The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1911-07-20
NEWS OF OHIO

the accounts of the Home for the In
curables has brought about crisis in
the financial affairs of the institution.
Norwalk.-Thomas F. Bishop, for
80 years employed as machinist
in the old Lake Shore shops
here, and afterward at the local
Wheeling & Lake Erie shops, and who
years ago superintended the construc-
tion of the Western Union Telegraph
| lines in northern Ohio, died of heart
disease at his home here, aged 81.
Akron.-A young Akron woman,
whose name is unknown, entered
the Cuyahoga Falls bank, Cuya-
hoga Falls, and attempted to hold up
the place with a gun. She was seized
by employees and arrested. The girl
says she wanted, money for prettier
clothes than her mother could buy her
and thought she could hold up the
bank.
Columbus. Weber, 32, bar
| tender, is dead, the result of try
ing to keep cool in a bath tub.
During the hot weather he read that
a good way to keep cool was to fill the
tub with water, climb in and be
happy. He did, and enjoyed himself
so much that he went to sleep. When
he got up after four hours in the
cold water, he was stiff and sore all
over. His death followed.
Findlay-While the thermometer
was we'll up in the nineties here, Will
liam c. Dorsey, "A, died as the result
Of frozen feet sustained last winter
when he was driving.
Sandusky.-Resolutio indorsing
the Aldrich central bank plan
were adopted by the Ohio Bank
ers' association at their closing ses.
sion at Cedar Point. The following Of
ficers were elected: President, w. P.
Sharer of GAINESVILLE; vice president,
S. D. Fitton of Hamilton; secretary,
S. B. Rankin of Columbus, and treas.
urer, Sidney Brister of Canal Dover.
Chardon-Maple statistics for 1911
for Geauge county, just returned
by township assessors, show the
inroads that have been made on
the forests of the banner maple pro.
ducing county of the world. Not as
many trees were tapped as last year,
The influx of foreigners on Geauga
county farms and timber buyers are
responsible.
GAINESVILLE. - David McCammon,
aged 12, was shot and fatally wounded
by Rosemary Sears, aged II, at Wood
nd, Monroe County.
Hudson.-A murder mystery, which
one days investigation by police
failed even slightly to penetrate,
developed here in the finding of
mans body near the Pennsylvania
railroad station. That the victim was
a Clevelander, probably well-to-do, has
been established to the satisfaction of
detectives. The identity of the mur-
dered man or of his assailants and
the hour Of the crime as we'll as the
exact place where the killing was
done, have not been established
? When the body was found by an engi-
neer all the pockets of the clothing
were turned inside out. A blood
stained club and a pocketbook smear.
ed with gore were found near the
, body.
, Akron.-Sheriff Ferguson of Sum
nit county arrested q man Civ
ing the name of William Murray, hold
ing him in connection with the murder
= of Frank Price of Cuyahoga Falls al
Hudson. Murray was brought here
from Hudson and for several hours
was questioned by Prosecutor Rock
we'll, Detective lie Deaux and the sher
u #. The body was identified by Will
.am Metcalf of Cuyahoga Falls. The
murder victim was 54. His wife died
!. at Cuyahoga Falls six weeks ago and
since that time he had been despond
e ent, according to Metcalf.
Acknowledgements Colby, so, who
refused to divulge his home ad
dress, went to the county infrmary
at Ravenna and swallowed two ounces
of laudanum he had procured at Man
tua, o. He died instantly, leaving nc
explanation for the act.
Napoleon.-This vicinity was Wis
tied by a heavy rain, wind and
electrical storm, the first since the
prevailing high temperature. The
storm reached cyclonic proportions
four miles east of here, uprooting or
chards and telephone poles. The
| wires were out of commission for sew
eral hours. Many barns and houses
v are reported struck by lightning. Corr
was badly damaged, and ripenec
standing oats seriously injured b,
d wind throughout the county. At Belle
fontaine thousands of dollars of dam
|, age was done to growing crops be
d tween DeGraff and West Liberty b,
/. hail and wind Corn and oats suffered
n greatly, and number of building
J, were struck by lightning.
e William Piermann's barn, southeas
). of Fremont, was struck by lightning
l. during the storm and the building an,
u contents, including this years croI
s destroyed by fire. The loss is $4,000
g Youngstown.-A match carrie
i. to the caves of the residence G
d ]. A. Baum, on S. Fruit avenue, b
an English sparrow, caused a fir
which did considerable damage befor
O the firemen extingUished the blaze
The roof of the house was so hot
set off the match, causing the fire. TIL
bird was building nest and the fir
was fed by the straw it contained
> causing the flames to spread rapid
, over the dry shingles.
- Millersville.-Joseph Arrestuck,
cnrnnntnr of Millarsville fell frnm