The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1905-11-16
Buckeye News In Brief.

destroyed by fire and the loss is estimated
| at $4,000.
Esther Wilcox, is years old. Of Cleveland,
| drank carbolic acid and will probably die
She gricved because she had been Tilted.
The Pennsylvania depot at Nevada was
robbed for the third time within a month.
Express packages were torn open and VAL
liable goods taken.
William II. Reed, aged %, formerly of
Chillicothe, chief inspector for the Central
Union Telephone Company at Alliance,
fell from pole breaking his neck
The total loss sustained by the Bank OF
Hamilton through the alleged defalcation
OF llillhousc Brown, the manager Of tho
East End branch, is said to be about $780,
900
The largest barn in Marion county. own
cd by George w. King. was destroyed by
fire with a loss of 5000. The barn was
filled with hay and grain and farming i'm
pements.
While Herman DOlan and family OF
Bellefontaine. were at the dinner table, q
passcrby rushed in 10 tell them their house
was on fire. All escaped, but the building
was consumed.
James \. Bailey, aged 80, of st. Mary's,
was found dead in the pump house of the
Lake Erie and Western railroad. at Celina,
where he was employed. The cause of
his death is not known.
The police. nj Findlay arrested Edwin
Myers, aged u, and WIN IlciStand, aged
20, ON the charge of attempting to pass
raised postal order. The men were taken
TO Toledo by a United States officer.
Seven buildings were destroyed by fire
in Ashtabula llarbor. The loss will reach
$4,000. Six saloons, one restaurant and
one Junk warehouse were burned. The
Empire theatre was badly damaged.
While at Wooster, engaged in conversa-
tion with friend ON business Isaac Shri-
ber, aged II, of Orrville, fell over dead.
Mr. Shriber was at Wooster attending to
his duties as a member of the county board
of elections
Fire destroyed the fine new mems club
house of the Cincinnati Golf Club on the
Grandln road. IL was undoubtedly in
cendiary. The loss is several thousands
dollars, without insurance. 1t will be re-
built at once.
''i'''' hNiohil'l VI dulNlIB, W llO sliD-
bed Stephen Taylor at ball game near
Payne lSst Easter Sunday, has been found
guilty of cutting with intent TO wound and
was given an indefinite sentence to the re-
formatory at Mansfield.
Burglars broke into \. W. Rymad's gen.
eral store at North Hampton, twelve miles
northwest of Springfield, and carried away
$500 in cash besides lot of notes. In
breaking into the safe they used horse
blanket for screen. There is no clew.
William Linde, the colored man alleged
to have shot and wounded Mrs. Rose Cole
of Bowling Green, and who was subse-
quently captured in North Baltimore,
pleaded not guilty and was bound over TO
the grand jury bond being fixed ut $1,000.
Luke Howard was probably fatally in
Jured at ScllSvile, near Columbus, while
"looping the gap' in an automobile. When
the machine had gone safely through its
evolutions, 1t bounded up after landing
and turned over, falling on Howard and
breaking his back.
William Il. Carter. aged %, was accident-
ally shot and killed by his boon compan-
ion, George Gernhauser, aged II, while the
two were hunting ducks on the Nusking-
um river near GAINESVILLE. Carter in his
ante-mortem statement absolved Germ
hauser from all blame
A small boys enthusiasm with Roman
candle may cost the sight of Joseph Widd-
mann of Cincinnati. While Widdman was
marching with the Blaine club, in Rep
ublican parade, ball of fire from the can
die the boy was whirling excitedly about
struck him in the right eye.
The corpse of female child was found
by boys buried in a culvert on the bank of
the Miami river near the Columbia bridge
at Hamilton. The child was apparently
nearly year old. The body was some
what decomposed. The police and coroner
have no clue to the murderer.
A jury returned a verdict of guilty in
the case of Justice William Francis OF
Cleveland, charged with assessing illegal
fines against persons brought into his court.
Francis is the second justice convicted re-
Gently the on charge of extortlon.
Several other justices were under inyesti-
cation.
Lets hit the first negro we meet" said
one OF three young white men out on lark
at Columbus, and as a result George Jack
son, a negro cook, is dead, and Harry
Hayse, II. L. Pontius and Harry Lower
are under arrest. Pontius and Lower de-
clare Hayse struck the negro, who was
found lying on the street with his skull frac-
tured.
Theodore Klinker, night watchman at
the Canton post Office, was arrested by di-
recton of a u. :. post0ilice inspector and
placed in Jail. Klinker is charged with
having opened chain letters addressed to
Justice William II. Day as chairman of the
Mckinley National Memorial Fund. A
trap was laid after the officials suspected
something wrong and they claim Kiln
ker fell into it. The amount taken is not
known, but il is said many letters were
opened.
Henry Sprouse, an cmploye of the D., L.
and |. car shops at Springfield, was prob
ably fatally injured. \ sledge hammer in
the hands of fellow workman slipped of
4 chlsel Sprouse was holding, and crushed
his skull