The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1905-07-20
Minor State News.

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Minor State News.
Byron W. Harris, aged l3, of Marietta,
accidentally shot himself with his fathers
revolver. He lived but few hours.
Jay Stall, aged l3, of Marion, was fright
fully burned and lost one eye in trying to
blast the earth to enlarge cave which he
had dug.
Mrs. Nancy Arnold, of New Haven, COM
mitted suicide by tying coupling pin to
her waist and jumping into creek. Ill
health was the cause.
Marcus Huffman, the s-year-old son of
Mrs. Belle Huffman of Hamilton, drank
quantity of concentrated lye and died from
the effect of the poison.
While working under belt in the STAN
dard Oil Company's pump station at
Payne, f. W. Smith was hit on the head
by belt lacings and his scalp cut to pieces.
He may die.
Howard Long, brakeman on the Cincin-
natl, Hamilton Il Dayton railway, was
caught between a cut of cars at Lima and
perhaps fatally injured. lie was taken to
the Lima hospital.
Robert Roberts, carpenter of Cam
bridge, was killed at Puritan mine, near
Byesville, while working on the tipple.
He was caught by falling timber which
crushed him near the hip.
Miss Eva Mct:.Ay of ST. Marys, was de-
clared winner in tbs race for queen of the
carnival. She was crowned queen and
presented with diamond ring by the
Eagles, who gave the carnival.
The city council of Lorain has passed
an ordinance, at the solicitation of the Citi-
zens' Good Government League, requiring
that the screens be removed from all bar
rooms after hours and on Sunday.
Harry Tweed, Pan Handle fireman,
was sandbagged in the yards at DennisOn
and thrown upen the tracks, where he lay
for forty minutes before discovered. The
light traffic was all that saved his life.
Leroy Boston, a son of Policeman Boston
of ST. Clairsville, was caught beneath the
cage in shaft at the Providence Coal
Works, crushing off foot and seriously
injuring the upper portion of his spine.
Chas. Miller, aged 50. engineer for the
Spicer Mfg. Co., at New Philadelphia,
while returning from work was run down
by Baltimore 4 Ohio freight train and
injured so that he died in few minutes.
A meeting of the board of directors of
the Butler Oil and Gas Company was held
and plans formulated for the building of
pipe line to surrounding villages for the
purpose of supplying them with natural gas.
The directors Of the Conway Stove and
Range Company have awarded the con-
tract of the erection of their mammoth new
factory in Fremont, to be completed by
October Is. The concern will employ at
least 800 men.
Charles DURAN, for thirteen years clerk
of the police board and formerly city clerk
at Toledo, resigned and at the same time
confessed that he had embezzled the funds
of the city. An investigation shows that
he is at least $1,000 short. He will be pros
ecuted.
Motorman Lafe Eastman sustained
broken thigh and other injuries in colli-
sion between a special and regular car
on the Western Ohio Electric railway,
south of Wapakoneta. Several of the
passengers were bruised but none were
seriously injured.
The flour mill and grain elevator Of
Rinehart Bros. of UniopOlis. was entirely
destroyed with their contents, consisting
of $500 bushels of wheat and 800 bushels
of oats. The loss is about $4,000, with
$1,000 insurance. A barn belonging to
Andy Ohler, valued at S4OO, also burned.
William Jones and George Parker, resi-
dents of Niles, are in a serious condition,
the result of eating toadstoOls in mistake
for mushrooms. Parker has become raw
ing maniac, and the lives of both are
despaired of. The men were members of
camping party along the MahOning river.
James Strappe, aged % years, was fatally
injured at Plain City during the races. He
attempted to cross the track in front of a
fast trotter on the home stretch and was
knocked down, sustaining injuries that
will result in his death. Strappe was re-
Gently married. He is a merchant tailor.
Oscar Webb, aged %, of Bowersville,
was shot twice and seriously injured as he
was starting home from dance at BlvOm-
ingtOn, Clinton county. A Bloomington
man is said to have fired the shots. Jeal-
0usy over girl at the dance is given as
the cause of the atfray. No arrests have
been made.
John Marsh Of Lorain, 9-yearOld boy,
fell down a fifty-fOOt shale bank while
picking cherries and was killed. He with
a number of companions was playing in
the cherry tree, which was standing on the
bank, when the limb on which Marsh was
sitting broke and his body rolled to the
river below He suffered conclusion of the
brain.
Announcement is made that the state
fish and game commission will try to have
the legislature next winter pass bill abol
ishing spring fishing in the waters of Ohio.
The commission is carefully considering
the matter and J. F. Rankin of South
Charleston, and T. b. Paxton of Cinein-
natl, members of the commission, have ex-
pressed themselves as favoring the project.
The bill will be bitterly opposed by the
fisherman along Lake Erie and generally
by fish dealers.
Secretary PrObst, of the State Board of
Health, has announced that smallpox in
Ohio is almost thing of the past, and
cases are only reported from few isolated
places. The counties in which the disease
exists are Pickaway, Hardin and Hamilton,
and all are of very mild nature.
John Williams, farm hand, is under
arrest at Bowling Green, on charge of
attempted train wrecking. The south
bound Cincinnati, Hamilton X Dayton
flyer struck tie fastened to the tracks two
miles south of Perrysburg the night of
July and narrowly escaped being
wrecked.
A B. Il o. S.-W. freight train was
wrecked at Russels, six miles west of
HillsbOrO, by jumping the track. The
train then broke in two and ran together,
killing Fireman Sweeney and severely in
turing thret others of the train crew.