The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-10-22

Leblonde, editor of the Wauseon Exposi-
tor, is his son.
John Dinmark, MahOning Valley
street railway laborer. was fatally in
iured, at Youngstown. rail falling on
and crushing his skull
Mrs. b. F. Latimer, of near Mt.Victory,
while making apple butter, was fatally
burned. and died. Her son Howard was
terribly burned in an effort to rescue his
mother.
Charles Metzgar, a farmer. went to
Greenspring and, after becoming intOxi-
Gated. started home. His team was dis
covered along the road side and its driver
was dead.
From the door of her home. on Lowell
street. Cleveland, the mother Of 5-year-
old joey JurikO, saw he boy beheaded by
an Erie train. The boy was picking up
coal on the tracks.
James Kavanaugh of Cerescn, Mich,
sailor on the lakes, while walking on the
Nickel Plate Railway tracks, at Bellevue.
was hit by passenger train and proba-
bly, fatally injured.
A freight train on the c., l.. and c.
Railroad ran over cow at Utica, wreck
ing the engine and derailing four gOndola
ears. Engineer VIM. Daily sustained
broken wrist and two ribs.
While yawning. the jaws of Clay Bealer
Of near Mt. Victory. became locked. A
1eighbOr hastily took him to Marysville,
and DR.. j. J. Boone soon relieved his dis
.ress without any serious after effects.
The village of Roscoe was founded in
lSlSand incorporated in 1903. At recent
meeting of the village Council. for the
first time in the S. years, maces were pur-
chased for the use of the village Constable
and his assistant.
1t was made public, at Nevada, recent
y, that On September %, several sticks of
dynamite. with fuse attached, were found
IN building occupied by Mayer Kinzly.
He was elected on temperance reform
ticket. 1t is said clew secured may lead
to arrests.
While boring for water at Washington
9. H., the Washington Ice Company
struck gas at the depth of 220 feet. Organ
ization of a company to test for more gas
has been begun. The organization will
be effected soon. when company with
fi0.O .OCO capital will be formed.
George Guenther, the white farmer of
Perkins Township. Erie County, and his
,OlOred wife. who fed from their home
after it had been attacked and riddled
with bullets, have not returned to the
house. There has been no further troub-
lie, but there is still much excitement in
The vicinity, and should they return more
drastic measures may be taken by the
angry neighbors.
Gas has been discovered on the farm of
Nbert Cheney, southeast of Urbana, in
paying quantity. At depth of $50 feet
gas has been struck with great pressure,
and tile pressure is gradually becoming
stronger. Representatives are at Urbana
from the Peerless Oil and Gas Company
Of Cincinnati. and leased the land on
which the gas has been found, and also
some adjOurning land. Representatives
from Indiana companies are also leasing
land.
Charles Lamont, a brakeman from Pitts
burg, was taken from train at Cleve-
land, suffering from terrible commissions.
He died later in hospital. He had swal-
% ed rough on rats. "When was sick,
years ago." he said. doctors gave me
Since then I've simply had to
have it. l felt another sickness coming
on and new what it would mean-mOr-
phine. morphine, morphine. So l de-
end-it-all-and-''
The sentence was never finished.
The annual reunion of the Sixty third
Ohio Volunteer Veterans Infantry, held
1T GrOveport, witnessed the meeting of
wo veterans, who, for almost forty years,
hought each other dead. James B. Few
Of Forest, and Robert Shiers of Marietta,
were the men, and the last time they
parted was in November. 1868, after
spending over seven months in Anderson
Sille Prison. They escaped from the
prison together, and after great hardships
reached Washington, where they were
cared for and sent back to their companies.
Until the Groveport reunion neither had
seen nor heard from the other, and tears
If Joy flowed freely when they by chance
earned each others identity during the
parade.
The report of the grand jury to Judge
at Toledo, developed an inter-
esting story. Some time ago the barn Of
Ikey Davis was burned. Albert Brown
was arrested for setting the barn on fire.
In the preliminary hearing he testified
mat he was assisted by Charles Hulett,
and upon Browns testimony Ilulett was
bound over. When the grand jury was
called. Brown sent for the State Fire
and told him that IIulett was
not implicated in the matter at all. The
two had been in love with the same girl,
ne said, when he had been arrested, and
he could not think of going to the peni-
.entiary and leaving Hulett with a clear
Held. However, his conscience hurt him
and he decided to make full confession.
Hulett was not indicted. Brown pleaded
guilty and was sentenced 10 serve two
ears in the penitentiary.
Roy Clifford, the 9-year-Old son of Sam
ael Clifford, of Lordstown, played with
revolver. 1t was accidentally discharged
and bullet hit his 7-year-old sister in
The head. She may live.
After the expenditure of thousands of
dollars in fitting up their homes to burn
gas the citizens of Lancaster were
Informed that the former price of 81 per
stove has been doubled.
At Coshocton, Albert Whiting, Pan
Handle brakeman, whose home is in Col
umbus, calmly smoked stOgie while
three Of his fingers that had been run over
by a freight car were being amputated.
Two tramps were killed, while sleeping
box car, at the gravel pit, half mile
outh of Hamilton, by cut of eight cars
getting loose and backing in upon the car
in which they were, smashing it to splin-
ters.
Mrs. Minnie Thorne of 1S6 Dodge Street,
was run down and seriously
injured, by an automobile, driven by T.
F. Newman, general manager Cf the
Cleveland and Buffalo Steam Ship Com
pany.
Adam Smeltzer, a wealty farmer, went
out near Findlav IN trim freae LATER