Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1913-05-16
Buckeye Notes

hit him.
Upper Sandusky. - John Brodman,
wealthy former, was indicted on
two counts on charges of shooting
Probate Judge w. p. Rowland with
intent to kill.
Napoleon. = Henry Baden, 90, who
stole a horse and also is charged
with having set fire to barn con.
suming six horses, pleaded guilty to
horse stealing and was sentenced to
15 years in the penitentiary.
Columbus. A new scandal in
another state institution seems inn.
minent. The state board of ad.
ministration is setting about to in
vestigate charges made against Supt.
Baber of the Dayton State hospital by
DR.. John v. Koch, who was dis
charged last month as assistant sup
erintendent of that institution. The
charges are sufficiently sensations
al to satisfy the most Unsuitable
lover of scandals and they involve al.
legged drunkenness, immortality and
lack of discipline. DR.. Kock was ap.
pointed assistant superintendent of
the Dayton hospital last February
and was ousted in April after he had
refused to resign.
Massillon. = j. w. Lescalleet of
Newark, B. G o. fireman, owes
his life to a little puddle of wa
ter five inches deep. Lescalleet was
on the running board of his engine,
adjusting the headlight, as 1t passed
over trestle spanning gully here,
when his foot slipped and he fell 25
feet, landing in the shallow pool
The water broke the fall on the sharp
rocks which covered the bottom of
the ravine and he escaped with few
bruises.
Wellston. - William Stringfellow,
aged sixty-seven, took poison and died
few hours later. On several occa.
sions his attempts at selfdestruction
had been frustrated by members of
the family.
Canton. Two auto accidents
occurred here in one of which
Louis NJ. Brooker, chef, was prob
ably fatally hurt. In the other eight
persons whose identities could not be
learned were caught under a car that
upset several miles south of the city.
They escaped with minor injuries.
Brooker was hurt when touring car
overturned and pinned him down.
Caldwell. - A. M. Morris of
this place. forty-five, former prose-
cutting attorney of Noble county, COM
mitted suicide by drowning in Duck
creek, half mile south of here.
Wapakoneta. - Bert Sheppard, 80
county infirmary, committed suicide
at that place by hanging.
Sandusky. - When train on the
Kelleys island stone quarry railroad
ran down a boy, Engineer Shuron
climbed from hisl cab to care for the
child, which proved to be his own son,
George, seven. The boy died.
Columbus. = The May report of
the state agricultural board says pros
poets are fine for wheat, oats, fruit
and berry crops.
Columbus. = Secretary of State
William Jennings Bryan has been in
vited to be the orator at the com
mencement exercises of Ohio State
university on June IL.
Akron. = At a meeting of the
Akron charter commission favorable
report was returned in regard to max
ing Buchtel college into a municipal
university.
Lorain. = Two trainmen were in
1ured and a number of passen-
on hod shol x,,l,a et
bound Nickel Plate train due here at
9:25 a. m. was ditched at Florence
station, six miles west of Vermillion.
New Lexington. = DR.. B. F. Brown,
As, Shawnee physician, died suddenly
here of heart failure.
Warren. = Workmen tearing down
a portion of the wall of the Union
Savings & Trust building found half
bushel of half dollars bearing the date
1888.
Cincinnati. = William Fogarty, a
contractor, was arrested for the muir
der of Charles Baune, a carpenter
formerly in the employ of Fogarty.
The police declare the killing of
Baune was the result of a knife duel
between the men in Charles Bakers
saloon in Avondale suburb. Baune
received a fatal knife wound in the
head and Fogarty was severely cut in
the right arm. Fogarty charges
Baune snatched a half dollar which
Fogarty had laid on the bar and an
alteration ensued. Fogarty denies he
had used knife. He is one of the
most prominent contractors in the
city and is wealthy.
Tifiin. = First degree murder with
a recommendation of mercy was
the verdict returned here by
jury In common pleas court this morn
ing in the case of Edward Donnewirth,
former Bloomville liveryman, accused
of killing his wife by shooting her in
the head with shotgun. The jury
was out only SO minutes.
Columbus chose a char
ter commission by vote of 1929 yes
and 2845 no. ONLY 20 Der cent of the