The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1911-01-05
Ohio Happenings

doWs for blocks were shattered by
an explosion of gas in the meat mar
ket of Steve Lepotski. Miss Jennie
Stewart, the bookkeeper, was hurled
through window and was brised and
burned, She was taken to st. Joseph's
hospital. Lepotski was blown through
the door to the sidewalk and was
burned about the face and hands.
Lancaster.-At the point of a re-
volver, Oscar Emler of Cleveland
drove his former sweetheart a
half block down East Chestnut street,
shot her as he compelled her to enter
her aged parents house, then killed
himself as his capture by Chief of
Police Wallace impended Miss En-
ma Deeds, 81, the victim of Emler's
jealousy, is believed to be dying.
Newark.-Charles Mcknight, IA
was seriously injured when his gun
exploded. The boy was hunting
skunks. on his fathers farm, and
dropped the gun. The right ear was
torn off and the right side of his face
lacerated. 1t is believed none Of the
charge penetrated his skull.
Findlay.-Ex-cheif of Police John
Kramer died at the Northwestern
Ohio hospital in Toledo, aged AZ. He
had been there for several years. He
has served as deputy sheriff, follow
ing which he was appointed chief of
the police department and made a
name for himself hunting down Grim
inals.
Piqua.-Determined to make lick
spittle of one of her pupils and TO
break bad habit he had of splitting
on the floor, Miss Meta Karn, a
teacher in the Covington schools, is
charged with making the little son
of E. E. Babylon get down on the
floor and clean up his expectorations
with his tongue. The village of Gov
| ington is intensely excited over the
matter and the school board has had
the young teacher before it to ex-
plain. She is said to have admitted
administering the punishment and to
have pleaded in extenuation that the
boy was trying and that she lost her
head in devising the degrading pun
ishment
Upper Sandusky.-A A valuable horse
of Fred Webb committed suicide here.
1t refused to eat or drink, and when
Webb was about to hitch it, it broke
away and ran half a mile to road
leading to the Sandnsky river, turned
and made straight for the river, mile
distant, plunged in and was drowned.
Sandusky.-Thatb between forty and
fifty families had been found in
sad state of destitution in the
stone quarry regions outlying their
respective parishes was the word
brought to the officers of the Erie
County Humane society by Fathers
William Kerze and F. X. Wagner, pas
tors of the Catholic churches at Mar
blehead and Kelleys island respec-
lively. Included, the priests said, are
nearly 200 children ranging in age
from a few weeks to 16 years. There
are II families on the peninsula ]
know of from whom assistance must
not be withheld" said Father Kerze
Lemoyne.-Thrown on the pilot of
the engine of the southbound fas
Hooking Valley passenger train which
struck and demolished the buggy and
instantly killed his wife, who was rid
ing with him, John Bartelshein, q
wealthy farmer, was carried to Penn
berville, six miles distant, where he
alighted, dazed from the shock and
exposure to the cold, but otherwise
uninjured.
Akron.-Daniel Pfaf, Civil war
veteran, aged 81, was found dead
in his small house at Warwick, frozen
stiff after having been there week.
Two contusions, one on the left tenn
pie and one over the right eye, indi.
Gated that he had been struck with
some heavy object, but there were
no other evidences of murder nor OF
suicide. His money, SIS, and bank.
book, and two watches were not dis.
turbed. He was lying in bed as if he
had retired. The back door was un.
locked, but no tracks we're notice.
able.
Conneaut.-Sixty thousand dollars.
perhaps a little more, is the for.
tune that is waiting for James Bol.
ster Ferguson, 80, carpenter of Con,
neaut. According to Fergusons story,
his uncle, James Bolster, went to Cali
fornia in the golden days of '49. AT.
ter long struggle for riches, in which
several times he faced starvation, the
miner Struck it rich" one day and
thereafter lived on the wealth the
earth had yielded him. He died eight
years ago. His next of kin, he said in
his will, was James Bolster Ferguson,
and to him he left his entire estate.
But the address of Ferguson was not
given in the testament and Ferguson,
here, did not know that his uncle had
died. For eight years California at
torneys have been searching for Fer
guson. Advertisements in eastern
newspapers finally were brought to
the attention of the Conneaut man,
who furnished the lawyers with proof
of his kinship to the old miner. Word
has just come from the law firm that
the Ferguson is the man who has been
sought. The estate is said to worth
at least 100000 and perhaps more
Kenton.-Raids of all places in
Kenton where it is suspected that
liquor is. sold are proposed here as
part of general cleanup" of the
city. The crusade will come as a
sequel to the deaths of six persons
who perished in gas-filled rooms in
the midst of an orgy in which four
of the victims were participating.
Toledo.-While driving home in a
buggy after spending Christmas with
relatives, Mr.. and Mrs. John M. Bor.
tain of Lemoyne, O., were struck by