The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1904-12-22
Buckeye News In Brief.

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A train struck the vehicle of Mrs. Charles
| Shear, residing four miles from Bowling
Green, and she was killed.
Edith, a 2-year-old child of Mrs. Clark,
who resides in Elyria, fell into tub of hot
water and was terribly scalded.
John T. Sivalls, veteran of the Mexican
and Civil wars, and for twenty years post
master at Woodville, and still in office, died
recently.
| Franklin Iams, aged II years, died at
| Marion from heart failure, breaking five
generations in his family. His mother,
aged 90 years, is living at Nevada, Wyan-
dOtte County.
The annual report of the Gallipolis Hos
pital for Epileptics makes no mention Of
numerous trouble at the institution. Supt.
Ohlmacher says wages are too low and
recommends merit system.
Edward Gebhart, a bridge carpenter
from COshOcton, working on the Wabash
| bridge in st. Clairsville, fell forty-five feet
| and broke three ribs, hurt his backbone
and was otherwise badly injured.
The dismembered remains of Elmer
Pefiiy were found along the c., II. and ID.
tracks at Dead Mans Crossing, where he
had been struck by train. He was a
gardener of BrOOkville. When the coroner
called he at once identified Peffiy, with
whom he went to school at Salem.
Carl J. Glass, 10 years old, son of G. Glass
of Springfield, died from fracture of the
skull. The mystery surrounding the in
jury of the child has not been solved by the
parents, although they are inclined to the
belief that he fell while out playing. The
boy came into the house bleeding from
wound. He could not talk, and never re-
gained consciousness
Mrs. Jane TarltOn of Manchester, re-
Gently broke into neighbOr's house with
the intent of stealing. She was arrested,
tried and convicted of the charge, and was
sentenced to serve ten years in the peni-
tentiary. She is the mother of 6-mOnths-
old child and it is supposed that she was
making the attempt to steal in order that
she might provide for the little one.
Allen Haphen, proprietor of boarding
house in COkeOttO, was killed in break for
liberty. He was being brought to Hamilton
by a constable, who had arrested him on
the charge of assault to kill, when he
jumped from an interurban while it was
running at the rate of forty miles per hour
He was found unconscious, and died within
a short time at the Mercy Hospital.
William Millikan, 9S, known as the oldest
editor in active service, is dead at Washing
ton Court House. He had sufficiently re-
cOverved from paralytic stroke about two
years ago to take up his work again, con-
tinuing at it almost to the end. He was in
the Indiana Legislature twice, and was
Mayor of LapOrte, Ind, for term. He
was in the Sixty-secOnd and Sixty-fourth
General Assemblies of Ohio.
Two wolves, on exhibition at the Zoo
Animal Saloon at LOrain, created panic
by getting out of their cage. One of the
animals attacked John Heni, an emplOye
of the place, and portions of his body were
badly lacerated. His condition is serious.
1t was after considerable trouble that the
animals were caught and placed in their
cage. 1t was through carelessness in leav
ing the cage door ajar that the animals
found their temporary freedom.
AS result of split in the once thriving
congregation of the United Brethren
Church at Waldo, the church property was
sold at public auction. The church bull
ding, which was the oldest in the county,
having been used as house of worship for
over half century, was purchased by ia
cob Rely for 1882, while the lot bought
by j. P. Ward for $3.50. Following the
split the congregation became so scattered
that the few remaining in Waldo were un-
able to maintain il.
A peculiar pension case, which has
caused considerable comment is that of
Mrs. Silvers Grimm of Bucyrus. Mrs.
Grimm was married to soldier named Sill
vers. After his death she drew a widows
pension until she married Peter Grimm,
when the pension was stopped. Recently
MIR. Grimm died and his wife applied for a
pension on the ground that she was the
widow of Mr.. Silvers. The government
has allowed the pension.
The w. C. T. U. of Tiffin has finally ac-
eomplished its purpose to break up the sa-
loon vaudeville. The women of the city
who have agitated the matter attended the
meeting of the city council in body, and
got through an ordinance prohibiting the
proceeded in methodical way to accOmp-
lish their purpose. They posted watchers
outside the doors of the vaudeville shows to
estimate the number of young men who
passed in and out of them in stated time.
The church forces regard the outcome as a
distinct victory for law and good morals.
A charred human skeleton, revolver, a
1irk knife and bunch of skeleton keys
have created mystery in Hartville which
is arOusing intense interest throughout this
section. After an untenanted house on Ira
Brumbaugh's farm, near Hartville, burned,
citizens viewed the wreckage and found
the charred skeleton of a man, together
with the revolver, keys and knife. Recent
ly there have been number of burglarieS in
the neighborhOod, and the opinion prevails
that the dead man was party thereto. AS
no money was found, it is also thought that |
he had a pal, who may, indeed, have killed |
him and then burned the house in order to |
cover his crime.
shot by his niece, Miss Grace Lehman. |
Uncle and niece were shooting at target |
with small rifle when a shot fired at the |
target by the young woman hit her uncle. |
The ball lodged under an eye and pene-
trated his brain.
Mrs. Susan ii. Good, aged Il years, died |
at her home in Tiffin. Her maiden name |!
was Susan Root, and she was born at
Granville, o. She was married in 1917 to |
j. ii. Good, who was a member of IIeidel- |
berg's first faculty, and who afterward be-
came president Of the Heidelberg Theo-
logical Seminary.
Tom Humphrey, a passenger engineer !
on the Hooking Valley, was badly injured
at Longley. He was taking fast No. 33
north when the tire on the drive wheels
broke. The pieces, flying into the cab,
struck Humphrey OH the head and arms.
He was taken to his home in Columbus.
In fire which practically destroyed a
twO-stOry brick and frame tenement house
at Bimm's Park, near Dayton, John Gerst,
5 years old, son of Mr.. and Mrs. e.. A.
IIerst, was burned to death. The fire is
,uppOsed to have been started by the bOy,