The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-07-09

b0rs-WeddinGs and nd.Deaths-Crtmes,
Casualties and General Buckeye
News Notes.
Minor Mention.
Monroe Heils, aged AZ, fell from Can
ton Alliance car at Maxillo and died from
injuries.
l.. D. Stenrod died from injuries re-
eeived from fall down the elevator shaft
Of Nelsonville store.
Peter Weiss, aged "a, of Norwalk, was
killed at the Norwalk Steel and Iron
plant while repairing pully.
Charles w. Shaw, lather, was killed
by. an Erie passenger train at Warren.
He had lately worked in Delaware.
Samuel HUNK, Pennsylvania Railroad
section man, was struck by a train at the
Union Depot, Alliance. He will die.
Henry Fisher and Art Jones, employed
at Jobs Mine, near Murray City, were in
jured by coal fall. Fisher will die.
Mrs. T. B. Owen, wife of Probate Judge
Owen, and her children were seriously
injured in runaway accident at Urbana.
Mrs. Lulu Leber, wife Of Julius Leber,
Of Miamisburg, committed suicide by tax
ing carbolic acid. She leaves two small
children.
Governor Nash has pardoned Ward
Herald from the penitentiary. He was
serving three years from Williams County
for perjury.
William T. Quinn, aged so, a Lake Erie,
Alliance and Wheeling Railroad brake
man, fell between cars at Phalanx and
was instantly killed.
An election was held in Toronto to de-
termine whether or not intoxicating liq-
uors should be sold as beverage, result
ing in victory for vets by majority Of
119.
will Zimmermacher, aged II years, son
Of Jacob Zimmermacher Of -Crestline, ran
away from his work and attempted to
board train to go to Gallon. He fell be-
meath and was killed.
Charles Drummond, q stonemason, aged
As, was found dead at Martins Ferry, his
throat cut and the arteries of his wrist
severed. Drink was the cause. He
leaves q widow and two children at Mari
eta.
John Huffman, aged %, OF st. Paris,
and Bart Ward, aged q, Of Westville,
were instantly killed at st. Paris, by train
No. on the Panhandle Railroad. They
were in a buggy and tried to cross the
tracks.
Humane Society Agent Ware and
Patrolman Geiger, found the remains OF
Miss Helen NJ. Jones in her HON 9, at 6o3
Huron street, Toledo, In the house where
she was born. She was about 60 years Of
age, and had been dead several days.
Death was due to an overdose OF aconite.
1t Is supposed she committed suicide.
Oil wells, the production Of which it is
impossible to estimate, were struck almost
simultaneously in hitherto undeveloped
territory in Southeastern Hancock Coun-
ty, by the Peoples Oil and Gas Company.
and the Home Oil Company, both OF
Findlay. A lively scramble is on fori
leases. Farmers demand exorbitant
rentals.
Tbs framework Of the Buckeye bridge,
under construction at Sugar Greek for the
Hooking Valley Railroad, gave way,
letting six men fall fifty feet into a ravine.
A. L. Honeystau1e Of Lancaster, is fatally
injured. AL Justus, Tom Miller, and Tom
Gray OF Lancaster, were badly injured.
l.. Stule Of Athens, is also thought to be
fatally injured.
Judge A. r. Webber, in decision rem
dered at Akron, upheld the right of Peter
Keifer to sue the Diamond Rubber COM
pany for damages for blacklisting him.
He also held that employers have right
to discharge their employees at any time,
where the manner of employment is not
Of wit Oiu fOP
such discharge.
S. A. McMay, aged SO, and married OF
Caledonia, was killed by the Big Four
Flyer at that place recently. McMay's
dog was on the track, and, seeing that it
was about to be run over, he stopped to
pick up stone to scare it off. As he did
so the engine crushed him. His wife is
Frustrated and is in serious condition.
The dog escaped injury.
The committee of Western Reserve I'm
iversity officials who had charge Of the
disp sal of Western Reserve Academy at
Hudson, which has been in financial DIM
Guilty, has decided to offer the academy
property to the village Of Hudson to care
for as a gift. The academy has been es-
tablished many years, and is the alma
Prosecutor Charles Gallinger of Craw-
ford County, has instituted mandamus
proceedings against the Trustees of the
Ohio State Reformatory at Mansfield.
Rolla Snavely, aged l6, was found guilty
of assault and sentenced to serve thirty
days in the reformatory. The Trustees
refused to receive the boy on the ground
that they are not obliged to take persons
convicted of misdemeanors, and that fell
ons only are to be imprisoned in the Mans
field institution.
Michael Farkas was shot to death In
fight over girl, at the Beaver Dam coal
mines, near Canal Dover, by George No
wax. Both were coal miners. They
boarded at the home Of John Alack, who
has q prepossessing daughter about 18
years old. Both men have been paying
attention to the girl. Farkas seemed to
meet with more favor than did Novak.
They quarreled about the girl. Novak
drew a revolver and shot five times at
Farkas, the last shot striking him on the
forehead. Novak escaped.
A peculiar coincidence appears in the
report Of the vital statistics Of Union
County, just completed. For the year
190l-'02 and the year 1902-'03 the Number
of deaths were 176 the same in both cases.
Robert Childreth, an ex-c0nvi,t, was
foiled in an attempt to break ont Of tho
county Jail at Eaton. Sheriff Huffman's
wife surprised him after he had ALMOST
cut off one hinge on the outer door. He
says he did the work with case-knife.
The Jail was searched for saws but none
were found. Childreth has been in the
Ohio Penitentiary twice and is in Jail now
charged with hOrse-stealing.
At Sidney, while Mrs. Harley Manson
and her brother, Cyrus,J. Miller, were
out driving, their horse ran away. Mr..
Miller had just got out Of the buggy and
was about to help Mrs. Manson out, when
the horse started to run. Mrs. Manson
seized the reins and tried to stop the
horse, which continued at breakneck
speed. Failing in her efforts in this 1t
flashed through Mrs. MansOn's mind that
she had once read that to pull on runa-