The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1902-07-03
Buckeye News in Brief.

Buckeye News in Brief.
Fred Gable, aged IL, Of Toledo. was
drowned in the canal
isadore Herr, an elderly man, was run
down by a train at Deshler, and killed.
| Charles Bohe, a machinist's helper, fell
with scaffold at MingO Junction, and
died of his injuries.
Alois Cinadr, aged II. was killed by a
car on Euclid avenue, Cleveland. The
fender didn't fend.
DIR. Anna Grof Smith, aged S2, Of South
east Toledo, was fatally burned by an ex-
plosion of fuel gas.
Andrew j. Roseberry, aged IS, and
Big Four section men, was instantly killed
at Marion, by yard engine.
Anthony Powers, wealthy farmer,
living near Marysville, aged IS, fell from
a cherry tree and broke his neck.
James Carney. aged Is, lineman, was
, electrOcuted at Toledo. while on . high
pole, coming in contact with a live wire.
Walter Andrews, aged so, a wealthy
resident Of Canton, was thrown from his
buggy in a runaway and severely injured.
At Bucyrus, Frank Criswell, while
passing span of mules, was so seriously
kicked on the head that his death is ex-
pected.
While riding a railroad velocipede at
Houston. A. r. Saylor Of st. Paris, was
killed and Jos. Page badly hurt. A special
train hit them.
George Cox, Sr., Of North Baltimore,
aged IS years, died as the result OF falling
out Of bed. He was a member Of the
Sixty-fifth Ohio Volunteers.
The body Of Elijah Williams, colored,
was found horribly mangled at the foot Of
cliff in Yellow Springs. near Xenia. He
probably fell to hisdeath whileintoxicated
James German OF Norwood avenue,
Toledo, aged 81, brick mason and con-
tractor, fell off building on which he
was working into the river, and was
drowned.
Following the example Of Captain C. B.
Wilcox, Lieutenants Cav and Rogers Of
Company B, Sixth Regiment, D. N. g.,
have resigned, leaving the company with
out an officer.
At Toledo, Eddie Quillan. aged 10 years,
fired a revolver containing q blank
cartridge in the face Of Eugene Smith.
aged 8 years, with the result that the
Smith boy has the sight Of both eyes
destroyed.
Charles Bensman, aged Is, Of 412 Felt
street, Toledo, while engaged in an
advance celebration Of July 4. lost one
arm, the other hand was crippled, and he
was badly injured about the body, when a
small cannon exploded.
The Greene County Jail has been vacant
for more than month. In the hundred
years or more Of the county's existence
heretofore there had been but one time
when there was not single prisoner in the
Jail, and that was for but three days.
The Cash Dollar Oil Company, COM
posed Of Cleveland capitalists, has pur-
chased 500 acres Of state oil leases from
Messrs. Maseho and Kurtz Of st. Mary's.
for ssO,OOO Part of the producing territory
is submerged in the reservoir.
William Ellison, an ice handler. was
standing on the back steps Of his wagon as
it crossed the Toledo and Ohio Central
tracks at Columbus. An excursion train
struck the wagon, throwing Ellison
twenty-five feet up into the air. He
alighted on his head, and will die o. the.
injury.
While Mamie O'Leary, aged l2, was
playing in the back yard Of her home at
Springfield, with pet rabbits, negro en-
tered from the alley gate and, grabbing
the child. cut Of her braided hair close to
the head with pair off SCISSORS. The girl
ran screaming into the house and the
negro made his escape.
The heroic action OF 12- 2-year-0ld William
O'Brien, an orphan Of Girard, eliminated
in his death. O'Brien and several other
boys were swimming, when lad named
Shaffer was about to drown. Shaffer was
IS years old. Young O'Brien bravely
pushed log out toward the drowning boy
and started to pull him in. In the struggle
the log was showed violently against
O'Brien's stomach. Shaffer was saved,
but O'Brien was taken to the home Of his
brother-in-law, Thomas Connell, and
died. His stomach was terribly lacerated.
At the State Agricultural Department it
Is said that the June crop report shows
that there will be three-quarters crop Of
wheat. 1t is not believed that there are
any evidences Of black rust, for il such
were the case the correspondents Of the
department would have informed head
quarters before this time. The department
will not hear officially from its corre-
spondents until in July, and it is impOssi-
BILE at this time to predict what that report
will show. However, the department does
not see anything alarming in the present
condition of wheat.
Without q moments notice, twelve men
In the employ Of the Pennsylvania Com
pany in the roundh0use at Crestline. were
entOmbed in mass Of debris. Engine l65.
one Of the large passenger engines on the
west end run, attempted to leave Stall No.
8, the tracks spread and the cab OF the
engine carried away pillar supporting
the roof, letting down the entire section.
The fall of the roof and debris entombed
twelve men who were at work at the time.
The fatalities were: Mike Mcdonald,
wiper. crushed in ash pit by falling roof
and wall; Martin Fry, helper, crushed to
death by ventilating pipe; W. X. Hind
man. head crushed.
Windsor Paine. the 12-year-old son of
c. NJ. Paine Of S4i Clark street, Toledo,
was attacked by a vicions COW and so
badly goyed that little hope is entertained
for his recovery.
Roscoe Ferrante, aged 25, an emplOye Of
the American Steel Hoop Company at
Warren, was fatally injured by being
struck by B. & D. freight train. He was
recently married.
The State Health Board has approved of
Findlay's waterwork's project to pipe
water ten miles to the city from Mineral
Springs, said to be unexeelled for purity.
The cost of the Improvement is $4,000.
No surgeon could have performed an
so cleanly as wire cut of
Leo NOvarski's right leg at the American
Steel and Wire Company's Newburg mill.
Novarski was guiding wire that was
being wound around rapidly revolving
drum, and unconseiously stepped in the
tangle of wire that lay on the ground.
Instantly the wire frightened around his