The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1902-06-05
Buckeye News In Brief.


Solomon Holland, an old soldiey from
Youngstown, was killed at Sandusky by
fast mail train.
Robert Tice, mute aged 80, Of Wade,
Washington County, was killed at East
Liverpool, by train.
c. p. Fisher was killed at HObson, by
getting his foot caught in guard rail. He
lived only few minutes.
David Shanaway of Yondota street. To-
ledo, aged 26, was drowned in the Maumee
by the upsetting Of a skiff.
Richard Dancell of Marysville, aged IS,
died ofbloOd poisoning, caused by running
splinter under his thumb nail.
Mrs. Mary Carsons Of Bradyville, is
insane with religious enthusiasm. Her
husband died Of religious insanity.
The 4-year- daughter Of Mrs. Dillin-
ger Of Mckinley Avenue, Toledo. was
fatally burned by gasoline explosion.
At meeting Of the trustees, President
Charles Manchester of Findlay College,
was given life lease upon his position.
JOnesfield went dry by a majority of
twenty-f0ur. Church and school bells
were rung and there was great rejoicing.
Edward Reber, aged 81, conductor on
the Hooking Valley Railway, fell from his
train at Columbus, and was ground to
fragments under the whrels.
At Marietta, Edward Turner, boiler
maker, was killed by being crushed by
heavy boiler. His home was at Dayton,
where an aged mother resides.
City officials Of Sidney, were severely
critisised for not strictly enforcing the
Sunday CLOSING laws, by the grand jury.
The report says they do not perform their
duty as their oath requires them to do.
The mangled body Of an unknown man
was found on the Erie tracks at Lima. A
revolver, bunch of keys and cake of soap
were found on his person. He was about
40 years old, weight about l65, black hair,
streaked with gray. His left arm was
tattoed X.
William +. Brose of Toledo, who COM
mitted suicide in Fostoria, recently,
br0Oded over his wife's death and kept
the house in which they lived at Toledo,
just as she left it. He visited the house
daily TO communicate with her, and told
associates that he met her spirit daily in
their home; that she wanted him to join
her, and that he was going to do so.
A colOred man, covered with blood and
running through two Of the smaller towns
in the western part Of Logan County,
caused great excitement. When captured
| he gave his name as Bradford Clark, and
his late residence as College Corner, Ohio,
and Muncie, Ind. Clark is badly demented
and his condition is critical. He talks in
coherently about being chased by mob
and shot through the head by pursuers.
| Miss Florence NJ. Crocker, a grand
daughter of the late T. d. Crocker, met
death in the isolation ward at Lakeside
Hospital, Cleveland, as heroically as a
soldier ever died on the field Of battle.
Miss Cr0cker was nurse at Lakeside,
and contracted smallpox a little over a
week ago, in discharge of her duties. She
was conscious to the last, but her mother
and relations were not allowed to see her.
Two sons Of Mr.. and Mrs. Minus Smith
| of Clarksburg, aged 4 and years, played
doctor" and now the younger is at the
point Of death. The elder, who was ''doc-
tor" secured some toothache medicine,
composed Of creOsOte and laudanum, and
gave his little brother two ounces OF it.
When the mother discovered what had
happened two physicians were summoned,
but the child is still in most critical con-
ditiOn.
Hiawatha Via, cOlored, of Columbus,
has a head that is q wonder. Two weeks
ago his skull was fractured, but he con-
tinued to work. The doctors thought that
wonderful. The other day, while on a
forty foot trestle at the Columbus Malle-
able Iron Works, he fell to the ground.
He landed on his head, and his fellow
laborers thought he was killed. Before
help reached him he got up, walked to a
car and went home. DR.. Rebel finds that |
his left arm was broken.
Miss Pearl Myers, aged q, was instantly |
killed at her home on Monroe street, in
GAINESVILLE. Upon her return home from !
church services she complained Of an |
intense headache and took a powder for |
relief. After taking the medicine she
walked into the yard from the kitchen, |
where she was seized witha fainting spell |
and fell heavily to the ground. Her head
struck stone, fracturing her skull, and
she died in twenty minutes, without re-
covering consciousness. She was the
daughter OF MIR. and Mrs. A. J. Myers, and
was to have been married this month.
A granite monument erected to the mem
0ry Of the soldiers who enlisted in the Fed
eral army from Perrysburg Township,
Wood County, during the Civil War, was
unveiled with appropriate ceremonies re-
Gently. The monument represents color
bearer, and stands on pedestal eighteen
feet high on the banks Of the Maumee
River at Perrysburg. j. o. TrOup Of
Bowling Green, acted as master of Ger
emOnies, and General Isaac r. Sherwood
Of Toledo, delivered the Grafton and un-
veiled the monument. Mrs. Ruth Arnold,
secretary Of the National Veterans
Woman's Association Of America, also
delivered an address.
The carpenters strike at Youngstown,
which began on May !, has been settled,
and work will be resumed Immediately.
The basis OF settlement is $2.75 day Of
eight hours for outside work and S. per
day of nine hours for shop work.
A terrific wind and electric storm struck
Gallipolis, last week. Residences of c.
A. Smith, EnOch Russell and Sheridan
Berridge were struck. The dairy barn Of
Mr.. Fox was also struck and several cows
killed. The wind unroofed several small
buildings. The storm is reported 10 have
done considerable damage throughout the
county.
Charles Gigantic, who shot and killed
George Jacob in the attempt to escape
from the Canton WorkhOuse, last week,
and was himself wounded, is dead. The
nurse attending Guard Stone, who was
wounded by him, went to Gigante's bed
side to administer some medicine. She
gavethe murderer an hypOdermic injection
of morphine to ease his pam. In trying to
repeat the treatment Gigantic objected and
told her to 'GO way back and sit down."
The pOst-mOrtem examination showed
that two bullets had entered his body, and
his statement that he had shot himself was
verified. His mother will take the remains.
The prisoners remark to the nurse were