The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1905-04-27
Buckeye News In Brief.

rev. w n. Atkinson OF Belle Center, mas
been appointed chaplain of the Second Ohio
regiment, National Guard.
Mrs. Thomas A. Russell of Portsmouth,
fell from stepladder and sustained in
iurieS that may result in her death. Her
hip was crushed.
Frank Smith, an old soldier, while work.
ing on circular saw at the Kous & Ger
man planning mill at Fostoria, got his hand
in contact with the saw and had four fingers
cut off.
This summer the city of Bellefontaine
will spend $4,000 improving the electric
light plant and $4,000 extending the water
mains into the suburbs. Both plants are
owned by the city.
Mrs. Lee Davis of Lima, while cleaning
lamp chimney, severed an artery in her
wrist and became unconscious. She was
slowly bleeding to death when neighbors
summoned a physician.
Melvin Holmes, wealthy farmer, living
near GallipOlis, was held up and robbed by
Norman Emerson, colOred. He secured
$50 and watch after severely beating
Holmes. Emerson is in Jail.
Frederick l.. Shafer brakeman on the
p, l.. 4 w., was killed in the local yards
at Salem. He was caught between the
bumpers and crushed, while making a
coupling. He leaves wife and aged par
ents.
Two freight ears on the c. II. & D. road
jumped the track and crashed into the home
of Mrs. Anna NJ. Gegner, at Xenia, twist
ha
Marshall of Dayton, a brakeman, sustained
broken leg.
Greene county is to have one of the most
up-tO-date rural route carriers in the SER
vice. Horse and wagon became too slow
| for John Shute. an enterprising carrier of
| Osborn, and he has placed an order for an
automobile, which will be used daily on the
route. 1t is said that if his experiment is
successful that many carriers will follow
his example.
Mrs. Morris Vaughan came near drown
| ing in cistern at her home in Akron. She
attempted to draw some water and the rot
ten planks over the cistern gave way with
| her. Her cries were not heard by the family,
but Mrs. Vaughan was rescued by neigh
bOrs just as she was going down for the
last time. She was unconscious when
taken from the water, but will live.
The village of Huron enjoys the unique
distinction of being without mayor and
having no one willing to assume the duties
of that office. Just what will be done is
hard to predict, but it looks now as if
! special election will have to be called. The
situation is the result of differences of long
standing between the majority of the coun-
Gil and the two men who have occupied the
| executive chair since the new code went
into effect.
Timothy Fitzgerald, sexton of the Holy
Angels Catholic church at Sidney, tOlled
the bell for the services and at the same
time rang his own death knell. He dropped
dead at his sacred task, and was found with
the rope tightly clutehed in his hand. The
weight of the body held the bell at an angle
in which the clapper prevented the vibra-
tion of the last stroke. The sudden cessa-
tion of the ringing led to an investigation,
which disclosed that his life had gone out
with the last muffled note.
Dr. c. Kishler of st. Marys, has some
tobacco which he grew on his farm
twenty-nine years ago. AT the time
he resolved he would keep some oi
it, and prove that age added to the
quality. Recently he had some of it made
into cigars, and those who have smoked
them declare that his theory is correct.
The farm upon which the tobacco was
raised is now near the center of the city and
is occupied by some of the most desirable
residences. The doctor has reached his
81st year.
The village of Mutual, west of Marysville,
Is up in arms over peculiar afflictiOn,
which the residents allege is nuisance.
Some months ago r. Z. Carson, farmer
at the outskirts of the village, set fire to a
sawdust heap, about an acre in area and
about ten feet deep. This has been burn
ing ever since, and bids fair to shoulder for
year. Every time the wind rises the resi-
dents of the village have to watch for the
safety of their homes, as the sparks fly over
the village in profusiOn. Mutual has no
fire protection.
Warren Smith, member of the Warren
roller polo team, had narrow escape from
electrocuiiOn, and only his presence OF
mind saved him. Just as he stepped off a
MahOning Valley car the trolley wire broke,
whirled around and struck him in the
stomach, knocking him down. He held up
both his hands and feet so that the circuit
might not be completed. After building
small platforms about the man, the motor
man and conductor raised him off the live
wire. Smith was not badly injured. but
his clothes were ruined.
The local board of health has about de-
cided that the epidemic of typhoid fevel
raging in certain part OF Bowling Green
is due to a defective sewer which allows
filth to contaminate nearby water wells
The board has made an exhaustive effort tt
check the spread of the disease which ha;
broken out and spread with remarkable
celebrity in one section of the city, and be
lieves it has solved the problem of cause
All wells in that neighborhood have beeI
condemned and surface wells all over tn,
city generally placed under the ban.
Forest Davis, while fishing in Big Darb.
creek at Bridgeport, in company with Frit
Richter, caught monster blue catfish
which weighed seven pounds. 1t requiret
the assistance of Richter to help land thu
fish. 1t was two feet long.
Miss Jessamine Pike, a vocalist of Cleve
land, claims to have had her voice restored
by Christian Science, after various special
lists had treated her in vain and an opera
ton had been performed. Seven month!
ago she lost her voice through throa
trouble and was not able to sing not
until recently, when she sang at loca
, concert.
Mrs. Jay Yost of Bucyrus, is one of th'
heirs of Sir Francis Drake, and togethel
with other heirs in that locality, she ha'
sent an attorney to England to loox init
the claim. The case is now in such shape
that a showing is expected and division
secured. The estate amounts TO severa
millions.
Major William G. Jewell, one of the mos
widely known G.. A. r. men of Ohio and a
the head of the Juvenile Drum Corps, wa
instantly killed by Pennsylvania train