The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1904-08-04
Brief State Items.

from cancer.
Matthew Thompson, aged 4S years, was
caught in fall of shale near Portsmouth,
and instantly killed.
Andrew Carnegie has given $1,000 to
the Second Luthern Church of Spring
deld to buy an organ.
John w. Clark, derrick builder OF
Lima, fell from ei2hty-foot derrick TO
the floor. Death is almost certain.
Because she feared insanity Mrs. Alice
Ciary. wife of Elijah Clary. OF ls49 Oak
wood avenue, Toledo, killed herself by
;arbolic acid.
John Adams, an engineer OF Homestead,
Pa. was killed by being caught in the
sngine at the La Belle Iron Works,
Steubenville.
j. Skeels, aged so years, a grocer at
Sunbury, was struck by Columbus,
Akron and Cleveland train and probably
fatally injured.
Alfred Davis, the founder of Mineral
City, died suddenly in a store near his
home. Davis was born in Harrison
County 81 years ago.
VIM. Harlan of South GAINESVILLE. was
fatally injured at the Kohler Brentwood
Works. A circular saw flew off the pulley
and cut into lis brain.
The dead body of Mrs. Mary Wilson,
aged 80, was found by searching party
near Logan. She had wondered away
from home and died Of starvation and ex-
posure.
John Pohjonson. Finnish section
hand, was scalded to death with hot coffee
during quarrel at gainesville. Two
Firms, with whom Pobjonson lived, were
arrested. Oneis named l. Mattison.
terrific rain and hail storm did thous-
,nds OF dollars worth of damage to grow
ing crops and fruit in Summit County.
Many windows in Akron were broken by
The hail-stones, and streets were flooded
The residence of Mrs Oliver Branford.
at Wintersville, with all its contents, was
destroyed by fire. Mrs. Brandford was
badly burned in getting her S-year-ol'l
ooy out of the bed room where he was
asleep.
Fred McGee, the 2-year-,ld son of
Henry McGee Of Wayne Township, WASH
ngtOn County, was found hanging by his
neck in rope swing by his mother.
tie was dead when found. The death
vas accidental.
Egbert Packer, aged 26, was found in
he Panhandle yards at Dennison, and
iv,d hut few minutes after being taken
20 his home. There is talk of foul play,
out the general opinion is that he was
truck by train.
The boiler in the engine room of Ewing
Hall, of the Ohio University at Athens.
blew up, demolishing the machinery and
.ausing loss Of about $1,000. The boiler
used in furnishing hot water system
IF beating for Ewing Hall, the largest
ind finest building of the University.
The explosion was caused by the igniting
If gas. Who is responsible is not known
and an investigation will be made.
Attorney General Ellis has notified
many County Commissioners that they
nay draw pay under the law passed last
winter. Attorney-General Ellis holds
that the law is good one, and may apply
20 present County Commissioners for the
:eason that it provides per diem pay.
The constitution says salaries of officers
shall not be increased during their term
,ut the Court does not hold per diem pay
% be salary.
A ''traveler" Of the hosting apparatus
lsed in the construction of the new lift
bridge of the Newburg and South Shore
Railroad near Cleveland, broke and
knocked Frank Lowman into the river
jelow, killing him instantly, and pinioned
Ernest johnson to a narrow scaffolding.
Lawrence I.ahitf, foreman. who was half
Say down the bridge. was knocked from
lis sition, but saved himself from an
Eighty foot fall by grabbing hold of a
.irdef.
pot of gold containing all the way
rom 5000 to 5000 is reported to have
;0ioto River on the John III. CUTLERY farm
vest of Marion. Abraham Carry and
ihanklin Beckley, two well-knOwn farm
.rs. are said to have made the find while
ishing For years there has been a leg
md to the effect that treasure was
acated in that vicinity, and searching
PARTIES have been formed from time to
ime to find it.
While under the influence ofintoxicants
James Fl. Cherry, aged S5, from Pittsburg,
walked out of room No. IL
IN the fourth floor OF the Biggs House,
Portsmouth. distance of seventy-fve
'eet. The force of the fall was broken by
iome telephone wires, but the unfortu-
late man sustained internal injuries that
will prove fatal. Cherry is member of
he Catholic Order of ForeSters and had
been employed as machinist at the
Norfolk and Western terminal.
A tall man with a long gray beard
Knocked at the door of a modest little
iome at Windham. Portage County. The
.all vas answered by Mrs. John Poult-
ley, aged u. The man VAS her husband.
igel ~. who mysteriously disappeared
wenty-one years ago and had never been
reard from. lie has been in the West
working in mines and amassing a small
,ortune. The modern Rip Ran Wrinkle
vas forgiven and the aged couple will
pend their remaining days together.
Miss EIeonora Tyler of Upper San
husky, received a voucher from the
Treasury Department at Washington for
lO7.67. The claim was for services rem
Iered by the late Captain Peter A. Tyler,
# Co. G., Fifteenth Ohio Infantry, and
yas filed before the proper department
orty years ago.
Mayor Gibson of Upper Sandusky, has
efused to close business places there on
sundays, claiming it was not good for
he public interest. The Ministerial As
who petitioned the Mayor to do
o, said they will attempt to impeach
Iayor Gibson for not enforcing the law.
Two brothers, sons of Judge McCreary,
esiding at North Lewisburg, William,
ged IL. and Chester, aged 10. had taken
heir fathers shotgun out in the yard and
we're playing "Indian.' Willie was
'erched in an apple tree, and said: Il am
Trunk" Chester, who was standing on
he ground below, said: ''lf you are drunk
will fix you like they ought to fix drunk
N men," and with that he point d the
hotgun at his brother in the tree and &.
,ulled the trigger. Willie dropped cut OF
he tree dead, the entire charge entering