Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-08-16
Buckeye Notes

| railroad tracks at Mako by his wife.
He had been struck by train. Os-
walt had charge of Pennsylvania
track walkers.
Lima. = Lima was treated to a
short reign of terror by a gang
of Ohio penitentiary convicts who es-
capped their guards, got drunk and
| generally disported themselves as
drunken convicts might be expected
to do.
father and without money to pay
the expenses incidental to the baby's
coming, Arthur Curry, %, became des-
perate and participated in series of
daring burglaries here, charge the
police. The baby, boy, was born
while Curry was in Jail with burg
larry charge against him, backed up,
the police say, by his signed confes-
sion.
Ashtabula. - County Humane Agent
w. A. Cain is trying to put a
stop to the practice Of parents
locking their cAildren in the house
at night and going to moving picture
shows or other entertainments. Cain
says such practice comes under the
law against cruelty to children, a
violation of which means a heavy fine
and imprisonment.
Mt. Vernon. The grand lodges
of the United Order of Odd Eel
lows and Household of Ruth, which
have Just closed their sessions here,
selected Troy for their next meeting,
to be held the first Tuesday in Au-
gust, 1913. Odd Fellows reelected Jo-
seph ]. Lee, Columbus, as grand mas
ter. Household of Ruth elected Mrs.
Ella Abbott, Cleveland as grand most
noble governor.
Zanesville.-Charles Baker Of Dun
can Falls stirred up a nest of black
snakes, and killed 81 of various sizes.
He says several escaped.
Findlay - Shielding herself be-
hind an umbrella while hurrying
from a missionary society meeting
Miss Sarah Elvin, 60, walked upon the
Big Four tracks at Forest and was
killed by train.
Gailipolis. The concrete foun-
dation at dam &c, built by govern
ment near here and recently placed in
oPSi ASI 81, ohu ShO pass AOi
steamboats, was washed away. The
loss will be $350,000. 1t will take one
year to rebuild the dam, which orig
inally cost $1,000,O0O.
Portsmouth-Mrs Cynthia Morris,
| IA, died at the county infirmary of
grief over the murder of her son.
Lorain.-Logan Natural Gas G. Fuel
Co. has almost completed a 12-inch
gas main from the new Ashland gas
field to Lorain.
Lorain.-Although he had money,
William White decided he would
rather spend several weeks in jail
than pay fine of So.
GAINESVILLE. : Lillian Lanning and
Herbert Burwell, who eloped to New
ark last week, obtained release from
| Jail by getting married.
olumbus.-Because her neighbors
believed she had some sort of plague,
they allowed Mrs. Wilbur Young al
most to starve to death.
Mt. Vernon.-Mrs. Mary Steinmetz,
one of group of five generations in
which no male child has been born, is
dead at the age of 95.
Columbus.-"An ignorant creature
not worthy of love or respect" is the
way Rev. Father Els, editor of Sacred
Heart Monthly, terms the girl who
turns down proposal of marriage
and then boasts of it.
Canal Dover.-By an explosion
of a tank of gas at the plant
of the Shore Battery Co., Locksley
Bimeler ~, son of Levy Bimeler, Zoar
school teacher, was instantly killed.
Bucyrus. = While attending the
funeral of their daughter Alice
c. Kuntz, Mr.. and Mrs. Louis w.
Kuntz were informed that their older
daughter Agnes M. Kuntz, aged 6, had
| died. Both children died of summer
complaint.
Youngstown.-After voltage of
$4,000 passed through his body,
c. B. Moore, a lineman on the
Youngstown & Sharon line, lived to
tell the tale. He was working on the
line at Stop 16, near Hubbard, when
he was caught by high power wire
and hurled from his place on 25-foot
pole. In falling he caught another
wire. and hung until he was rescued.
Akron. = Ruth, the two-year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Ste
phen Bell of Barberton, fell victim
to the epidemic of infantile paralysis
in that village, and died suddenly at
her home. Scores of Barberton ba-
bies are victims of the disease. AL
ready there have been more than a
dozen deaths. An investigation has
been started by the state health de-
partment.
Canal Dover.-While crossing a
track in the B. & o. yards Edgar
zeilers, II, was run over by freight
train and instantly killed.
Cincinnati. = President and Mrs.
Taft attended the funeral of John
w. Heron, father of Mrs. Taft. The
services were held from the Heron
home and were in charge of Rev.