The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-05-14
Brief State Items.

the hands of a playmate.
George Mccoy. one of the oldest cit zens
Of NewpOrtage, was struck by a passen-
ger train and killed.
Aaron Holibaugh was found dead on
his farm, near Marlboro, and the authors
ties are working on the theory of foul play.
| NJ. j. Carter, a Lake Shore engineer,
was perhaps fatally scalded on his engine
at Toledo, by the bursting of steam
pipe.
Mrs. Louis Platt, aged 30, and her O.
year-old grandchild. lost their lives in a
fire which destroyed their home at West
Union.
| Real estate agents at Toledo, have ad-
vanced the rentals of all houses from 81 to
IS per month. This means an advance of
20 to 25 per cent.
! Smallpox is taking fresh start in Tole-
do. and the Health Department is work
ing night and day in order to stay the
spread of the disease.
Barret Blue, farmer, 60 years Of age,
while visiting with his son Martin, three
miles east OF Ashland, drank carbolic acid
for medicine and died.
Earl Curry, a street car conductor, was
thrown from his car at Toledo, and in
stantly killed. He was 26 years old and
resided at 922 Baker street.
John Lax, Auditor elect of Nelsonville,
and boss of the Floodwood mine, was
caught between two cars at the mine and
one of his legs badly crushed.
The body of James Allison, AZ years old
and married, was found on a railroad
track at Celina, with the head severed. 1t
Is supposed he went to sleep on the track.
Mrs. Maria Pratt, aged so, Of West
Toledo. " vasstruck by Lake Shore pas
senger train and fatally injured. She was
the third white child born in Lucas
County.
John Donaldson was found dead in the
toilet room of his apartments on High
street. Columbus. He was son Of Luther
Donaldson, who conducted a bank for
years in that city.
John O'Brein, tin plate mill roller, of
Newburg, threw himself in front of a
moving train at Cuyahoga Falls, and was
instantly killed. He had been an inmate
of OakwoOd Sanitarium.
Frank Sibley, aged 16, was adjudged
insane at Springfield. At the hearing it
developed that he had smoked on an aver
age of twenty cigarettes day during the
past two years. This is supposed to be
the cause of his insanity.
the special Canal Commission as long as
the present appropriation Of $4,000 will
last. There remains in the fund about
$500. The commission consists Of
Messrs. Thurman and Hamlin.
Invitations have been extended to Sem
ator NJ. A. Hanna, A. j. Beveridge and to
John Fl. Clarks of Cleveland, to deliver
speeches at the Fourth of July celebration
at Youngstown, this year. The celebra-
ton will take the form of a carnival.
brakeman A. W. Aigley, aged 81. single,
of Port Perry, Penn, was instantly killed
and Engineer F. C. Girard of Chicago,
badly injured in a rear-end collision in
Kensington. on the Cleavland and Pitts
burg Railroad. Aigley was making his
first run.
At Martins Ferry, the ceiling in the
COuti SChOOA ACiis O0u3y
Thomas Delbrugge and Rosa Bulette. A
panic ensued and the children escaped by
way Of windows, as one door was blocked
by the debris. Several others were more
or less hurt.
The Supreme Court has granted leave
for the filing of the quo warranto suit of
the state, ex rel, the Attorney General
against Andrew Forsythe ct al. This
action comes from Steubenville. 1t is to
test the validity of the election of members
Of the BOARD of Education.
While working in the woods east of
Findlay Hiram Spuck found hidden be-
meath pile Of dead leaves in dense
thicket the skeleton of man. The pres
ence of the CHASTITY find in that vicinity is
unaccounted for, and the remains will
probably never be identified.
Roy Blalock, aged 15, of Lower Summit
street. Toledo, met with a peculiar acci-
dent that may end fatally. He dropped
hammer into box Of nails and an explo-
sion followed, driving the nails into all
parts of his face and body. Somebody
had placed dynamite cartridge among
the nails.
At Sand Run. mining village five
miles north Of NelsOnville, Charles Dun
kle probably fatally wounded his brother,
John Dunkle, the result of quarrel. Be-
lieving his brother to be dead, Charles
shot himself in the head and died almost
The wounded brother is re-
ported to be dying. Both men were mill
iOnaires.
A local option fight is on at Hubbard,
''wets" took novel method of trying to
influence the election. They induced the
of the town to 60 in body to !
the bank to draw out the money which |
they had on deposit, claiming that they |
would not live there if the town went dry.
The bank officials heard of it and pre-
pared silver for them. One man carried |
away over $500 in silver in market bas- !!
ket. Others drew out what they had, bus |
soon tired of carrying it around and rede-
posted it.
Colonel Henry NJ. Taylor, Assistant Ad- !,
iutant General, who resigned about one |
month ago has retired. Colonel Taylor
will be placed upon the honorable retired
list of the State militia. Captain Edward
I. Miller has been appointed by Governor
Nash to the vacancy.
The engine Of westbound n. and w.
Freight No. 4S left the track east of
PEBBLES, recently. Oliver C. Lewis, fire.
nan, jumped from the tender just as it
vas overturning, and was caught beneath
t. Nine freight cars were soon piled in
, heap above it. Lewis was crushed and
every bone in his body broken.
State Insurance Commissioner Vorys
las rendered the position in his depart
nent made vacant by the resignation OF
George Marshall, Assistant City Solicitor,
o Alfred Mitchell of Belmont County. MIR.
Mitchell will formally decline the same.
rhe vacancy will be filled soon as another
nan is in sight who will not decline.
Charles McDOugal, Panhandle con-
luctOr, shO ed remarkable nerve recently
between COshOcton and Columbus. when
10Th legs were cut off by his own train
PASSING over them. When his trainmen
anne to his rescue he was endeavOring to
lraw the several portions from under
leath the car. He was taken to a Colum-