The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1905-11-09
buckeye News In Brief.

The board of trade of Findlay is secure
ing porcelain manufacturing industry
for the city.
Judson Smith of GAINESVILLE, a steel
worker, was killed by being struck by a
GAINESVILLE and Newark interurban car.
John Presco, Roumanan laborer, was
run over and fatally injured by an automo-
bile speeder on the Erie tracks at Niles.
Marion is being flooded with counterfeit |
halves, quarters and dimes. They appear
good, look good and are of about the right |
weight.
Diptheria epidemic is raging at Marble
head. One death has occurred and num-
Der of children are ill., The schools have |
been closed.
Joseph Torney was arrested at Huron on
the charge of killing Bert Harris, a colored
porter at Lorain. lie says he shot Harris
in self-defense.
The colored Baptist ministers OF Ohio, in
session at Belefontaine, decided to erect a
home for aged ministers and gospel train
ing school at Franklin.
Fire destroyed the warehouse and other
property Of the Kelly Island Lime and
Transportation Company at Marblebead,
causing loss of about $4,000.
Armed with club, Max Schwartz, an
escaped inmate of the Dayton asylum,
held undisputed possession of an uptown
street until he was overpowered by half
dozen policemen.
Thurmur II. Coney, 90 years old, a grad
uate Of the high school of East Liberty,
was instantly killed at Plqua by falling
into the Miami river from the cab of his
engine, distance of fifty feet.
Clifford Lusch, while working at ma
chine in factory at Marion, was caught
In the wheels by his hair and his mead as
slowly being drawn under set Of knives
when the scalp was torn loose and he fell
unconscious on the floor.
An amended petition has been filed in
The suit of Treasurer Anderson against the
Barney & Smith Car Company of Dayton,
of which Geo. B. Cox is director. The
treasurer sues to recover sl57, ,166.99, al
legged to be due as back taxes.
John Ritzenthaler of Sandusky, who at
tempted to rob the paymaster of the Wheel
ing and Lake Erie several months ago,was
adjudged insane. DIR. II. G. Rutter Of CO.
lumbus, declared he was degenerate,
pointing to his webbed hands and unusu-
ally high palate.
The Riverside furnace Mt Steubenville,
of the National Tube Company, which has
been idle for two years, has been leased
by the Carnegie Steel Company Of Mingo
junction and General Manager Peterson
will put it in operation at once and give
employment to 200 hands and use the out
put at the Mingo plant.
As the result of q gasoline explosion in q
tenement house AT Marietta, occupied by
Mrs. Joseph Roseberry, Mrs. Sadie Oaks
and Mrs. Retta Moifett, the house was par
TALLY destroyed and Mrs. Roseberry and
Mrs. Dora Perkins were burned, but not
seriously. Part of the Perkins woman's
clothing was burned off.
viii +. Granger, one Of the members Of
a company playing melodrama at Toledo
was shot in the eye during the progress Of
the play. In scene in which girl is res
cued from cage of lions one of the beasts
showed anger, and revolver, carried by
the rescucr, was accidentally discharged.
Granger may lose his sight.
Clyde Hawley OF Bellaire, one of four
men indicted for robbing the postotilce at
Strasburg, Tuscarawas county, last Mo-
yember, whose trial last January resulted
in a hung jury, was given his second trial.
This jury brought in a verdict Of guilty.
Thomas Murphy of Martins Ferry, another
of the burglars, changed his plea from not
guilty to guilty and both were sentenced to
the refOrmatory.
Mrs. Frank Edmondson of Springfield,
widow of the man who was killed by Mcr-
Ger Owen, testified in behalf of the pris-
oner, charged with manslaughter in slay-
ing her husband Her daughter, Jennie
EdmOndson, took the stand and stated that
her father was intoxicated on the night of
the shooting. She says when she went in
where her father and mother were quarrel
ing he attacked her and that Owen came to
their rescue. The jury acquitted Owen.
He admitted killing Edmondson, butclaim-
ed self defense.
Whileplaying cowboy, Ivan, the l2-year-
old son son of Mr.. and Mrs. Otto Baker Of
McComb, was killed and his body badly
manged on the main street of that village.
The boy had taken his grandfather's horse
and strapped to the animal, was riding 1t
without bride or saddle. The horse be-
came frightened and ran away with the
boy holding to its name. AS the horse
suddenly turned corner the straps broke
and the boy was thrown with great force
upon the pavement. His head struck q
stone and he was almost instantly killed.
Gahanna is among the least of the vii
lagos of Franklin county. A damage suit
has been filed in the county courts by the
mayor of the village against the marshal in
which he asks for 5000 for being impris-
oned by the marshall for the space Of one
half hour. d. l.. Steigler is the mayor and
Edward Brensman the marshal. The latter
arrested the mayor for making threats
against the peace and dignity Of the state
and the mayor suffered the humiliation of
being locked up in his own calaboose for
the space of half an hour, for which he
asks damages.
The Governor of Colorado has refused to
honor requsition paper to bring E. A.
Phinney back to Ohio. Phinney was in
dicted at Akron on charge Of embezzling
$1,000 from the Pioneer Cereal Company.
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