Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1913-09-19
Buckeye Notes
(Western Newspaper Union, Special
News Servlce.)

Conneaut. - Fred F. Smith, promi-
nent business man here and president
of the Conneaut chamber of COM
merce, died suddenly here. Typhoid
fever was the cause of death.
Findlay. - Mrs. Esther Pressler of
North Baltimore, aged 80, blind
for the last 40 years, who was severe
ly burned while cooking, is dead. How
the accident occurred Is not known.
Bryan - Lumber sheds owned by
J. A. Stine & Son caught fire
and burned to the ground The
sheds were filled with lumber. The
loss is $4,000, covered by insurance.
GAINESVILLE. = Capt George H. Play
ford of GAINESVILLE has been elected
national commander of the Union Vet
eran Legion at the national conven-
'tion here.
Cincinnati. DR.. Henry A. Smith,
aged 81, ex-president of the Ameri-
can Dental association and for 80
years dean Of the Ohio Dental College
of Surgery, died at his home here. He
was native of Oxford, O., and re-
ceived his degree at Miami university.
Middletown. - Mrs Walter Gudge-
on, the wife of prominent con-
tractor attempted to drown herself.
Henry Clok saw her leap from
bridge and jumped in after her. Henry
Weaver pulled them out.
Alliance. - What is probably the
smallest child ever born ALI
ance arrived early on Thursday
when three-pound boy was born to
Mrs. Lorin Actolia. The child will
| live.
| GAINESVILLE. - Stanley Kearns, an
employe of the tube works here,
found a sack containing $2,SOO in
the road. 1t had been lost by Wayne
Collier Of the Pan-American Coal Co.,
who was on his way to the mines on a
motorcycle to pay off the employees.
Youngstown. = AS a unit of the
Republic Iron & Steel Co. the
Mahoning Valley works of the
company will cease to exist on Oct. 1.
The mills will be closed and 1900
workmen will be thrown out of en-
ployment. Sixteen pudding furnaces
and four trains of rolls will be dis
mantled.
| Bones OF f1GTOeS HelntGTTeu.
Put,in-Bay. = Minute guns doomed
from naval militia ships and
bells tolled here as the remains of the
American and British officers killed in
the battle of Lake Erie century ago
were reinterred in the crypt of the
new Perry memorial monument.
1 Fifteen thousand persons stood in
silence and with bowed heads while
clerical representatives of the United
States and Canada read the impress.
sive service of the Episcopal church
over the dead.
Columbus. - Bank Superintendent
Emery Lattanner has taken charge
of and has closed the Bank of
Fayette in Fayette, Fulton county,
and named Examiner ]. A. Holmes to
take charge and liquidate its affairs
Examiner Holmes recently was sent
to Fayette to make an investigation
He wired Superintendent LattanneT
to come personally as he found af
fairs tangled.
Attorney Robert Black of the bank
department is now in Fayette and will
assist in getting the work of liquida
ton started. This is the fifth private
bank that has ceased business in the
: state since the last assembly passed
law making them subject to the
state inspection law.
Toledo. A clothing dealer, sum
moned to the Widell hotel by
man giving the name of A
Mitchell, was assaulted by the stran
ger after he entered the hotel room
beaten with the butt of a revolver
l robbed of So in cash and watch, ant
then held prisoner in his room unit
! united by attaches of the hotel
l The stranger entered the Widel
! hotel about noon and registered from
? Pittsburgh Late in the afternoon h
!. called by telephone the clothing stor
I of Charles Sukolski, on S. st. Clair-st
I Sukolski, in answer to the summon
D that the man wished to purchase SOM
8 clothing, responded. Hardly had h
Q entered the room than he was cor
= fronted with revolver held by the OF
cupant of the room.
"If you make holler, I'll blow you
' head off," Sukolski says the robbie
N told him. Sukolski attempted to de
fend himself, he says, and received
r stunning blow on his head.
East Liverpool. = Unprotected
crib walls, the side of a twelv,
foot sewer ditch caved in an
|. buried four men, one of whom wa
i. killed and three injured, under sel
= eral tons of sand at the Morga
n Marshall Rubber plant, under col
d struction here. Peter Sheron, Al
Il married, Slav laborer, was suffocate
t to death.
<, Findlay.-The Citizens party, non
3. mated at the recent primarie
r at North Baltimore, has just promu
y gated its party platform.
q agrees that all it's candidates. excer
4 marshal, If elected, will return on,