The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1904-09-29

Ferry to see if slot machines which pay
in checks come under the law against
gambling devices.
| W. ]. Morgan, president of the W.
j. Morgan Lithographic Company. died
in Cleveland. aged 81. Mr.. Morgan had
| been i'll for FIVE or six years.
Because she and her husband disagreed
as to which theater to attend, Anna. the
I-year-old-wife of Albert Young OF
| Cleveland, shot herself fatally
The Ohio State University has been
| granted a charter for Phi Beta Kappa
! chapter, for which the professors of the
| university have worked for several years
John McFadden, a prisoner in the
workhouse at Cleveland, was notified
that he was one of the several heirs to
a large estate left by an uncle in Ire
land.
Benjamin C. Faurot, Lima's benefac-
tor, died in Sandusky practically penni-
less, although he built and was instru-
mental in obtaining almost every factory
and enterprise the city now POSSESSES.
w. 2. Deppe of Columbus has for
warded his resignation to General Pas
senger Agent Warren G.. Lynch as chief
assistant general passenger agent of the
Big Four. He goes with Wall street
firm.
Owen B. Ream, cashier of the Somer-
set Bank, and one of the best known men
in Perry county, was found dead in
his bed recently. He, with his father.
had been identified with the bank since
1891.
Capt. Daniel W. Davis, pioneer river
man, died at his home in Marietta, Of
heart failure. He was 10 years old. He
was active in Democratic politics and
was several times elected to municipal
Offices.
The sudden death of Helen Carr, the
16-year-old daughter of DR.. c. s. Carr Of
Columbus, has given rise to rumors that
the young girl committed suicide. A
school girl love affair is said to have
been the cause.
The State will spend 100000 in wild
ening and deepening the Northern divis-
ion of the Ohio canal, as an experiment
along the line Of artificial waterways of
q larger capacity than the present canal
system of the State.
Charles, the 12-year-old son of A.
Fritchie of Bellaire, was standing near
the railroad tracks when the steam and
scalding water from a passing engine
blew out over him and his body and
limbs were terribly burned
Ralph Doty, 10 years old, inmate of
the State hospital for insane in Column
bus, probably fatally stabbed Attendant
Dan German and cut Attendant o. w.
Drake, but not seriously, in attempting
to escape from the hospital.
Advices received show that the fruit
crop around Cadiz is so large that peo-
pie are at a loss to know what to do
with it. Hundreds of bushels of plums
will not be picked at all, and those hav-
ing plum trees cannot even give the fruit
away.
Mrs. Bernardina Schetter. wife of Jo-
seph Schetter, Dayton cobbler, dropped
dead while combing her hair to attend
the funeral Of a friend, Mrs. Henry
Schommer. Her husband heard her fall
and summoned a physician, but it was
too late.
Two freights had head-end collision
in the center of Flushing tunnel. Al
bert Wilkinson was fatally hurt and
others had narrow escape, for the
trains were demolished and they had to
crawl out of the tunnel on their hands
and knees.
Seven years ago Anna Orr told Robert
Wilson, a grocer Of Cedarville, she
would marry him when he was a minis
ter. Selling his grocery he entered Ce-
darville college and last summer, after
many hardships, he graduated from Nc
Cormick seminary at Chicago. The other
day Miss Orr fulfilled her promise, and
the Rev. Mr.. Wilson left with his bride
for a Michigan town, where he has a
charge.
The Springfield Publishing Company
was awarded the contract for printing
the annual reports of the Secretary of
State. Building and Loan Association
Commissioner, Labor Commissioner, In
surance Commissioner. School Commits
sioner, Board of Agriculture and Audi
tor and the annual laws, at scale rang
ing from 10 to % cents per 1000 ems
for composition and II to % cents per
token for presswork.
The temporary home of the First Ma
tional Bank of Wapakoneta, the oldest
and largest bank in Auglaize county, is
its novelty. The bank is transacting
business in plain pine shed erected
right on the street, after the style of
western mining town. Repairs to the
bank building and the installation of new
furniture compelled the bank to move
into the highway for a few days.
The Cothilc knights of Ohio concluded
their thirteenth annual convention by
electing the following officers: President
(re-elected), Chas. B. nittrock, Cincin-
natl; vice president, Alois Kessler, Mans
field; secretary (re-electeD, c. ]. An
thony, Cleveland; trustee (re-electeh.
Martin ]. Burke, Marion. Delphos was
chosen as the place for the next years
convention. \ resolution to prohibit
Sunday meetings of the branches of the
order failed 10 carry.
There are no further developments in
the mystery of Ernest Webber, supposed
to have been blown up by dynamite with
his buggy near Forest. but who sudden
ly appeared week later lii :: dazei con-
dition and with a story Of being xid-
naped. An attorney. Geo. Z. Crane. was
summoned by the family. He gave out
that no connected statement could be
does not believe Webber was kidnapped.
He thinks developments will show that
the man was not robbed.
Miss Fannie Levinger of Canton, a
talented musician and member of the
quartet that sang at the funeral of the
late President Mckinley. was crushed
to death by one OF the elevators in the
New England building in Cleveland.
Buying drinks for crowd of his
friends in Springfield saloon. and set
ting up cigars which he told the boys to
smoke at his wake. Walter Koontz bade
them good-by and went home TO drink
carbolic acid and die within few min
utes. He was son of Capt. Koontz,
marshal of the Springfield fire depart
ment. and % years old.
Passenger train No. s. on the Norfolk
and Western road, was wrecked at Lock
burn by spreading rails. No passengers
,r-aro in; but William II