The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1899-10-19
Minor State Itc ms.

ing as peacemaker, was so terribly beaten
that he will die.
A. &. Lockhart, Jr.. of Rome, killed a
bald eagle. Jt was found to be five feet
two inches from tip to tip.
A gun held by John Winters. colored,
Circleville, was accidentally discharged by
boat lurching. and killed him.
While temporarily deranged, Mrs. A. A.
Warner, aged 30, of Poe, cut her throat and
wrist in twenty places and died.
A rich vein of coal has been discovered
in Seneca County, the first in the history
of the county. 1t is fifty feet below the
surface.
When Mrs Fred G.. Geer of Akron,
awOke the other morning she held the life
less body of her son in her arms. He had
died of commissions during the night. She
is crazed with grief
j. j. Collier, conductor on the c., ii. &
D., was caught between two strings of
cars, at Toledo, and fatally crushed. He
died while his leg was being amputated at
the Toledo Hospital.
Henry Aukman. the Logan County piO-
neer, aged IS years, who tried to commit
suicide by eating fragments of glass and
stabbed himself in the abdomen with a
pair of sheep shears, died in great agony.
Charles LOrett, a stOnecutter of Hami-
ton. had a nail driven through the palm of
his left hand while at work, in attempting
to adjust revolving saw. His hand was
impaled on nail projecting from board
Overhanging the saw.
Charles Deck, of near Jelloway, was
| riding horse to water. An iron hook on
the harness caught in the lower part of the
lads abdomen, and when he fell from the
animal through sheer pain his intestines
were to.H out. Recovery is believed i'm
possible.
A valuable team of horses was killed in
stantly at Lorain by coming in contact
with guy wire, which was charged with
electricity from the Electric Railway Com
pany's trolley wire. The team was the
property of f. Wise, the South LOrain
liveryman.
John Thomas and ''Wid'' Skinner of
Huntington, got into an alteration with
Webster Freeze of Point Pleasant. Freeze
was getting the best of Thomas when Skin
ner shot Freeze near the spine, fatally
wounding him. Officers captured Skinner,
but Thomas eluded the authorities.
Mrs. Richard Carey, aged 45 years, of
Kent, dropped dead a few days ago. She
has been anxiously looking for her
wounded son, John, home from the Philip
pines, and joy at the near approach of his
home coming caused her death. The son
is a member of the Fourth Cavalry, and
has been in the Philippines for sixteen
| months.
Jesse Harrington, father of II. b. Har-
| ringtOn. the well-knOwn politician, died
| recently at Medina, aged 80. Over fifty
years ago his neck was broken. He was
supposed to be fatally injured, but dispite
| all predictions. continued to improve until
the seemingly fatal injury was entirely
healed and he was spared to live long past
the limit of ordinary mortality.
Leroy Hiltabiddle was instantly killed
on the Wooster avenue line, Akron. His
head was almost severed from his body and
he was crushed and mangled beyond recog
milton. A minute after the accident his IA
ther, who was returning home, noticed the
crowd. He pushed through the circle
around the boy to learn that it was his son
who had been killed. The boy was II
years of age.
AS the result of the absorption of the
LOzier. Viking and Cotton Bicycle factO
rles of Toledo. by the American Bicycle
Company (the trustJ travelling men for
those concerns are seeking for other posi-
tons, as they realize their services will be
no longer needed, as there will be no COM
petition between the products of the factO
ries 1t is also stated that the services of
250 wOrkmen will be dispensed with by the
| trust
| Farmers living south of FoStoria have
been greatly benefited during the drought
| by the peculiar conduct of an abandoned
oil well, which began some time ago to
send out a strong flow of cold fresh water.
! As the flow was continuous and showed no
signs of letting up, the neignborng farmers
| put in pipe lines and tanks and have been
using the water for drinking and irrigating
purposes. 1t is believed that the water has
medicinal qualities, and some of it will be
sent away for analysis.
Miss Jessie Stell of ChillieOthe, bathed
her feet in solution of strong liniment,
and was warming her toes at the open
CRATE when the liniment caught fire, and
in moment her feet were blazing merrily.
In her excitement she dropped the bottle,
and the liniment which it contained was
also ignited Her shrieks for help sum-
mOned assistance, and the fire was put out,
but not before she had been very severely
burned, and it will be long time before
she is able to walk again.
Fred Lutz, Con Hicks and Joseph
Hoover, prominent sporting men from
Marion, were assaulted at LewistOwn
Reservoir by an organized gang of trap
pers." Several shots were fired at the in
offensive men. and in desperate fight that
ensued. one of the gang was rendered un-
conscious, and almost killed by blow re-
ceived from club in the han1s of a
Marion man. The ''trappers" had mis-
| taken Hicks for Game Warden knSley of
Lima, against whom war TO the death has
been declared.
The fall shooting in the marshes is re-
ported the poorest in many years. The
present game laws of Michigan, permitting
wild duck shooting nine months in the
| year. has Idu tllt tHcCt VI dlhlost NiPihS
out this game, which has for years been SO
plentiful around Toledo.
1t has been learned at Akron that IL. E.
LoOmis. who sold his salt plant to the trust
had already organized another company
with $780, 1000 capital. 1t will build plant
at Barberton where salt has been found
with a c5kacity of fifteen cars per day
Contracts have been secured for nearly the
entire output. 1t will be independent.
Mrs. Fred Schroeder of st. John, was
making apple butter, and while stirring
the large kettle in the yard her dress
caught fire. She was soon enveloped ii
flames, and ran screaming toward the
house Her husband was coming home tt
dinner, and just as he reached the porct
his wife ran around the corner of the house
She fell into his arms with the cry: I'm
burning up" He succeeded in putting