Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-08-12
In the Buckeye State

tne track and was overturned tnTee
miles west of Canton.
Lebanon.-Lebanon university will
graduate more students at the fifty
fifth annual commencement exercises.
than 1t has in 20 years. Degrees will
be conferred upon so students.
Sandusky-On Wednesday, August
II, the One Hundred and Twenty.
eighth regiment of the Ohio Veterans
association will hold its thirty-first re-
union here.
Cleveland. William Watkins, col
ored, paroled from the Ohio peniten- 4
tiary six months ago, after serving
four years for the murder of man
named Gregory here, was shot and
killed in a saloon. Howard Harris,
colored. a bartender, is held.
Youngstown.-Harry Parsons was
arrested here charged with the muir
der of George Kolhal in a mill in
Pittsburg on May %. Parsons admits
killing the man, but declares it was
self-defense, and he had been re-
leased by the coroner after being in
jail for a month. He will fight requi-
sition.
Marion.-Practically all the farmers
in Waldo township dropped their own
work, assembled at the farm home OF
Mrs. Robert Place, and gave her q ,
surprise by thrashing her crop Off
wheat Her husband was recently
killed by train and about all the
property he left his widow and chill
To for
Hamilton.-Through the stumbling
of one of the prisoners an attempt on
the part of eight prisoners in the
county Jail to escape was narrowly
averted. When the jailer entered the
prison to hand out breakfasts Guisippi
Lantie, an Italian, indicted for assault,
made rush for him, but slipped on
the cement floor. The .jailer quickly
slammed the door shut.
Marion.-Andrew Lindeman, 80, Of
Campbell county, Kentucky, died at a
hospital as a result of injuries re-
| ceived in a runaway. Lindeman was
hauling old rails to n traction engine
for threshers on the John Mautz farm,
in Pleasant township. when one of the
rails fell off and frightened the team.
Lindeman was terribly crushed by one
of the wagon wheels.
Findlay.-Harry Zuber, 81, who had
just completed course in Chicago
correspondence school on how to
train vicious horses" was probably
fatally kicked while saddling horse.
He waved a red flag in front of its
eyes and then jingled some sleigh
bells at the horses heels. The kick
that followed broke nearly every one
of Zuber's ribs and he was injured in
| ternally.
Canton.-In spite of the fact that
| the welcome to the city was extended
by the county prosecuting attorney,
in the absence of the mayor, and that
visit to the insane asylum at Massil-
| Ion is on the entertainment program,
the delegates to the annual conven-
tion of the Ohio Building Association
League are a happy lot. There are
300 of them here, many accompanied
by their wives.
Youngstown.-The first indication of
the intention of the United States
| Steel corporation to build a new town
opposite Girard, where the new plant
of the corporation will be built, was
the erection of huge sign bearing the
name Mcdonald" The new town,
made to order after the manner of
Gary, Ind, will be named after Thom-
as Mcdonald, the district manager Of
the Carnegie Steel Co. here.
shelby.-While temporarily insane
Harley May, %, hostler, ran amuck
through the main streets of Shelby,
shooting policeman and a farmer.
Following chase in an automobile
May was shot and killed by third
policeman. May started the shooting
in Spangler's saloon, where he shot
George Kline, farmer, through the
shoulder. He then ran into the street
and shot Policeman Shaw in the
breast.
Van Wert.-Robert Black, very
black negro, who pulled revolver on
Brakeman Dillon when ordered from
freight train at Paulding, was cap
tured at Latty and brought here for
safekeeping. When searched $5320,
five gold watches, heart-shaped neck
lace, a revolver, magnifying glass
and other plunder was found in his
possession. He will be bound over to
the grand jury for carrying concealed
weapons and pointing firearms.
Chillicothe.-The Ohio Police Chiefs
association, in convention here, Sc
lected the following officers: Edward
M. Ertle, Massillon, president; E. L.
Faulder, Bellefontaine, first vice pres
ident; James Pendergast, Chillicothe,
second vice president; James H. Stan
berger, East Cleveland. secretary and
treasurer; r. e. Murphy, Cleveland,
historian; Jacob Mintz, Cleveland
board of governors for three years.