The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1911-08-24
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control the fire which consumed
portion of Chester park. an amusement
resort and swept over five acres of
the Farrin-Korn Co.'S lumber plant ad.
Joining. The loss is $225. 900, of which
$150.000 Is borne by the lumber com.
pany.
Upper Sandusky.-At the annual
teachers institute the recent decision
of Attorney General Hogan concern
ing registration fees at institutes was
brought up, and by unanimous vote it
was decided that the teachers could
do what they pleased with their
money. All paid the regular fee.
Zanesville-In the presence of 300
members of his Sunday school and
congregation, Rev. c. H. Holden, pas.
tor of the Baptist church, dedicated
his new automobile on the church
lawn. He opened the service with
prayer and followed with a sermon.
teubenville.-Melvin Smith, aged
so, teamster, was drowned in the
Ohio river here. He spent the night
at camp on the West Virginia side
and when brought to this side fell out
of the skiff into a hole made by
sand digger.
Cleveland Martin, farmer
from North Olmsted, used his wagon
cushion as a safety deposit box for
diamonds valued at $1,000 while he
was busy selling vegetables to the
market throng in this city. When he
looked for the diamonds they were
missing. With them went a bundle of
private papers and cash amounting to
SO.
Elyria.-Mrs. Anna Kishman began
suit for divorce and alimony from
Charles Kishman, manager Of the
Booth Fisheries Company branch at
| Lorain, and asks for the custody of
| their two children. Mrs. Kishman Sc
cured an injunction from Judge
Stroup tying up Kishman's property
in Lorain.
Findlay.-Poliee, physicians and
druggists were lnystified here when a
man stepped into a we'll known drug
store and asked for two ounces of am
monia. He was given it and in one
gulp had swallowed it. The drug clerk,
thinking he had a suicide on his hands,
called the police department and the
fellow was hustled to the police sta
ton. When he recovered he stated
that was the easiest way to sober up
as he had tried to get whisky at sew
eral drug stores but was refused at
each place.
Toledo.-On his refusal to an
swer when an attempt was made
by counsel for the Eberson Paint Co.
of st. Louis, to take his deposition in
the office of Notary Lewis Hall, Guy
G. Major, former mayor. was COM
mitted into the custody of the sheriff
by the notary. Habeas corpus pro-
ceedings were Immediately com.
menced in probate court. The dras
tic action by the notary grew out Of
a suit for damages brought against
the Guy G. Major Linseed Oil Co., BY
the Eberson Paint Co., ST Louis, fol.
to be due on account, filed against the
paint company by the Major company,
Youngstown.-Andy Pentland fell
20 feet at the home of H. K.
Wick while working on the struc
ture, and dislocated his shoulder.
An ambulance was called and, while
the stretcher was being loaded into
the vehicle with the victim upon it,
one end dropped a few inches. The
dislocated shoulder was jolted back in
place. Pentland went back to work.
Akron. One man was killed,
several freight cars demolished
and the railroad blocked for five or six
hours by a collision between two
freight trains on the c., A. < G.
branch of the Pennsylvania at Foley's
crossing, near here.
Toledo.LRt Rev. John Farrell
ly, bishop of the Catholic do
cese of Cleveland, was made one of
the defendants in a suit filed in United
States circuit court here by Otto Land
graf of Asbury Park, N. j., to break
the will of his sister, Marie L. Shuck,
who bequeathed nearly 100000 to the
Providence Good Samaritan hospital
and Grace church in Sandusky, o.
L4andgraf was bequeathed only $1,000,
his brother, William H., of Sandusky,
d similar amount, and two nepheWs in
Germany $500 each. Mrs. Schuck for.
merly was high school teacher in
Sandusky and died in Berlin, Germany,
n September last year.
Observation-Disclosures are puz-
zled over the cause Of death of
Robert RAIDER, Is, son of Lafayette
RAIDER, Newport The sight of water
threw the boy into convulsions. The
very mention of or placing his hand
n water produced like trouble, and
yecame necessary to close the doors
md windows of his room and keep
lin in total darkness. A breath of
resh air produced tlp1 same evil eff
,ect. He had told his mother, broth.
ars and sisters he was going to die.
iugield.-Entangle in the bed
clothing while supposedly asleep
upstairs the six-monthB-old baby of
Mrs. Bessie Brubafer was smoth'
cred to death. The mother was
visiting at the home of her mother,
Mrs Mandkin Barnhart, near North.
ampton, at the time of the accident.
Toledo.-John Peli was killed and
seven injured by an explosion of
dynamite at the White Rock plant
of the Kelley Island Lime & Trans
port Co., near Clay Center
Amherst-Trudgin honeward af'
ter happy hours spent in play.
ing along the banks of a creek
near here, with big mud turtle car
ried by the legs between them, tro'
ply of their hunting prowess, Stephen,
IA, and Frank Z, only sons of Mr.. and