The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-01-15
Brief State Itena.


Dupont, Putnam County, voted dry a;
an election held under the Beal law, by a
vote Of AZ toS7.
Louis VOgel, aged 85. deaf mute, was
killed by Norfolk and Western train a,
Lucasville, while walking on the track
Joseph Odranec, an employe at the mills
at Mingo junction, was instantly killed
by being run over by Pam Handle train.
President Roosevelt has sent his accept
ance of an invitation to attend the Nc
Kinley birth anniversary banquet to be
held at Canton.
A small daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
William Gulley of Bellaire, crawled from
its bed to the fireplace. where its clothes
ignited. The child died.
With his arm around his anvil Joseph
Culp, veteran horseshoer of Belle
fontaine, was found unconscious in his
shop and died soon afterward from cerebral
hemorrhage.
Frank Petty, living near Urbana. lost a
lot OF cattle recently. The cattle walked
under straw pile which had been eaten
through, and the straw pile caved In on
them. All died Of suffOcation.
Governor Mash has announced the ap-
pointment OF George Fl. Schwan of Cleve-
land, as Judge of the Police Court, to sue
ceed Judge Kennedy. resigned. Judge
Kennedy was elected to the Common Pleas
bench.
| The residents of the Polish settlement
in Lagrange street, Toledo. have found
out that asphalt paving blocks mixed with
a little coal make good fire, and are now
tearing up the paving for the blocks TO use
as fuel.
Leaving her 20-months- baby with
her sister Edith, aged years, Mrs. U. S.
McNeal stepped from her home at Lima.
The sister, playing with a lighted pine
knot, had touched the clothing Of the
child and she will die,
Mrs. James Losek of % Vance street,
Toledo, left her two little boys in the
| house while she went to the butcher shop,
and during her absence little Richard,
aged years, was burned to death. The
lads played with matches.
N. j. Barry, a commercial salesman
from Columbus, retired to his room in the
Empire Hotel, Tiftin. He went to bed
smoking cigar. After he fell asleep the
bed clothes caught fire. He was badly
burned about the neck and face.
rhe last official act of Prosecutor West,
of Bellefountaine, before reti<ing from
Office was to nolle three remaining indict-
ments against former City Clerk Morgan
j. Nichols, who is now serving five-year
term in the Ohio Penitentiary for embez-
element.
A west-bound Panhandle passenger
train ran into cut Of freight cars at the
Tehth-street crossing, Hamilton. The
passenger engine was badly damaged and
the freight cars thrown from the track.
Passengers were badly shaken up, but
luckily escaped injury. Trains were de-
layed an hour.
Quite an interesting sight is to be seen
in Greenlawn Cemetery in Milford Center,
Union County. In one lot rs feet long
there lies the body of Jacob Fairchilds,
his wife and seventeen children, and on
each grave has been erected stone slab.
The only child now living of Mr.. Fair
child's large family resides in Cincinnati.
"There's dead man on your pilot"
bOui6 Ou0 6uOulCu " GuRluccl DCCHIS VI
the Norfolk and Westesn west-bound ex-
press train, as he was about to pull out of
the Main Street Station at Circlevi.le.
Upon investigating the dead body of
Frank Lowry was found with his head
firmly wedged in the bumpers. The un-
fortunate man was struck somewhere near
bis home on Clinton street and carried
through the Court Street Station without
discovery.
The dead body of 2-months-old mu-
Iatto boy baby was found tied to the rear
recently, on the b. & o. Brakeman War
rem Welsh discovered bundle attached
TO the rear bumper of the last coaoh when
the train was between Morgan's Station
and Pleasant Corners. Fl cut the strings
and carried the bundle into the baggage
car. When it was opened the trainmen
were horrified. The body was turned over
to Coroner Lindsay. The Coroner said
that the child died from exposure.
At Crestline, Edward Kuhn, who is suf-
fering with smallpox, broke the quarantine
at his home by leaping from window,
ran through the public streets of the town,
eoatless and hatless, and finally wound up
in hotel, where he demanded drink.
He then washed his hands and face, while
the inmates of the hotel seemed to terrified
even to make a move. When the people
learned of Kuhn's escapade they ran from
the streets, and many could not be induced
to venture out. The Board of Health has
placed strict quarantine on every place
at which Kuhn StOnped.
Kosciusko Lodge No. IS, I. o. o. F., of
Marion. boasts of the oldest Odd Fellow in
The world in the person of Elder d. Lind
sey. He entered the lodge in 1916 and
took his last degree, then the fifth, Janu-
ary is, 1s47. Thus it will be seen that he
is now in the ffty-seventh year Of his Odd
Fellowship. The records show that Mr..
Lindsey has filled all the chairs and has
!aken the Past Grand and Past Chief Pat
riarch Degrees. October 26, 1893. upon
the occasion of the celebration of his mar
rage anniversary, the Grand Lodge of
Ohio presented Mr.. Lindsey with hand
some diamond studded veterans jewel.
Incited through jealousy George Guss, a
Polander, shot and fatally injured Mrs.
Vonda Pogorzelski. wife of John Pogor-
Eelski, also Polander, VINO conducts
boarding house at Ill Crane street, Dayton.
He then turned the smoking weapon upon
himself and fired two shots, from which
death resulted almost instantly. GuSs
was 20 years of age, and had been in this
country but about four months. The
husband of the woman was away from
home at the time.
Mr.. Ward, farmer living near Upper
Sandusky, shot and killed himself. He
had been drinking heavily.
Two cars met in fog on the Mahoning
Valley Electric Line near Warren, injur-
ing nine persons. Motorman William Gill
more Of Niles, was cut on the face and
considerably bruised about the body;
Motorman Lavigan and Conductor Burns.
cut about the hands and considerably
bruised; Conductor Hessler, head cut; j.
Warfnon Niloc hry,i ohont h0hV.