The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1905-12-07
Minor State News.

is to be opened Christmas week.
Fire damaged the refrigerating plant OF
Nelson Morris & Company at Columbus,
to the extent of $1,000.
Earache, so severe that 1t caused brain
trouble, resulted in the death of Margaret
Cory, aged 10 years, of Degraif
Mrs. William Romans of Coshocton, fell
through the kitchen floor into the cellar
and was perhaps fatally injured.
James I. HARRISON, charged with the
murder of Louis Bergman at Youngstown
July last, was acquitted by the jury.
The plant of the Canton Paint and Var
nish Company was badly damaged by fire.
The loss is partially covered by insurance.
Ray Kern, an employe of the Buckeye
Stone Company at Blutiton, fell in front OF
a carload of stone and received terrible in
juries.
William Marshal, a stone napper, aged
55. while walking on the G.. and p. rail-
road tracks at Stcubenville, was run down
and killed.
The public schools of New Philadelphia
have been ordered closed by the board OF
health of that city on account of a threat
ened epidemic of diptheria.
Orla Camp, is, was killed near Teegar-
den, ten miles south of Salem. He and two
companions had cut down tree, the trunk
striking and crushing Camp.
Mrs. William Wilson was burned to
death at Frazeysburg. 1t is thought that
her clothing caught fire from her pipe, as
she was smoking at that time.
The Chesapeake and Ohio transfer barge
with six loaded cars, sank in the Ohio river
at Ironton. The steamer Bob Ballard had
a narrow escape. Loss $4,000.
DR.. Daniel Shepardson, r.,widely known
over America as the ,'wheel chair evan
gelist," died at Honolulu, Hawaii. The
remains will be inferred at Newark.
Raymond Rowe, an employe of the B. &
o. round house at Newark, was painfully
burned. His clothing was saturated with
oil and caught fire. He will recover.
Mrs. Jesse Moore and Mrs. Laura Moore,
residing west of Bellefontaine, were ter
ribly injured by an enraged COW which
they attempted to drive from their yard.
Miss Blanche Ellis, beautiful society
girl of Alliance, was killed She was an
athletic girl and fond of riding. Her horse
SHE'D and threw her, breaking her neck.
The Ohio Power Company of GAINESVILLE,
has amended its charter so as to enable the
company to operate an electric railway
from Newark through Mt. Vernon to
Mansfield.
MIR, Rockefeller intends to give large
sum toward new Baptist church in Cleve-
land and it probably will be designed on
the ten-story plan of the Broadway taber-
nacle in New York.
John V. Everhart, prominent real es-
tate dealer of Akron. and Fred Baskerville,
an automobile dealer of Canton, while rd-
ing in an automobile near Canton, were
run down and killed by an interWhan car
The American Gypsum Company has be-
gun work on the erection Of its new mill at
Port Clinton, and the opening of mines for
the mining Of gypsum rock, which they
II have found in abundance on q farm east OF
that CITY,
On an affidavit sworn out by his wife,
, George Plots Of Findlay, was arrested ON
a lunacy charge. lie imagined there was
n box of gold at Vanlue shipped there by
mistake which belonged to him. lie was
. sent to Toledo ,
The safe in the lodge rooms of X. of p.
No. So, at Finday, was opened by some
person who knew the combination, and $26
taken. In another compartment of the
safe there was a large amount Of money,
which was overlooked. q
While operating a tiing. machine for
p. Y. paub on the Q. G. Garn farm, one
} mile east OF Helena. Wilson Weagley, 1S
years old, fell under the machine while it
was in motion. His injuries may prove
fatal. The machine weighs i've tons.
The council at the town of Forest award
ed contract 10 Sandusky firm for light
ing the city by electricity. The contract
was for ten years and provided for twenty
nine arc lights to burn all night, for which
the town of Forest was TO pay $4,000 per
year.
Cloyce George, l5-year-old pupil of the
McComb schools, was probably fatally in
jured while engaged with some other pu-
pills in an athletic game in the school gym
nasium. A heavy weight struck him on
the top of the head, crushing the skull. An
operation will be necessary.
James Morris, 81 years old, a civil war
veteran of Chester, jumped 100 feet from
bridge into the Ohio river at East Liver
pool. Isaac Lamp tished him out and he
Is recovering. Morris's excuse was that
his son-in-law kept a restaurant and sold
tobacco, and he was worried, believing 1t
wrong
A serious wreck occurred on the G. K s.
w. electric road by which a westbound
car at Florence was wrecked by running
into two horses on the track near the Ber-
lin road crossing. The horses, valuable
ones, belonging to Mr.. Bolts, were in
stantly killed, the car struck u telephone
pole, cutting the pole in two, and the car
was smashed.
The annual report of the board of man
ayers of the state prison, filed in the gov
ernor's Office at Columbus, shows that there
were 1853 prisoners in the institution dur
ing the year covered by it, or this num-
ber 1856 are life men; 5l4 are uneducated.
ln,emperancc and illiteracy are shown to