The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1901-08-22


Asa r. Robinson, aged IS, was drowned
in the SciOto River at Columbus, while in
swimming. He was seized with cramps
and went under in sight Of his father.
Near Darbyville. Clyde Long, I2-year-
old boy. was thrown by a horse and in
stantly killed. His mother witnessed the
accident, and is almost frantic with grief
Governor Nash has appointed Esther B.
Glendhill of Leesville, Crawford County
to scholarship in the School of Industrial
Art and Technical Design in New Yorh
City.
Governor Nash has pardoned Charles
French, serving twelve years sentence
from Cleveland for robbery. A condition
of the pardon is abstinence from the use Of,
intOxicants.
The Federal Government will abandon
the attempt to force the City Of Columbus
to furnish good water supply for the
barracks, and will erect an independent
water plant.
Wagner brothers, aged and 4 years,
while stealing ride at Massillon, jumped
from street car to escape the conductor
One sustained fractured skull the other
a broken arm.
William Barnes, a ditch contractor re-
siding at Bellefontaine, has gone, and NJ
knowledge is had of his whereabouts
Neighbors found the wife and children
suffering for want Of food.
Patrick Caldwell, aged 8, son of Charles
Caldwell Of Wellsville, was instantly
killed by an electric car at Comet. His
companion. John Warren, was so badly
injured that he cannot live.
John Leiner, aged 20, son of County
Commissioner Leiner of Wooster, while
deliriOus-from typhoid fever. took drink
from bottle containing carbOlic acid. He
died in less than five minutes.
President Mckinley has accepted an in
vitatiOn to be present at the dedication Of
the Methodist Home for Aged at Yellow
Springs, end will deliver an address, Ths
exact date for the dedication has not been
set.
A perfectly developed girl babe was
found on a sand bar along the Hooking
River at Athens, by William Jordon. II
had been there several days. Death
evidently resulted from neglect and ex-
p0sure.
A heavy B. and o. excursion train from
Sandusky jumped the track at the Penn
sylvania crossing in Tiffin, deraiIing thfes
coaches and turning them across the track
The passengers were badly shaken up apd
excited, but none were seriously injured
The crossing where W. o. Rowe, the
Columbus lumber dealer, was killed ~
MassillOn, is the Identical spot On which
the house in which he was born formerly
stood. Rowe left Massillon when child
He was visiting there when his death
occurred.
5 Afast freight train lost a caboose ON
Hobby Hill. which jumped the track
,pinhing Brakeman wm. McCabe, under
the wheels and seriously injuring Con-
duetor Jacob Deeren and passenger
George Walden. Ths injured men are in
the hospital at Marietta.
John Cunningham, porter in a Colnm-
bus saloon, has been notified that he Is one
Of the heirs, and possible the sole heir, to
a fortune estimated in the hundreds Of
thousands, left by his nephew, John Leary
Mhnreeently dropped dead on the streets
of Beaumont, Texas. Leary formerly
made his home with Cunningham when
Leary bad little money and Cunningham
but little more. Leary went to Texas ts
try his fortune, and struck oil. Cunning
ham and one other, a farmer living in
Madison County, will inherit the wealth.
VIM E. Irish of Burton Avenue, Glen
vile, has invented an airship for which he
claims a speed of 200 miles an hour He
worked on the machine for. thirty years.
lie says: .Yes, am fully prepared to
undertake journey, say from Cleveland
to-Cincinnati. My machine IS one big
series of wings. The extreme width Of
the tips is twenty feet. Each wing is
twelve inches wide and there are two sets
of eleven inch wings, one above the other
below the operators seat. Bird feathers
are used in the construction Of the wings,
The'maehine can be operated either with
r.without an engine. The engine 1 use
weighs but forty five pounds and centains
ne. moving parts. have two machines
ready fer flight and will likely make
Journey very soon.
: President Mckinley has granted. .
pardon to John b. Bulley, serving
three years sentence in the Ohio Pen
itentiary.. Bulley was clerk in the
Toledo postefice, and was convicted OF
stealing, opening and destroying letters.
Morris Welch, l6-year-old boy, ex-
hibited remarkable nerve when his arm
was cut off by Hooking Valley freigh.
train at Columbus, under whose wheels he
fell He did. not whfinper, although his
arm was cut completely off at the shoulder,
and even when placed in the ambulance
grieyed more because Of his mothers grief
than for his own injury.
Greatexcitement exists at Spout Springs,
down the Detroit Southern, between Balm
bridge and Greenfield. over the discovery
of gold. The news was brought to Spring.
field, by ROadmaster j. A. LOwery and
Lineman T. L. Reid Of the road. They
state that the people are wild and are ex-
pecting great things of the discovery. As
the story goes, a miner found two nuggets
recently. They are as large as peas anG
each contain 81 worth of gold dust. Some
dust was also found. Several months agS
another miner discovered some gold dust,
but nothing was thought of it at the time.
The second discovery was made near the
same place, and everybody in the village
has the fever.
BY the timely action of a small boy a
disastrous wreck was prevented on the
Cincinnati Northern Railroad near Van
Vert. A long trestie and bridge at
Stump's Crossing was set afire from
sparks from a locomotive. The structure
was soon consumed. SOuthbOund passen-
yer train No. left Van Vert at ]: 40 D. m
without knowledge CT the bridge having
been burned. A young lad tagged the
train short distance from the scene Of
destruction.
From a gas explosion at Huntington 4
Selby's oil well on the jackson farm near
Marietta, the derrick and two large filed
tanks were destroyed, and Pumpes
Kenneth Barnes was badly burned