The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-02-11
WITHIN OUR BORDER.
A WEEKS RECORD OF OHIO
HAPPENINGS.
An Interesting Summary of the More I'M
portant Doings of Our Neishbors-Wed-
dinss and Deaths-Crimes, Casualties,
and General State News Notes.
Minor State Items.

| CT through lnc HECK. lie Uiun EHoW IL
was loaded.
Squire James Kelley of Arion, Magis-
trate and Democratic politician, died the
other day of blood poisoning, the result
OF having tooth pulled.
Supposed tramps burglarized The drug
store of Dusenbrey Il Co., at Ostrander.
They secured razors, watch chains, charms,
800 pennies, nickel watches and gold
rings.
Edward Kear stepped back ward against
| a buzz saw while saving wood at Upper
Sandusky, and had one of his legs almost
sawed off. The saw struck him below
the hip.
Mrs. Abraham Van Horn, living near
Santa Fe, was probably fatally burned by
her dress catching fire while she was sit
ting with her hack to the stove dressing
the baby.
At Findlay, William Ford has sued the
Findlay, Fort Wayne and Western Rail
way Company for $50, 900 damages for an
assault by a conductor. The sight of one
ere is ruined.
ID. \. Page, AZ, one of the most success
fdl medical practitioners in that section of
the State, was frozen 10 death While lying
on the highway near DelphOs. His home
is at RushmOre.
Miss Minnie Johnston of Huntsville,
while pairing potatoes slightly cut one of
her fingers. Blood poison has set in and
she may lose her arm.
| At Corning, John Davis, a miner, aged
q, employed at mine 81, was fatally hurt
by the explosion of a keg Of powder which
he was carrying. A driver and horse were
also seriously burned.
Councils at number of the towns
along the Cincinnati, Portsmouth and
Virginia Railroad have passed ordinances
making it all offence for train to block
a street for five minutes.
| A telegram from Urbana says that the
prospects are excellent for the biggest flow
of maple sugar water in recent years in
| Ohio. in conQuence of which the pro-
lucers are in a happy mood.
Lester Chance was hauling logs near
Bucyrus, when the loom polo broke,
shocking him against :. moving machine.
His head struck prOtruding bolt and it
sank into his skull, crushing it in.
The contract for repairing and building
| Of two sections of the Moscow and Felic-
| ity turnpike, near Moscow, was awarded
by the Commissioners TO Ora Laughlin
for s99S and l.. {. Patiison for Si17.
The 1-year-old child of Frank Ball, all
iron molder of Bowling Green, chokcd 10
death by swallowing large screw. The
mother is nearly insane with grief.
| Physicians were unable to cXtricatc the
| screw.
Charles Roland Of Eifert, lost his way
in the hills and was obliged 10 lie in the
| SnOw all night. As result his hands,
feet and ears were terribly frozen. One
of his hands was amputated and he will
lose both feet.
At Wellington, Mrs. l. II. Wadsworth
was knocked down and one freight car
passed over her body. She was rescued
from the wheels of second car by by
stander. She was greatly frightened and
injured internally.
While cutting wood with his father
near New Hampshire, several days ago,
Lawrence BOdkinS was struck OH the
head by a falling limb. His skull was
fractured, and since then he has been
rational only at times.
Miss Hannah Rcam, the largest woman
in Clark County, weighing 450 pounds,
dropped dead at her home in Dalton. She
was 67 years old, and the special coffin
ordered measured 81 inches in length, 50
inches wide and % inches deep.
Mrs. Margaret Morris, widow, aged 81
years, was horribly burned at IrontoD, her
clothing ignitiEg from an open CRATE fire.
She cannot recover. Mrs. Anna Wagner,
a Deighbor, was dangerously burned in
trying TO render Mrs. Morris assistance.
AS the result of trouble at a country
schoolhouse three miles north of Win.
LII;
boy, is nursing broken collar lone and
internal injuries, and James Brookover,
his teacher, las been arrested for assault
and battery.
Harvey Collins, young man living
north OF Nenia, while assisting in put
ting harness on colt his brother Va:
breaking, was kicked by the aniln
fracturing tie frontal bone, and badly i'll
juring him otherwise. 1t is thought that
he cannot recover.
The death of Hon. Lewis Evans Oc-
CURED the other night at his home, in
Newark, after long and distressing ILL
ness. Mr.. Evans was member of the
Ohio Senate about quarter of u century
ago and he also held other positions of
trust i'll the city and county. Mr.. Evans
was rs years of age. He was prominent
Mason.
In spite of the protest of Bowling Green
merchants the Toledo, Bowling Green
and Fremont Electric Road will he built
through that city. Judge Melhorn has
dissolved tue temporary injunction
granted, and the work of extending the
electric road into the city, which has teen
at the corporation line six months, will
bc commenced at once.
Isaac Stephenson, a patient at the Ath-
ems Insane Asylum, from Adams County,
was found on The hospital grounds near
the main building frozen 10 death. Bain.
a truSty, he was permitted 10 attend
church in the city alone, and it was not
noticed but what he had returned. 1t is
supposed that lie purposely ended his life,
as lie had taken of his Oyercoat and other |
garments, folding them for Il pillow, and
had tied his hat over his face with iand-
kerchicf.
Mr.. Charles Russell. a wealthy oil man,
residing at North Baltimore, was fatally |
burned. lie discovered his residence OH |
fire, and with his wife, beat hasty re- |
treat. Thinking of some valuable pap
lie rushed back into the burning building, |
and was dragged out horribly burned and |
nearly dead.
hdlSOn MdcAuiey, dScu UU years, Il |
contract of Alliance, well known through |
out the State, was instantly killed while |
sleigh riding. His horse ran away, up
setting the sleigh and throwing him
against a telephone pole, crushing his
skull. lie was born in Scotland, and was
Il wealthy widOwer.
In runaway accident Mrs. f. l..
Rowe, wife OF well-known attorney of
Dayton, was thrown from sleigh. Her
left hip was dislocated, collar bone broken,
and she received number of gashes
about the head and body. Mrs. Rowe
was the sole occupant Of the sleigh,
drawn by a trotting stallion with swift
race record.
The safe in the Office of the Standard
Oil Company, just north of the Pennsyl-
ylnia Passenger Depot, at Lima, was
.own open the other night. There was