Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-07-14
Over the State

with Harriet, the baby, was so badly
scalded by kettle of boiling water !
tipping over on them. Helen died |
while the parents were at the ceme-
terry burying Harriet, who passed
away soon after the accident. The
children were in the kitchen when
the handle OF the baby buggy caught
and pulled over the kettle of water
on them.
Delaware.-The death which he
had courted for Is years came
| to Louis Hartman under the wheels
of a Pennsylvania train, his
mangled remains being discovered
along the track. Hartman, who was
stone deaf, despite the fact that he
had three times previously been
struck by trains on the Pennsylvania,
each time narrowly escaping with his
| life, still insisted on using the railroad
tracks to his home in the northern
part Of the city. Hartman lost leg
the first time he was hit. The second
time an arm was cut off, and the third
time he was terribly mangled but man.
aged to recover. The last time the
train cut off both his good and arti-
fetal legs and terribly mutilated his
body. He had been arrested and fined
dozen times on a charge of trespass-
ing on the railroad tracks, but each
time he was released resumed his dan
gerous practice. Hartman was about
so years of age.
Cincinnati.-R. w. Luebke, 45,
committed suicide by shooting and
left note in which he said there was
too much bossing from his mother
in-law" about his home. He added
that his wife always sided with her
mother. He directed that his body be
cremated and that neither his brother
or sister should attend the funeral.
He added that he hoped his widow
would marry a good man and said he
left enough insurance to care for her
until she did, but he did not want her
to spend any of the money on his
mother-in-law.
Delaware.-The defense in the
sensational poisoning case of Mrs.
Jesse Way Henkle, charged by
her stepdaughter, Merle Henkle, with
poisoning her with arsenic, scored
with the statement that a second
analysis of the contents of Miss Hen
kles stomach when she was taken to
the hospital reveals no trace of ar
senic.
Columbus. - William Kennedy, o
clerk in local lodging house, is un-
der arrest for fatally injuring Ellis
Osborne, blind man. They quarreled
and Kennedy kicked the blind man
down a flight of stairs with his wooden
leg.
Marion.-As Miss Flora Spicer
90, and her guest, Miss Mary
Rogers, %, of West Mansfield, were
returning home from church at night
+ they were accosted on the street by a
man, who struck both the girls over
, the head, and picking up Miss Spiceri
, who was unconscious, carried her a
, block distant. Miss Rogers quickly
summoned the help of number OF
men and boys, who ran to the railroad
, yard; where they found Miss SpiceI
with face bruised and clothing torn
crawling along the. tracks and unable
, to speak. Her assailant escaped. Miss
Spicer, when she regained her speech
said the man, of whom she was un
= able to give good description, threat
: ened her with death If she screamed
Portsmouth.-While having a lit
. tie sport in the Scioto river nortt
: of this city, diving and swim
ming, Harry F. Wolfe, %, prominen
citizen, was seized with cramps ans
drowned. His bride of eight months
whose relatives live at Sanford, Fla.
{ stood on the bank and saw her hus
band go down for the last time. Th'
y body was recovered some 30 or A
minutes later, at the same plac,
where his father met death by drown
. ing year or so ago.
Youngstown. = Samuel whitacr
J. lost an arm at the asphalt plan
while fellow workmen stood b.
II powerless to help him. His glove
q hand caught in cog wheel, slowl
p drawing the member into the machir
W cry, grinding off the arm inch by inch
% Washington dispatche
a say that orders have just bee
issued by the postoffice depar
s. ment for the establishment of thre
d new Ohio postal savings banks. The
Ie will be opened in the offices at Ada
le Bellefontaine and Nelsonville July q
Is Akron.-The inability of Thoma
r Fisher, 26, an Akron musician
le play Yankee Doodle" in polio
" court resulted in the man being ser
IS to cell for ten days. Fisher wa
n picked up in the residence distric
ID where he was found playing lare
W bass horn. When arraigned in coul
@ he appeared before Mayor Willial
n Sawyer rather unsteadily and attrib1
e. ted his condition to the heat. "If yo
,y will play an independence day tur
I'D and demonstrate that you are rel
gs musician may be tempted to let yo
CO." said the mayor addressin
st Fisher The prisoner started in, b'
lg did not get very far before he wf
Id stopped and 81 fine and costs. whic
L. Ill 10 nC O.