The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1901-08-01
Buckeye News In Brief.

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died within few minutes. Heart failure
I is the supposed cause.
| Fire destroyed the three frame business
houses at st. Paris, owned by the First
| National bank. the McWorran estate and
Mrs Harriet Brubaker.
Charles Stegg. aged "a, of Detroit. was
fatally injured by being struck by flying
coupling pin from ear in the Michigan
Central yards at Toledo.
Finley Brunner was seriously injured at
| Tiffn, while trying to fix up a binder.
which was out of order. lie was under
the machine when the support gave way,
and pinioned him beneath a brace.
James Blake, o. and l.. K. freight
brakeman, was sent back TO flag passen-
| ger train near Marietta. He sat down on
| the end Of tie and went to sleep. A
passenger train struck and killed him.
Emmett Wurtzbaugh. the 9-year-old son
of Frank Wurtzbaugh of MarysvilIe, was
! horribly scalded by his mother upsetting
a kettle of boiling molasses upon him.
| The flesh dropped from his body in-places.
and recovery is doubtful. Ills I3-year-Old
brother fell thirty feet the day before from
tree and broke bothOf his arms and two
| ribs.
A dispatch from Mt. Gilead, says that j..
II. Collinger, aged s.. and Miss Amy
Frantz, aged 81, of San Antonio, Texas,
| had expected to marry, they having
become acquainted through correspond
ence. Just before the ceremony COllinger
| discovered that his intended was his
daughter Lizzie, who had been stolen by
gypsies fifty years before.
a heavy freight train on the Big Four
road ran into heavily loaded passenger
train at Columbia Station, eighteen miles
west of Cleveland. Five trainmen were
hurt. but not seriously. The injured are
| Station Agent Harris, of Bellefcntaine; c.
Rath. Cleveland; j. F. Clark. mail clerk,
Cincinnati, and two other railroad men
whose names were not learned.
The recently elected officers of the Sew
enth regiment. @. n. e., passed their ex-
has issued commissions to them as follows:
Colonel, c. A. Thompson: Lieutenant
Colonel, l.. II. Palmer, and Majors, Robert
Calland and F. c. Wooster. Lieutenant
J. Clifford Henderson of the Manchester
company of this regiment, was also COM
missiOned.
Springfield gets the Krell-French Piano
company. which was recently organized
with capital stock of $250,000. Albert
Krell, of Cincinnati, who is at the head of
the company, has closed deal for the
purchase of the north wing of the East
street shops now owned by Senator Fair
banks of Indiana. He stated that they
would be ready to start up in six weeks, Z
and that they would employ 600 men,
Fireman Douglass of the Pennsylvania,
attended the funeral of an aunt at Crestline
several weeks ago. Since that time he was
in constant fear of tragic death. Every
time he was called out he had a presenti-
ment that he would be brought back dead.
A day OF so ago he asked lay off, so that
he could return home and forget the pre-
sentiment. He returned home, and was
assisting in unloading hay. Lightning
struck the barn and he was instantly killed.
francesca Ruberto was married about
seven months ago. and lived at Brier Hill.
His wife recently left him, claiming that
he did not support her, and came to the
home of her mother, Mrs. Beluito Shera,
peared at the Shera home and found Joe
BeluitO on the porch. He asked his wife
to return to him, but she refused. Loud
words followed, and Ruberto fired four
shots at Beluito and cut him on the head
with knife, killing him instantly. After
shooting his wife in the head Ruberto fled,
but was pursued to Youngstown and ar
rested. Jealously over Mrs. Ruberto was
the cause.
Columbus is the most law-abiding large
city in the State. Its percentage Of crime
is materially lower than that shown by any
OF the other cities in the reports Of Jail sta
tistics now coming in to the Secretary Of
State. Cincinnati shows the greatest per-
centage of crime. With population of
409, 40. Hamilton county had in her Jail
during the past year 2,1l7 prisoners, or
511-1O00 of per cent Cuyahoga, with a
population of iS9, 10, shows 1852 prison.
ers, or 1000 of per cent. Lucas, with
a population of l53559 people, sent 466 Of
them to Jail, or 30i-lO00 of 1 per cent,
while Franklin with population Of 1884,
600, had in its Jail during the year Only>4S0
prisoners. or 26l-1Oo) of per cent. This
means that while Cincinnati has crimi-
nal for every 200 population, Columbus
averages only one law breaker to about
400 population.
Mrs. Sarah Brown, 76, of Dresden. Ohio,
was burned to death at the residence of
her son, W. J. Brown, No. 229 Lexington
avenue, Columbus. A light dressing sack
she wore caught fire from gas jet.
Assistant Attorney-General Todd has
decided to call the attention of the Postof-
flee Department TO the alleged abuse of
the mails by the National Investment
company of Cincinnati, in soliciting REIN
suranee for Kentucky concern. The
National company Is one of the debenture
concerns which is under the ban for oper-
ating a lottery, and the government has
made ruling against such methods.
Attorney General Sheets, in an opinion
sent TO State Auditor Guilbert, holds
Charles Brumfieid, treasurer of Richland
county, responsible for a very large short
age. The Attorney General finds that the
SIS 600 back taxes should be charged in
full to the county treasurer. He rules
that the attorneys in the cases, which were
compromised in the courts, had no author
ity to retain any sum whatever Of the
amount collected.
The Ohio State Sabbath League has re-
considered its action against the State
Fair, and will not boycott it on account OF
Sunday opening. The Catholic clergy are
unanimous in commencing an open Sun
day for the fair.
Emmons & KisSell's thrasher engine
blew up at Clint Boyd's farm near Ash
land leak was discovered and Engi-
geer Jay Jackson was in the act OF draw
ing the fire when the explosion occurred.
lie was thrown H feet into clover field
and escaped with only cuts on the face and
a bruised arm. John Wertman, who was
feeding, had his skull laid bare by the belt
and is in critical condition. John Kis-
sell, who stood twelve feet away, was