The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1904-07-21
Brief State Itens.

Brief State Items.
| Albert Fogle, aged 81. was killed at
Marion by Big Four passenger train.
Thomas Fitzgibbons, aged A years.
died at Springfield, from injuries received
in falling down stairs.
A Norfolk & Western freight train was
derailed at Hayesville. Seven cars were
wrecked. Loss $4,000.
Clary Ryan, aged II, of Newark, was
drowned in the North fork Of the Licking
River while swimming.
Howard Harshbarger, aged "a, was
drowned in the Saltwater River, near
West Milton, while bathing. @
John Becosta, workman on the Wa
bash, was killed by fall OF rock at Twin
Tunnels, near Steubenville.
Miss Alice Hawk burst blood vessel
while laughing at her home in Sugar
Grove, and died few minutes later.
J. A. Bunton, aged 32, was killed in
the plant Of the American Cereal Com
pany at Akron by large pulley which
fell on his head.
George Powers, Detroit Southern
brakeman, Of Springfield, was prehaps
fatally injured while unloading freight
at South Charleston.
David Padden, an employe Of the Riv-
erside Steel Plant, at Benwood, was bad
ly burned by molten metal, a cap of an
ingot mold blowing of.
Mrs. James Cathcart living north OF
Hesstown, was struck by lightning and
instantly killed while at work in her
kitchen during severe thunder storm.
Geo. Pollock, Hungarian boarding
house keeper at Massillon, was struck by
Baltimore & Ohio train and almost in
stantly killed. His body was terribly
mangled.
While Charles Shaffer, aged II, and
Robert Shaffer, aged Is, were shooting at
a mark at Warren, the revolver went off
accidentally in Roberts hand and killed
Charles instantly.
The Wick oil field is again to the front
with well Of gusher calibre. The strike
was made by the Carter Oil Company on
the Akron farm. and it is reliably report
ed that the we'll is doing fine.
The Council of the village Of Milford
Center has granted the petition signed by
forty per cent. OF the voters OF the village
for an election to be held under the Beal
law, and the date is set for Monday, July
25th.
Mrs. T. J. Jenkins was shot and Sc
verely injured by her husband in Philo
recently. She had got up to lower a win
dow, and her husband mistOok her for
burglar. Jenkins is prostrated over the
affair.
Harry Swartz, aged Is, was decapitated
by Baltimore and Ohio train at Ravena,
while on his way to work. He stepped
from one track to avoid an approaching
train and was struck by one on the other
track.
The one hundredth anniversary of the
settlement of Germantown will be cele-
brated in that city, August 8, and 8.
The Committee on Reception Is composed
Of ii. d. Oblinger, Ernest Kern and J.
NJ. Lawder.
The Tifin Woolen Mills, one Of the
largest horse blanket factories in the
United States announces that it has closed
down for an indefinite period, depending
largely upon the future condition of the
trade. Several hundred hands are thrown
out OF employment.
Harry Richardson met with painful
and peculiar accident at Coshocton. The ;,
lad was riding horse and the animal ran
away, getting close to barb wire fence.
The boys feet caught between two wires
and for q hundred yards the jagged wires
tore into his flesh, literally shredding it.
Daniel Davis, miner at Sherrodville,
lost his life while trying to save his BROTH
er-in-law, William Monroe, who was
overcome with black damp. Davis went
to his rescue, and, after afixing the ropes,
fell, and was dead when brought to the
surface. Monroe was pulled out and after
a time revived.
Jacob Stump, while unloading hay near
Bucyrus, was caught in the fork which
was being used to draw the hay to the top
Of the NOW. When at the highest point
he fell to the floor below sustaining in
juries which are feared to be very serious.
He was unconscious when picked up and
was internally injured.
Leo Schaefer OF Sandusky. was drowned
in Pipe Creek. Schaefer, in alighting
from B. & o. freight train, fell down
high bank into the creek. He was rem
dered unconscious in the fall and sank to
the bottom before assistance could arrive.
He was about 20 years old and for several
years was employed as a clerk in Kieffer's
grocery.
Justice James Mauger of Pataskala,
when a baby, thirty years ago, swallowed
a needle. Recently doctor made an in
cision in his right hand and removed the
bent needle. The point was missing, but
1t was otherwise perfect. The needle
to be covered with black
enamel. Mauger had forgotten he ever
a needle.
Daniel Spoon of Upper Sandusky, who
has been blind for five years was gradu-
ally being restoredto sight by the appli-
cation of a remedy which his wife applied
twice a day. The other day she got the
wrong bottle, and before 1t was noticed
the sight of her husband was perman-
emily destroyed. She had applied some
corn medicine in mistake for the proper
remedy, and is almost erazed with grief.
The ssinkhole" at Round Prairie on the
line of the Urbana & Bellefountain cleo
tric line has been filed and cars are now
running across it. Fifteen hundred car
loads of gravel, ties and brush were
thrown into the place and sunk out of
sight before it was conquered.
The right arm Of the 5-year-old Joseph
Sosey, son Of Joseph Sosey, was fearfully
by the teeth of vicious dog at
Marion. The dog had bone and the
baby tried to get it when the canine
Ieaped upon the child, sinking its teeth
10 the bone and tearing the flesh from the
elbow to the wrist.
The Board of Safety of Urbana has
closed the local theater for all time to
come and that city is now without play
house and will be until the theater which
Billy Clifford, the vaudeville star, is
erecting. is completed. In closing the
theater, which is in the city building, the
board has imposed conditions of opening
which are practically impossible to COM
ply with.
The we'll recently drilled in on farm
b.