Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-12-20
Buckeye Notes

Rocker. Rocker was shot in the abb
domen and probably will die, The
fight started over remarks which
Rocker is alleged to have made about
Franks in boarding house. Franks
was arrested under porch of house
near the scene of the shooting.
Bowling Green. - Pop bottles in the
hands of Frank Bortle, agent of
the Toledo, Bowling Green &c
Southern Traction line at Mermill
saved the company's money from a
robber who with revolver attempted
to hold up Bortle in the station. The
fellow ran when the bottles came his
way.
Delaware. -"If her baby was dead
l thougt she would elope with
me. So I wrapped blankets around
the baby's head and waited for
her to die" That in substance is part
of a confession which Sheriff G. B.
Chilcote announced was made to him
by John Morrow, arrested here
charged with murder
Ashland - Cloyd Ebert % years
old, died at his home here after lin
gering since July 80, when it is
charged, he was shot in the back by
| officer Tod Spreng of the Ashland po-
lice force. Following the death of
Ebert, Spreng, who recently went back
on the police force, was again arrest
ed on an affidavit charging murder,
sworn to by a brother-in-law of the
dead man.
n 81, IN,,e hot O11 1tA
roads be required to install block
signal systems when their gross earn
ings reach $4,000 a year for each mile
was one of the principal recommenda-
tions of the public service commission
! in it's annual report filed with Gov.
! Harmon. While the signal system is
| greatly to be desired the commission
| feels that certain small lines ought
not in fairness to be compelled to in
! stall it.
Columbus. - Ohio boys, under the
leadership of Secretary A. P. San
dies of the state board of argi-
culture, have shown Ohio men how
to raise corn While the men during
past years have raised crops that had
! an average yield of not to exceed 35
! bushels an acre, $40 boys who took
| part in the Ohio corn growing contest,
raised an average of S5 bushels an
acre, while the one girl who took part
in the contest showed yield of over
! SO bushels.
Gallipolis. - Judge Peoples SEN
fenced Elias Smith to 20 years
in the penitentiary. Elias, with his
brother Milton, now awaiting death in
the penitentiary annex at Columbus,
murdered Serriere, well-to-do French
man living near here, afterwards burn
ing the home of Serriere, whose head
less body was later found burned to
a crisp. Milton Smith confessed while
in the county Jail.
Cincinnati - Paul Emmett, nine,
who came here from Columbus, O.,
with his mother, and has been sell
ing chewing gum on the streets, was
adopted in the juvenile court by w.
NJ. Ritter, wealthy lumberman of
Columbus, o.
Kenton. - Charles Owings, farm
er living near Roundhead, appeared
before Mayor Thompson charged
with the shooting of Mrs. John
McGinnis, neighbor. Pending grand
jury investigation he was released un-
der bond. Officers say Owings told
them he shot the woman, thinking she
was a chicken thief.
Dayton. = One man was instant
ly killed and another fatally in
! jured, when struck by an automobile
here. The automobile was occupied
by ]. A. Miller, its owner, Bryan
real estate man, and was driven by
Dale Key, mechanic.
Toledo. - With revolvers, ban
dts held up a switching crew near
the police station here. They COM
PEELED the engineer to detach the To-
comotive and run to distant part of
the yards while five men looted freight
cars, stealing cigars and merchandise
valued at $1,000.
Toledo. - Striking coremakers in
the National Malleable Casting Co.
here settled with the company on
the basis of $3.50 day minimum
wages. Women employed in the plant
as strikebreakers will be retained un.
til men can be employed to fill their
places.
Coshocton. - Sheriff Mcdonald as
sisted here in the elopement of
Louis Macruso and Miss Bernice
Gillinta. The girls father objected to
Macruso as a suitor and when he
learned an elopement was planned, it
is alleged he enticed Macruso into a
room at the Gillinta home and held
him captive under an armed guard
The Gillinta girl summoned the sher.
ilf, who freed her Imprisoned sweet
heart. They were married later.
Port Washington. While seat
ed at her desk in the Centenary
school, near here, Pearl Casteel, 19
teacher, fell over dead. Pupils became
panic stricken. Too frightened to in
vestigate, they ran to a nearby farm