The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1911-05-25
NEWS OF OHIO



losis sanatorium at Mt. Vernon, which
is to treat incipient tuberculosis.
Upper Sandusky.-While Cecil Van
Gundy was plowing near Sycamore
with the lines about his waist, the
clevis broke and he was thrown over
the plow. His head was cut, an ear
severed and other injuries were re-
ceiVed.
demonstrating in a shower of
sparks, holding open a door and sup
porting falling persons, Maurice Van
cantfort, delivery clerk, proved him
self hero in a panic following the
explosion Of a film at the Dreamland
theater.
Portsmouth.-John T. Creekbaum,
aged "a, a carpenter, was found dead
in his workshop, from heart failure.
He was one of the oldest Odd Eel
lows in the state.
Cincinnati.-Two men were killed
and $4,000 damage resulted from a
wreck on the B. G. o. S. w. railroad
at East Madisonville. Twelve cars,
which were in the center of a solid
west bound freight train, buckled and
piled high in the air, later falling
across the tracks and down both sides
of steep embankment.
Cleveland.-Henry H. Shatto, 72,
many years owner of a sawmill in
Willow, came to town with Mary Skin
ner, 65, and approached the clerk at
the marriage license window in the
court house. He procured the neces-
sary document, returned home and
were married.
Portsmouth.-Enraged at alleged
attentions paid his bride Of a
week, Spurgeon Joseph is under
arrest charged with having emptied
the contents of a shotgun into the
bodies of his brother Clarence and his
father, Frank Joseph. The shooting
occurred at Glenn, KY, four miles be-
low here on the Ohio river. Three
bullets entered Clarence Joseph's
brain, and he is dying. The father,
shot in head and back, still is uncon-
scious. Joseph surrendered to the
sheriff at Vancebury, KY.
Ashtabula.-An automobile contain
ing four men, all of this city, and
driven by lie Roy Sheldon, struck
hole in the road near Ashtabula while
returning from Saybrook. The car
turned around and tipped over On its
side. Sheldon was instantly killed.
Cincinnati.-The health authori.
ties have started crusade against
impure ice cream as the result
of the finding of more than 100000
bacteria in Is drops of the frozen
cream.
Marietta.-One man is dying, an
other man and a girl were fatally
burned and three others received seri.
GUS injuries when a party of automo-
bilists were caught under their blaz,
ing machine three miles east of here.
Coshocton.-Joe McSkimons, 81,
was instantly killed in midair by
being run over by the electric
crane at the Glow Pipe shops.
He was painting a girder and was
seated on the crane track. Operator
Callahan, in the cab below, knew moth
ing of McSkimons' presence until he
felt the jar and then reversed the en-.
gine. McSkimons practically was cut
in two, but turned to Callahan, smiled
and said: "It's all right" Callahan
held the body there, 60 feet from the
ground, till ladders were brought
Kenton.-John Bloom, aged 65, was
fatally hurt by falling down shaft
at a local mill. Bloom was found in
an unconscious condition at the foot
of the shaft by fellow workman.
He has not regained consciousness,
and Is suffering from internal injuries.
Cleveland.-" Something is the
matter with every thin woman
alive" DR.. c. w. Moots of Toledo told
the Ohio Medical convention at its
closing session here. Thin scolding
wives and sisters and angular, irasci.
BILE women of all sorts need an opera.
tion," he declared. Every time ]
see one of these women coming into
my office with her sharp face, fiat
chest, and inelastic muscles, l am in
doubt whether to feel sorry for the
patient or for myself" he said.
Wooster.-Some months ago the
of the old lower Lu,
theran church near Marshallville
was agitated because the younger ele.
ment in the congregation desired to
replace the old organ with a piano.
1t was decided to take vote. The
won. The piano was pur.
chased and installed. Some of the
old members considered a piano the
instrument of the devil. One aged
sister, in showing her displeasure
over the winning of the fight for the
piano, said: God will get even with
you, II we can't" The old organ,
which had been in service in the
house of worship for 30 years, was
pushed into corner. Later during
storm the rear portion of the old
church was blown down. The costly
new piano was found in the basement
among the debris. The old organ was
still in its corner, not even scratched
by the falling timbers. Now the good
old woman who declared God would
get even is positive that the storm
was a direct visitation from God,
Newark.-The cases Of six men
and boys held in the county Jail
since last July under first degree
murder charges, indicted for the
lynching Of Carl Etherington, anti.
saloon league detective. were disposed
of when three were set free and three
were given indeterminate sentences
in the Mansfield reformatory.
Port Clinton.-In the case against
Frank Omengar, charged with first
degree murder, the jury brought in