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NEWS EXCERPTS
Source: Ohio Statesman
Dated: Feb. 25, 1840
HOCKING COUNTY.
We have a letter from a democrat in Hocking, that
speaks of a democratic majority of 600 next fall. Hocking
is true to the core. All the noise of changes in wind,
except it may be from abolition whiggery to democracy. |
Source: The Ohio Statesman - Ohio
Date: Feb. 28, 1843
(Matrimony Notice)
In Circleville, on Thursday the 23d inst., by the Rev. Mr.
Roof, Mr. John Atkinson, of Logan, Hocking county,
Ohio, to Miss Sarah Ellen Easterday, of the former place. |
Source: Ohio Statesman
Dated: Apr. 27, 1846
HOCKING COUNTY - The work of regeneration is going on
bravely in little Hocking as in every other quarter. The
Sentinel advises of deserters daily from the standard of
federalism, fraud, and favoritism. The sovereigns have
heard the mandate of the bankers. - 'Come up and be taxed,' and
respond, - 'After you, if you please.' |
Source: Cincinnati Daily Gazette
Dated: May 8, 1874
Case of Hydrophobia - Suicide - Silver Mines in Hocking
County.
Special Dispatch to the Cincinnati Gazette
LANCASTER, O., May 7
One William Arnold passed through this city
today, handcuffed, on the way to his home. He was
suffering from hydrophobia.
Mr. Joseph Headley of Starr Township, Hocking
County, hung himself to the bed post, Tuesday morning.
Silver has been discovered on Queer Creek, Benton
Township, Hocking County. |
Source: Cincinnati Daily Gazette
Dated: Oct. 8, 1877
CLOSE of the Hocking County Fair,
Special Dispatch to the Cincinnati Gazette
LOGAN, O., Oct. 6
The Hocking County Fair closed today. Fully
10,000 people were in attendance. The display of stock was
better than usual; the remaining exhibits about as usual.
Tramps have been operating extensively through the country
during the fair. Several farm houses have been pilfered by
them while the occupants were in attendance at the fair. |
Source: Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Dated: Nov. 1, 1878
JOHN E. CARMICHAEL, of
Hocking County, pleaded guilty yesterday to the charge of
retailing malt liquors and tobacco without payment of the
special tax, and was sentenced by Judge Swing to thirty
days in the Hamilton County Jail, and fined $100 and costs. |
Source: Cincinnati Daily Gazette
Dated: Nov. 12, 1880
Hocking County Nimrods.
Special Dispatch to the Cincinnati Gazette
GORE, O., Nov. 11 - John and Richard Van Horn
returned today from a hunting expedition in Michigan, having
killed fifty-eight deer and three bears. |
Source: Daily Journal and Journal and
Tribune
Dated: Mar. 14, 1891
STEAL OR STARVE.
Pitiable Condition of Hocking County Coal Miners
CHICAGO, March 18 - A dispatch from Zanesville, O., says: Wark
at the coal mines of Rondville, Hocking county, twenty miles
southwest of this city has been suspended for several weeks.
The miners are in a destitut condition and the families
of most of them are suffering for the necessaries of life.
Yesterday fifty of them proceeded in a body of McCoy and
Williams' store and broke it open and carried off thirty
barrels of flour and several hundred pounds of meat. They
made no attempt to conceal their identity, but said they had to
steal or starve. Active measures are being taken to
enquire into the wants of the people and relieve their
suffering. |
Source: Repository - Ohio
Dated: May 23,
1895
HAYDEN WORKS CLOSED.
Miners Forced to Leave
Their Places, and Brick Plant Shut Down.
LOGAN, O.,
May 23. - The miners of Haydenville who returned to work over a
week ago, were taken out the mines at that place Tuesday by a
large body of miners from Nelsonville and surrounding mining
towns and ordered to suspend work pending the settlement of the
strike. A committee of the Haydenville miners called upon
John W. Jones, manager of the Hayden works, and
informed him of the occurrence. Mr. Jones
requested that a committee of Nelsonville miners be sent him.
On their appearance Mr. Jones said that the
company was willing, and was paying the new price demanded, and
asked that inasmuch as the company was not shipping or selling
coal to the trade but mining only for their works at Logan and
Columbus, that the miners at that place be allowed to work,
which request was refused. This will necessitate the
closing down of all their works, the effect of which will be
severely felt here. |
Source: New Mexican
Dated: May 31, 1895
AN OHIO LYNCHING.
