The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1905-09-28
Minor State News.

until they bled.
Fire destroyed the plant of the Elyria
Wood Plaster Company. The cause is un
known. The loss is about 5000.
| \ large barn owned by Andrew Jones,
residing west of Marion, was struck by
lightning and destroyed. The loss is 5000.
John Robinson, 65 years, a well-to-do
farmer, was found dead three miles east of
Wooster with his head crushed. He was
hit by train.
| Bert Borough, farmer, was fatally in
jured in runaway that occurred on South
Washington street, Tiffin. He was thrown
from his buggy.
| Grant Werks, hostler at Middletown,
despOndent because he lost limb through
| amputatiOn, drank carbOlic acid and died
several hours later
| Thomas Mcclure, motorman on Can
ton-AkrOn street car line, was killed by
the Overturning of his car ON a steep grade
at BroOkfield, near Massillon.
| Brighten. Daniel w. Benham. U. 5. A,
died suddenly at Tiffin of apOplexy, aged
6S years. He enlisted as volunteer in
1861, and was placed on the retired list in
July, 1898.
| Elmer WOrthington, switch tender on
the Pittsburg and Lake Erie railroad at
Youngstown, in attempting to board a
| freight train, fell under the wheels and
had both legs amputated.
| Chauncey Hill, coal miner, was killed
while operating an electrical coal cutting
machine in the Keystone mines at Rose
vile. The flesh was torn from his body in
huge strips by the machine.
| d. V. Hoffman, aged and widely known
merchant of Doylestown, was arrested
under indictment for embezzlement 1t is
charged that Hoffman failed to account for
about 81, 200 which he received as executor
of Thomas Lloyd.
| ChaS. Hamilton, aged Al years, was killed
and five others were seriously hurt in the
runaway of street car at Cincinnati. The
car, after madly dashing down the hill at
mile-a-minute clip, crashed into another
car and hurled it from the track.
| Albert Hale, a young man 20 years of
| age, met instant death at Chicago Junction
yelectrOcution. While engaged in stretch
| ing some wires for the b. Il o. company,
he accidentally touched live one near the
dynamo and was instantly killed
\ leaky gas tube caused a small explo-
sion in tent in which moving picture
show was being given at the county fair in
| MarySville, and the enclosure, which was
filed with people, burst into fame. A
wild panic ensued but no one was injured.
| W. ID. Miller, aged 26, and living at Al
lance, employed a. a firemen on the p, +.
". IL c. railroad was killed by fall from
bis engine while it was running at the rate
Of forty miles an hour His skull was
crushed and death was almost instantan-
eous.
John Dingius, aged 60, of Macksburg,
was accidentally shot and killed at the
| Sarahsville fair. Melville King of Macks-
! burg, was examining revolver which
| bystaDder had drawn in a lottery, and it
| was discharged with fatal effect. King mas
| been arrested.
| Seeing her 16-months- old babe ih a els
tern, Mrs Alfred Johnson, near Caledonia,
leaped to its rescue. She managed to hold
| the childs head above water while she
screamed for help. When succor came
both were nearly drowned, the child being
black in the face.
While workmen were engaged in drilling
| a well at Paintersville, and had reached a
depth of III feet, the drill was blown out
of the well by the force OF gas, which in
some way became ignited, the flames shoot
ing over twenty feet high. There is great
excitement in the locality and property is
booming.
After going through an open switch in
the Erie yards at Marion, a car containing
twenty head of cattle en- route to To-
ledo, turned on its side and the imprisoned
cattle were released from the wrecked car
through large hole cut in the roof. They
| were then driven to the uptown yards and
reloaded, not single animal being injured
A strong wooden box not over foot high
| and wide, containing nearly $4,000 worth
of gold bars was recently received at a bank
in Akron. ltwas the property of E. J. Bar
nett. an Akron man, who struck it rich in
the Klondike The box containing the
fortune weighed go pounds, and was
shipped from Fairbanks, Alaska, by ex-
press.
man. living near Wellington, were looking
into water well. they smelled gas. To
ascertain whether or not there was enough
gas to burn, they lighted mater and
dropped it into the well. An explosion
which was heard for half mile away fol-
lowed. The three men were terribly
burned and lacerated.
What will prove murder too6 place in
the Magar section OF Stenbenville. while
wedding celebration was in progress Alex
Rolicb.a guest,was followed out in the yard
byNick Saltza, who plunged "a knife into
RoIich's body. several stabs being of a fatal
nature Saltza was captured and turned
over to the officers He has a record of
several other unprovoked stabbirgs.
The state board of public works has
chosen ID. II. Robinson OF ROckport, as the
states commissioner TO adjust the claims
for damages bytveriiow from the ST. Marys
reservoir and the claimants have chosen
Ed L. Bryson of Celina. The claims ag-
gregate $4,000.
The best oil well that has been drilled in
the Ohio field in many days is that of : y.
f. Priddy in his No. is on the H. Zody
farm. just east of Trombley, in Bloom
township. After the salt water had been
exhausted the well made go barrels ill
twenty hours The well is good for 800
barrels day.
Joseph Benjamin of Upper Sandusky.
sustained serious accident in peculiar
manner lie hung beef which he had
butchered on scatfold. The seaffold fell,
pinning him to the ground A butehering
knife in his hand penetrated clear through
his thigh. severing an artery, and he came
near bleeding TO death
Dynamite was exploded under the struc-
ture used as a pool room and known as
Huber's Gardens. on the Alexandria pike.
south of Newport. The entire south end
of the building was blown away. The ex-
plosion was terrific and the report was
heard all over Newport. Fortunately no
one was in the building or its near vicinity
at the time