The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1910-10-20
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Bellefontaine.-T turkeys,
belonging to Thomas Schott of Hunts
vile, were killed by Big Four train.
They were being fattened for Thangs-
giving.
Washington c. H-Samuel Price,
aged so, was instantly killed in the
switch yards of the C. & NJ. v. rail
road only a few feet from the spot
Percy Primrose of Lancaster was
killed four days before.
Crooksville.-After being rotten
egged three successive nights and
later threatened with a ducking from
the Main street bridge, Herman Roth
man, local clothier, has left for a
more pleasant and profitable location.
A fire in his store, which for time
threatened several business blocks,
was supposed to be of incendiary
origin.
pringfield.-Hastily excusing him
self from the sitting room where he
and his family were entertaining his
nephew, Everett Senseman of Dayton,
Joseph Senseman, So, a prominent res
ident of New Carlisle, went into the
front part of his home, drew a re-
volver from his coat pocket and shot
himself through the heart.
Upper Sandusky. Mrs. James
Bremen received a telegram that her
husband had committed suicide in
Kansas City, and she was preparing
to leave for that city when Mr..
Bremen walked in the front door. He
had been in Kansas City lately, but
how the suicide message originated is
a mystery.
ungstown-Engineer George M.
Shommer was instantly killed and
Conductor Archie Rillie and Engineer
G. P. Mullett injured in a headon col
lision between shifting engine and
freight train on the Lake Shore road.
Sandusky.-Her son, Curtis Brewer,
II years of age, having refused to
choose between herself and her former
husband, l. Curtis Brewer, wealthy
fertilizer manufacturer, Mrs. Annette
Fitch Brewer must be content with
the arrangement which enables her to
see the boy once a week, on Satur-
day between 9 a. m. and 9 p. m.
Bellaire.-After fatally wounding
his wife by firing the contents
of a double barreled shotgun
into her breast, Charles Barker, a
prominent business man of this city,
ran from his house pursued by posse
of neighbors and, after being sur
rounded, drew a razor from his
pocket and cut his throat from ear
to ear. Just what the motive for the
crime is cannot be elarned. Barker
is in such a serious condition that
he is unable to make any statement.
His wife is unconscious. Physicians
say that neither can recover.
Lima.-With welcoming addresses
by Mayor George Dyer on be-
half of the city, Mrs. ]. c. Lime
mann on behalf of the Woman's Fed
Grafton, w. e. Crapton on behalf of
the w. c. T. u, and Miss Eda Ballard
on behalf of the Business Woman's 8
club, the twenty-fifth annual conven-
ton of the Ohio Woman Suffrage as
sociation opened here.
Wooster.-Wooste university will
remain a sectarian school. A re-
port filed by a special committee
of the Presbyterian synod of Ohio was
adverse to any change of the charter.
This will keep the members Of the
faculty from receiving pensions from
the Carnegie foundation fund.
Akron.-Harry Sheetz and Sher.
man Barr, heads of the West
Park Iron Co. of Cleveland, were ar.
rested on secret indictment charg
ing manslaughter. They were ar
raigned before Judge Doyle in com
mon pleas court, entered plea of not
guilty, and were released under $4,000
bond. The indictment is the out
come of the death of Anthony Welch
an ironWorker employed on the new
Second National bank building in
Akron, who fell from the second flool
of the iron framework September 10
The indictment charges the two con
tractors with failing to provide tenn
porary flooring for safeguard.
Wapakoneta.-Mrs. William Trego
aged SO, and Miss Edna Trego, aged
} II, the wife and daughter of William
Trego, farmer, six miles east of here
are dead, following the explosion of 6
five-gallon can of kerosene, which the
daughter used in kindling fire. The
mother tried to save the daughter anC
both rushed into the yard, where they
were found by the husband and father
few minutes later, locked in eacf
others arms with all clothing burned
: from their bodies. The contents O.
. the house were consumed.
Canal Dover.-Jennie Crescio, II
years old, pretty daughter of Charles
Crescio, New Philadelphia frui
dealer, is under protection of New
Philadelphia police for fear she NIGH
be kidnapped. She reported that She
received an anonymous letter threat
ening her with death if she would no
leave with a certain man, who it IL
said, has been following her for sew
eral evenings. The letter writer says
the girl will meet watery grave Il
she does not leave with him.
Cleveland.-While Harold Cooper
the night clerk at the Railroad
Y. M. C. A. had his back turned, {
stranger stole SIS from the casE
: drawer and escaped. Cooper was at
tending to some duties at one enc
of the room, when the stranger
: walked in, and as he was in hurry
j to finish his work, Cooper paid little
attention to the intruder. When ht
heard the cash drawer being rif1et