The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1901-07-11
Buckeye News In HrasH.

on train.
Cyrus Elliott, aged 81; was drowned q,
Mansfield while bathing. He leaves &
widow and son.
The local plants OF the Republic Iron
and Steel company, Ironton, have been
notified to resume at once.
Edward Devere, a driver employed Al
Derwent wines. near Cambridge, was in
stantly killed by fall of slate.
The Supreme court holds the law Great
ing the Insolvency courts Of Hamilton and
Cuyahoga counties constitutional.
Bessie; aged II, daughter Of James Har-
grewes, Of East Liverpool. was run over
by street car and fatally injured.
William Mcintyre. Of Bloomdale, aged
S5. returning home from Bairdstown, was
instantly killed by B. and o. train.
| Lawrence, aged years, son Of A. T..
Downward, Of Marshfield, was killed by .
peanut kernel lodging in the windpipe.
| Twelve-year-old Bennie Oleson, Of l30
Clark street, Toledo, died within an hour
after having been struck by a street car.
Paul s. Huston, aged 70, an early pio-
neer of Butler county, died at his homo st
Pleasant Run, the result Of an accident.
Charles Culbertson, agent for the CO.
lumbus, Hooking Valley and Toledo R. r.
at Hamden, was killed by the cars ut Ne
Arthur.
Charles, the 6-year-old son Of George
Baker, living six miles north Of Toledo,
was kicked in the head by horse and In
stantly killed. 4
A I. and o. C. passenger train struck I
buggy occupied by Mrs. Charles Paxor
and her 4-year-old son in Findlay. Both
were fatally injured.
Anon Litchfield, prominent business
man and old resident of Wellington,
dropped dead in his place Of business.
Heart disease was the cause.
Governor Nash has pardoned the fol-
lowing conyicts: William Blischak, Of
Cleveland, manslaughter; Durrell WARDS,
OF Union county, horse stealing.
T. J. Caldwell, aged 90, millionaire
broker and horseman of Toledo. while an
tering stable, was kicked In the head by
favorite horse and fatally injured.
In fire. caused by a gasoline explosion
in the Catholic school at Versailles Sis
ter Of Mercy was probably fatally burned,
her arms and hands being scorched to .
crisp.
While rowing with two companions, .
small rifle in their boat was accidentally
discharged and Richard Scott, Of THIN,
aged IA, was shot in the breast. He may
recover.
At Batavia, Frank Robinson, aged a. .
drug clerk, was found dead in bed from
an overdose Of morphine. He made an
unsuccessful attempt to take his life about
a year ago.
At Delaware, William Ploger pleaded
guilty to the charge Of assault upon Marie
Dennis, who is under IL years Of age,
Judge Wickham promptly pronounced the
life sentence on Ploger.
The Executive Committee Of the Colum-
bus and Franklin County Society Of Chris
tian Endeavorers has decided to boycott the
state fair because the management pro-
poses to keep the grounds open on Sunday.
Thousands of dead electric light bugs.
which lay ON the floor Of the Fifth Street
River bridge, Dayton, seriously impeded
traffic for a time. The bugs have become
a nuisance at the bridge recently. The
other night small wagon load of the dead
insects was removed from the bridge and
adjoining streets.
B. F. Stehr, reformatory prisoner, at
Mansfield, who was a trusty, walked on q
ledge twenty feet from the ground and en-
tered the private room Of Captain Locke
to secure clothing with which to escape.
He was frightened by the screams Of q
woman and in trying to get out Of the
window fell to the ground and broke his
left arm. He would have been eligible to
parole at the next meeting Of the board.
Tuesday was a great day for the Metho-
dist congregation Of Wooster, the members
holding special services morning and
evening in rejoicing over tha fact that the
was out Of debt. During the
morning hour a mortgage was burned
which freed the church from a debt Of
$4,000 that has been hanging over the
for some years. Miss Nellie
Schmuck, the daughter of an old officer,
who died few months since, was privi-
legged to light the match that burned the
mortgage. Revs. r. T. Stevenson of the
Ohio Wesleyan University, and Rev. W.
Z. Dawson Of AshpOrt, former pastors.
were present.
Masked robbers broke into the farm
house of Herman Winkler, near vermil-
lion, and, after tying Mrs. Winkler and
her husband, proceeded to torture the old
man for his money. Finally Mrs. Wink
Ter agreed to give the men her pocketbook,
but, As it only contained s4. they became
enraged and fearfully beat the old man.
In the meantime Mrs. Winkler got loose
and was pursued outdoors, where she
with one Of her assailants, threw
him down hatchway and got help from
her neighbors. On her return the robbers
had fled, but with no booty. Winkler is
beaten terribly and may die. There were
several hundred dollars in the house.
At Lancaster, while handling a target
,un, Mrs. Theodore Neubaur accidentally
'hot her -4-year-old son, perhaps fatally.
The ball entered the breast and cannot be
Ocated. The mother is wild with grief
Joseph Tuley. who has lived Is sum-
ners, and resides in Fairfield township,
Butler county, was prying around his
ather's bedroom and found q revolver.
He wanted to see how it worked when
lere's the surgeons report: BULLET
wound SO calibre, entered right thigh,
passing through muscles into calf of right
eg. Dangerous on account of loss Of
Hood and fear of blood poisoning"
Engineer w. G. Taylor, Of the c. s. and
!. railway, while waiting for train to
'ass on siding on the south end Of the
DAD. got down of his cab and lay down,
esting his head on the rail. He fell asleep
nd The train he was waiting for came
long and severed his head from the body.
Two little lives went out in the Italian
sttlement at Lakeview near Cleveland.
'Ony Beach was 2 years old and his
rother Mike was 81 years. They were
Before he died the eldest boy
aid they drank lemonade while out play
1g. The doctor tried to find out who gave
!, but the boy became too sick to answer,