The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1910-09-08
State News

Lakes, Glenn Curtiss threaded the air
from Euclid Beach, near Cleveland,
sos miles to Cedar Point in one hour
and 1S minutes. Curtiss made the
fight at an average speed of 46.1
miles an hour. Another chapter
in the conquest of the air was
written by Glenn H. Curtiss and his
Hudson flyer when he few from Cedar
Point, off Sandusky, to Euclid Beach,
circled above huge crowd at Euclid
Beach for perhaps three minutes and
landed gracefully, all in one hour and
Al minutes. The aviator insists he
travelled 20 miles in his fight to Ce-
dar Point and a like distance on his
return, though the mileage is called
so 9-10 miles and the geological sur
Vey office here figures the flight at GA
miles and a slight fraction. Cur
tiss by completing the fight wins $5,-
900. He failed to shatter the speed
record, for which accomplishment an
other $4,000 was hung up and did not
rise 5000 feet above the Breakers
hotel at Cedar Point, for which feat
another $4,000 was promised.
Youngstown.-Fire did $4,000 DAM
age to the dry cleaning department
Of the Partisan Co. here. A boy
dropped match and stepped on the
head of it, causing an explosion.
Ashland.-Dr. Guy Kinnaman of
Chicago, who was brought to the
home of his parents, DR.. and Mrs. R.
c. Kinnaman recently, is dead of pto-
maine poisoning. He was "a years old.
Akron.-As a result of exposures
of incompetence and waste in
the repairs to the Ohio canals,
which have been going on for a num-
ber of years, state investigation Of
the entire system is believed to be in
evitable when the next state legisla-
ture meets. A personal investigation
of the canals in this section shows
that much of the work done under the
$2,000,000 appropriated for the pur-
pose will have to be done over again.
The Miami and Erie and Ohio canals,
both extending from Lake Erie to the
Ohio river, were practically closed to
navigation when the work of rehabili-
tation was begun in 1905. Some of
the new concrete locks built since
that time, and through which no canal
boat has ever passed, are already
crumbling away.
Canton.-Two men were killed
during the same hour here. A
few moments after Henry Muckley,
former hardware dealer, was buried
under fall of sand at the plant of
the Sand Greer Sand Co. and instant
ly killed, Thomas Hodgson of Berg
holtz was drowned at Meyers lake.
Hodgson was in boat with two COM
panions and attempted to change
seats with one when the boat upset.
Bellefontaine. A romantic mar.
riage has just occurred at Ligonier,
Ind, when Philip Carr and his wife
were reunited in marriage after a sep
aration of At years, In which period
both had remarked and had lost their
life's partners by death. Mr.. and Mrs.
Carr were first married in 1851 and
lived at Navarro, Stark county o.
Their daughter married ]. X. Winters,
cousin of the late President William
Mckinley. Mr.. Winters resides at
Kenton, where Mr.. and Mrs. Carr will
make their future home.
Urbana.-The proposition to issue
bonds to the amount of $150,0O0 for
the purpose of purchasing the Urbana
water works was defeated at a spe-
cial election, the majority against the
issuing of bonds being $50. Urbana
will now install a new municipal
water works.
Dayton.-Heart disease removed
two septuagenarians, Regina Oldings
and Martha E. Kane. Both were found
dead in bed.
Bucyrus.-Miss Mabel Brascher,
teacher of Latin in the Bucyrus
schools, has resigned her position to
accept a similar position at McKees-
port, Pa.
Port Clinton.-John Doncloff, 81,
was killed near Danbury. He fell
from a moving work train and the
wheels of car passed over his body.
Norwalk.-Norwalk people were
much surprised to learn that F. A.
Powers, for many years prominent
hardware merchant of this city, for
merly with Bingham & Co. of Cleve-
land, was married in Chicago to Miss
Mary Stewart of Pasadena, Cal, for
merly OF Norwalk.
Fostoria-Thomas Evans of Ma
rion, brakeman on the Hooking Val
ley, Toledo & Fostoria freight train,
was killed as his train was being put
away in the north yards for the
night. The other brakeman at the
other end of the train saw him go
toward the tracks and supposed he
had gone to flag the Big Four.
Mt. Vernon.-Marcus, the young
son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Ammons,
will probably lose his sight as the
result of scalding while playing SOL
dier. The boy filled large can with
water and placed it over a fire, in
tending to boil his dinner. AS the lid
was placed tightly on the can, an ex-
plosion resulted and the boiling
water was thrown in the boys face.
The eyeballs were badly scalded.
Cincinnati.-A member of the Gas
ser Coffee Co. of Cincinnati stated
in this city that an agreement has
been reached whereby Arbuckle Bros,
the coffee magnates, and the Brazilian
government have formed a plan to get
corner on coffee. The Arbuckle
people notified their Cincinnati repre-
sentatives, Sullivan Bros, to buy all
coffee offered, even at advanced
prices. The same firm is said to
have just bought 100000 bags of green
Santos coffee in New York markets.
The retail prices here have been ad-
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