The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1910-05-06
REVIEW OF OHIO


the school year. Floi. Davis VIII rep
resent the American Book Company.
Pouring coal oil on a smouldering
fire, Mrs. Elizabeth Aerne, aged 61
years, was asphyMated at her home
in Findlay Her unconscious body
fell into the fire and she was terribly
burned, being found by her daughter.
A COW demoralized traffic on the
Toledo, Fostoria & Flndlay recently
for six hours. A car due in Findlay
at 6;1S, six miles east of there,
struck and killed the COW, but the car
was thrown from the track, blocking
traffic. It was midnight before the car
was gotten back on the tracks again.
Three bears escaped from the Mimi
sila Park zoo in Canton when some
one broke the locks to the pits. Many
citizens engaged in the chase, Tempt
ing morsels were used as bait to get
the bears back again. When found
the bears were strolling down a lead
ing street,
Mrs. Andrew King, of oxford Town
ship, was killed and Miss Laura Jen-
kins and Mrs Kings 6-year-old daugh-
ter were fatally hurt when a switch
engine on the Cincinnati Chicago &
Louisville railroad backed into their
buggy at the Peoria UndJ crossing
on the Ohio side Of the State line.
The pollution Of the Mahoning river
by industrial plants along its bank,
which has resulted in the killing Of
hundreds of thousands Of fish, will
cause action to be taken by Game
Warden A. /. Powers against the con-
Germs alleged to De responsible. The
State Game and Fish Commission has
authorized Powers TO take steps TO re-
strain the concerns from emptying
poisonous fluids into the stream.
George Barcus. of Coshocton, while
hunting near Blue Hole, famous fish
ing spot in the Tuscarawas river, shot
white pelican, the only one Of its
kind ever seen in the county. The
bird is larger than an eagle, measur-
ing eight and a half feet from tip to
tip of its wings, five feet one inch
from tip of its beak to its tail and
weighing thirteen pounds. The birds
bill is a foot long and the pouch six
inches deep.
One day last week was the fifty
fourth anniversary of the first day
that Judge George f. Pendleron, Of
Findlay, started teaching school in
Hancock County. He was then 15
years old His father had a hard
time inducing him to begin teaching
and as a reward gave him a silver
watch, asking him TO wear it as long
as it kept good time. Judge Pendle-
ton carried the time piece all through
the war with him, and TO this day the
watch is as good a time-keeper as the
first day he got it.
Sarah, the threo-year-old daughter
of Samuel Munitz, 26i6 North 61st
street, died at Mt. Sinai hospital Of
burnes she received when she fell into
q tub Of scalding water at the home Of
a neighbor. Physician were called to
attend the child at her home, but, de-
spite their efforts, her condition
grew more serious until she was TAX
en- to the hospital The little girl was
playing in the kitchen at the home of
Mrs. Rose Preacher She stumbled
and fell into a tub of starch. Her
screams brought Mrs. Preacher to the
child's assistance, but too late to save
her from fatal injury.
That women still put away money
in an old sock was proved by the find
ing Of $500 by VIM. H. Nudd at the
home of his mother, Mrs. Selma Nudd,
who died recently in Columbus. The
money was in o yarn stocking which
was stuffed under a bedroom floor.
Digging in the cellar brought to light
q tomato can containing more than
$500 more in gold coin. In her will
she left her son her real estate, money
and bonds, if any Those sccuri- !
ties have not been found, but there is |
a story that they are in the posses |
sion Of a woman who had a safe in
her home. and a hunt is now going on
for her Mrs. Nudd did not believe in
banks, but her son wishes that she
had
A cow which L. G. Stahl, a farmer
living near Dalton, was bringing to an
lbattoir in Massillon, saved its own |
srs life and the life Of a valuable |
. y,.-o Cr.II fIfv1r i, "a Iu--crg- v-as |
leading the COW down the steep West |
Main street hill at the foot of which |
Is the 3. & O. railroad crossing. The !
horse, unable to hold back the buggy,
started to run Just then a passenger !
train, rapidly approaching the cross
ng, shot into view. Stahl was tangled |
lp in the lines and the rope with |
which he was leading the COW and |
couldn't jump. When twenty-five feet |
from the tracks, the COW reared and |
stuck its front legs between the
5pokes of a rear wheel. The wheel |
slid and served as a brake. The |
horse was able to stop few feet from |
The tracks, just as the train swept |
past. Stahl will keep the COW.
The will of Henry G. Davis, who
lied in Buffalo, N. Y, April Is, has
been filed for probate, The estate is
said to be worth 100000. Mr. Davis
only son, George S. Davis, of Warren,
Is the principal beneficiary.
To complete the United States
courtroom in the new government
at Youngstown, it has been
,acnecarv m iutrodIloa a bill in Con-