The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1905-11-02
Buckeye News In Brief.


Shoe Company factory, Cleveland, was in
stantly killed while at work.
Harrison Reyman, As years old, a farmer
of fremont, was run down aud killed by a
freight train north of Springfield.
Vernon Cleaves. year old, son of Earl
Cleaves Of Wapakonc,a, fell in tub of
boiling water and death resulted in a few
hours.
Joe Lowe, indicted for shooting with in
tent to kill, attempted to take his own lifs
in the county Jail at Urbana, by driving
nail in head. He is badly hurt.
The large barn of w. IL. Miller, eight
mile east of fostoria, burned to the ground
win Its contents, including two horses.
Loss $1,000, with 1900 insurance.
Dallas s. Rentz, aged 80 years, machin-
ist, and resident of Salem for many
years, was killed at grade crossing
by an express train on the Pennsylvania
lines.
Mrs. Nancy Cullison, aged 33, of Gosh
octon, was fatally burned by the igniting
OF poultice of lard, camphor and turpen-
tine which she was warming on the kitchen
stove.
Silas Hughes, 90 years old, colored, acci.
dentally dropped match into sewer
manhole at Marion. The sewer gas explod
ed, fatally burning Hughes and wrecking
a small building nearby.
Seth Quigley, n rich farmer four miles
north of Sidney, died suddenly from heart
disease while unloading corn. His wife
found him face downward in his wagon
and partly covered with corn.
Burglars entered the hardware store of
III. G. House & Co. at Deshler, and carried
off the whole stock of guns, knives and
razors which were new. The stock was
valued at several hundred dollars.
Twenty shots were exchanged between
burglar and the police, at the home of S.
G.. Parks of Lima, but the unknown es-
capped with S176 in cash, silver and jewelry,
leaving trail of blood in his wake.
The candidates of the Republican and
Democratic tickets at West Union have
agreed to use no money in the approaching
election. Vigorous prosecution will follow
any attempt TO violate the agreement and
each side posted $500 to assist in such pros
ocution.
David Robson of Toledo, has given
$4,000 for home at Wooster, for educa
tiOn of children OF missionaries to be con-
Quoted in connection with the Wooster
University. The home is to be known as
the Anna Robson home in memory of the
wife of Robson.
The tow boat ''Ironsides," with a Pitts
burg fleet of coal barges, deeply loaded,
struck one of the steel cofferdams in the
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ges. The loss of the coal and the damage
to the steel cofferdam will run up into
thousands of dollars.
The Circuit Court at Youngstown grant
ed new trials to w. L. Cutting, serving a
life sentence for assault on his daughter,
and George OsmOnd, who was given seven
years for killing l.. ID. Stutler. The case
of David McKelvey for damages against
the city was reversed.
The post-Office at lockwood was robbed
of over 800 in cash and $SO.34 in stamps.
The work was done by the use of skele-
ton key. Postmaster j. w. Willis suspects
local crooks. Only few months ago the
pOstOilice was wrecked by an explosion and
much valuable mail was lost.
Wesley Parker, colored of Pittsburg, who
was arrested at Youngstown for the kill
ing of Henry Callenberg, white, last Aug
ust and indicted for manslaughter, was
found guilty of assault and battery and re-
manded for sentence. Both were in the
employ of the Carnegie Company as strike
breakers when the killing occurred
jogging placidly along the road to the
funeral of his friend, N. Rothbart, Fred C.
Meyer, farmer, was struck and killed ny
tie fast mail from the east at the Grist
Mill crossing near Holgate. Rothbart was
killed at the same place and by the same
train three days previous. The wreck of
his wagon still lay by the side of the track
when Meyer was struck and killed.
At depth of 1859 feet fine flow of gas
was struck on the Cox farm, two miles
south of Forest by the Forest Oil and Gas
Company. The big producer is showing a
pressure of $50 pounds, and the drillers
consider II the best well ever struck in that
section. WOrkmen are already connecting
the Forest mains, thus dispelling general
fear that the fuel supply would be short
this winter.
BY the explosion of a gas machine in the
NJ. Il. church at Good Hope, Janitor Chas.
r. Bell was fatally injured and thirty peo-
pie were in the panic. The explosion oc-
CURED as the services were opening. The
janitor was blown from the cellar to an adj
joining room containing coal and was un-
conscious when found. In the stampede
for the door about thirty people were tram
peeled and hurt, some perhaps seriously.
The building was badly damaged.
After breaking open two cash registers
and securing less than dollar in money,
thieves departed leaving all the cash re-
ceipts of the day laying in plain sight on
the counter. This was the record attained
by burglars who gained an entrance to the
Birk drug store at Bucyrus by cutting u
pain of glass from rear window. In clos
ing the store for the night ali the cash taken
in during the day was left in a pile in the
middle of the counter.
Elijah Bowsher, former janitor of the
American National bank at Lima, who
confessed to having robbed that institution
of $4,000 seven years ago, pleaded guilty
TO the indictment for grand larceny before