The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1911-11-16
Buckeye Notes

in front of a residence and attempted
to search him. The negro fired three
shots through the policeman's body
and escaped. All the local police are
engaged in a search for the murderer
and violence is feared if he is cap
tured.
Canton.-Elmer Liggett, liveryman,
aged AZ, while driving in closed car
riage, was struck by Pennsylvania
train at a grade crossing here and
instantly killed. His body was tossed
on the pilot Of the engine and car
ried a mile before the trainmen knew
it was there. The buggy was smashed
but the horse was only slightly in
jured.
Youngstown.-Three young men did
an extensive business here passing
forged checks on a number of saloon
lists. The checks were signed in the
name of a construction company,
rubber stamp being used in each case.
The men obtained several hundred
dollars, claiming at each place the
checks were for wages.
st. Clairsville-Immediately after
being released from Jail after being
acquitted of first degree murder FL
mer Wiley was rearrested on charge
Of stealing a horse, and again was
committed to the Belmont county Jail.
Dayton. = Pneumonia threatens to
wipe out an entire Dayton family.
DR.. ]. M. Weather, aged 85, one of
the oldest and most prominent physi-
clans of the city, died from the ef-
fects of the disease. His wife pre-
ceded him by only few hours, and
the only daughter is at deaths door.
Sandusky.-Cut off with $500 each
out of the 100000 estate of Frederick
D. Waldeck, probated here, the two
grandsons, Eugene s. and Walter F.
Magill, have decided to bring suit
to contest the document on account
of the exercise of undue influence on
the testator.
Cleveland.-Three men were in
jured, two probably fatally, when the
wall of new building which is be-
ing erected collapsed. The injured
men are s. Ashrinazi, "a; J. Shrolink,
"a, and Ralph Kamato, SO, the last
being in a critical condition. They
were standing beside the wall when
the high wind blew it over. The next
day a contractor named Harry Stimuli
ovitz was found dead in the ruins.
Cleveland. - Robert Knox, black
smith, fell dead while shoeing horse
here. Apoplexy was the cause. He
leaves a wife and child in RaVenna.
Hamden.-Joseph A. Bond has filed
suit in the Jackson county court of
common pleas against the board of
education of Jackson township for
equitable relief. The suit resulted
from a desire of the residents to pre-
vent a change of the text books in the
schools of that township. Feeling is
bitter over the situation arising from
the proposed change.
Carrollton-The highest point in
Ohio, according to report of the
United States geological survey, is 81
miles east of Carrollton, on farm
owned by George Ray. It is 1,376.47S
feet above sea level.
Cincinnati.-H heeed shoes, ac-
cording to testimony btfore Coroner
Coe, were responsible for the death
of Hilda Aue, IS years old, who was
fatally injured by Big Four train at
the Short street crossing. A heel
about two inches high which had been
torn from the girls shoe, was found
wedged in the switch. Trainmen said
she fell backward across the tracks
and made desperate struggle to free
herself.
Findlay Tom McMichaels, aged 55,
was taken to the Toledo state hospi-
tai from here, raving maniac. The
educational building on the fair
grounds burned recently and because
he lived nearest it he thinks the pub
lie blames him for the fire.
Geneva.-T. H. Russell lost six
young Holstein heifers this week at
his farm in Unionville. They burned
to death in small barn which ig-
nited from unknown cause. They
were valued at several hundred dol
lars each.
Marysville. County Auditor
Bert ]. Shelton, a we'll known politi-
clan of Marysville, who was defeated
last fall for reelection, was made de-
fendant in a suit for divorce, filed
by his wife, who charges extreme
cruelty and drunkenness. She asks
for alimony, and the custody of their
year-old daughter. Mrs. Shelton says
that her husband has been intoxicated
almost continually since his defeat
and gets up in the night and goes out
to the barn to get liquor. They were
married at Chicago Junction in 1908.
Cincinnati. - Europe w. HamliD, a
nephew of Hannibal Hamlin, fifteenth
vice president of the United States,
died at his home here. He was
wealthy and unmarried.
Toledo.-Ferdinand Welch, aged 72,
dean of Ohio hotel men, died here
after an illness of several months.
Mr.. Welch was proprietor of the
Boody house for 20 years and retired
five years ago. He was the founder
of the Ohio Hotel Mems State associa-
ton.
Cleveland. = Alone in the barn,
while his children played in the yard
less than so feet away, Nick Christie
pher of Nottingham, aged 33, lay dy-
ing from a wound of bullet which
he had fired into his ear when he
learned that a reconciliation with his
wife was impossible. When found, it
is believed he had just died.
Delaware 13 has been
set apart as Founders day at Ohio
Wesleyan university. On this date, in
1914, the first classes were held and