The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-03-05
Brief State Items.

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Massillon, died of paralysis.
Logan County School Boards will or
ganize to resist the demands of teachers
who insist on a minimum salary of $50 per
month.
Mrs. Joseph Orwig. married, the mother
OF three children, was fatally burned at
GAINESVILLE. Her dress caught fire from an
open crate.
Minerva, the 2-year-old daughter of
Edward Grimes Of Wheeling junction,
died of terrible burns she sustained from
her dress catching fire.
Auditor of State Guilbert has announced
the appointment Of Charles D. Miller Of
Columbus as an Examiner under the uni
form public accounting law.
BY the breakingof scaffold at Findlay,
on which they were working, c. C. Willis
was fatally and J. H. Neely badly in
iured. They fell forty feet.
William Sutton, Jr., young man living
north Of Xenia, died from blood poisoning
caused by some foreign particle lodging
In his face while he was husking corn.
George Capaul, aged so, a structural
iron worker, was killed at the new blast
furnace, Toledo, aheavy iron beam falling
on his head. Deceased leaves family.
The Salem City Council has received an
offer from Andrew Carnegie of s17, zoo for
library building. Council authorized
the Board of Education to 60 ahead with
the negotiations.
W. W. Moore of Lafayette, who has
held the position of mail clerk on the
Pennsylvania Railroad for twenty years,
was found dead in bed by his wife. Death
was due to heart disease.
Moses Fennel, aged 80. committed sui
eide at Batavia, by hanging. Hefastened
a strap about his neck, attaching the other
end to his bedpost, and slowly strangled
to death. No cause is known.
A local option election held in Green
Township. Clinton County, resulted "a to
IA for the drys. In the adjoining town
ship Of Union it was II to 10 dry. Peti-
tions for the town will now be circulated.
Andrew Carnegie has decided to give
sl00, 900 to the Western Reserve University
Of Cleveland to establish a school for the
training of Librarians. This announce
ment was made by President Thwing of
Western Reserve.
The Columbus Library Building Com
mittee has been advised that Andrew
Carnegie will increase his gift to Colum-
bus from s15O, 900 to 100000. The COM
mittee has already secured site at the
head of State street.
Albert Clark, aged IA, was seriously in
| jured at Batavia, in a peculiar manner.
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lending to make crowbar, when it went
off, the load penetrating the groin. He
thought the gun unloaded.
Wooster will have Carnegie Library,
the members of Council having passed
a resolution accepting the proposition Of
Mr.. Carnegie to give s12, 800 for building
in consideration that 81, ,250 be expended
On the libraray each year.
Coroner Armprister has rendered the
verdict that the infant child of Make
Scurry of Urbana, which was found dead
in bed, died Of strangulation or smother
Ing. The mother is reported to have said
that the child froze to death.
A horse kicked at dog being playfully
patted by John Groll, aged 81, farmer,
living southwest of Gallon. The hoof
struck Groll in the cheek, crushing it,
fracturing the skull and breaking his
neck. Groll lived twenty minutes.
William Smith, Fayette County pris-
oner, and John Waters of Mahsning
County, were paroled by the Reformatory
Board of the Mansfield Reformatory.
Harry Simpson, Canton; M..-shall Terry,
Youngstown; William Averhill, Summit
County; Archie Becker, Wayne; William
Fox, Clinton; John Jones, Jefferson; John
Muldoon, Cleveland, and Albert Rouse,
Marion, on parole for year, were granted
absolute discharges.
Screaming in agony, l5-year-old Mary
Kunes lay pinned for fifteen minutes
beneath street car at Cleveland. The
car was finally lacked up and the girl
was taken to st. Johns Hospital. A
sudden gust of wind struck the girl as
she left one car and blew her directly in
front of another. One wheel passed over
her left leg before the, motorman could
stop the car and the next wheel caught
the leg. At the hospital it was found that
the girls skull was fractured and that she
sustained internal injuries.
Joseph Evans, blind octogenarian, and
his wife, who is also blind and past 70
years of age, have been thrown upon the
cheerless world by the destruction Of their
home, located in jefferson Township,
Montgomery County. They are now being
cared for by neighbors, but the disposition
of the helpless couple is a perplexing mat
ter to the authorities. 1t seems that under
the law a Civil War veteran cannot be-
come pauper, and for this reason Evans,
who served gallantly in the rebellion, can
not be admitted to the County lnfrmary.
The Soldiers Home, of course, is open to
him, but that would separate them for
their few remaining years. Both narrow
ly escaped with their lives when fire broke
out in their home.
Atthe twenty fourth annual convention
of the Mutual Insurance Associations of
Ohio, held at Columbus, these officers
were elected: President, G. n. Miller,
Bucyrus; Vice President, J. N. Beatty,
Greenfield; Secretary, D. A. Rice, Farmer;
Treasurer, J. l. Shower, BellefOnta:ne.
Three children of Mr.. and Mrs. A. j.
Ransom of near SciO, were burned to
death in a fire which destroyed their home.
The children, all boys, twins aged years
and one aged 2, had been left alone by the
mother, who was at a neighbor's An ex-
plosion of natural gas is supposed to have
caused the fire.
Brakeman Charles Hepner of the Nickel
Plate, was killed in wreck at Arcadia.
He was a member of the crew Of west.
bound freight train No. 81, and was riding
in the engine cab. From some cause al
present unknown the engine was derailed
going into the ditch with half dozen
cars. The engine turned over and HepneI
was caught in the wreck and crushed tc
death. The engineer and fireman jumrea
and saved their lives.
Il. e. Updegraff, former police judge OF
Cleveland, dropped dead while listening
to Rev. Thomas Dixon at Morgan Woods
Church. The church was packed to the
doors, and few knew what had happened
until the man was taken out dead.