The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1906-03-15
Buckeye News In Brief.


down falling upon him.
Mary Ann Baxter, aged so, while alone
in her homo at Cadiz, was burned to death
by her clothing catching fire from an open
crate.
The home of Levi Weaver, near Beaver
Dam, Allen county, with all of its con-
tents, was destroyed by fire. Loss, $500;
no insurance.
Harmon Zuber, aged 25, was crushed to
death between two cars on which he was
working in the Solar refinery of the Stand
ard Oil Company at Lima.
Frank Kern, 80, was found dead near
Chillicothe. He was subject to epileptic
attacks, and fell in asnOwdrift, face down.
ward, and smothered 10 death.
In Ohio during last year the gasoline
stove fired 157 buildings, SCARED more than
200 persons and burned thirty to death, ac-
cording to the report of the state fire mar
shal.
Andrew Carnegie has signified his in
tenton to President John NJ. Davis, to do
nate $4,000 to Rio Grande College, q Bap-
tist theological school at Rio Grande, Gallia
county.
Mrs. Lille Byrkett, l1S years old, a gypsy
woman, died in the Memorial hospital at
Piqua from burns. Her clothing caught at
a campfire, every stitch being burned from
her body.
Robbers dynamited the postoffice safe at
West Carrolton and secured about 500 in
money and stamps. The ofiicewas wrecked.
The explosion awOke the entire town, but
the robbers escaped in buggy.
In an appropriation bill before congress
there is an item of $4,000 for a public
building to be erected in Elyria. The city
council has decided to offer the govern
ment free sight for the postoffice building.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed the
business block owned by former Judge p.
NJ. Smith, at Wellsville, causing loss es-
timated at $4,000. The plant of the Wells
vile Daily Union was partially destroyed.
There are rumors of a pending sensation
in the Butler county infirmary board. The
county commissioners refused to approve
their last semi-annual report, and ordered
the men to appear in person at Hamilton to
answer questions as to many items.
Seven horses, two cows, seventy-five
chickens, three buggies and farm imple-
ments and large quantity of feed were
consumed in n fire that destroyed barn
on the farm of John Tate, east of Marion.
The loss is heavy, with no insurance.
The dead body of Albert Blackwell. a
bartender at Cincinnati, was found in his
room over the saloon where he was en-
plOyed. The police say he committed sui
eide following quarrel with his sweet
heart. but some Of his friends claim he was
murdered. Blackwell's home is in Ironton.
William w. Ross, aged 72 years, super
intendent of the Fremont public schools
since 1864, and prominent educator, died
suddenly at Fremont. Professor Ross was
well known as lecturer and was the au-
thor Of numerous works on educational.
tariff and economical questions. Heart
disease was the cause of death.
The decomposed body of Charles Spicer,
%, of Trinway, was found floating in Wa
katOmeka creek, near Dresden. Last No.
vember Spicer was accused of forgery. Of
ficers went to arrest him, but he saw them
approaching and, running to the creek,
disappeared in thicket OF willows. The
identification was made certain by his
clothing
An incoming passenger train from Chi
cago on the Big -Four was derailed by the
tower operator at Riverside, four miles
from Cincinnati, to prevent a collision with
freight. The engine and mail car were
thrown from the track. The passengers
suffered severe shaking up. Engineer
Ben Mitter and Fireman Kissick were
painfully hurt.
By the collapse of the upper floor of one
of the buildings of the big cabinet works
of Theodore Kundtz, Cleveland, one man
was killed, one fatally injured and ten
others had miraculous escape from death.
The man killed is Joseph Antell, who was
caught beneath the debris and crushed to
death. The weight of lumber on the up
per floor is supposed to have caused the
accident
A heavy 81 eel car loaded with coal, broke
loose from cable while coming down a
steep incline at the Laughlin tin plant in
Martins Ferry, and tumbling on the roof of
the mill crashed through to the ground be-
low, catching five men who were loading
iron. John Kremo was instantly killed,
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skull and broken arm. Mike SONS head
was cracked open and John Dedrist's right
arm was broken. Two other foreigners
suffered slight injuries.
After thirty years of litigation between
Emery Lockhart and his brother, James
Lockhart, of Bellefontaine, during which
time their controversy has gone through
all the courts of Logan county, district and
state, and finally " the Federal Bank
ruptcy Court, Emery Lockhart has finally
paid over to his brother James the sum Of
s15,S9O. They were in business many
years ago, and when they dissolved part
nership could not agree as to the adjust
ment. The court costs in the cases paid in
this inal settlement amounted to sS,5lS,
but this is only share Of the costs in
CURED, to say nothing of the attorneys
fees involved.
Wittenberg College, Springfield, has re-
ceived for theological and art purposes n
gift of Sl25, 900 in farm lands from DR. H..
W. HANNA of Baltimore, Nd, one of the
most prominent men in the Lutheran
church. He gave the COLLEGE the HANNA