The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1902-08-07
Buckeye News In Brief.

Buckeye News In Brief.
Baine Vane, aged IA, of Bentonville,
accidentally and probably fatally shot
himself.
John Costigan, a N. & W. engineer, was
almost scalded to death at Columbus, when
his engine was upset. He may die.
Adam Miller. an aged resident Of Slower
town. committed suicide by lying down in
spring near his home and drowning.
While playing in field near London
derry, Charles Seymour, aged II fell into
hole in the ground and broke his neck.
| Frank Clevinger, aged 80, a farmer near
Marysville, was knocked down by a cows
front hoofs and trampled, probably fatally.
| Frank Snyder, aged IS, farmer near
Wooster, while talking to his wife. was
struck by lightning and instantly killed.
| Fred Humphreys, an oil well driiler,
was instantly killed near Matamoras,
a crown block falling on him from the top
of derrick.
Several wOrkmen were hurt by a new
school building under construction at
Bidwell collapsing. Carl Mcbride is SER
iOusly injured.
| Thomas Crozier, aged %, received in
| juries while asleep on the Cleveland and
Pittsburg track at Bellaire, that may
result in his death.
| John &. Beatty. aged 70, is dead at
COlumbiana. He was well known at
torney and civil engineer, and had filed
many offices of trust.
| Rebecca j. Arbogast, aged 3S, wife Of
farmer near Avondale, committed suicide
by cutting her throat. Brooding over the
death OF an infant child deranged her
mind.
| Miss Lizzie Myer of No. S11 Grand
avenue, Toledo, aged Il, was seriously
shot while helping relative to clean
revolver. The weapon was accidentally
discharged.
Surgeons in four weeks have succeeded
in building an entire new nose on Patrick
Madden of Toledo, who had that member
bitten off in fight.
Mrs. j. l.. Burris was perhaps fatally
! injured at Marysvilie, when she was
thrown from her buggy by a lunging horse.
striking on her head.
Oats and corn crops, orchards, barns and
small buildings were destroyed by hail,
| wind and rain storm in Hardin County
last week. The spire was torn from the
Salem Church. The loss is heavy.
Superintendent ]. A. Leonard Of the
State Reformatory at Mansfield, has ap-
pointed Frederick Hawk of Youngstown
private secretary, vice r. j. Nicholson.
jesse Blue, clerk in the postofiee and
general store at TT. Seneca, has developed
smallpox. Tiffin has Quarantined against
the village. Since Blue was stricken the
| villagers are afraid to call for their mall
The Pennsylvania's indianapolis fast
express killed two men at the T. & o. c.
crossing near Columbus. The bodies are
unidentified. One is supposed to be that
of J. NJ. Anderson, but his address is un-
known.
| ID. ii. Proctor, an aged farmer of Rural
| dale, was found dead in bed recently. He
was the administrator of sixteen estates in
Southern Muskingum County, and was
know as the godfather of fifty fatherless
children"
The badly decomposed body Of Loui<<.
| Seymour of Circleville, was found in the
| Scioto River, near Bloomfield. His COM
panion Tom Shepherd. is missing, and is
supposed to have drowned. The upturned
boat was found nearby.
Stephen Plainfeld. aged Is years, living
on the Bay Shore road near Toledo, fell
off his seat in front Of steel hay rake and
| was rolled for 100 yards by the horse
running away. The steel teeth OF the rake
penetrated his body and he will die.
Angered because small boys were
yelling in front of his home, John E. Bot
! tleheimer. Akron, discharged a shotgun
at them. Mrs. Charles MeGuicken, sittiSs-
on her porch across the street, rsceived
the contents, and is seriously injured.
Workmen digging for a sewer on Pros
pect street, Marion, unearthed lot OF
bones, and also came in contact with logs
which formed corduroy road. Older
citizens do not remember the construction
of such a road, and consider the find an
evidence of desperate battles once fought
in that section between early settlers and
the Indians.
Judge Badger of the Common Pleas
Court at Columbus, held that the twenty
three men serving life sentences in the
penitentiary under the habitual criminal
act would have to stay there. The last
Legislature repealed the act, but did not
make the repeal retroactive. Charles F.
Klein, life prisoner, instituted habeas
corpus proceedings to be released. Tho
prisoners interested will now try to have
the law remedied at the extra session 50
that they can gain their liberty.
Mysterious events have been engaging
the attention of the good people Of Nc
Clure, who reside in the neighborhood OF
Olive Branch Cemetery. Several qneer
holes have been found in number Of the
graves, with the human bones scattered
about the ground. Investigation has
shown that the mischief was evidently
done by some animal. The bones were in
every case left devoid Of flesh. A strange
animal has several times been seen skulk-
ing about the adjoining woods, and the
ghoulish work is attributed to it. 1t has
been described as something in the char
acter of a wolf. Several efforts have been
made to kill it, but in vain.
W. c. Staley of Urbana, well known
among the strawboard manufacturers Of
the Middle West, has been elected Score
tary and Assistant Treasurer of the
United Box Board and Paper Company,
| the new Strawboard Trust, and has gone
to New York.
Anna and Rose CLAW, aged and 16
years respectively, were drowned in Lake
Erie at Cleveland. The girls, with two
other children, were out sailing with their
father. when a squall quickly came and
overturned the boat, throwing the entire
party into the water. The girls went
down before help could be given them
BY the breaking Of scaffold at Peppin
Lake near Kent. Albert Sehmidel, age q,
fell thirty feet and his skull was fractured.
Contractor Simon Lutz suffered . broken
leg and Charles Pero was badly hurt. Ali
are from Suffield.
Through network Of iron rods and
timbers to the river, so feet below, Milton
Wooley, aged so, fell from the top of the
new Toledo terminal bridge at Toledo.