The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1913-01-09
Buckeye Notes

ner OF 4th-av and Walnut-st, with
In 100 ;eet of the ruins OF the Gibson
house, was destroyed by fire. A
heavy snow storm hamperd the fire.
men. In the building were the Provi-
dent Savings & Trust Co., the Mis-
souri, Pacific office, the Rendigs-Loth-
man Co.'S temporary quarters, and
the Norfolk & Western offices.
Newark. - The body found on
the railway near Pataskala, Lick
ing county,~has been identified as
that of Alonzo Coover, who escaped
from the sanitarium at Shepard, o.
He was S5. His home was at Lewis.
ton, Logan county, o.
Sandusky. - Paul Leroy, a glass
worker, died of heart disease in
the Royal theater, a moving pic
ture house, while trying to answer
questions concerning the film story,
put to him in rapid succession by his
two little children who were sitting
by his side. Leroy told an acquaint-
ance who was sitting behind him that
he was "all in," gasped and fell for.
ward. Leroy until recently lived at
Findlay.
Cleveland. - Cocaine traffic in
Cleveland suffered the heaviest blow
it has received in years when -four
men, charged with illegal traffic in CO
caine were arrested by the Cleveland
police on warrants issued by Police
Prosecutor Samuel Silbert and sworn
to by ]. G. Falconer and e. ]. Collis-
ter, special agents employed by the
state board of pharmacy.
Toledo. - Belcaer Cooper, four,
was drowned and her mother and
two other children narrowly escaped
drowning when they broke through
ice on the Miami and Erie canal Hat
tie Ornstein, nine, was drowned while
sliding on thin ice on Swan creek.
Her two sisters, Helen, four, and
Ethel, six, also broke through the ic-
but were rescued.
Bryan.-The factory of the Bryan
Show Case Co. was almost complete
ly destroyed by a fire. The loss is
estimated at $4,000, with insurance
amounting to $4,000. The cause is
unknown.
GAINESVILLE. - With her two daugh-
ters and several grandchildren and
great-grandchildren Mrs. Jane M.
Schwab, Zanesville's oldest resident,
celebrated her 1O1st birthday Dec. 29.
Wellston. - Ignorant of the fact
that her husband had been killed
in railroad accident in Chicago,
Mrs. Richard Varley, accompanied
by her young daughter, boarded
near Cincinnati train bearing his
dead body and, unconscious that she
was doing so, rode with her husbands
remains to Wellston. Mrs. Varley did
not learn the truth until she reached
the home of Mr.. Varley's parents in
this city, where funeral services We're
about to be held
Akron. - That time honored Gus.
tom of striking matches on your
trousers is to become one of the
lost arts. After Jan. 1 the AmeriI
can manufacturers will make no more
of the old strike-em-on-your-pa
matches. The law prohibits it. The
Esch bill becomes effective in Ohio
and all American matches are made
at Akron and Barberton. The Dia-
mond Match people have begun al
ready making the sesquisulphide
match which contains the necessary
combustible ingredients but is non-
poisonous.
Geneva. - DR.. Fl. J. Austin of
Geneva, coroner of Ashtabula coun-
ty, rendered his verdict as to the
causes of the collision of Lake Shore
& Michigan Southern freight train and
street car in Ashtabula Dec 16, in
which eight people were killed. The
verdict says: "The primary and con-
tributing causes of the accident were
due to the neglect of the towerman to
lower the street crossing gates at the
proper time and the evident excess of
speed Of the freight train in violation
of the lawful regulations"
Sandusky. - Model city" is the
term used by Chief of Police G. A.
Weingates in describing Sandusky in
his report for 1912. Arrests number.
ing 1,04S were made in the year, near,
ly two-thirds of them for drunkenness.
Half those arrested for drunkenness
were non-residents of Sandusky, most
of them eXcursionists from dry
towns, according to the police blotter.
Crooksville.-Fifteen head of horses
were burned tc death and 200 bushels
of corn destroyed when the barn at
the Simmons mine near Redfield
burned to the ground. The loss at
the mine will reach $4,000, with little
insurance.
Dayton.-A bulldog belonging to Er,
nest Hummerick attacked and wound
ed H. X. Smith, when the latter called
at the Hummerick home. AS Smith
opened door to enter the house the
dog sprang out and sank its teeth in
the leg of the visitor. Smith struggled
in an effort to beat the dog off until
the animal tore away mouthful of
muscle and ligaments. Then making
a second attack the dog grabbed his
victim at the right foot, sinking its
teeth through the shoe. Neighbors
finally beat the dog off.
Cincinnati. Edward Mcdonald,
seventeen, of Ludlow, KY, confessed
to the police that he fired the shot
which resulted in the death of 1O-year-
old Robert Kroger. The shot was
fired in fight in Mt. Adams between
boy gangs, in which rocks gave way
to air rifles, finally to be replaced by
McDonald's small difle.
Mansfield. = S. N Ford has been
appointed receiver for the Mansfield
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