The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1902-06-19
Buckeye New, In Bri.f.

Buckeye News In Brief.
Lightning killed Abraham McNeal, a
wealthy farmer, few miles north Of
Toledo.
Elmer l.. Sickles, aged years, living at
25O5 Broadway, Toledo, was drowned in
the river.
The 7. & o. C. depot at Lewiston, was
bnrned with all its contents. Lightning
struck the building.
site has been purchased at Marietta,
for the new $1,000 Y. NJ. C. A. Building,
which will be erected at once.
William Clarkson, aged so, Chief ,f the
Cuyahoga Falls Fire Department, died of
injuries received in a runaway.
The 4-year-old son of Michael Mahoney
of HOS Orchard street. Toledo, was fatally
burned, his clothing ignitiDg from matches.
VIM. Kruse lies at his home at Wapa-
koneta, with fractured skull as the result
OF fall head first down flight of stairs.
Henry Auxter, aged 10, wealthy farmer
living near Fremont, committed suicide
by hanging. He was respondent because
of ill health.
At Marietta, Edward Turner, a boiler
maker, was killed by being crushed by q
heavy boiler. His home was at Dayton,
where an aged mother resides.
The body of an unknown man apparently
suicide. was found near Pymatuning
Creek, at Kinsman. He had a gold tooth
in front and wore good clothes.
Detective Ollie d. Hunter Of Columbus,
foil vrhi 10 70 II
Marysville, and the torn ligaments of his
leg will lay him up for many weeks.
Thieves effected an entrance into Satter-
fields chapel, near Aberdeen, and robbed
the church. Seats in the church were re-
moved and the carpets torn of the floors.
Walter Wiles, aged %. was almost in
stantly killed by lightning near Alliance.
He was Constable and Road Supervisor OF
Lexington Township, Stark County, and
leaves a widow and daughter.
Clarence Balthaser. Circleville school
teacher, pleaded guilty in the United States
Court at Columbus, to sending obscene
literature through the mails. He was
sentenced to Jail for six months.
The Antietam Monument Commission
hoS OSSh oPPVihtC0 Dy 0VNCIuOI NASH dS
follows: W. w. Miller. Erie County; DIR.
I. j. West, Seneca; D. H. Kimberly, Guy
ahoga; j. 7. Moore, Belmont: David
Cunningham, Harrison.
Adolph Hayes, serving life-term i'm
prisOnment, has been pardoned on the
recommendation OF the presiding Judge,
Prosecuting Attorney, the jurors and the
Board Of Pardons, who thought Hayes
was innocent Of the crime.
Lawrence Cable Of Sandusky, President
of the Third National Exchange Bank, has
agreed to donate a large sum of money,
the figures not being made public, for a
new general and emergency hospital. He
will be joined by Rev. Father Sidley and
others.
David Lenhart, who committed suicide
at Leipsic, recently, was the seventh Of
the family to end his own life by hanging.
His mother, father, grandfather, great
grandfather, uncle and son were the others
who took this method Of ending their ex-
istence.
Charles Lewis Of Kenton, accidentally
fell and his tongue was forced back into
his threat in such q manner that he was
being chOked to death. He was discovered
by l.. A. Lewis, who inserted finger and
jerked the tongue in proper position just
in time to prevent strangulation.
lssac HOwenstine, a laborer employed
in grading the tracks of the Canton and
Akron Electric Railway, was instantly
killed at Canton, by being run over by a
gravel train. He applied for job at noon
and had been working only an hour and a
half when the accident occurred.
Two men were killed at the steel plant
at Lorraine. Nicholas Altmeyer was
caught by falling iron, and died soon
afterward. Joe Schwind, aged Is years,
was sent up ladder to oil some shafting
in the machine shop. While at work there
unnOticed the hugh overhead crane came
along and cut of the top Of his head.
Fellow workmen went up the ladder and
brought down the lifeless body.
One OF the most eccentric and best
known news writers in the State died at
the County In6rmary at Findlay, in the
person OF Orren II. Ballard. He was one
of COxey's aides in his memorable march
to Washington. This was when Ballard
had thrown ambition to the winds after
the death Of his wife, the daughter Of
Colonel Brown, formerly Of Steubenville,
who was a prominent figure IN the Schley-
Sampson controversy. He was a fluent
orator, but strong drink and grief UNDER
mined his talent.
At Dayton, Little Joe Woerl, aged Il,
playfully aimed an air gun at his brother
Michael, 8 years his senior, and the latter
retaliated by picking up fiobert rifle, in
tending to frighten the boy. When he
touched the rifle the trigger snapped, and
the bullet struck little Joe in the heart,
causing instant death. Wild with grief,
Michael was restrained from doing him.
self harm only through the efforts Of
neighbors. He broke the fiobert rifle into
several pieces. When his father, John B.
Woerl, returned home he became enraged
to such an extent that it was necessary for
the police to take the luckless lad who did
the shooting from the house to prevent an
attack. The Coroner is investigating, but
is certain that the tragedy was the result
of an accident.
E. Jones resigned as q member af the
Board of Trustees of the Boys Industrial
Home. He did this so that he might accept
the appointment Of member Of the Board
of Embalmer Examiners. Randolph s.
Warner Of Columbus, was appointed to
the Industrial School Board in his place.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Dill of Bradford
Junction, are the parents Of a newborn
girl babe with two beads. The odd growth
is the same size as the head, but has no
face. The little one seems to be OF a
healthy nature, plump and pretty, and
sleeps most of the time on either side, be-
ing unable to lie on its back.
Arthur Finkbeiner, business man, who
lives in Perrysburg, was attacked by
robbers few rods from his home and shot
in the shoulder, his arm being shattered.
His brothers saved him from being killed.
At Carlton, mining village ten miles
from Gallipolis, the family Of Sam ROusch
had a miraculous escape from death.
An ha watching SavaraI