Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-08-19
In the Buckeye State

Massillon.-While standing under |
the caves of his barn awaiting the |
passing Of storm, Henry Rohr, Jr..
rs years old, farmer, was struck by
lightning and killed. The barn, with
contents, was destroyed.
oshocton.-Attorney Thomas Cal
houn, Republican candidate for prose
cutting attorney, was killed at Isleta.
He was clinging to the closed vesti-
bule of passenger coach when
freight train struck him and crushed
his skull.
pringfeld.-While Superintendent
J. M. Collins, of the Springfield town
ship public schools, was out motoring,
his machine became unmanageable
and crashed through plate glass
window of a merchant tailoring es-
tablishment on East High street.
Hamilton.-The H. P. Deuscher Co.
plant, occupying six acres, was de-
stroyed by fire. The plant manufac-
lures agricultural implements for
mail-order houses, furnaces and school
desks. 1t is capitalized at 100000,
and over 800 men were thrown out Of
work.
Canton.-While playing Indian"
around huge bonfire which he and
two other boys built in vacant lot,
Albert Potts, eight years old, was ia
tally burned when can, which for
merly contained shellac, exploded
from the heat, enveloping the child in
flames.
Sandusky-Dr. w. B. Banks, of De-
troit, here with his son, Newell w.
Banks, checker champion of the Unit
ed States, was notified of the death
of two brothers, Pittsburg capitalists,
in a railroad wreck on the Northern
, Pacific, near Ignacio, 80 miles from
San Francisco.
Hamilton.-William Ballard threw a
r billiard ball at his brother, Leonard,
and caused the latter's death, accord
| ing to a finding by Coroner Burnett.
:, The tragedy occurred at Coke Otto, a
village of Butler county, during fight.
Leonard Billiards. skull was fractured
and he died few hours later.
Springfield.-Music promises to be
the main feature of the Clark County
y Teachers institute sessions, which
open Monday, August %, and Presi
dent ]. M. Collins, of the institute, is
devoting much time to this particular
; line of the program. Other officers are
II doing all. in their power to have the
: best possible programs for the insti
tute.
~ No rfb n-Tha fftu.6fth q
=, fair of the Hamilton County Agricul
- tural association opened Wednesday
The fair will be held four days. Fairs
" have been held on the Carthage
~ grounds for more than half century
&c and with each succeeding year the di
" rectors have tried to obtain new at
" fractions, and this year no expens,
u has been spared along that line.
- PortsmcNth-Frank B. Finney, age,
40 years, prominent attorney an,
real estate man, died here after
years illness, during which time h
visited all sections of the country II
y, vain effort to regain his health H
- graduated from the Cincinnati lay
- school in 1898, practiced in that cit
~ four years, and there married a Cir
cinnati girl, Miss Belle Burnham, who
with one son, aged II years, survive
him.
~ Urbana.-Champaig county expo
- rienced an epidemic of suicides, tw
-. persons in the county taking thci
=, lives in one day. Mrs. Martha Loni
- brake, aged 90, of Mechanicsburl
drowned herself in the mill race {
:. that village. Frank Custenborder, {
az st. Paris, killed himself with n r
y. volver, and the coroner had just r
a. turned from that village when wor
90 was received that Mrs. Longbrake ha
IN taken her life at Meshanicsburg, an
a. the coroner was compelled to go
once to the latter village.
Wellston.-H. E. Loomis, new viz
president of the Superior Coal Co.,
-, here for the purpose of putting IL
'.n mines in shape for operation. I'll
N9 general officers will be moved her
ne Mines 10 and II will be worked to fu
" capacity. They have been idle for
oN' months. Five hundred miners will
employed.
an Marion-The property of the d
loe funct Greenwood Street Lumber q
fie successor to the Implement Manufa
TO turing Co., was sold at sheriff's sale
iis +. M. Smith, representative of the Go
Ell tinental Lumber Co., of Chicago. H
bid WAS s6,5O0.