The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1904-04-28
Minor State Nevs.

| d. y. w licOX ana vile or Outvlll0, cel0-
brated their sixty-fourth wedding ami.
versary Tuesday.
Mrs. ID. r. King was fatally burned at
Fostoria. Her clothing was ignited by .
bonfire in her yard.
Mother Stewart of Springfield, the
famous leader of the temperance crusade,
celebrated her SSth birthday Monday:
John jackson was run into By Big
Four switch engine, while walking across
the Main street crossing at Gallon, and
instantly killed.
Roy Brooks, son of a prominent family
OF BellefOuntaine, was killed by a train
while returning from ball game at the
Silver Lake Park.
The Board of Health of West Lafayette,
has closed the schools at that place and
services have been suspended on account
of an epidemic of smallpox.
The Circleville police are holding .
tramp who they say answers the descrip-
tion OF j. II. Ridgeway, the train wreckef
under sentence of death at Salem, Ken
lucky.
The funeral Of John R. Jones at New
ark recently was remarkable from the
fact that the pallbearers were all named
Jones. They were not related to the de-
ceased nor to one another.
Colonel D. W. Benham of Tifin, who
was recently placed upon the regular
army retired list, has been advanced to
the rank of Brigadier General. Colonel
Benham enlisted from Cincinnati.
AS -I0Sonh ndnr min Of
Boggs' run, at Barton, was in his room
working when a fall of slate occurred
crushing him about the hips and lower
limbs, and seriously crushing him.
The Commercial Hotel at Monroeville,
was completely gutted by fire, and Bar.
ney Sickenger. farmer, was burned to
death. Others escaped in their night
clothes by jumping from windows.
John Lewis Of Lima, the gypsy chief
tain, whose daughterin-law is alleged to
have run away with Pete Morgan, alias
Mexican Pete, has reached an agreement
with the latter, who was located in Rich.
mond, Ind.
Frank B. and Frank w. Shepherd dry
goods merchants of Urbana, have filed
a voluntary petition in BANKRUPTCY.
They possess stock in trade and fixtures
valued at si,7O0, while their liabilities
are given at s5,724.54.
The State Board of Pharmacy will ex-
anime the next class Of applicants on May
10 and IL. Under the rules applications
must be fled not later than May 1. The
classes in May usually include about 200
applicants for diplomas.
Robert Sullivan, shanty boatman, and
Mary Hensley, are in Jail in Ironton
awaiting the result of injuries inflicted on
Charles Wilcox, fellow occupant of the
boat, who is dying. The Hensley woman
says that Sullivan attacked them.
The body of the man found three weeks
ago near Schenck's Station has been iden-,
tilted as that of Christian Kuhlmann, a
Mohwak street, Cincinnati. The body was
identified by his brother, Henry Kuhl-.
mann, of the Mosler Safe Works.
Ruth O'Hara, aged 8 years, travelled
alone from Augusta, Ark, to Continen-
tai, changing cars in st. Louis. To her
red yachting cap was attached linen
slip on which was printed her name for
mer address and place Of destination.
"Dutch" Fisher, alias Miller, aged 40,
who killed William Marshall in Lucas
County, has been received at the Colum-,
bus penitentiary annex. He is sentenced
to die July Z. There are now eleven in
says he is guilty.
Both Mrs. A. C. Meadow OF Ottawa,
and Mrs. Frank Warnecke of Kalida,
whose husbands were swept off the
long dyke at the entrance to the Ottawa
River, near Kalida, few weeks ago, and
drowned, will sue the County COmisson-
ers for negligence in not placing bridge
fences to the approach.
While their parents were in church, six
Lima youths in their teens were escorted
to the city Jail. The parents found notes
left by the boys and, following, learned
that the sextet were charged with burg
larizing the Mallady confectionery store.
At the hearing they were bound over to
the Probate Court, bond being given for
their appearance.
The report of the Military Board to in
vestigate the conduct of the Ohio Nation
al Guard in the Springfield riot has been
ulCu HI tbO uONCihOk OihCS ny Saptotu
Miletus Garner. 1t is said that the Ma
tional Guard is relieved Of all criticism and
that the report holds that the lynching
was due to the failure of civil authorities
to act promptly. The report will say that
when the call was made for troops it was
entirely too late for the soldiers to do any
good.
Hiram Matthews, aged 40, was instantly
killed near Cardington. He was struck
by an east-bound Big Four freight, while
working with section gang. Five weeks
ago Matthews bargained with Shadrach
Westbrook, the wealthy Ashley farmer,
for whose murderer or murderers a re-
ward of 81, ,5OOis offered, to sell his twenty
five acre farm for 81, 200. The deal was to
have been closed the following day and
Matthews received S. to secure the bar
gain. That night Westbrook myster-
iously disappeared and his bcdy was
found two weeks later in corn field along
the banks OF the Olenangy river near
CardingtOn.
The State Board of Pardons has an
these decisions in the applica-
tions for clemency for penitentiary pris-
Oners: Frank S. Baker, Erie County, |
forgery, commuted from two to one year. |
Edward Shadutz, Franklin County, lar
ceny, five years, commuted to two years.
Simon Sorger, CuyahOga County, murder,
life sentence, granted pardon. He was
confined for ten years. George w. HOyt,
Warran County, horse-stealing, six years,
to four years.
Hiram Mathews, a Big Four section
hand, was killed two miles north Of Ash
ley by the local freight.
Miss Lizzie Graham, domestic en-.
ployed at the residence of Levi Kicker OF |
Gallon, was fatally burned recently. |
While filling lamp she spilled coal oil
on her clothing. Her dress was ignited
from nearby stove and in moment she |
was covered with flames. She ran scream
ing from the h use and young man
Seaton attempted to save her, but
was too late. He was painfully but no,
fatally burned.