The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1905-08-31
Minor State News.

Minor State News.
George jackson was killed on the c., III.
& ID. railroad near Middletown.
BellefOntaine labor unions will send 800
men TO Gallon on Labor Day to assist in
the celebration.
John Flahiff, an old soldier and former
marshall of FOstoria, died of injuries re-
ceived from fall some weeks since.
Harry BARLEY. 81 years old, of Column
bus, while beating his way to Bucyrus on
the Pennsylvania, fell under the cars at
Delaware, and his left leg was cut off.
The twenty-sixth annual reunion of the
Thirty-fourth and Fifty-fOurth regiments,
Ohio Volunteer Infantry, will be held at
UniOpOlis September Z. A large number
Of old soldiers will be present.
Savu Maron, Hungarian labOrer, As
years of age, was cut to pieces by train
west of FOstOria. He was horribly man
gled, parts of the body being scattered
along the track for several hundred feet.
Walter Hutchinson, 10, of Chilicothe, was
killed at West Junction by c., II. & d.
freight train, from which he fell while en-
route to Coalition to see his sister, His legs
were found half mile from his mangled
body.
Arrangements for the home week which
will be held at Warren the first week in
October are being perfected. 1t is expected
that the affair will be i big thing for the
city. a contest for queen of the carnival
will be started soon.
1t is rumored that the State Commission
to select a site for the new tuberculosis
hospital, has decided on tract near East
Liberty. Logan county, which includes the
TrOyer. Hooley, ZOok and Yoder farms,
all of which are improved.
Ray Howard, living near Ottawa, tried
to jump upon low fence with scythe in
his hand but his foot caught and he fell
forward on the sharp blade, receiving
cut across the forehead and top of the nose
that required seven stitches to close. He
may lose his sight.
George Sealschott, farmer living west
of Wapakoneta, two years ago lost valua-
BILE gold watch while working on his farm.
Recently while plowing in the same field
in which he lost his watch, it was plOwed
up, and aside from being covered with mud
was in good condition.
Carrie Nation spoke at a prohibition
party meeting at Belle Center, and referred
to Governor Herrick as 'l0bster" and to
Roosevelt at fraud She said: '.It
would be jus. as consistent to expect the
devil to close hell ss TO expect Republicans
or Democrats to close the saloons.n
The eastbound train on the Lose Erie &
Western railroad, struck buggy e mile
west of Fremont, instantly killing George
Peterson, age years and fatally injuring
Mrs. William Immel. The boy was car
ried to Fremont on the pilot before discov-
cred by the engineer. The buggy was to-
tally demolished but the horse was not
even hurt.
At the coroner's inquest at Cleveland, in
connection with the disastrous wreck on
the Nickel Plate railroad at kishman, En-
gineer Kirby, of the freight train, which
the passenger train eoliided with, testified
that in the darkness of his ca6 he had mis-
read the time. He declared that he theaght
it was 11:52 when, as matter of fact. it
was 1852.
One of the finest overhead bridges in the
country was started at Lima, which will
span the freight yards and main tracks of
the c., H. & D. railway for the Findlay &
Lima (Western Ohio Traction Co. Great
Central railway experts are experimenting
the structure which will clear all tracks by
twenty-five feet and built at cost of many
thousand dollars.
Albert Straight, who stole horse be-
longing to T. VI. French, one mile north of
Sidney, was found at Richmond, Ind, and
brought to Sidney. Before the mayor he
pleaded guilty and was bound over the
court in the sum of $500, in default of which
he is now in Jail. He says he had a con-
federate. Charles Baker of Richmond. Ba-
ker has not been arrested.
A situation probably not paralelled any
where in the United States, has just come
to public notice by the fact that College
Corner will vote on the local option ques-
ton on Tuesday August %. The villageis
situated in Union county, Indiana. Butler
and Preble counties, Ohio. The Indiana
side of the town is ''dry, the Butler county
corner possesses the saloons, yet the Prebis
side will do the voting.
A horrible accident occurred at the Cir
eleville Canning Company factory at W ash
ington c. H. Miss Ida Douglass, beau
tiful girl of IS years, who operated ma
chine to cut the corn off the eObs, made a
misstep and her hair was caught between
the pulley and the belt. The left side Of
her head was sealped and the hair was
carried away in the belt. She was rescued
from her perilous situation and conveyed
to DIR. Crelands in an unconscious eondi-
ton.
John Taborn, well known as the Oldest
convict in the state prison at Columbus, IN
point of years of servitude, recently cele-
brated the completion of thirty-five years
of life behind those walls. He is 81 years
old and does not want his liberty. He
could have had pardon long ago, but has
always said that he would not accept one.
He was received for murder August 10,
1870. His serial number shows that 26,oOO
prisoners have come and gone since he en-
tered the prison.
The authorities at Lima have been re-
auested TO aid the Delphos officers in fer
reting out gang which recently looted the
beautiful graveyard in that town. The
monuments. some of which would require
the strength of more than two men, were
pushed over and many cracked and broken,
as though by a sledge hammer. flower beds
were ruined. and settees and chairs about
the grounds reduced to serapiron and
kindling. Several theories have been ad-
vanced as to who the guilty parties are,
but it does not seem possible that any sane
persons would commit such an act of van
dalism.
Edith Shoemaker, aged 8 years, ran
through the streets of Akron. flaming
torch, her clothing having been set on fire
by matches with which she was playing.
Her mother, carrying rug, pursued the
child for two blocks before she overlook
her and wrapped the rug around her,
smothering the flames. The child will die.
State Auditor Guilbert made public re-
port of the examination of the city OF
Lorain. 1t shows that Mayor j.. F. King