The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1911-08-10
NEWS OF OHIO

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try. Comstock formerly managed the
Beebe house, now the Andwur hotel
here. His body was brought to Wei.
lington, his birthplace, for burial.
Lima.-Fred Bowman, so, engi-
neer on a traction threshing en-
gine, pulled the tarottle the wrong
way when he started his engine and
was perhaps fatally crushed when the
engine backed into the separator.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Cook of this
city was saved from burning to
death by a number of bystanders when
his motorcycle colIided with a pony
cart driven by 12-year-old Florence
Reed. The gasoline caught fire from
the cycle lamp. Cooks clothes were
instantly in flames and he was seri-
Ously burned.
Canal Dover.-F. A. Coombs,
driver of a Standard Oil Co. wagon,
has accepted the Socialist nom-
ination for mayor of Uhrichsville, and
will conduct an active speaking cam
paign for a month preceding election.
Cincinnati.-Opium smoking has
taken such hold on certain class
es in Cincinnati that a special opium
squad" of patroImen will be named
by Chief Jackson to stamp out the
evil.
Findlay.-An automobile being
driven 25 miles an hour by Isaac
]. Gordon, Findlay dry goods mer-
chant, struck a rut, turned a COM
plete somersault and landed in a ten
foot ditch on it's wheels. The engine
never stopped and the car ran out of
the ditch and came to this city. Be
sides Mr.. Gordon the car carried three
young men and 3. like number of
young women. Al were more or less
severely jolted.
Acknowledging a plea Of guilty
to charge of "mashing," Perry
Brazell was fined $5G by Mayor
w. T. Sawyer and sentenced to serve
80 days in the workhouse. Brazell ad.
mitted having accosted Miss Mary
Welton in Glendale cemetery while
she was placing flowers on grave.
The girl fought him off with an um-
brella.
Findlay. - Acting upon the opinion
of City Solicitor Lang, who told May
or Groves there was no law to pre-
vent it, all the moving picture shows
of this city opened for the first time
on Sunday. w. c. T. U. women OBJ
jected, but refused to swear out a
warrant for their arrest. If the pic
ture shows are molested it is said all
kinds of Sunday labor will be
stopped in Findlay and the churches
closed. A big fight is expected.
Portsmouth.-Clyd Downey, %,
engineer on the c. & o., was
instantly killed when his freight
train. westbound, crashed into another
freight on sidetrack at Friedrich, Ky.
Logan.-Two persons were killed
and another seriously injured when
runaway horse plunged over
the side of a bridge crossing the
Hooking Valley railroad carrying with
it the surrey to which he was hitched
and its three occupants. The dead
are: Mrs. Mary Helber and her eight
year-old daughter. William Helber
the husband, had his arm and jaw
broken.
Sherodsville.-The business sec.
ton of this village was destroy.
ed by fire, despite the efforts OF
practically the entire local population
and the Carrollton fire department
The fire started in a butcher shop
and the local volunteer fire depart.
ment was called out, but too late to
check the flames, which had, by that
time, practically consumed the build
ing. A call was at once sent to Car
rollton, Is miles to the east, and a
special train of two fat cars and a
passenger coach was made UP. About
100 citizens OF Carrollton accompanied
the firemen. By the time the train
arrived an entire block was destroyed
and a building across the street was
in flames. Most of the structures in
the business section were of frame
and were easy prey for the flames.
Dynamite was used to avert destruc-
ton of the residence section. No lives
were lost.
Sandusky.-Married in 1867 at
Henderson, Ky, but divorced in
1882 at the same place, William c.
Siegling, So, gunsmith, residing here,
and Mrs. Dona Roberts, 6S, of St
Louis, Mo-, are to wed again. Mrs
Roberts was widowed about two years
ago. Siegling's second wife died a
little over a year ago. at is a case
of spiritual love-" said Siegling. "She
has had hard luck and want to take
care of her. It's nobody's business but
our own"
Cleveland.-A mystery that has
thwarted all attempts at solution
has developed about the disappear.
ance of w. C. Johnson, proprietor OF
the new Sherwood hotel at Fostoria,
o. That murderer's hand has laid
him out in some unfrequented spot or
that the heat Of the past few weeks
has worked upon his mind and caused
him to wander away, is the opinion of
c. L. Ayers, brother-in-law, Lakewood,
who has taken charge of the search
for the missing man.
Cincinnati-Under a new set OF
rules governing the telephone serv.
ice of the city, Just promulgated
by the local company, chewing gum
chats between "sweethearts" are for.
bidden under the clause regulating the
time of conversation for one call.
Sandusky.-Emil Boski, 30, work.
man, fell into an open hatchway on a
freighter loading coal at the M. A.
Hanny Co.'S docks and was removed
to Providence hospital in a critical
condition. His head and shoulders