Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1913-03-28
Buckeye Notes

| liOhh II riiutiy Wluu SlOTIu, dS T6DOTISu
through outside sources. Telephones
are being put into commission over
the county, and 1t has been learned
that the peach trees stood the blow
without the loss of many trees or
buds.
GAINESVILLE. = Henry, the 5-year-old
| son of Charles Shirer of South
| GAINESVILLE, may die as a result of put
ting his mouth over the spout of a
teakettle at his home. The teakettle
was boiling and the steam burned his
mouth and throat terribly.
Akron. = One boy was killed and
four men injured, two of them Sc
riously, when kiln crown caved in
at the Keller Brick Co.'s yard, south
of Cuyahoga Falls.
GAINESVILLE. = Robert Stettler, 25
years old, died of measles at Pleas
ant Valley. He was i'll of the disease
five days before doctor was called,
his family not knowing the nature of
the disease.
Massillon. = In an attempt to smoke
rat out of its hole, Adelbert How
ell, ~ years old, lighted bundle
of paper, then went to supper. Sew
eral small buildings were destroyed
Ravenna. = Suit has been brought
in the court of common pleas here
against ex-Sheriff S. H. Eldridge and
his bondsmen to recover over $4,000
which, it is alleged, he received in
fees and failed to turn over to the
county treasury. Eldridge retired
Jan. 6, 1913.
Cincinnati. = Charles Walters,
trusty at the Longview hospital
for the insane, escaped and, wav-
ing two revolvers, made his way
through the downtown streets. James
Watson, who attempted to restrain
Walters was arrested.
Gallipolis. Two Kanawha and
Michigan through passenger trains
met in head-on collision at Kanauga
Junction, four miles east of here
Eighteen persons were injured, none
seriously The injured were brought
here to hospital. One train was on
a switch, which a brakeman left open.
Both locomotives and several cars
were demolished.
Lorain. = Rev. Stephan Soltesz,
pastor of ST. Stanislaus' Catholic
church, scored police when he
discovered his church had been
robbed for the seventh time in a year
Burglars entered the building and
robbed the collection box.
Dayton. = With his head almost
severad, the body of Joseph Quinn, As
years old, of 102 Foraker-av, was
found on the Miami river levee near
the Washington street bridge. Muir
der theory prevails, because Coroner
]. w. McKemy and the police have
been unable to find any knife or razor
in the vicinity of the body. Accord
ing to the victims sister, Mrs. Nellie
Quigley, with whom he lived, Quinn
had considerable money in his pos
session, but officers found only SLIPS
in his pockets.
Warren. - Frank Banning of Kins-
man, 55 years old, a landscape gar
dener and florist of wide fame, is
dead. He obtained a $1,000 gift from
Andrew Carnegie for a Kinsman H.
brary and also gave $4,000 himself to-
ward the project. He was grower
of the famous American Nigna and
Panama gladioli bulbs. His houses
were visited last year by Holland
delegation of bulb growers.
Orangeville. = This town was the
scene of a big confiagration when
ten buildings were burned to the
ground with monetary loss of pos
sibly $25,0OO
Dayton. = John A. Smith, who was
charged with numbering Fred c.
Snethan Feb. IA, following quar-
rel in a saloon, pleaded guilty and
was sentenced for life.
Cleveland. = Mrs. Harriet Taylor
Upton, the state president, has
announced, following the recent
conference of suffragists in Cleve-
land that the petition for gaining the
necessary 10 per cent of the regis
tered voters at the last election would
be ready for distribution early in
April. Although 100000 signatures in
over half the counties of the state
are required by the terms of the ini-
tiative and referendum law, the suf.
fragists are undaunted.
Columbus. = Limping on two canes,
former Senator George X. Cetone
X. Cetone entered the doors of
the Ohio penitentiary to begin serv-
ing three-year sentence for accept
ing a bribe. He was accompanied by
R. M. Brumbaugh and Charles Kline
Of Dayton, the former his attorney,
the latter personal friend.
Sandusky. - The appointment of
Benjamin F. Atkinson of Dayton
as adjutant of the Ohio Soldiers
and Sailors home, succeeding the
late Capt. John d. Wheeler of Paines-
vile, was announced by Commandant
William r. Burnett
GAINESVILLE. = A. G. Moore, fifty,
employe of Columbus Butter com