The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1901-05-09
Minor State Items.

window of her home at Dayton and will
die.
At Ashtabula, Mrs. Max Wolfe was
fatally burned by the explosion of gaso
line stove.
At Toledo. Robert Coperhader, aged 10,
fell out of rOwboat into the river and
was drowned.
At Cadiz, Earl Beam lit keg of pow
der in pOsthole, and was blown twenty
feet il the air.
Mrs. S. Bond was burned to death at
Belle Valley while making soap, her cloth
ing catching fire.
Anna Bogio. child years old, was
/ burned to death at Youngstown. She was
playing with matches.
Caroline Martin. aged s., was killed
while attempting to cross bridge at Troy.
She could not hear the train.
| While helping her mother build fire in
the kitchen stove 4-year-Cid Ethel Rems-
BERG was burned to death at Tiffin.
John Cook, aged II, and George Holtz-
man were thrown from their wagon in a
runaway at Toledo and both fatally in
jured.
Gov. Nash has decided to omit this year
the quinquennial enrolment of persons of
military service qualifications living in the
State.
| Gov. Nash is urging Gen. Thomas NJ.
Anderson to accept the post of Command
ant at the Ohio Soldiers ana Sailors Home
at Sandusky.
William Kellar fell twenty-five feet
from the National Steel Company's build
ing at Mingo Junction, dying from inju-
rieS sustained.
Game Wardens destroyed over zoo
trammel nets in Lewiston Reservoir the
other night. The nets were cut and lifted
from the water and taken to Bellefontaine
in wagons.
The State Archaeological and Historical
Society, in session at Columbus, reelected
the present officers. The Legislature will
be asked to make an appropriation for the
joint benefit of either the State Library or
the State University Library and the
Archaeological Society, and erect a
building which will properly shelter their
valuables.
Mrs. Clara Day, residing west of Belle
fOntaine, while brushing the cushion in
her carriage saw blood burst from one of
her fingers aud spout to the top of the car
riage. She was at loss to know the
cause of it, and at once went to Bellefon-
taine. A physician found fiobert rifle
bail in the finger. Mrs. Day heard
neither the shot nor felt the pain of the
ball.
Mrs. Annie Newton of Delaware, who
was seized with an attack of neuralgia of
the heart and supposed to have died, sur
prised her family and friends by walking
downstairs into their midst from the room
where she had been laid out for burial.
Mrs. Newton was to all appearances dead,
and had been laid out in an upper room
and preparations made for the funeral.
Friends of the family had called and Of
fered coincidence.
The directors of the American Sheet
Steel Company have authorized improve
ments at the Aetna Standard plant at
Bridgeport that will make it the greatest
sheet mill in the world. The present
plant employs about $500 hands and the
addition TO be built will be almost, if not
dltoEStucl as ldtkC. WI COSt
100000. The plant now occupies nearly
twenty acres of ground and fifteen acres
additional are available for the improve
ments.
The Comptroller OF the Currency has
approved the application for the organi
zation of the First National Bank of Orr
vile. The bank will have capital
stock of $4,000. The incorporators are
A. w. Blackburn of BarbertOn: ID. +.
and Frank Reichenbach. The Comptrol
Ter Of the Currency has extended the cor
pOrate existence of the German National
Bank of Cincinnati until the close of bus
.iness, April 20, 1921.
Mrs. Anna Heffner of Columbus. saw
her 2-yearold daughter, Annie Marie,
drown before her eyes, and was unable to
rescue the little one. The little girl fell
into an open cistern in neighboring yard
and the mother ran to the rescue. She saw
the child's dress floating on top Of tn
water and reached for it, but could not
touch 1t by an inch. Her screams brought
others to her assistance, but little time
was lost in the excitement, and when the
little one was taken from the cistern she
was dead.
Joseph Hisey, farmer 81 years of age.
is alleged to have scared his wife TO death.
He resides near New Waterford in CO.
lumbiana County, and is insane. He had
been patient at the Massillon Asylum.
but about a month ago was pronounced
cured and sent home. Soon signs of his
Old malady were observed. lie grew
steadily worse, and for the past week is
said 10 have been exceedingly violent,
threatening to take his own life and that
of his wife. The other morning, during a
violent paroxySm, he jumped through
window, breaking the glass and scream
ing at the top of his voice. His wife, who
was subject TO heart disease, was SO terri
fed and shocked that she died, and the
attending physician said her death was
due to fright. He has been reeommitted
to the asylum.
With threats of burning his feet with a
lighted torch. three robbers secured from
Walter Woodward of White Cottage, a
hamlet eight miles south of GAINESVILLE, 4
small amount of money.
William Cook, Montgomery County
prisoner in the penitentiary, was dis
charged from that institution totally blind,
although when he entered the institution
he had good eyesight. 1t is claimed that
his loss of sight is due to his having been
put to work in one of the shops where
strong acids are used on hot irons. An
effort is being made to secure his admis-
sion to the blind asylum.
A i-year-old daughter of Michael Fate,
a prominent Tiffin business man. fell into
the Sandusky River, and was .rescuel by
Miss Laura Leitner, a maiden lady. who
was fishing near the scene of the accident.
The water was up TO Miss Letters chin,
and the lady weighs more than 200
pounds, but she succeeded in getting the
child TO the bank and in Icscuing her
uncle, Ephraim Sohn, aged Is years, who.
coming TO the rescue. plunged headlong OFF
the bank. and would have drowned but
for the heroism of his niece.
An immense fall of rock at the Prosper
lily Mines near Dennison. resulted in the
death of Lafe PonSett and the injury of
other npr.pu