The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1901-11-28
Buckeye News in Brief.


A 3-year-Old child of Otto Fox, residing
near Denquat, was burned to death, its
clothing catching from red hot stove.
j. Z. Carnahan of Canton. says he will
| furnish the necessary funds for a million
dollar steel plant to be erected at NOrwalk.
hart by train. His home was in South
Dakota, but he formerly lived at Erhart.
There is movement afOOt to limit the
session of the Legislature to sixty days.
1t usually lasts eleven weeks or four
| months.
Police Director Dunn is '.going after
the policy shops in Cleveland. He has re-
quested the police to use all possible means
to suppress them.
An explosion of natural gas in the resi-
dence of ii. a. Garrett at Akron probably
fatally injured Mrs. Garrett. who was i'll
in bed at the time.
The 3-year-Old child of Mrs. William
Cue Of lockwood, fell into fire and was
fatally burned. The mother was badly
burned trying to save It.
Mrs. Anna Truitt. aged IS, of 293 West
High Street, Springfield, was burned to
death. She put some coal in stove and
sparks set fire to her dress.
The next General Assembly will be
asked to appropriate money for the cree
ton Of busts to the memory of Garfield
and Mckinley in the StatehOuse.
During the past year sixteen prisoners
were pardoned from the penitentiary by
Gov. Nash. The Governor did not make
Thanksgiving pardon this year.
William Smith, alias Joe Brown. a
Franklin County penitentiary prisoner,
died recently. lie was serving life SEN
tence under the habitual criminal act. He
has spent about 60 per cent. of his life in
prison.
The wife of Frank j. McCulloch and
Mrs. Jennie Cushman. prominent So
pranO, were badly hurt in a runaway ac-
cident at Bellefontaine. Mrs. Cushman
suffered a broken collar bone and lac
Grated face.
After getting $500 from the depot safe
and $500 in cash and silverware from resi-
iences. the two men who blew open the
c. II. & ID strong box at Findlay. stole a
rig and drove to FOstOria. There all trace
of them was lost.
A ten-tOn bOwlder was detached from a
cliff at New Boston, and crashed down the
hillside into the residence of Phil Emmert.
The front Of the house was STAYED in, and
the rock buried itself far in the dwelling.
None of the inmates were injured.
Many families along the roadside at
New Boston, near Portsmouth, are making
preparations to vacate their homes tempo
rarily. An investigation conducted by
Phil Emmert, the New Boston salOonist
whose home was partially wrecked re-
Gently by bOwlder detached from the
cliff above the road, discovered the fact
that the falling rock was but one corner of
hundred-tOn mass which has become
detached from the cliff and is now tOtter-
irg 200 feet above the roadside. and which
is liable to descend at any moment. The
buildings in danger will probably be va
Gated for short time and the threatening
cliff blown to pieces with dynamite.
wrapped in an old towel upon the table,
with living child crying for food, with
nothing but six driedup potatoes and 4
crust of bread as hard and dry as stone,
with no fuel and little clothing to protect
her or her child from the wintry weather,
Mrs. Mary Ostrander was found slowly
dying of starvation in little room at the
corner of Denison and Pearl Streets,
Cleveland. Mrs. OStrander, the foster
mother Of the starved baby, is a seamstress
without the health and strength to work.
For nearly two years she has been an
invalid. The wOman's husband left her
three years ago and has never been seen
since. ''He ran away with another
woman" said Mrs. Ostrander. She was
too proud to seek charity and neighbors
discovered her condition and furnished
relief.
Will White, SO, blind Of one eye, lost the
other optic by running against bar of
red-hot iron carried by fellow worker at
the Runway Speed Recorder Works, Kent.
Governor Nash has pardOned W. +.
Farms, from Hooking County, for one
year, for assault with intent to kill. He
is an old man, and his time would have
expired in eight days. He is exPresident
of the Ohio United MinewOrkers. Frank
Stuck and Bert Lutz, from Allen County,
to the Mansfield RefOrmatory, were par
dOned because 1.-THE Offense was trivial and
the boys were not given the benefit of legal
advice and counsel"
DR.. Isaac Morris Beck died at Sardinia,
aged 95. He had practiced medicine in
that place since 1919, and was an active
anti-slavery man, becoming prominent as
an underground railway conductor. He
was living argument against the theory
of the injurious effects of tobacco, having
used it since childhood.
Stephen Graham. one of the best known
Republican politicians in Union County,
is dead, as the result of injuries sustained
while working about his home. He leaves
a widow and seven children.
At Kenton, Peter RObeck slipped on
some ice, and broke his right leg at the hip,
the joint also being diSlocated. He is "A
years old, and may die.
In case for riding bicycle path with
out a license Judge Gilmore of Warren,
held the State side path law to be uncon-
stitutional because it creates county Off
cials appOintive instead of elective, and
ucCduSC tiic NouHtN Dodiu Hdu HO IIHilt u
utilize public property for private pur-
poses.
Nicholas Wiegand, aged IS, was in
stantly killed on the Cleveland, LOrain
and Wheeling Railway at MassillOn, while
attempting to cross street in front of
train.
Congressman SOuthard will introduce a
bill at the opening of Congress for the
erection of $2,OOO,0OO postoffice building
In T"iodn-