The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1902-07-10
Buckeye News In Brief.

Buckeye News In Brief.
Mrs. Angelo Berzeo Of Goshen, was
fatally burned.
John King Of Millbury, was thrown In Q
runaway at Toledo. His neck was broken.
At Greenfield, Landy Grimes, colored,
aged 22, was drowned in Paint Greek,
while bathing.
Captain Edward w. Porter Of Company
Z, Fourth Infantry, has rendered his res
ignation on account of business.
William Leopold Of Ottawa, was dan
gerously injured while riding a hay
tender, one fork of which penetrated his
hip.
Lewis Bash OF DeForest, while coupling
ears at the Niles Fire Brick Works, was
instantly killed. He leaves a widow and
child.
Frank N. Neal OF East Liverpool, aged
"A, and married, fell from a stepladder
while painting, and died Of injuries re-
ceived.
Milton Bowers, aged 80, q rig builder,
was struck by a board that FELL from q
derrick at Bairdstown, causing probably
fatal injuries.
Lake Shore Express Train No ran
and Engineer John Brown Of Collinwood,
was fatally injured.
A large gasoline tank exploded in the
Big Four Railroad paint shop at Delaware.
ID. E. Miller was hurled fifteen feet and
badly injured. He will live.
At Marietta, Edward Turner, q boiler
maker, was killed by being crushed by a
heavy boiler. His home was at Dayton,
where an aged mother resides.
John Towel, said to have been the oldest
Justice Of the Peace in continuous service
in Ohio, died at his home in Xenia, aged
81. He had been Justice since 1872.
Eugene Howard Of Cleveland, aged ~,
shot and instantly killed his wife Cath
arine and then cut his throat from ear to
ear. Howard is supposed to have been
insane.
Heavy rains have caused q Buckeye
Lake feeder near Kirkersville to break its
bank, inundating Pigeon Roost Swamp"
doing incalculable damage to truck
farmers.
The washerwomen at Lisbon have
formed union and raised the price for
family washing from 81 to sl.25 per day.
Many housewives VOW they will do their
own work.
Private o. F. johnson, Twentieth In
fantry, stationed at the Columbus Bar
racks, died from injuries to his spine sus-
tanned by falling out Of tree. His home
was in Meriden, Connecticut.
There is q serious epizootic epidemic at
Toledo. and hundreds Of the most valuable
horses in the city are down with the
disease. The peculiar weather is said to
be responsible for the spread ofthe malady-
Jacob Klouner, aged IS, the oldest mail
carrier in Ohio, died at Akron. For
twenty-five years he had carried the mail
from Akron to Springfield, and boasted
that he had never missed . trip nor been
late.
Charles Wilson, nurse at the County
Infirmary, at Xenia, is in serious eondi-
ton from the bite Of fly. He was
dressing sore on patient when stung.
His arm is swollen more than twice its
normal size.
At Perrysburg lightning struck Revenue
Collector Thompson's barn, passing down
through the roof and NOW Of hay with
out setting either on fire, and then struck
two corn cutters, which were completely
welded together.
Harvest hands are so scarce at Fred
ericktown, that harvest finds women and
children in the fields doing the work
formerly done by meN Each farmer has
to depend entirely on his own family for
help in harvesting his crops.
Isaac Claypool, aged 80 years, died at
Lancaster, from the effects Of carbolio
acid applications to his limbs. the attend
ant having mistaken the acid for liniment.
The flesh from the knees down was fright
fully burned, and the unfortunate man
died in terrible agony. The colored at
tendant is badly burned.
Toledo's Board of Health won victory
in the Circuit Court at Toledo, when the
judgments Of Police and Common Pleas
Courts were affirmed, which gave the
Board Of Health power to compel all
dairymen to take out licenses and submit
their dairies to inspection by the health
authorities. The Circuit Court Judges
held this was not special legislation, but
sanitary precaution.
Littls's drugstore. near Waynesfeld, .
dry town, was Carrie Nationized for the
second time in the past year. Mrs. Frank
Perkins, with the aid of big hatchet,
demolished the front windows, counter
and other furniture with considerable
force and violence. She claims that pre-
scriptions in the shape Of plain whisky
were being furnished her husband entirely
too fast to enable him to keep sober.
"Well. Pm going to hell, now," said
Charles Benson, as he drank glass Of
beer in James McAllister's saloon at
Youngstown. Benson then tilted small
vial to his lips, and walked composedly
out of the saloon. None Of the drinkers
there thought much of the occurrence, but
going to his barn sometime
found Benson dead from the
earbolic acid he had taken. Benson was
80 years old, single and a rOugher in the
Iazelton mill Of the Republic Iron and
Steel Company. He had often threatened
suicide before.
Columbus King, veteran Of the Civil
War and an inmate of the Dayton Soldiers
Home was recently reunited to sister
whom he had not seen for thirty five years.
She is Mrs. VIM. Jones Of 1901 Oak street,
Columbus. After the war King went
West, then to South Africa. to Cuba, and
finally to the Dayton Home. The family.
of Mrs. Martin Rowling. who
lives near Cincinnati; Mrs. Eliza Shelby
Of PEBBLES; Mrs. William Jones Of Colum-
bus; Mr.. Lacey King Of HillsbOro, and
Mr.. Charles King Of San Antonio, Texas,
have been trying to locate Columbus King
for quarter Of a century.
The Ohio State Teachers Association.
which held its annual session at PUTIN
Fay, elected the following officers: Pres
ldent, Superintendent Arthur Powell,
Secretary, w. H. Kirk.
Treasurer, j. w. MoKinnon.
Executive Committee, Su-
perintendent Weaver, Springfield; Super