The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1905-02-02
Buckeye News In Brief.

Minor COrrOn, aged IA years, aWest 1.eip-
sic lad, had his arm broken in three places
while cOaSting.
Rev. Andrew J. Smith, an eastern min
lister, was married at Bowling Green TO
Mrs. Lizzie Mcdowell of Haskins, by Rev.
Clyde Darsie of the Church of Christ
Jack Anderson, one of the most popular
eX-police officers in Findlay, died from
Bright's Disease. He was politician of
much influence in the Democratic party.
The Seneca County Agricultural Society
has leased the grounds of the Senaca Driv
ing Park Company for period of three
years at $500 a year. Many improvements
will be made.
Rev. T. f. Sutton of Milton Center, has
resigned as pastor of the church there. The
building of the Church of Christ, which
Mr.. Sutton served there, will be remOdeled
and improved.
The Northwestern Ohio Electric Medical
Association, which met in FindlayIecently
and which will hold another meeting in
that place shortly, elected DR.. J. ID. Siddall
of Columbus Grove, to the office Of vice
president of the association.
Alfred Smith, 4 brick mason, aged 40
years. fell 100 feet from the Columbus Saw
ings COmpany's skyscraper and was in
stantly killed. An iron beam that was
being hOisted struck the scaffOld on which
he was working and broke it.
William Crowley, an old printer, died at
Columbus, from accidental arsenic poison
ing. He asked for a hot tOddy at a saloon,
and the waiter who prepared it, sweetened
it with mixture of sugar and arsenic that
the bartender had prepared for rats and
placed under the bar.
A big ladle of molten iron that was
hOisted to be dumped into the open hearth
furnace at the La Belle Iron Works at
Steubenville, accidentally tilted before it
was in position. The metal enveloped a
Hungarian workman. Michael Zeryie. and
he was roasted to death. An Italian work.
man was seriously burned.
J. K. Rihlet of Sandusky, bought four
acres of land recently at a tax sale,
and has found that there is no record of
such land, and he cannot locate it. 1t de-
velOped that the land had been sold fire.
quently at tax sales since 1878, and no pur
chaser had ever located it. The land is
supposed to be along the Vermillion River.
The agitation favoring the erection of an
armOry building for the use of Co. III. Sec
0nd Regiment, o. n. G., which has its
headquarters at Bowling Green, is growing.
Several business men, amply able to do so,
are discussing the advisability of erecting
an armOry for an investment, and it seems
highly probable that within the near future
the county will have such building.
Hiram Van VOorhis, a Bowling Green
boy, has been chosen to address Miss Helen
Gould on behalf of the sailors and marines
at Norfolk Navy Yard, when Miss Gould
is rendered reception to the sailormen
there in the Navy Y. NJ. C. A. Mr.. Van
VOOrhis will present Miss Gould with
basket of flowers as token of the esteem
in which the marines hold her.
The congregations of Rev. A. o. Horney,
pastor of the GilbOa circuit of Methodist
Protestant churches, presented him with a
galloway coat and several other articles
necessary for making long drives during
the cold weather. One congregation gave
him fine bear skin robe lined with heavy
beaver cloth. He breaches in the district
contiguous to OttOwa in Putnam County.
Jacob Lesher, guardian of Rebecca
Trissel. aged 10, who is held at the Dayton
State Hospital, made search of the
woman's residence, near townsville, for
secreted wealth, and found $525 hidden
away in some old furniture which was
about to be sold. Mrs. Trissel was told
that an old bureau would be sold and her
memory returned in an instant. She told
the guardian to look at certain place
where he would find some money.
Arthur jones' aged q, left his home in
West Mansfield to go ON visit to Column
bus, and while in the city secured posi-
ton as brakeman in the Panhandle yards,
and wrote home to his folks that he had
decided to become a railroad man. His
parents thought the employment too haz-
ardOus. and his uncle started to Columbus
to persuade the boy to return home, but
arriving there found him in hospital suf-
fering with injuries sustained by being
struck by car.
For over two weeks tiny finger ring
had been lodged in the throat of the Z
months old daughter of Charles Shaffer of
Lima. A few days after Christmas the
parents missed the tots ring and they
searched in vain for it. The babe during
coughing spell brought TO view the tiny
gold band, which she had partially swal-
lowed. its lodgment in her throat having
caused constant irritation and convulsiye
coughing, which at times threatened death.
An operation successfully removed the
ring and the little one is recovering.
Thomas Queer, aged Us years, mourned
as dead by wife and children for 40 years,
is dead at Wooster. Fifty odd years ago
Queer quarreled with his wife and left
home, leaving Mrs. Queer with two daugh-
ters. After Queer had been gone for 10
wears word was received of his death. Ten