The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1904-06-30
Minor State News.


Rocco Emanuel, section hand, was
struck and killed by an Erie passenger
train at Marion.
At the local option election in Mechan-
icsburg the ''drys" carried the village by
a majority Of seven.
Asa Fl. Smith, aged SO, is dead at ST.,
Mary's. He was the first white child born
in Anglaize County.
Herman Fahnestock, II years old, the
son of W. E. Fahnestock Of Versailles
was drowned while swimming,
John Black of McGuffey, was drowned
In the Lewistown Reservoir. his boat be-
ing overturned while fishing.
Charles Brown, farmer residing near
McComb, was struck in the abdomen by
singletree while plowing and fatally in
jured.
Sidney, the s-yea--old son Of Peter
Zimmerman of near Gnadenhutten, was
instantly killed by Pan Handle passen-
ger train.
Daniel Thompson, aged 20, was struck
by freight train in the b. and o. yards
at GAINESVILLE, and instantly killed. His
home was in Cambridge.
The Beal law election held at East Liv-
erpool, resulted in victory for the saloon
element by majority of ITO on total Of
4,039, an unusually heavy vote.
Newton Arthur, a farm hand, was
killed on the Pan Handle tracks about
two miles west Of Plain City. He was
single man about 40 years of age.
S. c. Smith, an employe of the Pennsyl-
vania Telephone Company, formerly OF
Bellaire, was shocked while working on
pole and fell to the ground, being picked
up dead.
While attending the funeral Of his
friend, John A. Cullom, Hugh Newell, an
agent resident of Hancock County, was
stricken with apoplexy and died in thirty
minutes.
Harry, son of DR.. William j. Crimes of
East Liverpool, was run over and killed
by car on the Island Run Coal Com
pany's electric railway, on which he was
employed.
BY the capsizing Of a row boat near
Grand Rapids, NJ. N. Ryan and daughter
Gertrude of McComb, and Mr.. HolbrOok
of Hoytsyille, were drowned. Mrs. Ryan
was rescued.
More than 5000 acres of land arc being
leased near Cadiz, by Pittsburg parties,
and they will have one of the largest coal
fields in this state. The price being paid
is $40 an acre.
At the advanced aged Of 90 years, Jacob
Heatherington of Bellaire, one of the old
est and widely known residents of the
Ohio Valley, is dead. He was well
known coal operator.
The Findlay City Council by a vote of
4 to s revoked the franchise Of the Logan
Natural Gas and Fuel Company. This
action is the result Of an attempt on the
part of the company to raise the price Of
gas,
While he was taking shelter under
tree. an unknown man was struck by
lightning and instantly killed near Piqua.
There was nothing about him that would
assist in his Identification. From all ap-
pearanee he was 20 years old.
Wilbur Smothers is employed in fire.
cracker factory at FOstOria, and his cloth
ing was so saturated with the powder
siftings that while going home from work
a spark from his pipe set fire to them and
before they could be torn off he received
burns which are expected to cost him his
life.
Three men were seriously and one prob
ably fatally injured in an explosion of gas
in awater we'll at Crestline. Thewell was
being dug on the property of Peter Eek
stein when suddenly vein of gas burst
forth and nearly smothered the workmen.
Later a match was dropped into the we'll
taA oEcfo
was probably fatally burned. c. Barrett
and F. Seifert were badly burned about
the head.
By decision of the Supreme Court the
validity of juries drawn under special
jury laws in Ohio is affirmed. Attorneys
of George T. Barlow, convicted Of un-
professional conduct as an Attorney and
sentenced to the penitentiary, sought to
have the sentenced set aside on the ground
that he was tried by jury drawn under
the provisions of special act for Frank
lin County.
A 6-weeks-old child OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Luke Wagner, living along the reservoir
bank at Celina, was eaten alive ty rats.
The mother had left the child at home
alone, and gone fishing at the reservoir,
near by, and when she returned she was
confronted by the awful sight of large
rodents gnawing away at her Eaby. The
Coroner was summoned and pronounced
death according to the statements above.
The entire one side of the face was eaten
away.
| Two persons were burned to death and
six others injured in fire that partially
destroyed a saloon and toarding house at
No. AS Columbus street, Cleveland. The
dead are: Annie Movatski, 10 years old,
domestic; Fritz Wolf, As years old, porter.
| The injured: Gus Maraut, Mrs. Carl VOL
gemuth, Mrs. Wolgemuth, ian aged
woman), Gottfred Smith, Carl Wclgemuth
and Herman Houch, badly burned.
Twelve or fifteen persons were asleep in
the building when the fire broke out.
Becoming entangled in a rope on which
the family horse was tethered on the lawn
surrounding her home, Miss Edith Seguine
of Findlay, was dragged, tramped and
kicked so severely that she may not re-
cover.
| In an attempt to remove or raise some
heavy timbers Of barn at Bryan, ThOm-
as Young was almost instantly killed by
one of the timbers falling upon him. He
was about 60 years of age and married.
He was one time candidate for State
Senator on the Democratic ticket, and well
known throughout Williams and adjOin-
ing counties.
J. Mclaughlin, son Of a Wisconsin
Congressman and former Assistant Cor
poration Counsel Of New York City, was
placed behind the walls Of the peniten-
tiary at Columbus, to serve two years for
robbery. He was convicted in Akron.
Mclaughlin ascribes his downfall to the
use OF morphine. After an accident in
New York City he became addicted to the
use of drugs. He wandered to Akron,
and, with Albert Wringer and Bert Mack
| lin, robbed a negro of Sl2. Wringer and
! Macklin have been in the penitentiary
several months. Every effort was made
to save Mclaughlin from the felon's cell,
but the influence of his father and friends
| laI nnthirn