The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-03-26
Brief State Items,

der train in Wellsville and was killed.
Oscar Ohlemacher of Sandusky, aged
23 was probably fatally injured by the ac-
cidental discharge of shotgun while
hunting.
Edith. the 4-year-old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Warren ROebuck of Van Vert,
was burned to death while playing with
Goals from the stove.
John Meyer accidentally discharged a
shotgun into the breast of Mrs Elshoff.
at WapakOneta, and striking the baby in
her arms. Both will probably recover.
Freight Train No. &c on the Detroit
Southern Road was wrecked north of
Springfield. An engine and six loaded
coal ears plunged into ditch. The crew
escaped serious injury
Z. +. Perkins, engineer of the State
Board of Public Works. will ask the
Emergency Board for $4,000 <a repair
damages to the canals in the vicinity of
Cincinnati caused by the recent high wa
ter.
The second. serious freight accident
within three days occurred near Cam
bridge City. Two trains collided on a
steep grade, and many cars were demol-
ished, but none of the trainmen were in
jured.
At New Vienna, Cleo Fox. aged 10
years, while on his way home was struck
by an east-b0und freight and died soon
after. AS the approaching train could be
easily seen the accident cannot be ac-
counted for.
Jacob Hirsch fell from a street car at
| Columbus, recently, and so far has not
been able to talk. He wandered to his
nome, but could give no account of the
accident. 1t is feared that his loss of
| speech will be permanent.
David Hughes, an eccentric hermit,
living in dense grove about three and
one-half miles southwest of Columbus
Grove. was found in dying condition by
neighbors, tree lying across his body
and an ak near by. He may die.
Governor Nash's trip to a Pennsylvania
health resort will not be particularly
beneficial to him, because on the way
home he contracted severe cold. On the
advice of his physician he is confined in
doors, and 1t is not expected that he will
visit the State House for some time.
At the request of Cincinnati business
men Governor Nash has written to the
Governors of Louisiana, Alabama and
Florida for permission for the Cincinnati
Light Artillery to pass through those
states. The battery will accompany the
Cincinnati Business Mems League on a
southern trip.
Lena Limmer of Perrysburg, has sued
the e. II. and ID. Railroad Company for
$1,000. The plaintiff alleges that on Sep
tember 8, 1902, as she was about to cross
the company's tracks train came dash
ing by at the rate of forty miles per hour,
frightening her so that she has since been
nervous wreck.
travelling salesman named either
William Fl. Ely or William Henry
dropped dead while registering at the Lo-
gan Hotel, Bellefontaine. In his clothes
were found bottles of medicine from Lii
ma, Cleveland, Marion and Springfield.
Recent letters addressed to William II.
Ely, at Union City, Ind, were found in his
possession. He was about 6S years of age.
wore Masonic pin and was supposed to
be a jewelry salesman. -
In boiler explosion which wrecked
large portion Of the East Toledo mills of
the Republic Iron and Steel Company one
man was killed and two others burned SO
badly that they may die. The dead: John
thompson, water tender, aged Al, un-
married, formerly of Findlay. The in
jured: Melvin Updegraf. aged 80, night
engineer, married, burned from head to
foot and crushed by falling bricks. Henry
Fust, aged 66, watchmar, burned about
head and face and crushed by bricks. 1t
Will never be known how the accident Oc-
CURED, as the dead man was the only one
near the boiler. The top of the boiler,
weighing many tons, was blown through
the air, hurting just over the tops of twenty
houses and finally plOwing hole fully
twenty feet deep in the ground. prop
erty damage Of $4,000 is the result. 1t
will take month to repair the plant.
Patents have been issued to these Ohio
inventors: Leo A. Bartel, Sidney. wealth.
er strips; Charles d. Brooke, Coshocton,
hypodermic needle; George II. Hulett,
Cleveland, plant for handling ores and a
trolley wagon; j. F. Laning, Norwalk,
manifold sales book; William A. Marqua,
Cincinnati, tricycle.; Henry l. Mcclure,
Cincinnati, car wheel; Charles w. Mo
Shane, GAINESVILLE, bottle for medicine;
William H. Millspaugh, Salem, multiple
cylinder pump: Frank Nentwich, East
Liverpool, window; Frederick j. Nutting,
Dayton, friction clutch, variable speed
transmission mechanism; Benjamin J.
Parker, Cincinnati, letter box; F. T. Pow
ell, Toledo, scraper; John w. Shallen-
berg, Canal Fulton, coal drilling machine;
Charles Seymour, Defiance, wabble saw;
Harvey Sheeler, Cleveland, moving heavy
loe, pneumatic lock; William A. Sloane,
Cincinnati, hair fastener; John X. Thom-
as, Cincinnati, sewing machine; James
and j. o. Timms, Columbus, car coupling;
Ii. C. Workman, Reno, railway rail joint.
John Hartman felled large elm tree
in the yard of his newly purchased home
at Bellefontaine and completely wrecked
it. Furniture, dishes and everything
within were reduced to small bits.
A fondness for mixing drugs and expert
menting on himself caused the death of
Fred Pritchau of Cleveland. Pritchau
worked in the shipping department of a
wholesale drug store. He had been in the |
habit of mixing doses of various kinds and |
taking them when he felt sick. Having
headache, he tried one of his expert
ments. He became very sick and died |
soon afterwards.
1t now appears that Lorain is to get
eight instead of two new blast furnaces,
and that the plate mill of the Sharon plant
will be moved to LOrain to supply the 10
cal yards of the American Ship-building |
Company with material. Besides steel |
plate, armor plate will be made for ship
ment by water.
A gang of swindlers is getting rich quick
selling butter making outfit in the vicin-
ity of Upper Sandusky. The salesman
agrees to purchase all the butter that can
be made from it at 80 cents per pound.
The outfit sells for S87, and is worth about
$40. After the sale the agent always for
gets to leave ths address where the 3d.
cent butter can be shipped.