The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-09-26
Buckeye Notes

NOTCeu from MS WlI0 before ne us
appeared. The two sons brought suit
to recover certain valuable properties
and it was during the hearing of the
case that it was alleged that Bretz
was dead.
Marietta. = Fire of very mysteri-
GUS origin destroyed the build
ings of the Hoff Building Co. and
Continental Oil Well Supply Co., en-
failing a loss of $4,000. The loss is
partly covered by insurance. John S.
Hoff, one of the owners, was stricken
with paralysis at the news.
Youngstown. - Stephen Geasland,
an employe in the tube depart
ment of the Republic Iron C Steel
Co., while overheated drank a large
quantity of cold water and then sat
down to cool off. An few minutes
later he found his legs were paralyzed.
Geasland was taken to the City hos
pital.
Bellefontaine. = The Toledo & Ohio
Central Railway Co., on the st. Marys
division, operating through this city,
is installing telephones for the dis.
patching of trains.
Massillon. For some two years
the Massillon Cemetery association
has been burying people in a public
highway. In order to prevent the des-
ecration of these graves the city has
been compelled to move S. Erie street
eight feet east of the established line.
The cemetery site is so crowded that
the association sold lots further and
further east until graves 'were being
dug in the middle of public street.
When City Engineer Yost started to
survey the street for paving he found
that it passed directly over several
graves.
Fremont. - Orrin Patterson, aged
II, died from injuries sustained
in fall while hunting. Patterson had
gone to the top of a tree to get a
squirrel he had killed. The limb
broke and he fell SO feet
Toledo. - Members of the German
Roman Catholic Central Verein
closed their fifty seventh annual
convention by electing the following
officers: Joseph Frey, New York,
president; Judge Michael Girten, Chi
cago, first vice president; Peter ].
Mettler, Toledo, second vice president;
j. @. Juenemann, st. Paul, correspond"
ing and financial secretary; Adolph
Tuess, st. Louis, recording secretary;
August Muething, Covington, KY,
treasurer. The executive committee
includes Rev. F. V. Faulhaber of
Cleveland, George Stelzle of Minneso-
ia, Rev. Charles Thiele of Ft. Wayne
and Rev. ]. Ruessing of Nebraska.
Buffalo's invitation to hold the con-
vention Of 1912 in that city was ac-
cepted.
GAINESVILLE. - When Burt Severance,
% years old, heard the bushes rus
tie as he and his brother, Cecil, Is,
both of McCuneville, were squirrel
hunting, he fired. Cecil's head was
shot off.
Cincinnati - Michael Murphy of
1872 West Fourth avenue got into
an argument in restaurant at Canal
and Vine streets and Patrolman Kuher
was called. Murphy was arrested |
Say, officer" pleaded Murphy to Ku-
her, please let me finish my dinner;
I'm hungry" Kuher allowed him to
finish Murphy slowly ate II fried
eggs under the officers restless sur
veilance. In the police court he was
fined $25.
Youngstown. - While looting a
cash register in the store of En-
sign & Greager, Andrew Stipka,
ten, was arrested by Patrolman Ven
eroZa. The boy was working in plain
sight of the people passing along the
street. He had secured the money
when arrested.
Hamilton.-The intelligence shown
by "Sallie" Mayer, Thad Straub's |
pet fox terrier, was the talk of
the police station here. While the
mayor was in his private office he
heard noise at the washstand in a
small closet. "Sallie" had turned on
TuuuluS
water.
Sandusky. - Harold Wielke, Will
lam Moosbrugger, Albert Thomson,
Leroy Brenner, Norman Parker
and Fred Taylor, sons of lead.
ing Sandusky families, narrowly es.
capped drowning in Sandusky bay mid.
way between this city and Johnsons
island when their powerboat capsized |
in squal.
Cincinnati. - Harry Schaibler,
truck farmer, while on his way
to this city with load of produce,
was shot and badly wounded by ne
gro highwayman on lonely part of
Colerain pike.
New Philadelphia. - After George
Bowers, travelling salesman, had
asked police to find the man who
stole his shoes, he learned his wife
had put them on by mistake and gone
away on visit. Bowers, whose feet
are unusually small, is wearing his
wife's shoes until she returns.
Steubenville. = Grace Knowles, 3,
was burned to death in the back yard
of her fathers home here when her
caught fire while she was
playing with matches.
New Philadelphia. The body /
Of Ellsworth Peterson, So, wealthy
farmer, was found on a roadside
near Saltwater. His neck was
broken. Coroner A. w. Davis said
the, man had died of heart trouble and
had fallen out Of his buggy, breaking
his neck in the fall Patterson's horse
led c. P. Wallace and Freeman Crab.
tree to the spot where Patterson
died.
Circleville. - Joseph Murphy, aged