The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1906-03-08
Buckeye News In Brief.

d. wright VI uranNlile, was drowned.
Mrs. Frank Wolf of Fremont, was badly
burned about the face, head and hands by
the explosion of escaped accumulated gas
In her stove.
vile, shot Joe Cullen during quarrel over
dog, dangerously wounding him. Dis
mar escaped.
H.. j. Serry Of Toledo, fireman on the
Wabash railway, fell from coal tank at
Montpelier, fracturing his skull. His re-
covery is doubtful.
Joe Pogo, 40, and Harry Roger, 25,were
buried under twenty feet of sand at Ra-
VIENNA. Pogo is badly hurt and may die.
Roger was dug out uninjured.
Jesse Mantjar, a farmer, aged 70, living
near Gallon, committed suicide by shoot
ing himself. He was afflicted with cancer
and took this means Of ending his misery.
Earl Snyder and Jay Fry, glassworkers
from FOstoria, were struck by limited on
the Toledo line while boarding Fostoria
car at Findlay, and Fry was instantly
killed.
Oscar Bell, said 10 have been formerly
postmaster at Fremont, committed suicide
by poisoning in lodging house at Boston.
Ball was 66 years old. The cause of sui
eide is not known.
A half dozen prisoners in the Sandusky
county Jail at Fremont engaged in fight
and riot. John Foley had his arm broken,
Glen Mcdonald, Scott Newman and Her
man Michaels were also injured.
A natural gas explosion, followed by fire,
in the McDeavitt apartment block at Steu-
benville, wrecked walls and much of the
interior. The occupants escaped in their
night clothes. Damage 5000, partly in
sured.
A rear-end collision between two Hook
ing Valley freight trains occurred at Co.
lumbus in a dense fog w. Ranles, fire.
man, was perhaps fatally injured. Six
teen cars were dcraied and several of them
totally wrecked.
An oil fire occurred at No. on the Wor-
den lease near Findlay, owned by the
Taylor Oil Company, which destroyed the
rig and belt house, together with the belt
ing. The cause of the fire is unknown.
The damage will amount to $500.
Andrew Tuttle, well known citizen of
Defiance, ex-soldier and ex-sheriff of De-
tiance county, died at the Presbyterian
hospital in Chicago, where he was taken
several weeks ago on account of failing
health. Mr.. Tuttle was 80 years old.
Frank Howard, Charles Sandys, Will
liam Grout and William Jackson were ter
ribly scalded at the Gardner paper mill at
AIiddletown. Howard may die. They
were caught by escaping steam and water
while crawling under paper machine to
repair it.
Two Italians were shot down in the rear
of Mike RamicOne's saloon at Kent. Five
shots were fired at the men in the darkness
all the bullets entering their bodies. Sur
geOns are unable to locate them and the
men may die. There is no clew to the
assassin.
A scaffOld on the new Seneca Wire and
Manufacturing Company's plant at Fos-
Tyler, fell distance Of forty feet. Both
of OsterhOlts legs were broken below the
knee. one being broken twice. Tyler fell
on his head and bled from his nose and
both ears, but was soon able to walk with
out assistance.
Ashland county is now excited over the
prospects for oil and gas on account of a
big gasser with an estimated product of
100000 cubic feet per day, which came in
on the farm of Jesse Stull, four miles south
of Loudonville. As result of this strike
OF gas, representatives of different oil and
gas companies are engaged in a merry con-
fau laa.. n
A thoroughbred bull en- route to Web
ster, W. Va, while being transferred from
one car to another at Newark, broke away
and made dash for young woman at
tired in flaming red. The girl escaped, but
the bull, after frightening many passen-
gers, dashed through the railway yards.
He avoided numerous engines and tried to
knock freight car off the track, then ran
down the interurban track and was killed
by trolley car.
a strange coincidence in connection with
the trial, at Dayton, of DIR. Oliver C. Haugh
for first degree murder is the fact that a
divorce suit against him, instituted many
months before the crimes of which he is
alleged to be guilty, occurred, is set for
hearing March IA, which, in all probability
will be before the elimination of the mur-
der trial. The divorce suit was previously
suppressed for religious reasons on the part
of the plaintiff. During the present trial,
Mrs. Haugh is on her husbands side and
is doing everything she can for him.
Bob Butts and George Bridgewater, two
young men living in New Pittsburg, Hook
ing county, pulled out their guns at Logan
and made George Donovan, colored, do a
clog dance. Butts and Bridgewalter, after
emptying their revolvers, began to jeer the
colored man, when he turned and fired five
shots at his annoyers. Butts was shot in
the left lung. Bridgewater was shot
Through the bowels and stomach. Both
inen were taken to the hospital in Column
bus, where they died. Donovan was
bound over under 5000 bond, which he
could not furnish, and was lodged in the
county Jail at Logan.
Owing to pressure of business the glass
factories at Fostoria expect to run through
out the summer instead of shu; ting down
for six weeks or more as Is customary
Fans will be Installed and everything pos
sible done to make it comfortable for the