The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1905-07-13
Minor State News.

Clement Barkdull, the 16-yea--old son OF
ID. E. Barkdull, Lake Shore agent at Wau-
seOn, was drowned while bathing.
The 2-year-old daughter of Raper
Stahleton, farmer living near Piqua, was
kicked by horse and died several hours
afterward.
Libbie COnklin, aged SO, an epileptSc,
leaped from fourth-stOry window at the
County Infirmary at st. Marys and was
fatally injured.
Mrs. David Joy, wife of ex-senator Joy
of Findlay, fell from porch and sustained
fractures of the left hip and arm. She was
visiting friend at the time of the accident. |
George Fischer, while working at the |
WapakOneta machine shops, had his hand |
terribly smashed from the breaking of an |
emery wheel. His left thumb had to be |
amputated.
James Blevins of Portsmouth, who was
| charged with cutting William McGraw
/ with intent to kill, was found guilty and
was sentenced to an indefinite term in the
Mansfield refOrmatory
While shooting with a target rifle in
Marion township, Hancock county, John
Groves accidentally shot his father in the
foot. The bullet tore its way through the
shoe and broke the ankle bone.
The 12-year-old daughter of C. j. Wal
tiers of Findlay, had narrow escape from
death from drinking solution prepared
for insects. Dr. Biggs was called and after
considerable work saved the child's life.
| Geo. II. Witaty, As years of age, prom
1 af
prosecuting attorney of Sandusky county,
shot himself at Bellevue, and will die. He
left note explaining that he did the deed
because of ill health.
The 3-year-Old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
W. w. kirkpatrick, residing near Loudon-
vile, climbed up ladder standing against
a haystack and fell to the ground. When
the child was discovered life was extinct,
its neck having been broken by the fall.
George Copeland, the colored man who
has been held in the county jail at Mt.
Vernon since April 26, charged with the
murder of Miranda Bricker, was released.
The county prosecutor was unable to find
any evidence against him. Another arrest
is soon expected.
In scant two gallons of water Baby
Charles Prosek, the 15-mOnths-Old- son of
George and Mary PrOSek of Cleveland, lost
his life Mrs. Prosek found him hanging
head downward in four-gall0n water
pail The baby had seen his reflection in
the water, had reached for it and tOppled
i'm to his death.
In the store of Whyman & Sons at Spen-
cerville, an assortment of fireworks on dis
play in the windows became ignited by
some of the decorations catching fire from
the gas jet. A terrific bombardment fol-
lowed, blowing out plate glass windows
and damaging the grocery stock to the
amount of about $500.
Fire completely gutted the livery barn of
!, C. ID. Wells at st. Marys. 1t was first dis
covered in the hay loft, where rats are sup
posed to have been chewing matches that
may have accidentally been dropped. All
the stock and rigs were saved, but the loss
to the building will be about 81 900, and to
! feed etc.. $500, fully covered by insurance.
George Wisner, DIR. Bash and Sherm An
derson had narrow escape from death
near Findlay. They were at work on
74-foot derrick on the Reimung farm in
! Liberty township when the derrick fell.
The men jumped to the ground without
being seriously injured. Wisner landed in
pool of oil. The timbers fell all around
, them.
The Lima, Findlay & Toledo Traction
Company has filed mortgage on its Find
4 lay-Lima link, now building. The mort
gage is for $500, 900, in favor of the Citizens
, Savings and Trust Company of Cleveland,
guaranteeing five per cent. on twenty-year
bonds This is the last link of the western
Ohio (Iandelbaum-POmero system from
river to lake.
Thinking to find something sweet in the
mysterious little bottle, 4-year-old Evelyn
Green, $40 Hopkins street, Cincinnati,
s drank the contents of vial containing an
] ounce and a half of carbOlic acid. She
was discovered by her parents a moment
' later, rolling on the floor in terrible agony.
}, An hour later she died, despite all efforts
to save her life.
ssYOu are sentenced to turn over your
pay envelope to your wife each Saturday
night for three months and the following
Monday present me with receipt for ii
signed by your wife," said Judge Carlin to
VIM. Tieman. tailor, arrested at Findlay
for being drunk and abusing his family
In default he stands fined $3.50 and ninety
days in the workhOuse.
. Deputy State Inspector Richard Lloyd,
of the Department of Workshops and Fac
s tories, has just completed an investigation
= of the Girls Industrial Home at Delaware,
e and finds numerous faults in regard to
: egress in case of fire. He will recommend
n that the board of trustees of the institu-
q ton be ordered to erect several fire escapes
a and otherwise to remedy the defects.
During fight at dance at Harrison,
a Henry Hass was fatally shot, and John
| Hass, his brother, was almost cut to rib
bons The fight was the result of family
= feud between the Hass brothers and the
L WOlfS The dance hall was on the second
floor of the building and in the resultan,
:, panic about dozen women and children
> were injured by jumping to the ground
Z The Columbus Board of Health diScov-
4 cred two houses in southeast Columbus in
which all told eighty-five Huns and Poles
are living. and the houses are small ones
at that The houses are in the vicinity Of
Steelton and the foreigners are employed
4 i'm the iron Industries. The owner OF the
houses has leased them to a rental agency
: that subrents them to the foreigners on the
d basis of 81 per head per month. In this
way house that cost probably not more
y than $, 800 is made to pay rentals of about
h $50 a MONTH People living in the vicinity
of the place have made complaint and tht
renting bonanzawill probablybe broken up
: The Sager planning mill, West Towr
street, Columbus, burned, together witt
four dwellings in the immediate vicinity
y The entire loss will amount TO abOu
$4,000. Several employees were burned
I slightly.
: Checks and currency to the amount o
9 $500 were picked up along the Panhandle
j. tracks, between Trinway and CoshOctOn
and investigation showed that mail wa
I scattered along the track for sixteen miles
q Itwas found that a mail pouch thrown Off