The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1902-07-17
Buckeye News IN Brief.

Inc Deal law election al dOa. reSuiteO
in favor Of the ''drys' by majority Of 2ss.
Miss Hannah Curry suffered severe in
juries in runaway accident at Delaware.
Charles Denman, aged q, son of DIR. J.
X. Denman, was killed by B. & D. fast
freight, six miles west of Defiance.
Elisha Stevens, prominent canal boat
builder, aged s., was found dead at his
home in Akron. Heart disease caused his
death.
Willie McyIillen. 8 years old, Of Wood
bine avenue, Springfield, was kicked on
the forehead by horse, and his skull
fractured.
Bernard McMahon of Toledo, aged %
years, while standing on the footboard OF
a street car was struck by passing car
and instantly killed.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Emmick OF A Sher-
man avenue, Springfield, are critically i'll
rs the RESULT Of eating raw toadstoois
mistaken for mushrooms.
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. 4
Two young men, William Arnold am
an unknown companion, were DROWN
while swimming in the Maumee rivef
Toledo. The bodies have not beenl =
covered.
While playing about q bonfire at
Newark, Bessie Nescomb, the 5-year-old
daughter Of George Nescomb Of Sandusky-
was probably fatally burned. She was
visiting her grandfather.
While in the Ohio River bathing at the
mouth of old Kyger, near Gallip0lis,
George Hicks was drowned. Two CON-
panions, Leon Hartman and George Van
Bibber, narrowly escaped like fate.
In swamp a mile from his home the
body of George Rathbone, an aged and
wealthy Richfield farmer, was found badly
decompOsed. RathbOne disappeared ten
days before The cause Of his death is a
mystery.
Chambers Kendall, aged IA, has been
granted ateacher's certificate by the Brown
County Examiners, and will have control
of a school in that county the coming
winter. He Is probably the youngest
schoolteacher in the United States.
Raymond Hayborn, IL, and Harvey
Hydes, 10, pupils CT a convent at Nothing
ham, were drowned while swimming in
the lake. An unknown man, said to be
an employe Of Buffalo BilPs show, was
also drowned while bathing in the lake.
Ten men at work in Severance Hall,
now building on the campus Of Wooster
University, had fall of twenty-e eight feet
by the collapsing of . scaffold. All sus-
tanned serious injuries, Those most badly
injured are: Henry Reed Of Cleveland.
bad cuts on the head and hurt internally;
John Myers of Lattasburg, right ear torn
off and two ribs broken; VIM. Hummer Of
Wooster, left shoulder dislOcated and left
ankle broken; Warren Ash of Wooster,
badly cut and bruised about the head and
right side.
o. P. ROuch. residing on the John
Honey farm, west Of Marysville, found .
suspicious looking package while moving
weeds in one of his pasture fields. On
opening the package it was found to con-
tain a mixture Of one pound Of paris green
and pound of salt, evidently intended as
a fatal dose for some Of Mr.. Roueh's live
stock. 1t was wrapped in brown paper,
and its dry condition while the grass was
still wet with dew was sufficient evidence
that the bundle had been on the ground
only short time. Who placed it there is
a mystery.
The body Of a man, supposed to Be
Frank Zimmerman Of Logan County, was
found in the Miami River at Milford, Cler-
mont County June 81. and the Coroner Of
Clermont County has communicated with
parties at Bellefontaine, in and effort to
locate the man.
During a severe electrical storm at San
dusky. lightning struck the great brick
stack OF the gas and electric power house
and ruined it. tearing out the brick on one
corner from top to bottom. The stack Is
in dangerous condition and the street Is
blocked. The city in in total darkness.
The loss will be at least So 900.
Notice has been received from head
quarters at Columbus that the new mill
tary company recently got up at Wash.
ington c. H.. will be mustered in imme-
diately in order to get things in shape to
go into camp in August. Captain Hershey
will be Captain of the new company.
John Eicher, aged l9, was killed by
jumping from passenger train. He was
stealing ride, when the conductor dis
covered him and demanded fare. He
jumped from the moving train into post.
A companion who had been with him left
the train at Lebanon Junction and started
back to meet Eieher. Finding him, the
injured boy asked to be turned over and
then expired. He lived at C0alton.
Chief Justice Marshall j. Williams Of
the Ohio Supreme Court, died at his homo
in Columbus. aged Is years. He was four
times elected to the supreme bench, having
served in all about sixteen years. He
recently declined a denomination on ac-
count Of failing health. Prior to his
election to the supreme bench he served
two terms as circuit judge.
In the divorce case Of Ada Hartman
against John c. Hartman, Judge kinkade,
at Toledo, granted both divorce. The
Court said that members Of the same
church had sworn to exactly opposite
statements, so it was impossible to judge