The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1913-03-20
Buckeye Notes


with Bright's disease. Mr. Hickman
served four years In the Civil war,
was a thirty-second degree Mason and
for several terms was treasurer and
commissioner of Athens county.
Upper Sandusky. - DR.. Otto Carl
Stutz. who was treated for tu-
berculosis in Berlin by DR.. Fried
rich Franz friedman, who claims to
have discovered a new treatment for
tuberculosis, has Just arrived home,
Increased in weight and confident he
has been cured. Stutz brought with
him a quantity of the friedman cul-
ture and will begin treatment of pa
tients at once.
Middletown.-Three men were in
tured, one probably fatally, and three
horses killed, when a car on the Ohio
Electric Traction line struck a NOV
ing van.
Columbus. - Backing up with an
opinion what the state tax COM
mission has practically put into
effect, Attorney General T. s. Hogan
rendered ruling to the commission
that when corporation is engaged in
selling electric current or heat it be.
comes a public utility and must pay
excise tax on its gross receipts and
at the same time is immune from
payment of the Willis law taxes.
Lima. - One person was instant
ly killed and four were injured
in runaway accident on the Public
square. Mrs. Minnie Jacobs, 40, wife
of a merchant, died of a fractured
skull when she was thrown from a
taXicab in which were seated her par.
ents and two sisters. Horses shied at
passing automobile, ran across the
square and into the auto
Dayton. - j. G. Christian, engi-
neer, Of Indianapolis, Ind, was
instantly killed and five other work.
men seriously injured when the
girders on a three-story building col
lapsed here, crushing the men in the
fall
Lima. - To end what he had
often termed an "odious existence"
Arnold Motter, thirty-seyen, q wealthy
Perry township farmer, hung himself.
Motter noosed a rope about his neck
and over a rafter and, climbing a
stepladder, leaped to his death.
Dennison.-Uhrichsville high school
authorities have forbidden girl stu
dents to play basketball, claiming it
immodest.
Canton.-The fondness of Roderick
Mckenzie, aged IA, for mustard
cost him his life. While his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Angus Mckenzie, were
away the boy took advantage of their
absence to satisfy his craving. Pto-
maine poisoning resulted and the boy
died
Springfield. - Mrs. Lizzie Grisso,
wife of a farmer near here, hanged
herself with chain in the presence
of her four-year-old son.
Geneva. - The dead of this vii
lage exceeds the living. Geneva
has 1000 residents. In the GENE.
teries there are more than that num-
Der of graves.
Newark. - Floyd c. Elben of
Utica, Licking county, a widower,
fifty, shot himself in the head
twice, dying shortly after. The first
bullet glanced and the second shot
above the left eye. Elben
was respondent over ill health and
the loss of his wife
Sidney. - While several hundred
people heard his cries for help
and witnessed his struggles, l..
NJ. Faulkner, a lineman, was electro.
cuted in the public square.
Youngstown. - The scale of wages
IN the steel mills here was in.
creased at the bi-monthly settlement
between the manufacturers and the
association. Finishers
were allowed one per cent in.
crease, and puddlers an increase from
S6.45 ton to $500 ton. This is the
highest scale for several years. About
5000 are affected.
Columbus. Governor Cox has
lamed Emery Lattanner of Hicks.
lille deputy superintendent of banks.
Until new superintendent is named
9 replace F. e. Baxter, resigned, Lat,
amer will perform the latter's du.
les.
Alliance. - Ida Sax, formerly of
Kent, Ohio, wife of Principal c..
:. Sax, in the public schools, was
ound dead in the bath tub at her
lome. 1t is believed that apoplexy
aused her death.
Hudson, - A Weak cry of dis,
ress over the telephone at two
'clock in the morning was the means
# saving Mrs. R. M. Stanford, 81,
rom burning to death. She was
AIKEN from the burning residence by
ire Chief Samuel Linford few min
ties after her call for help reached
he ears of May Glenn, the night tele-
hone operator.
Sandusky. Mrs. Ira Krupp.
aughter-in-law of Charles ]. Krupp,
0rmer president of the state board
t undertaking and embalming ex-
rode in an aeroplane over
be frozen surface of Lake Erie and
andusky bay as the passenger of Wei
on B. Cooke. in biplane of his own
lvention. Most of the time the craft
as 500 feet in the air.
Ashtabula, Reuben Johnson, eigh.
= three, died at the Johnson
omestead in Plymouth. He was the
ldest resident of Plymouth, having
cen born in that township in 1929.
-e had lived 61 years in the same
Ouse. Mrs. Orrphie E. Castle, So, of
le North ridge, is dead at her home