The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1905-05-11
Buckeye News In Brief.


Logan, was drowned while playing about
an iron kettle which was filled with
water.
Anton Singer of Springfield, is slowly
starving TO death. For twenty-six DAYS he
has been unable to take any food owing to
cancer of the stomach.
R.. S. McGreevey, Big Four brakeman;
was fatally injured in the yards at Spring.
field, by being knocked under a train. His
skull was fractured and left leg broken.
Franklin H. Green, and his brother,
George A. Green of Cleveland, were SEN
fenced to the penitentiary for two years
for counterfeiting ten-dollar bills by the
photographing system.
NARROW Fellers, years old, near Raw
son, lost the first two fingers of his left
hand and the thumb and one finger of his
right hand. He was picking a cartridge
with pin when it exploded.
The Pittsburg, Cleveland and Toledo
Railway Company filed an amendment to
its charter to construct branch road from
the main line to the Trumbull and Ma
honing railroad in Youngstown:
VIM. r. Bright, carpenter, SS years old
and married, slipped. at the Champion Di-
vision International Harvester Company's
shops at Springfield, and plunged thirty
feet down an elevator shaft. He was killed
outright.
Joseph Howard, 20 years old, hanged
himself in the wOOdshed at his home, near
Belmore, Putnam county He was dis
covered by his wife, but death ensued a
few minutes afterward. Ill health is given
as the cause.
For the third time this spring dogs en-
tered the flock of sheep of Jay A. Hare,
near Upper Sandusky, and killed thirty
and MANNED as many more so that they
will die The loss on this occasion, it is
stated, will reach $1,000.
Orders were issued by the recently merged
Toledo Brewing Company for the closing
of all Of their saloons in the tenderloin dis
trict. Officers of the company state they
will not hereafter permit their product to
be sold in any disreputable place.
Sanford Cross, 10 years old, was fright
fully cut and injured by being run over by
freight train on the Ohio Central at
Findlay. The boy attempted to jump on
the train and slipped and fell. One leg
was completely severed. lie may die.
Wood county is to have the first seedless
apple nursery in the state. The Spencer
Seedless Apple Company, incorporated re:
Gently with capital stock of s100, 900, has
purchased tract of land at Perrysburg
which will be planted with 125;0O0 seed
lings.
Announcement of gift of $4,000 from
Andrew Carnegie for new science hall
for Buchtel College at Akron, was made by
President Church at the opening of the
spring term. The gift is provisional on
$4,000 additional for equipment being
raised.
Helen Hartman, pretty 15-year-Old gir
of COshocton, was arrested for soliciting
funds for charity from house to house, say
ing they were for family that was burned
out and using them herself for finery. The
girls mother made good the amounts thus
pilfered.
Birch Wilson, an oil worker of Findlay
was assisting in pulling some tubing in 9
well when he was caught in the bull wheel
and thrown upward. With presence oi
mind he swung himself to the side and thus
escaped instant death. He was badly
bruised
Geo. E. Letcher, convicted in March last
in Williams county of having set fire to the
store of Pratt Il Winn at Montpelier, and
sentenced to five years in the penitentiary,
has filed motion for new trial. He pre-
sents the affidavit of II. B. Lauderdale, a
new witness, who formerly resided at Ly-
ons, but now in Palmyra, Mich, and who,
he claims, can establish an alibi for him:
Harvey Wilkinson, Dan Thompson and
Harry Oliver, three boys of Sandusky,
were rescued from the top of an overturned
sailbOat in the outer bay. They were out
sailing when their boat capsized about half
way between Johnson's Island and San
dusky. They climbed on top of the boat
and the calm bay allowed them to remain
there until their distress signals were seen
by fishermen who were coming in from
Lakeside.
Over year ago Josiah Miller Walkerton
of st. Joseph county, made guess at the
total attendance at the worlds fair at st.
Louis, and he died soon after, leaving no
property. The guess which he submitted
entitled him to draw a prize of 5000,
but there was no authority to cash the
draft sent to his address. An admin
istrator had to be appointed. Heirs
supposed to be penniless will now share
liharal1x- in, NTillar,S mol
Andrew Carnegie has notified Miss
Evans, the president, that hewill give Lake
Erie College, Painesville, sl7,5OO, provided
similar sum be raised by the institution.
An effort will be made to obtain the gift.
Other gifts announced are: $500 from
Colonel Oliver Hazard Payne for the pur-
chase of the Brooks property just west of
the college grounds; $1,000 from II. NJ.
Hanna of Cleveland; $500 has been added
to the Olney bequest, making total of
$500 received from that estate. The gift
of Colonel Payne of Thomasville, Ga, was
received through the efforts Of General j.
S. Easement of Painesville.
With head pounded to jelly the body of
Roy Sphinx of Cleveland, was found floating
in the CuyahOga river near the Center
street bridge. Sphinx has not been seen
since January 10. His mother. becoming
alarmed at his absence, consulted clair
voyant and was told that her son had been
murdered and the body thrown into cul-
vert. After weary search the remains
were discovered and Chief Kohler at once
had the fortune teller arrested. The young
man had on gold watch and some rings
and other jewelry, but no money was found
in his pockets. Robbery and murder are
Only on conditions that he behaves him.
self for three years and has led sober and
life during that time, will
Harry ClawsOn of Cincinnati, get the life
income from the $4,000 estate left by his
mother. If Clawson fails to live up to the
he will get an income of five
dollars per week for life.
Final arrangements are being consum-
mated for the erection of a brewery. ice
and soft drinks plant in st. Marys. The