The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1901-07-25
Buckeye News In Brief.

Buckeye News In Brief.
| gored by vicious bull.
Alexander Freshour, of Summit Hill.
| fell under the wheels of his wagon and the
horses kicked him to DEATH
J. W. Bennett, stock man OF Cold
water, was crushed to death in the Lake
Erie and Western yards at Lima.
Conductor Moses Thomas of the Lima
Street Railway, stepped from his moving
car, was hurled some distance and fatally
injured.
James Flynn, veteran blacksmith
known all over Ohio, was killed at Ur-
bana while attempting to board an Erie
freight train.
Edward Westiand, hotel man of Burton.
was struck by Cleveland and Eastern
suburban car near Middlefield and in
stantly killed.
Captain Alexis Keller Of Columbus, has
received his twenty-seventh consecutive
appointment as chief of the police force al
the Ohio State Fair.
c. ID. Gift, aged S5, engineer at l.. ID.
Beisley Company's flour mill at Amesville.
was caught in the machinery and disem-
bOweled. He cannot recover.
Ralph Lefevere, 3-year-old SON of Dan
Lefevere of 80 West Southern Avenue,
Springfield, died from the spilling of
vessel OF boiling water, which struck the
child on the head.
Martin Harding, a boy, was struck by
lightning while working in a hay field near
Gambler. A hole the size of walnut was
torn in the back of his head and his cloth
ing and shoes were split from his body.
leaving him stark naked when found
dead.
Paul Hague, known as Prof. Zeno, an
aerOnaut, was fatally injured at Island
Park, Springfield, falling 200 feet. The
parachute failed to open and he fell into
corn field. He was married recently to
Mabel Brandon, also an aeronaut, who
was seriously injured by falling from
balloon at the fair grounds in Springfield.
on June %.
Aaron r. Daily and John Weber. both
farmers Of Hancock county and lifelong
friends, were killed on their respective
farms almost at the same time. Daily was
driving hay wagon, fell beneath the
wheels and was crushed. Weber was
struck on the head by broken hay har-
pOon falling from above in his barn, and
died almost instantly. A double funeral
was held and the two were buried side by
side.
A bad wreck occurred at Vinton, twenty
miles north Of Gallipolis. The pay car ON
the Hooking Valley road. southbound. ran
head-On into a work train standing at the
water tank. Charles SociO, a fireman, was
jammed against the boiler and instantly
killed. The engineer and brakeman
jumped and received slight injuries about
the legs and arms. Paymaster C. q.
Merch and son of Columbus, were slightly
bruised, but not seriously hurt.
Both Karl Tage and Walter Edwards of
Kenton, knew that the gup with which
they were playing was loaded, yet Tage
has hole through his neck and Edwards
feels bad because he shot him. The
youngsters had an old fiObert rifle and
were playing with it, when Tage dared
Edwards TO shoot him. Edwards pulled
the trigger and was Mortified to see his COM
panion fall. The gun had not been shot
for years. Tage will recover.
Workmen, while engaged in excavating
on upper Fourth Street, Marietta, ur->
earthed what seems to be the remains O
prehistoric age. The bones, which
remarkably well preserved, are Of abfsl
NAL size, and, as close as can be 1eckoned.
the individual in question must have
measured at least seven feet in height.
Experts are of the opinion that he be-
Oad to- n frsb of Rusl NIB
earthen works appear at Marietta in a
number of places.
GAINESVILLE is almost entirely in darkness
of nights as result of visitation of June
bugs in such numbers as was never before
known there. Electric light globes are
filled and lights are completely smOthered
by the ashes of burned bugs. Hotel Offices
are infested with such swarms that makes
it necessary to close the doors, notwith-
the intense heat. In several
instances church services were sadly
with. The river bridges are
almost impossible to pedestrians, the at
clouds of live insects, while the floors are
covered to depth Of several inches by
dead ones.
City Chemist Kirchmaier of Toledo, has
complete report of the analy-
sis of the poisoned meats which were
turned over to him during June for inves:
tigation. The chemist makes the startling
that some person or per-
sons have been and are endeavoring to
commit murder by wholesale through
placing pOsons in food, and especially
meats The chemist declares that the
analysis shows adeliberate and systematic
people by the scores by feeding them
poison. The poison is mostly arsenic. al
though strychnine and some other deadly
drugs have been found in the meat and
broth which caused the sickness in all OF
some forty-twO persons who have been
made the victims Of these wholesale at
tempts at murder. But luckily something
has intervened that prevented the poison
performing the work intended. No mo-
tive seems to be apparent for the work.
and the authorities are inclined to believe
The pOisOnings the work of eranks.
Four young men in skiff were riding
The waves behind a towbOat, at Ironton,
when the boat capsized, throwing them
The boat and were rescued, but Elmer L.
Hopkins, aged ~, attempted to swim
ashore and was drowned.
Reeves Bros boiler works at Alliance.
we're destroyed by fire. Loss Sl00, 900, with
$40, 900 insurance. Albert Meredith, an
was caught by debris and per-
naps fatally injured. This is the second
lime this plant has been wiped out by fire
within the last fifteen months. About 20e
men are thrown out of employment.
Mary Rowe. employed as a servant AT
he summer cottage of W. w. Alexander
1t State Mills Lake near Akron, lost her
life in an attempt to rescue little girl.
The child was rowing in a boat when il
overturned. Miss Rowe was near by u
another boat. She jumped in after the
.hild. An hour later her body was taken
rom the bottom of the lake. The child
Vas rescued by young man.
President Mckinley has granted par
Ion to Mann Manuel, who was received a,
he penitentiary from the Indian Territory
August l, 1900. to serve four years foi.