The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1911-09-14
Ohio Happenings

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Fostoria.--Jeremiah Blosser, nomi.
mated September for councilman on
the Democratic ticket, died the next
day of peritonitis.
while he held butcher knife,
Elmer Sweitzer, a Canal Dover
butcher, is minus part of his right ear.
He felt the bite of the fly while en-
gagged in cutting a piece of meat and
struck at it, forgetting the knife he
held in his hand He cut off about a
third of the ear lobe.
Akron.--John w. Lentz has not
taken a bath in the remembrance
Of his wife, Adelia, she says in
her petition for divorce. The petit
ton recites that because of Johns
failure to use water his condition has
become very humiliating to his wife.
7 Chardon.-Mrs. May Bittinger and
Miss Marguerite Cheney were hurt
and Howard Cheney and Mrs. Bittin-
gers daughter narrowly escaped in
jury when an auto plowed into their
buggy, smashing and overturning it.
Port Clinton.-George A. True of
Port Clinton declined to accept the
appointment of Governor Harmon to
| succeed Judge Reed, who retires from
the judgeship in this district
Port Clinton. Two hundred and
five colored boys of the Ninth battal-
ion have arrived at Camp Perry for
weeks encampment and target work.
Major Fulton of Cleveland is in
charge. The boys hail from Xenia,
Columbus, Cleveland and Dayton.
Youngstown.-While David Riblett,
aged TO- son of Mr. and Mrs. P. B.
Riblett of Cornersburg, was playing in
his fathers barn he was caught in a
line shaft and whirled around several
times before it could be stopped. His
right arm was torn off and his left leg
and arm broken. He will die.
Dayton. c. Ely, present service
director, will be the Democratic candi-
date and Edward Phillips the Republi-
can for mayor at the fall election. Ely
was opposed by John J. Hooper.
Cincinnati.-When Alvin Heinrich
sen, 5, fell out of a third story win
dow. his widowed mother leaped af-
ter him, but neither was seriously
hurt
| Butler.-Twenty citizens indorsed a
note given by the school board to Sc
cure loan of $1,000 to complete two
rooms in the addition to the school
house by September 18. The money
for the addition, $4,000, was tied up
by the Richland County bank failure,
after most of the brick work of the
new addition was completed.
Cincinnati. - Governor Harmon
opened the six-day celebration at
Fernbank, suburb, in honor of the
completion of the Ohio river dam
| there.
. Findlay.-Married GO years, Deliah
Cook, S4, has sued Stephen Cook, "a,
for divorce and alimony from the
products of the farm which they
cleared, and upon which they have
passed their whole married life.
Burton.--The body of Norman B..
Merritt, 81, has been brought here for
burial at Parkman, from Alberta, Can
ada, where he was murdered by a
farm hand He was a former Park
man, but has been for several years
in the Canadian northwest, where he
had large ranch.
Lancaster.-The village Of New
Providence was visited by a vast
swarm of fleas, and for several hours
people were unable to go outside
their houses. Those who made the
venture suffered severely. The pests
left toward evening.
Painesville. = w. o. Barring, in
the new county Jail here charged
with burglary, picked the lock
of the corridor while Sheriff William
Bakers back was turned, knocked
down Turnkey w. F. Green and es.
capped. Tom Gordon saw Barring fee
and gave chase, capturing Barring be.
fore he had run 100 yards. Sheriff
Baker was notified of the escape Of
Barring by other prisoners in the cor
ridor who refused the opportunity
offered to escape.
incinnati.-Claiming to be heir
ess to an estate of $9000,000, but
friendless and destitute, Mrs. Julia
White, So, who was living in a little
room on Elizabeth street, is now in a
hospital sent there By the Associated
Charities. When found, Mrs. White
had been i'll for two weeks without
medical attention and was in the verge
of starvation. Mrs. Whites home,
she says, is in Savannah, Ga. Her
father was an Englishman, scion of a
wealthy house and had immigrated to
Georgia shortly before the Civil war.
Mrs White says she learned through
her fathers attorney that her grand
father had lately died in England pos
sessed of $9,000,000 estate.
Newark. riot mayor" "
Herbert Atherton, ran last in the race
for the Democratic nomination. The
Democratic nominee Marion SwartZ,
says he is liberal, but will strictly en-
force the laws if elected.
Massillon.-Mrs. Melvina D. Young,
20, widow, was struck and instantly
killed by an automobile driven by
Daniel Schultz, a wealthy wagon
maker of Dalton Schultz was driving
his car at slow rate when the wo-
man, in crossing the street, stepped
directly in front of the machine.
ainesville.-Painesville had only
one ticket Republican, in the field,
headed by Vice Mayor George H. Shep-
herd to succeed Judge j. B. Burrows
as mayor. Only one precinct in the
county had regular ticket. An un-
usual primary election was held in