The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1905-06-22
Minor State News.

on the MIS-. n. Hlldreth property at Mar
seilles.
Carol, the 6-year-Old son of Able Garn
a farmer near Fremont, was killed by a
windmill weight falling on him, crushing
his skull.
George Slaubaugh was killed in a run
away at Ada. His team took fright at an
automobile headlight and bolting, threw
him out. breaking his neck.
The German Reform church at TOntog-
any was struck by lightning and was COM
pletely destroyed. The village fire depart
ment fought the flames bravely but vainly.
Loss, about $500.
While pitching hay, John Tracy, far
mer living near Fremont, accidentally
struck his little daughter with the pitch
fork. The child's brain was penetrated
and she died soon after.
| y five-year-Old daughter of Joseph Pres
colt of Youngstown, was playing about a
burning pile of papers in the yard when
her clothing caught fire and after suffering
for five hours death came to her relief.
James Laughlin, aged 45, carpenter, fell
with scaffolding thirty-five feet from the
new gymnasium being built at Ohio Wes-
| leyan university, Delaware, and was SER
iously and most probably fatally injured.
| J. w. Price, a glass blower, was terribly
burned at the local glass works at Lancas-
ter, in fight with fellow emplOye who
beat him about the head with bar. around
which had been wrapped mass of molten
| glass. Tom Holbrook is accused Of wield-
ing the weapon.
Martin Birmingham has confessed to the
| murder of his brother Dennis, aged "a, who
was killed in front of his own home at To-
ledO. Birmingham claims that he shot in
self-defenSe, and that his brother made an
effort to get at his gun before he himself
fired.
An attempt was made to wreck car an
the Trbana branch of the Dayton, Spring.
field & Urbana Electric Railway Company.
Three hundred yards of the track had
been sOaped. Superintendent NJ. j. Lotus
is making an investigation and arrests will
follow.
The Wapakoneta Jockey Club will hold
running meeting at the Auglaize County
Fair Grounds on July 3, and 5. Two
thousand dollars in purses will be given,
enough to insure good string of horses.
An Old-time barbecue will be held on the
afternoon of July4.
The police department of Bowling Green
will have to stay awake now. The board
of public safety has ordered an eighteen
inch gong to be placed on a telephone pole
at the intersection of the main streets, so
that when policeman is wanted the gong
will make it known.
The saloon Of Ben DOrsten of Minister,
was completely wrecked and looks us if
Carrie Nation had been operating upon it
for several hours. The bottles were all
broken, glasses and mirrors smashed, fifty
gallons of whiskey turned loose and the
floor strewn with wreckage. The guilty
parties are unknown.
Deputy L. s. Marshall Sells of Toledo,
arrested Mrs. Mary p. Mcmillan, near
DeCliff. She was indicted by the U. S.
Grand Jury for falsely testifying to pro-
cure pension as the widow of soldier of
the civil war. She has been receiving a
pension since 1885 as the widow of cap
tain of Indiana volunteers, who died at
Anderson, Ind, in 1878.
Following family quarrel, John Bran
of Cleveland, shot his wife, LOttie, and
then fired bullet into his own brain. Bran
died almost instantly, while the wifes
wound is only slight. Bran was the
woman'S second husband. Her first hus-
band was Bran's brother. He killed HIM
self five years ago. Bran's sister, who
lived in Kansas, was murdered several
years ago. Another brother was drowned
recently at Cleveland.
The various committees having in charge
the big Fourth of July celebration at Find
lay have about completed arrangements.
1t is estimated that there will be an at
tendance of about 5000 people in the city
on the Fourth. A big parade will be held
in which will particate floats representing
the business of the city. This will be the
first celebration of its kind that Findlay
has had in a number of years, and every
thing is being put forth to make the affair
success.
Salineville has been without mayor for
more than month, and all police court
business is taken before local justices of
the peace. Mayor John F. Kerr, who has
taken salaried position out of town, will
not hand in his resignation, which has been
requested, and the village council cannot
declare the office vacant because he holds
it by the statute extending the terms of
officers until January, 1906. The
mayors family is still in the village and he
still retains his residence there.
The body of an S-months-Old child was
found stark naked in the water at the
mouth of the city sewer at Montpelier.
Several boys were playing and fishing on
the banks of the st. Joe river when one of
the babe floating in the water. Their cries |
the attention of some men who |
were working nearby, who ran down to |
learn the cause Of the excitement. The |
body was fished out and Health Officer DIR. |
Lisnet was summoned and took 1t in |
charge. There is no clew as to the par
ents of the child.
Though his trousers were torn to ribbons |
and combined weight of heavy autOmo-
bile and its two occupants passed over the
small of his back, Percy, the 4-year-old |
son of w. s. Spencer of Marion, escaped
without scratch. The boys escape from
death is considered marvellous.
Over 800 of the survivors of the One
and Twentieth o. V. |. and
their families attended the thirty-seventh
annual reunion of the regiment in Mans
field. Alonzo Siambaugh of PerrysviIle,
was elected President, and John Mckinley
Of Wooster, Secretary. Next years re-
union will be held at Perrysville.
Marguerite, the I2-year-Old daughter of
Albert Himmerger of Marion, died in the
arms of an older sister, falling victim to
and heart trouble while being
assisted from one chair to another The
cause of death is considered to be out of
he ordinary in one so young.
Virginia, the S-year-old daughter Of
Louis Breugge, proprietor of the Mason
House at Hamilton, was made dangerously
III, and is in cOmatoSe condition as the
,esult of inhaling the fusel oil from an
Empty whiskey barrel. The child discoy-
red the rubber thief stuck into a wlis-