The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-04-02
Brief State Ifems.

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build fire with kerosene.
Christ bunker, harness maker, was
waylaid and robbed of a considerable sum
of money by two men at Tiffin.
Bert Mackley, aged %. brakeman in
the Pennsylvania yards at Mansfield, was
struck by freight train and died.
Michael Fahey, aged %, of Ithaca, n.
Y, was instantly killed by falling through
the Beechler bridge, near Melbourne.
Thomas Eberhardt. aged IA, while help
ing to raze an old building at Wooster,
was caught under the debris and killed.
Judge David Bowersock, a prominent
resident of Sidney. died of blood poison,
which developed from a carbuncle on his
neck.
AT a meeting of the Trustees of the State
Deaf and Dumb Asylum, Superintendent
j. w. Jones was reappOinted for another
term.
| Fred Andregg was killed and Joseph
Bailey injured by wreck on the w. and
l.. +. Railway at Canton, caused by the
spreading of rails.
| Claude SunQuist was killed and James
Hathaway probably fatally burned by
| live electric wires at Cleveland. They
were repairing wires.
Benjamin F. McKinnOn, living at 256
Florence street, Springfield, was hit by a
street car on Lagonda avenue. His in
iuries are considered fatal.
Charles Miller, aged II, was decapitated
at Van Vert. by Pennsylvania through
freight. Miller, with several companions,
were jumping on and off the train.
A gasoline explosion at 32t Sumner
street, Toledo, the home of Mrs. NJ. Muir
ray, shattered the rear portion Of the
house and fatally injured Clara Murray,
aged IA.
In his annual report filed with Governor
Nash, John II. Morgan, State Inspector of
Workshops and Factories, recommends
that new laws pertaining to child labor
be enacted.
Fred Roth, aged years, was run down
by Camden Interstate street car at Iron
ton, and killed. The little fellow was
racing on the track in front of the car
trying to beat if to the crossing.
LIE Roy FerrelI, who fell through a sky
light last August and was almost killed,
recently at BarbertOwn was knocked
down by train, refracturing the same
bones that were broken last summer.
The authorities of Oxford College. near
Hamilton, have ordered the college closed
because of the outbreak of German mea-
sles among the 125 young women present.
All the young women were sent home.
p. S. Willis has found little lake of
gold fish on his farm. near Toledo. The
fish had endured the winters rigOrs and
had several inches of ice over them, but
are as lively now as those kept in glass
vases indoors.
Excitement prevails at Fort Seneca, a
little hamlet six miles north of Tiffin, be-
cause of an oil we'll which wildcat oper-
stors have just drilled in. At depth of
dfty feet in the Trenton the hole rapidly
filled with oil, and without being shot is
estimated to be good for fifty barrels per
day.
S. NJ. Williams. a COshoctOn contractor,
has contracted for the output of all the
local brick yards until June Is. One
contract, that for the new Pope -GOsser
CEihd SOupohNs Will ldhC OOO,UUO
Contractors look for the greatest building
Doom in the history of COshocton. Ground
has been broken for the China COmpany's
plant. The company will invest $4,000
In buildings, and will give employment to
200 hands.
The trainmen and passengers of Big
Four train No. 80, sOuth-bOund, congrat
llated themselves over their narrow es-
cape from wreck. George jackson, a
farmer, discovered broken rail about
two miles north of Clyde. Knowing that
The train would soon be along he put his
horses on a run and reached Clyde in time
% have the operator hold the train. Had
Jackson been two minutes later the train
would have passed beyond a point where
The operator could have reached the train
men with message.
A fatal explosion occurred at the Kings
Powder Mills, near Morrow, in which
Alpheous Mon was literally blown to
atoms. A wheel mill in which the powder
Is ground and dried after coming from the
glaze went up with fifteen barrels of black |!
and the shock was felt for miles. !
The deceased was the only man employed |
III the building, so the direct cause may
never be known. His trunk and one limb |
were found several yards from where the |
stood, while his head was taken |
from the branches of a nearby tree. The |
was about 46 years old and mar
lied. A widow and three children sur
rive him.
According to a telegram received by |
A int M Eanaral GunQr from Saaratarv !
Root, the Federal Government wants to |
zee for itself if OhiO's militia is only on
paper or bona fide fighting organization.
The message says that the government is
ready to furnish equipment under the |
Dick military law as soon as it can ascer-
.ain by personal inspection how many /
roops have to be equipped. The Adju-
amt General advised the Washington au-
horities that Ohio has ninty infantry
in seventy-One towns and cities,
and that they may be inspected at their
several armories at the pleasure of the
of War.
After fully S5O, 900 had been expended in
sinking or drilling at least twenty holes
1t Wooster, for oil or gas during the last
ew years the persistent efforts have been
inally rewarded with fairly good flow
IN the lands of the Wooster Shale Brick
Company.
Stella Huffman, aged IS, has sued
Joseph Hoover, wealthy farmer near
ritfin, for $3.50 damages for dog bite
wO years ago. 1t is claimed the girl is
afflicted with strange malady, which has
esulted in almost complete mental col
4 IA al ho Ill Of Snanial- l
sts. The girl is almost helpless cripple.
The dow law collections for January,
ust computed in the Auditor of States
'ffice, show that saloons are increasing in
lumber in Ohio in spite of the Beal law
ocal option elections. The number OF
aloons that paid the tax this year was