The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-04-16
Minor Mention.

Samuel Runyan, aged 60 years, fell into
creek at Delphos, and was drowned
The body was found next morning.
John Black. brakeman, employed by
| the Norfolk and Western, was crushed tt
death at Columbus, by freight car.O7
Emmett Temple of Delaware, aged 2i
years, was struck by falling tree and
died in less than half hour. He leaves
widow and one chill.
At Youngstown, Victor McGaffery and
Thomas Hogan quaIreled. McGaffery. il
is alleged, stabbed Hogan in the side
Hogan's condition is serious.
Mrs. Charles Lambert of Wharton, was
terribly gored by COW which she was
milking The cnimal has been tied in
stall and shows evidence of being mad.
A man supposed to be Henry Early,
aged 40. of indianapolis, committed suicide
at Toledo. by placing himself across the
rails in front of Wabash passenger train.
John Carver of Springfield, the oldest
member of the Western Pioneer Associa-
tion is dead. He was 81 years old and the
uncle of John Carver. editor of the Farm
News.
The section men on the Sandusky Di-
vision of the Rig Four. between Spring
field and Carey, have been granted an
increase from S1.20 per day to s1.S5, for
which they struck.
The Ohio Canal Association will meet
at Akron on April 16, to agitatethe project
of improving the Ohio Canal from the lake
to the Muskingum River at Coshocton so
a G IN odn mil haa 70 Of
Mrs. James Bastine, aged so. was found
dead hanging to rope in her home at
Barnesyille, by her 4-year-Old niece. No
reason can be assigned for the suicide.
The little girl is in precariOus condition
as the result of her gruesOme discovery.
The one hundredth birthday anniversary
of the late T. NJ. Kimball has just been
celebrated at the home of b. Il. Miller,
north of Urbana Although Mr.. Kimball
has been dead for five years. yet his sons,
daughters and other relatives gather to-
gether on the anniversary of his birth and
celebrate his memory in unique manner.
DR.. Hale of West Liberty, was operated
upon at the hospital in Springfield, re-
Gently. The entire right upper half of his
jaw was removed on account of tumor.
He says he was caught in a hailstorm
about a year ago and drove eight miles in
1t. The hail struck his face and few
days later his cheek became sore. He
thinks the tumor started from this ex-
pOsure.
Habeas cOrbus proceedings were brought
in Toledo, recently, for the release OF
Charles Besso, an Ottawa County prisoner
confined at the Toledo WorkhOuse, under
an old statute No. 1923, II. S., which pro-
vides THAT if prisoner is INDECENT he
may be discharged without payment OF
fine or COSTS" 1t is claimed that if the
Court holds that law good the wOrkhouses
Of the state will be depOpulated.
Timothy Perry, now in his Goth year,
has been appointed tender of the wagon
bridgespanning the Portage River at Port
Clinton. He was born at East Harbor,
four miles east of Port Clinton. in 1914.
The place was then wilderness, and the
nearest neighbors of his parents were four
miles away. Cincinnati was then the
largest city west of the Alleghenies, and
thus earned its caption of "Queen City OF
the West.''
under consideration the revocation of the
contract Of the Springfield Printing Com
pany to print state department reports and.
the House and Senate journals of the spe-
cial session of the Legislature. Members
of the Assembly. who are candidates for
reelection are clamoring for the proofs of
their official record, but none are forth
coming. Most of the state officials are in
the same position, and it is given out that
unless better results are speedily obtained
the contract would be revoked and relet.
Reports throughout the State are to the
effect that the early fruit crop was badly
damaged by the frost and snow of last
week. Peaches, plums, cherries and
apples in bloom were frozen. Glover in
the central part of Ohio is reported to have
turned black, but it is thought not to be
permanently injured. In Knox County
fruit in the uplands is reported severely
damaged, but the lOwlands escaped. In
Union County the reports say that the
early fruit is damaged beyond recovery.
Plum, peach and cherry trees were dam
aged in Fairfield County.
Mrs. Susan Updyke dubbed Andrew
Fasnacht over the head when he was an
noying her at her home, two miles south
of Barberton, at lonely spot along the
Ohio Canal. His skull was fractured and
he died instantly. Fasnacht had been an
noying her at various times, and when he
peeped around the corner she attacked
him. Fasnacht's body lay twenty-fOur
hours when an undertaken removed the
body. Mrs. Updyke walked mile to tel
ephone to Barberton to have some one
come for the body. With the body lying
outside her house, Mrs. Updyke slept
soundly, only once waking up, when she
heard noise. She looked out of the win
dow, saw the body was unmolested and
returned to bed. Sheriff Barker did not
receive word OF the murder until twenty
seven hours afterward. When officers ar
rived at the house she resisted arrest, but
surrendered after threatening to shoot.
Mrs. Updyke last winter partially blinded
Fasnacht by throwing some substance in
his eyes.
Harold Delaney, aged 5, son of William
Delaney of 1927 Chase street, Toledo, died
from swallowing half the contents of
bottle of patent medicine which the
parents had been giving the child for
cold. The lad wanted to '.get well right
away"
Hugh Gilmore, aged IS, left his home,
near Wakatomita. for hunt. He failed
10 return. Searchers found his body next
day with the head wedged tightly under
rail fence He was subject to epilepsy,
and it is supposed that while in fit he
fell under the fence and was unable to ex-
'ricate himsels.
April II there will be held at the Ohio
State University at Columbus, in cOnnec-
ton with the Department of Agriculture,
sheep-siIearing festival. There will be
both expert and amateur exhibitions OF
shearing by machine and with hand
h.as. boola 1aro,.idad for the