The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1901-05-02
Minor State Items.

John "A. Morrison, Civil War veteran,
was killed by Columbus, Sandusky and
Hooking train at Renville.
Alvie Denman accidentally shot and
killed his little sister Daisy while playing
with children at their home in Piqua.
Mrs. Abe Anderson, the wife of promi-
nent farmer near Portsmouth. was thrown
from her buggy and fatally kicked by her
horse.
Thomas ". Minshall, Brigadier General
commanding the Knights of Pythias, an
nounces that Dayton will secure the State
Encampment this summer.
While his mother was absent from
home. Wayne Fulton, child living near
Gallipolis, was roasted alive. His clothes
caught on fire from the CRATE.
Fred Hildebrand, the 1O-year-old son Of
John Hildebrand, a farmer residing on the
kingsville road, near Dayton, was kicked
in the head by horse and will die.
At Newark. Mrs. Samuel Hagans was
burned to death, and her 3-year old grand
son, Winnie KOOntZ, seriously injured
when Mrs. Hagans tried to start fire
with oil.
The Fourth and Second Regiments of
the Ohio National Guard, located at Col
umbus and Lima respectively, will attend
the Pan-American Exposition at the
expense of the State.
| WOrkmen, in drilling a well on the
premises of Joseph Abela in Springfield.
struck oil at the depth of sixty-fve feet.
Operations have been stopped, and an
effort will he made to develop the strike.
Coroner Henzler says the death of Gil
bert E. Harris, aged 4, at Toledo, was the
result of faith cure treatment that failed.
The parents called no physician to attend
the sick child, which died of measles and
exposure.
| The body Of John Barry of Youngstown,
who mysteriously disappeared last Janu-
ary while visiting his daughter, Mrs.
Marguerite Parkin, in Ashtabula, was
found in the lake recently. Two hundred
dollars was gone.
| Mrs. Ella Braham of New York, has
been reappOinted Commissioner of Deeds
for Ohio. The Attorney General looked
up the law and found there was no legal
obstacle to woman holding the position.
She was first appointed in 1888.
| At Salem, Charles w. Gamble and fam
lily, with the exception of Mrs. Gamble,
came near dying from eating canned corn.
The family was snow-bound, and could
not send for physician until almost too
late. One child will probably die.
Rodney W. Bell of Springfield, has been
elected Captain of Company E, o. n. c.,
to succeed Captain Horace E. Smith, re-
signed. Captain Bell was formerly First
Lieutenant of the company, and there was
no opposition to his candidacy for tho
| position.
A car ON a Pennsylvania coal train
jumped the track at Cambridge, and de-
molished the B. and U. target house.
Engineer Fred Johns Of Newark. was in
stantly killed. The operator, E. E. Hoke,
and B. and o. Engineer Woodford were
badly injured.
Charles Tolle went to West Union from
| Oak Grove to buy wedding outfit and
was, instead, probably fatally hurt. His
brother, Chauncey, was with him, and on
arriving in the town both began drinking.
They lost control of their horse and it ran
into the courthouse fence, throwing both
out. Charles's skull was fractured by
falling on stone.
Mrs. Frank Irwin of Circleville, with
| her 4-year old child in her arms and lead
ing her 6-year-old daughter, attempted to
| cross Little Walnut Creek on a footlog
The log turned and pIecipitated all of
them into the water. The mother by
| almost superhuman efforts saved herself
and 4-year-old child, but the 6-year-old
| daughter was swept away by the torrent
and drowned. The body has not yet
| been recovered.
Adjutant General Gyger has decided to
supply the Ohio militia with cartridges
loaded with shot instead of balls to be
used when the troops are called out for
riot duty. The shot are put into the shell
| in circle, with eight or ten in the exact
center. Experiments show that the center
shot goes straight to the mark while those
in the circle scatter. General Gyger says
the new shells are reasonably effective at
short range and will not kill innocent
people at great distance from the rioting
as is universally the case where cartridges
loaded with balls are used.
With the death of Edward Taylor Of Mt.
Victory. a chain of misfortunes that have
been following the family seems to have
been completed. Mr.. Taylor was the
father-in-law of County Recorder j. L.
Wood, who died in Office last fall. He
was also the father-in-law of John HOben-'
sack, an engineer, who was killed in a
railroad wreck. Not long after the death
of Mr.. Hobensack, a baby of the widowed
daughter, Mrs. Wood, died, and then a
cousin in Bellefontaine answered the last
call. While driving home from the funeral
Mr.. Taylor and Mrs. Wood were both
thrown from the buggy and injured, the
horse having dropped dead. Last fall Mr..
Taylor was riding on load OF fodder. and
was thrown to the ground. Two ribs were
broken, and he was badly bruised.
Miss Georgia HOpley of Bucyrus, has
been named as one of the Board of Man
ayers of the Pan-American Exposition.
Governor Nash will appoint a Cleveland
lady to fill Ohio's quota.
The Ohio Society of the Sons of the
American Revolution elected the follow
ing officers: President, +. o. Randall,
Columbus; Secretary, Major Robert
Davidson, Newark; Treasurer, S. G. Har-:
vey, Toledo; Registrar, Colonel w. L.
curry, columbus. Inc society appointed
committee to look to marking the graves
of 5000 soldiers of the Revolution in this
state.
John Berquist, frescO artist, Of Chlca-
go, fell from a platform in the First Ma
tional Bank at Youngstown, head down
ward and received probably fatal injuries.
A proposition has just been made to
endow the National Normal University at
Lebanon. Messrs. William E Harmon,
Charles f. Wood and Clifford b. Harmon
of Boston, formerly OF Lebanon, have
offered $4,000 to the institution, provided
the present Indebtedness Of s24, 74S is paid
by the citizens, leaving it free from in
cumbrance. Nearly $4,000 has already
been subscribed, and the prospects for
securing the balance are favorable. Prof.
J. W. Withers is President of the unver-
Sity-