The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1905-11-23
Buckeye News In Brief.

JOnn Ndmey, 10, Hcciututtily Shoo "hu
killed his younger brother while out hunt
ing near Ripley.
While playing around q bonfire the
clothes of 4-year-old Margaret Wickert OF
Fremont, caught fire and the child was
burned to death.
The 49, months old daughter of Mrs. John
Bassigna of Ashtabula, got too near the
stove, her dress caught fire and she was
burned to death.
The power plant, car barns and num-
Der of cars of the Fremont City Street Rail-
way were destroyed by fire. Loss 5000;
partially insured.
Fire was discovered in the Record print
ing Office at Fayette, and before 1t was
under control four frame buildings were
completely destroyed.
| ID. l.. Perry, who cast his first vote Nov.
Z, was elected mayor of Croton village, de-
feating Vanfossen by three votes. He is
Ohio's youngest mayor.
! Miss Ella Robinson daughterof William
Robinson, farmer living at Five Points,
Pickaway county, committed suicide by
shooting herself in the head. She had been
melancholy.
Thomas Smith, son OF Engineer William
Smith, of the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton
yards at Springfield, was killed at the East
street crossing by a Big Four freight train,
the boy falling under the train.
While in the act of saving her 4-year-
old son from being run down by train
on the Pennsylvania lines at Leetonia,
Mrs. James Gaughan, aged 40, was instant
lx- hn nil aH iy,i, ,,ria
probably fatal.
BY the ac- dental discharge Of a gun
which he was cleaning preparatory to
hunting trip, Thomas Davis, awell-known
young farmer near Delaware, was fatally
wounded. The entire charge of shot en-
| tered his abdomen.
| Stephen Stuber, a veteran ofthe Soldiers
home at Dayton, was found in grove east
of that city, with his throat cut from ear to
ear. A theory of murder, arising from the
fact that no knife was found on his person
or in the vicinity, is entertained.
Fire destroyed the little home of Mrs.
Anice Underwood, north of Urbana, and
| Mrs. Underwood lost her life in cOnse-
quence. She was alone in the house at the
time the fire broke out but being cripple
was unable to leave the burning building.
The unfinished roller skating rink at
Crestline, owned by the Crestine Amuse-
ment Company, collapsed The building
Is wrecked. A number of wOrkmen who
were employed on the building narrowly
escaped injury. The rink was to have
been opened within few days.
| 1t has been announced that dividend Of
a <,e
defunct Citizens Savings Bank of Lorain,
which failed March 81. The Probate Court
has ordered the payment of the dividend
and it is said that all the claims against
the bank will be paid in eighteen months.
Charles Higgins, 25 years old, an en-
ploye in the Wehrle stove foundry at
Newark, where a strike has been on since
June, was shot and killed by an unknown
person. Two bullet holes were found in
his back. George Curlin, of ElwOod
City, Pa, striking pOlisher at the
Wehrle factory, has been arrested on sus-
piciOn. Higgins home was at Fort Lon
don, Pa.
Justice of the Peace William Francis of
Cleveland, convicted in Police Court OF col
lecting and retaining illegal fees in office,
Wuo oCubCICCu " pay lluC VI p-UUduu COStS
and to spend twenty days in the wOrkhOuse.
Hewas also declared ineligible to hold Office
for seven years, and his office was declared
vacant. Francis attorney made motion
for new trial, which was overruled. His
attorney at once appealed to Common
Pleas Court.
The Supreme Court of the United States
upheld the validity of the Ohio courts rul-
ing which permit any resident of the state
TO recover money lost at gambling, no mat
ter by whom lost. In the case in question
Mrs. Trout of Findlay, brought suit against
the men to whom her husband had lost his
money to hold the owners of the building
In which the gambling was carried on to
financial accountability under the lien Gre
ated against his property by the Ohio laws.
} Secret Service Agent I3. c. Dick of fCleve-
land, has caused the arrest of 5. G.. ROloc-
son and James q. Il. Wickham, business
: men and promoters of Lima, on the charge
of making and passing counterfeit coin.
Part of the alleged "plant was unearthed
) in the factory of the ROlOcs0n Manufac-
turing Company, and on Wickham's per-
son was found one of the alleged counter
felt coins. st. Marys, Celna, Van Vert,
DelphOs, Muncie and Eastern Indiana
towns have been flooded with counterfeit
; five and ten dollar gold pieces. Neither
man has given bond.
: The last connecting lap completing the
more than hundred miles of pipe line
; connecting Lima and Northwestern Ohio
with the eastern gas fields, has been laid.
This long gas line will supply Lima, Ken
ton, Wapakoneta, Celina, New Bremen, st.
D Mary's, Minister and dozens of interme-
, diate hamlets along the route. 1t was con-
structed by Kerlin Bros, of Toledo, for
: the Ohio and Indiana Natural Gas Com
!. pany at cost of quarter Of million
:, dollars. and was made necessary by tho
. failure of II j Indiana gas supply, which
. formerly had supplied that territory.
Six men have been taken into custody by
y the police of Cleveland, in connection with
!, the murder of Miss Eva Meyer, who was
shot and almost instantly killed from am
bush while she was walking with her