The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1911-12-14
Ohio Happenings

rail under a car and began to read1ust
the part that needed repairing. A
freight switched some cars on the sid
ing and Mr.. Dill was caught under
them,
Columbus.-Henry Smith, aged a.
whose home is in Michigan, fell from
an engine in the Toledo& Ohio Cen
trail yards in this city and suffered
wrenched ankle, bruised shoulder
and hand. He was taken to st. Fran
els hospital.
Mount Vernon.---While enjoying a
bob sled ride with his four little chill
dren, Edward Johnson, aged S5, was
overcome by an attack of heart
trouble and died before the serious
ness of his condition was noted. He
was apparently in good health when
the ride started and was the merriest
of the party.
Toledo.-Mayor Brand Whitlock re-
fused to accept an increase of $500 in
his salary as chief executive of the
city. His present salary is $4,000.
New philadelphia. A. Richards,
for many years one of, the most prom
inent members of the Tuscarawas
county bar, and who represented the
Seventeenth Ohio district in congress
from March, 1892, to March, 1894, died
at his home in this city, following an
illness of several months Mr.. Rich
ards was born in Boston and would
have been 67 years old March %. He
is survived by a widow and one
daughter.
Wapakoneta.-Cha Due of Lima,
section boss on the Western Ohio
Electric railway, while shoveling snow
from the trsstle over the Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton railway, was
struck by car and hurled 80 feet
to the ground below. He suffered a
broken leg and internal injuries.
Steubenville.-A nitro-glycerin mag
azine of the Ohio Torpedo company
in Brooke county, w. Va, blew up,
tearing hole in the ground as large
as house. George Kane of Steuben-
lville was blown to bits and team
of horses and a rig were obliterated.
The cause Of the accident is un'
known.
Cincinnati. - William ]. Grause,
Newport, KY, died at st. Francis hos
pital in this city after living two
days after his neck was broken.
Seemingly unaware that his life hung
by thread, Grause was in merry
mood until almost the end. He was
injured when he fell while working
on scaffolding.
Xenia.-Norval, 3-year-old son Of B.
F. Hunt, died as result of burns
suffered when his clothing ignited as
he played with fire in the kitchen
stove. The mother was badly, burned
about the head and hands trying to
extinguish the flames.
Upper Sandusky.-Colonel E. A.
Hawkins, aged 6S, who, as private
in the signal service of the Union
army, was the first to telegraph to
Washington the news of the compile.
tion of Sherman's march to the sea,
died at his home here,
Lima.-rAttracted by the odor of es,
Gaping gas, attaches of local room
ing house found the lifeless body OF
John Commiskey lying across bed.
He is believed to have committed
suicide Commiskey came here two
weeks ago and has been working as
boilermaker. Nothing is known
regarding his former home or rela'
tives.
Oxford because Mag
gle Shanklin, his sweetheart, refused
a machinist, shot himself through the
heart in the parlor of the home OF
Miss Shanklin at .Biilingsville, Ind,
nine miles west of here. Miss Shank,
lin is the daughter of well-to-do
farmer. Hunt recently returned here
from Detroit, where he had been en-
ployed in an automobile factory.
Port Clinton.-Isadore LaFountain
who has charge of the Locust Point
fishing nets for the Bense Fish Com
pany, was pulling nets when his arm
became fast in one of the revolving
cog wheels. The flesh was torn from
his arm.
Bellefontaine.--As he was cleaning
rife he did not know was loaded
the gun exploded and theb ullet shat
tered bones in Willis Wants right
foot, probably crippling him for life
He is IA years old.
Norwalk.-The arrest has been
made of John Roush, young man oi
Bellevue, who had been indicted fol
aiding and abetting another man tc
falsely represent himself as the sher
if of Sandusky county.
Canal Dover-Arthur Niendenthal
15 of Strasburg, had his right hand
and forearm shattered by the dis
charge of his own gun while hunting
The arm was amputated just below
the elbow at the Union Hospital. Men
denthal had stood his gun against 9
lumber pile, into which he had driven
rabbit and the weapon fell while he
was trying to drive the rabbit out
The entire charge hit him in the arm
Bellaire.-Twelve miners had mi
raculous escape from death in tht
mine of the Belmont Coal Company
at Glencoe, near here, when they
were buried beneath fall of slate il
the entry of the mine, but were res
cued one hour later by fellow work
men. All the miners were more ol
less injured, none seriously. Thel
we'e taken to the City Hospital a
Wheeling. w. Va.
Crooksville.-When the. postal say
ings bank opened here there was nj
rush of persons eager to be the frs
depositor. Less than half dozen de
posts were made during the day.
Wooster-W Wayne County wfll vot'
on the local option question again oI