The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-08-08
Buckeye Notes

mond necklace.
Cincinnati. The filing of the in.
ventory of the estate of the late
Thomas A Snider, at one time head of
a large preserve company, caused sur
prise here. Snider was reputed to be
many times a millionaire, but the in.
ventory showed an estate Of only
$225,000 with worthless stock and bad
debts amounting an another 100000.
Youngstown. - Ray Zeigler, aged
80, a motorman on freight package
car on the Youngstown G Southern
interurban line, was killed when his
car collided with the northbound pas
senger car at Eureka switch. w. H.
Ainsworth of Youngstown was badly
bruised and brought to the city hos.
pital..
Dayton. - Charges Of manslaugh.
ter have been preferred against
Louis F. Bapst Of this city who on
May 20 ran down 11-year-old Victor
Huffman in his automobile, near the
lads home at West Carrolton while
Bapst, who is a tobacco salesman, was
taking his first lesson in driving ma.
chine.i
Wooster. - Rev. David Martin, 81
. retired Menominee preacher Of
Dalton, was married to Mrs. Susan
Shoup, 20. The marriage license just
issued shows that Martin had been
married twice previously, while the
bride engaged in one matrimonial ven.
ture. Neither had been divorced.
Upper Sandusky. - Another elec-
trical storm visited this couhsy,
destroying the barn of G. A. Sawyer.
Local insurance company has paid
over 100 claims for damage by light
ming.
Geneva. - A. J. Turnkey has
served notice on all officers and spe-
cial policemen that he will not be a
party to any kid arrests. According
to the mayor, soE2e Of the officers
have been devoting all their spare
time trying to catch little boys riding
bicycles without lamps or bells and
fail to see automobiles which dash
past at a 4O-mile-an-hour clip. II will
not fine these little children" said
the mayor, NOR will make them pay
any costs. If the officers insist they
can get their fees out Of these boys,
perhaps, but it is mighty small busi-
ness to go after children and let the
men who endanger life and limb go
free"
Springfield. - Henry Rizzer was
sent to the penitentiary for four
years by Judge A. H. Kunkle for
shooting his son and seriously injur-
ing him. The judge said if Rizzor had
not been 70 years old he would have
given him a heavier sentence because
of the fact that he left his son in an
apparently dying condition after the
shooting.
Cleveland. - A third of Cleve-
land was rocked to its founda-
tions when two or more tons Of blast
ing powder in an Austin Powder Co.
magazine, on the canal bank half way
between the Denison-Harvard bridge
and Newburg & South Shore tracks,
exploded with detonation that was
felt for 80 miles. Two-score houses
in the vicinity were partially wrecked,
doors blown from their castings, crock.
cry reduced to fragments, and walls
perforated with flying debris. Thou
sands of windows were broken In a
five-mile radius from the magazine
Plate glass was shattered even in the
downtown business district. The
shock was felt as far away as Hudson
So far as is known, only one was Sc
riously hurt, though scores were cut
with flying glass.
Ashland - No strains of mar
tial music cheered the suffragists
at a big meeting in the Methodist
Episcopal church. Some unfeelin&
person burnt out fuse and fixed the
Keys on the monster pipe organ Sc
that when the assemblage rose to sins
a rousing song not a sound was heard
All efforts to put the instrument il
order proved unavailing. Rev. Mr.
Wean, the pastor, posted a liberal re
ward for information relative to thu
cuIprit.
TifIin.-Frederick Cook, 65, wealth!
farmer of Republic, ended his lif'
by hanging himself to rafter IL
his barn. He is not known to hav'
had any financial or domestic trouble
and the cause of his act is mystery
Hardly an hour after the suicide o
Cook, Mrs. Jacobs Carson, 70, o
Mansfield, was killed by a B. & Q
train.
Newark. - 1t has Just becom
known that an Adams EXPIRES
car on a Pennsylvania train wa
robbed between Pittsburgh and CO
lumbus of several hundred dollars
worth of iewelry. Isaac White Of New
Philadelphia was arrested as a sus
pect. He proved his innocence, bu
confessed he was escaping after hav
ing taken nearly $100 belonging to
firm of which he is a member. H
IVES taken back home.
Lima. - The first job of thresh
ing ever done by conVicts fror
the state penitentiary has Just bee
finished on a farm near here.
Bucyrus. A severe electrics
rain and hail storm visited thi
city and vicinity, doing thousands G
dollars damage to crops. Hail as larg
as hickory nuts fell so thick and fas
that the ground was covered, presen
ing typical winter scene. Sewers
horses and barns were struck by ligh
ming and much live stock killed. i.
short distance north of the city tree
were blown down and small building
anroofed.
Columbus. - Mrs. Elizabeth Chan
bers, SO. said to have been th
last original member of the Daughter