The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1913-07-17
Buckeye Notes


urer e. D. Gilmore of Dayton were
reelected.
GAINESVILLE. - Miss Cora Bauer,
twenty, of this city, was disfgured
when she was struck in the face by a
foul ball while witnessing in buggy
the Akron-Zanesville double header.
Her nose was split and two teeth
were knocked out. After a doctor
sewed up her nose she saw the finish
of the games.
st. Clairsville. - After addresses
were made by speakers from
Iowa, Illinois and Ohio universi.
ties before the Belmont county
alfalfa campaign committee here, it
was decided to start automobile par
ties broadcast urging Ohio farmers to
pay attention to alfalfa.
Columbus. Mrs Elizabeth Owens
Campbell, aged sixty six, wife of
James E. Campbell, governor of Ohio
from 1890 to 1892, died at the family
residence on Hamilton-av of Bright's
disease.
Findlay. - Irwin H. Woodruff, for.
ty-eight, died at Dunkirk after a short
illness. He was one of the wealthiest
men in Hardin county.
Cincinnati. - Alexander Jack, TWEEN.
ty-eight, carpenter, was instantly
killed when he fell from fourth story
window of his home at 9Th and Broad
way. Jack had been sleeping near a
window, and it is believed he plunged
out while asleep.
Marion. - Isaac Osbun, one of the
best known residents of Marion, jus.
tice of the peace and township clerk
for many years, killed himself by
drinking two ounces of carbolic acid.
Upper Sandusky. - Oscar Vance
was fined fifty dollars by Mayor
Jonas for giving away liquor at Syca.
more, and the case will be carried up
in order to have settled by higher
court whether Sycamore, which re-
Gently voted tie, is wet or dry.
Akron. - John Kassay, "a, and
Jacob Myers, S5, employees of Ohio c.
Barber's farm at Barberton, were in
stantly killed by lightning.
Massillon. - With thirty dollars in
cash in the pocket of his clothing,
the body of an unidentified man, 65,
medium sized, with gray hair, was
found behind railroad shop at Brew
ster, south of here. Coroner F. w.
Gavin of Canton said death was due
to heart disease.
Lima. - Joseph G. Thompson,
president of the old national bank
Of this city, and his daughter,
Helen Thompson, were injured when
an automobile struck the carriage in
which they were riding.
Massillon. - Efforts to prevent
his hat from being blown away
will cost Ernest Tritt, thirteen, his
life. That he is now alive amazes
physicians, for he has lost most of his
brains through hole in his head in.
flicted when trying to chase the hat
He fell from horse he was riding
into knives of binder on the farm Of
Kirk Humbert, eight miles north of
here.
Bowling Springs. - Unable longer
to hold on after three attempts
to swing his legs over the trapeze,
Clarence Crosby, IS, of Toledo,
dropped 800 feet to his death after his
balloon had travelled third of a mile
when he made An ascension before
5000 people at the Wood County
School association annual gathering
on the fair grounds here.
Springfield. - Fire, which start
ed in the freight house of the
Big Four railroad, communicated to
J a string of freight cars, destroying
The freight house was partially con-
sumed. Horses belonging to Frank
Tinker Of Louisville, KY, ]. C.. Mar
tin Of Dayton and others, were saved
Columbus. - Four persons were
seriously injured in the collision
of two motorcycles which came
together in the outskirts of the city.
The accident occurred on e. Broad
street. The injured are E. T. More
head, 10, and J. E. Lorne, %; Mrs
Florence Lake, "a, and Miss Goldie
Buckman, 21.
Lima.-Convicted of the murder of
Samuel G. Meeks, seventy-six, a
civil war veteran, Feb. 20, Paul F.
Ashton, 10, who killed the venerable
man with his fists, was sentenced to
an indeterminable term in the Mans.
field reformatory.
Sandusky. - Simon M. Johnson of
Cincinnati, president of the state bar
association, in his address al the an
nual meeting here, raped the recall
of judges and decisions, describing it
as the "outcry of a noisy minority"
Coshocton. - While gathering coal
| along the Pennsylvania railroad
right Of way, near here, Isaac
Daniels, IS, was instantly killed by a
passenger train.
Dayton. = Mrs. Ida G. Curtis, forty
eight, wife of Charles B. Curtis,
salesman for the Dancyger Safety Pin
Ticket Co. of Cleveland, while suffer.
ing from dementia set fire to her bed
which she had saturated with gaso.
line, burning herself to death.
Painesville. - Fred Cllristopherson,
twenty-five, single, Of Green B;.y.
topherson, %, single, of Green Bay,
Wis, was drowned in Grand river
here. A companion made heroic at.
tempt to save Christopherson, but
was unsuccessful.
Cincinnati. = The striking engl.
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