Cincinnati - A dispatch from Logan, Ohio, says that
a mob last night took Nelson Federoff, aged 50, from the
lockup at Laurelville and hanged him. He was charged with
a brutal assault upon a little girl. |
Source: Plain Dealer (Cleveland, O)
Dated: Oct. 28, 1898
FACING STARVATION.
Miners at Jobs, Hocking County, Have Worked Only Twenty-Two Days
in Five Months.
Special to the Plain Dealer
COLUMBUS, Oct. 27. - Labor organizations through the
state are being appealed to to help out the miners of Jobs,
Hocking county. Mr. R. M. Haseltine, state mining
inspector, ahs issued a card, certifying that the miners of this
community have had but twenty-two days' work in five months, and
are on the brink of starvation. This is further certified
to by Hon. John P. Jones, labor commissioner. |
Source: The Anaconda Standard
Date: Dec. 3, 1899
W. L. Souders of Missoula came to Butte and secured a
divorce from his wife, Amy E. Souders. He told the court
that he was married to the defendant in Hocking County, Ohio, on
April 3, 1873 and that she deserted him without cause at
Frankfort, Kan., on Aug. 3, 1898. He said that so far as he knew
she was still living at the latter place. |
Source: Plain Dealer (Cleveland, O)
Dated: Jan. 16, 1905
MAY START PETITION
COLUMBUS, O., Jan. 15. - Local Anti-Saloon league
leaders say that the league will probably accept the expressed
defi? of Chairman John F. White of Hocking county and put
a petition in circulation in the county for signers
remonstrating against the renomination of Gov. Herrick.
Hocking county yesterday named an instructed delegation to the
state convention for Herrick. The delegates were
named by the county committee. White was quoted
today as saying that the Anti-saloon people could not get ten
signers to such a remonstrance,. |
Source: Plain Dealer (Cleveland, O)
Dated: Nov. 30, 1906
NIGHT OFFICER SHOT.
Unknown Person Takes Hocking County Policeman's Gun and Uses it
on Him.
SPECIAL TO THE PLAIN DEALER.
NELSONVILLE, O., Nov. 20 - Joseph Robison, aged
thirty-three years, night policeman t Greendale, near this city,
was fatally shot by an unknown person about midnight.
The Columbus & Hocking Coal & Iron Co., are erecting at
Greendale what is claimed will be the largest brick plant in
this country and to expedite the work have brought in hundreds
of foreigners. Owing to frequent brawls the company built
a calaboose and appointed a day and night officer to preserve
order.
An eating house was erected at which the foreigners
were boarded and every night a lunch would be left in the
kitchen for Robison. In entering the building he
would pass through the dining room and would lay his pistol on
the cashier's desk while he ate his lunch in the other room.
When he returned to secure his gun at midnight someone had
secured it and shot him. He has been
unconscious since. |
Source: Idaho Statesman
Dated: Oct. 13, 1913
MARRIAGE LICENSES.
Walter STROUS, Laurelvill, Ohio; Dottie B. LaFavour,
Boise. |
Source: Oregonian
Dated: Sept. 29, 1913
There is a foundling bank in Ohio,
which nobody cares to own. It is in charge of S. P.
Solliday at Murray City, Hocking County, Ohio, who says he
is operating it for Josephine Miller, but the latter
denies ever having had any interest in it. A contract made
in April, 1913, has been discovered, whereby the bank was sold
by W. A. White and G. O. French, of Canton, to
Solliday and Miller for $2000, but the latter say the
paper was a contract and that they were only principals.
The explanation of the unwillingness to admit ownership is that
the bank owes depositors $100,000, but has assets of only
$58,000 and the owner is liable for the debts. Some
Austrian depositors complained that they could not draw their
money, and the Austrian Consul stirred the state bank department
into activity. |
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Source: Aberdeen Daily News
Dated: Mar. 8, 1928
THIEF ROUSES COMMUNITY
Logan, Ohio (AP) - A Laurelville resident had his automobile
stolen, and fellow citizens were so incensed they made up a
community purse to prosecute three youths charged with the
theft. The Youths were convicted. |
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