio colleges
met in Granville recently, to attend q
meeting of the Ohio Academy of Science
at Denison University. Three sessions
were held. Abstracts of the work done
alongscientific lines in Ohio colleges were
presented, and papers of geology. 20
ology, botany and kindred subjects were
read and discussed. Prof. Herrick o.
Denison presided. The following officer: