Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1913-03-21
Buckeye Notes

the Scioto Valley Traction Co.'s track,
Dudley Carpenter and David Bobbitt
were electrocuted while the fish they
sought were unharmed so far as is
known. The bodies of the men we're
found at the place where the wire
connections had been made.e
GAINESVILLE. When preparing a
meal on gas stove at her
home in this city Mrs. Kate Adams,
65, was fatally burned because her
caught fire. She died in 15
minutes.
Springfield.-E Hildebrandt,
was shot and killed by
his employer, Deforest Malley, during
an alteration. Malley was arrested.
Ada. - Trustees Of Ohio north
ern university in a meeting in
vestigating the causes of friction be-
tween the student body and President
Albert F. Smith, decided aginst any
radical change in management or pol
icy. The trustees finding, although
received without applause at chapel,
is accepted gracefully by most stu
dents. The anti-Smith movement be-
gan last month when the president
expelled 25 fraternity boys for al
legged infraction of rules and culmin-
ated in student petition bearing 400
asking Smiths removal.
Fostoria. - The frame block be-
longing to Mrs. Mary Phister at
Bradner, in which were F. R. Ga
rey's picture show and Walter Lig-
gett's pool room, was burned to the
ground. Heavy rain prevented the
fire from spreading to other buildings.
Sidney. - While several hundred
people heard his cries for help
and witnessed his struggles, L.
NJ. Faulkner, lineman, was electro
cuted in the public square.
Columbus. Governor Cox has
named Emery Lattanner of Hicks
vile deputy superintendent of banks.
Until new superintendent is named
to replace F. e. Baxter, resigned, Lat
tanner will perform the latter's du-
ties.
Columbus. Adjustment of the
state naval militia, stopping of
all future armory building by the
state, reduction of the Ohio Ma
tional Guard from $500 to 1000 This
is the program being urged by Don
p. Mills of Cleveland, member of the
o. N. G. legislative probe committee,
following the completion of the in
vestigation into financial affairs of the
guard.
Nelsonville. - Willis G.. Hickman,
sevent%four died after a long illness
with Brights 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.
Canton. - Boreman Harris, twenty.
three, employed on the brick con.
struction of Trinity Reformed church
here, fell headlong go feet from a scat.
fold to the basement, splitting plank
on the first floor with his head. His
only injury was a scalp wound
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 a corporation is engaged in
selling electric current or heat it be.
comes a public utility and must pay
excise tax on it's 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 a runaway accident on the Public
square. Mrs. Minnie Jacobs, 40, wife
of a merchant, died of a fractured
skull when she was thrown from q
taXicab in which were seated her par
ents and two sisters. Horses SHE'D al
a passing automobile, ran across the
square and into the auto.
Dayton. = j. C. 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 ha6
often termed an "odious existence,
Arnold Motter. thirty-seven, a wealthy
Perry township farmer, hung himself
Motter noosed a rope about his mech
and over a rafter and, climbing {
stepladder, leaped to his death,
Hudson. - A Weak cry of dis
tress over the telephone at two
o'clock in the morning was the means
of saving Mrs. r. NJ Stanford, 81
from burning to death. She wa:
taken from the burning residence by
Fire Chief Samuel Linford a few min
utes after her call for help reached
the ears of May Glenn, the night tele
phone operator.
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