The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-04-30
Minor Mention.

Mrs. Mary Mulligan. aged 81. Wandered
away from her home III IrOntOn. and was
drowned in six inches OF water in Storms
Creek.
While Lriping to clear up the p. F.
wreck near Loudonville, Henry Christine
of the Wooster wrecking crew, was caught
between tw of the cars and killed.
Beautiful and accomplished, Miss Hattie
Hart of Bucyrus, was taken before the
Probate Judge and declared insane. She
had brooded over her mothers death.
d. B. Crafty and A. B. King have sold
their oil production and land in Allen and
Portage Townships, Hancock County, to
Adams & Sarber of Cleveland, for $47 900.
At Lima, the grand jury indicted
T. BOggs, a former Pittsburger, on a
charge of having embezzled funds Of the
Jewett Typewriter Company Of Cleve-
land.
Anna, the l0-year-old daughter Of James
Kelly of $50 East Pleasant street, Spring
field, was fatally burned while playing
with bonfire in the back yard Of heI
home.
j. S. Porter OF Buffalo, Lake Shore en-
gineer, whose train was standing on a
siding just east of Ashtabula, stepped in
front OF fast train and was instantly
killed.
George Seybold, Mansfield student at
Wittenberg College, Springfield, who dis
appeared some weeks ago, has been To-
Gated in Indianapolis. He gave no reason
for his action.
Rev. John W. Wright, aged "a. died at
Coshocton, as result of continued illness
since the Civil War in 1864, when he was
wounded in the battle Of the Wilderness.
Paralysis caused his death.
A Pennsylvania east-bound passenger
train was wrecked near LOudonville by a
broken rail. The engine and baggage car
went over and three Pullmans were de-
rallied. No one was seriously injured.
A crazy man who has been terrorizing
the people of Arcadia for several days was
captured and lodged in Jail at Findlay.
From miners card it is believed that he
is Patrick Kelley Of Uniontown, Penn.
Thomas Webb, aged so, was killed in
the Pennsylvania Railway yards at
Alliance. He leaves widow, whose
former husband, William Siebenert. was
killed in similar manner several years
ago.
J.. j. Grubbs of Buckland, Auglaize
county, has been appointed one of the
thirty-one delegates to represent Ohio at
the Worlds Sunday School Convention in
Jerusalem next April.
Entering the home Of his sister, Mrs.
Sarah OXley at Lima, Lawrence Murphy,
aged about 40 years, seated himself on a
bed and shot himself through the brain.
Death was instantaneous. He had beer
drinking heavily.
The entire family of Isaac Bolander, in
cluding his mother-in-law, Mrs. John
Steel of Lancaster. mistook nightshade
root for horseradish and in consequence
Dudley Bolander may die. The otheri
are recovering.
The Western Ohio Electric Railway
Company has brought injunction proceed
ings against seven alleged leaders Of the
recent strike in Wapakoneta. The COM
pany alleges that the defendants are con-
spring to stop the plaintiff from running
its cars.
Patrick H. Tully of Columbus, has
brought suit in the Court Of Common
Pleas at Urbana, asking that the will left
by his deceased father, John Tully, be set
aside. The SON is the only living child,
but his father disinherited him in his will.
The estate is of considerable value.
William Ankerman, a blacksmith, COM
mitted suicide at Wapakoneta, by shoot
ing himself in the temple with a revolver.
The deed was committed few minutes
after his wife was adjudged insane by the
Probate Judge. the inquest being held at
the house. To his coat was pinned note
stating that he could not bear to have her
taken away. He was prosperous man
and model husband, but his wife's con-
dition and the coming separation brought
on dependency. For the past year his
wife, Mary Ankerman, has been intensely
jealous and subject to hallucinations.
In some Northern Ohio towns it is
stated that traffic is being carried on in
Canadian quarter dollars. They are usu-
ally circulated at 20 cents, and it is stated
that cashiers handling large amounts of
currency take the quarter from their cash,
replacing each with 20 cents Of their own
funds, and when enough have been COL
lected they are shipped to Fort Wayne,
Detroit and Cleveland, and taken by the
banks at par. 1t is stated that ''brokers"
in Cincinnati and indianapolis are send
ing out solicitors among street car con-
1uctors and the clerks Of small merchants
and paying small premium over 20 cents
Tor them.
A crusade against the saloons has been
in the churches at Tiffin,
which may culminate in an election under
he Beal local option law. p. A. Baker,
State Superintendent, and E. H. Cher
.ington, Assistant State Superintendent
If fthe Anti-Saloon League; Thomas Clark,
author of the Clark local option law; j.
:. Jackson, editor Of the Living Issue,
md Brooks Lawrence, Superintendent Of
hat district, spoke in nearly every Prot
,stant church in the city recently. Tifiin's
'aloons have been running wide open
'even days in the week for the past six
Tears and the recent election Of a reform
Mayor has emboldened the anti-saloon
Element of the city to make a fight for
heir suppression.
Four years ago next June Miss Cora b.
Thomas, pretty schoolteacher of Cuya-
loga Falls, was married in Dunkirk, n.
T., to William Thomas, her cousin, of
Summit County. They never
ived together. Both returned to their
ZONES near each other, and they kept the
marriage secret. Recently, it is alleged,
he husband paid attention to another
oung lady. Mrs. Thomas then made
ublic their marriage. She and her
mother went to Dunkirk, procured copy |
+ the marriage license as evidence, and |
FRS. Thomas began divorce proceedings, |
lleging absence and non-support.
Six hundred pupils who failed to be-
ONE vaccnated, either through fear or
bjections on the part of their parents,
Tere suspended from school at Dayton.
,ighty-two were sent to their homes from
he Twentieth District also, because they
ad not complied with the order. Many
arents claimed that they did not know
ny thing about the order, but their state
tents are not credited by the school au-
lorities.
James Campbell had hearing on the