Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-09-29
Ohio Happenings

| the board of commissioners seeking
the repurchase of the old fair grounds,
which have been owned the past IL
years by the Lima Driving Park Co.
A tax levy will be asked to raise the
necessary funds.
Akron.-Because of the acquisition
of additional lines, the division head
quarters of the Wells-Fargo Express
Co. has been moved from Cleveland
| to Akron. With the change, the ter
ritory between Chicago and New York
has been divided into four sections,
one of which includes, the Ohio di-
vision, embracing territory lying be-
tween Cleveland on the north, Louis.
vile on the south, Marion on the west
and Pymatuning, Pa, on the east.
Sidney.-A crusade has been start
ed by dry forces defeated in Beal
law election, to arrest illegal voters.
Henry Williams, alias Stark, was ar
rested. He pleaded not guilty. The
dry committee has the names of 1S0
doubtful voters. Arrests are still be-
ing made and some prominent busi-
ness men here from other cities may
be arrested. Vets also threaten ar
rests.
Minerva-Frank Cobb of Malvern,
whose neck was broken by fall in
a brickyard about year ago. but who
did not know it until an examination
was made by Cleveland physicians
month ago, as said to be dying at his
home in Malvern. He had recovered
from his broken neck, but liver and
kidney trouble developed.
| Marysville.-The Farmers and
Merchants bank of Bell Center
has decided to quit business, after
four years. The bank obtained
the consent of the state bank COM
missioner to liquidate. The business
has been taken over by the Bell Gen.
ter Banking Co.
olumbus.-Machiel T. Lee of
Mt. Vernon, under sentence of
five years for killing Charles Metcalf
a witness in bootlegging trial, who
has been hiding from law officers for
more than week, was arrested here
by Detectives Sheelenbarger and Nor
ris, and has begun his prison term.
him to prison. Lee had been here sew
eral days, but had managed to evade
those who sought him. The detectives
learned that he had rented quarters in
Town street, and arrested him in his
room.
Youngstown.-The grand jury
failed to return an Indictment
against Lyman H. Miller, the Lis
bon man who was charged by Mar
garet Holiday of Lisbon with admin
istering intoxicating liquor for i'm
moral purposes. The story told the
grand jury by the Nude Art Girl"
failed to convince. Miss Holiday
charged that Miller brought her to
this city last June in an automobile
and took her to wine room where
liquor was supplied the complainant.
New Philadelphia.-Au Duxa,
80, former mayor of Shanesville,
near here, was accidentally shot
by Charles Aubihl in Aubihl's
coal mine, and died later. Frank Mi.
zer had given Duxa revolver on a
trade and DuXa asked Aubihl to eX-
anime it. When the latter turned
around to return the weapon the trig-
ger in some way was pulled, the bull
let entering Duxa's right temple.
Aubihl gave himself UP to Sheriff John
Pollen here. Coroner A. w. Davis says
he will render verdict of accidental
shooting.
Wooster.-Aaron Mccullough, farm
er near Holmesville, attended the
Wooster fair, taking $110 in tobacco
poke. Ten minutes after he entered
the gates the poke was missing. He
searched for it all day in vain. The
next morning the grounds were under
two feet of water. Mccullough re.
turned the third, and recalling where
he stood after buying his ticket, dug
in the mud and recovered the poke
with the money still inside it,
Bellefontaine.-May Martin has sued
for divorce as result of the John.
son-J Jeffries prize fight, alleging that
for months before the big mill her hus.
band talked of nothing else and then
disappeared because disappointed over
the result. She has not seen him since
Columbus.-Michael Soboloeski tho
Lucas county murderer, caught in Del.
aware, after escaping from the Ohio
penitentiary, clad in the garments OF
the warden's wife, is now under strong
guard in his cell at the state prison
Soboloeski swore, as he preferred
death to incarceration, he would be a
dead man within IA days.
Bellefontaine.-Cha with acting
as bandits so naturally that they broke
up home-talent entertainment of
Jesse James," in Woodstock, two
Champaign county citizens faced
/ Judge Middleton in common pleas
court on charges of disturbing a pub
: lie meeting The village band put on
= Jesse James" in the town hall. 1t is
charged that in the second act two
masked men ran onto the stage and
pointed revolvers at the actors. The
audience became frightened and STAN