The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1913-06-05
Buckeye Notes

the rear lTuCk OF Ine C1dAT Car on tue
ear Of the train jumped the track
"A section shanty and several tele-
phone poles were knocked down. the
track torn up and all Of the windows
in the car broken. None Of the pas
sengers were injured.
Lima. While shooting at birds,
Vernon Hydaer, Is, accidentally killed
Ira Miller, II, son Of Charles Miller,
q Spencerville undertaken.
Niles. - A. b. Rexrode, Cleveland,
and ]. w. Wasson, Newcastle, Pa,
were killed, and A. R. Gren, New.
castle, injured, when Pennsylvania
freight and passenger trains crashed
head-on.
Bellevue. - Wade Parker, %, either
committer suicide or was accident
ally killed by the discharge of a rife
at Flat Rock. Members of the family
heard the discharge of the gun and
hurrylng to the kitchen found the
body on the floor with the gun be-
side it.
Cincinnati. - Cincinnatis new hos
pital, the finest and largest in
the country, which will be opened
in about eight months, will have
counting neeks for the nurses. DR..
c. r. Holmes, father of the in.
stitution, conceived the idea. He also
knows that nurses will have sweet
hearts for some years to come and
that Is why the cute little hooks in
the nurses home, with sweet little set.
tees are to be installed. The nurses
home will be big private hotel, with
a roof garden, private kitchen, private
cooks, a private laundry and in short
everything and more than they could
get anywhere else.
Toledo.-Leon Ploon, 80, known to
the police as Roman Adamski, who,
they say, recently has posed as Pol
ish priest, was pointed out as the slay-
er of Geo. Steele by SteeIs sweetheart,
Although herself suffering from a
bullet wound in her breast, inflicted at
the time Steele was killed, the girl
declared to detectives that Ploon tai
lied in all respects with the man who
held up her and young Steele at mid.
night on a road FIVE miles west of the
city. Ploon was returned to central
police station and held pending in
vestigation.
Cincinnati. Charles H. Bishop,
f1fty-siX, nephew of the late Governor
Bishop of Ohio, and until recently
head OF the Bishop Flour Co., killed
himself in the bath room of his home
when he took chloroform. In a letter
to his wife he calls himself victim
of the industrial crusher." He wrote
that after futile struggle for living
against the trust that controls the
flour output, he was heartsick. Once
Bishop was rich. He was near
ly penniless when he died, having al
ready pawned some jewelry. All he
had left was an insurance policy for
$4,5OO.
Defiance. - Heavy rains the past
several days sent Auglaize river
on a rampage and washed out q
120-foot earthen embankment abuttins
the dam at the Auglaize Power CO..
pumping plant. The plant was put
out of commission.
Newark. DR.. Emory w. Hunt
who is attending the northern
Baptist convention at Detroit, has
forwarded his resignation as presi
dent of Denison university at Gran
vile to G. M. Peters of Cincinnati
president of the university board oi
trustees. He has served as head ot
Denison since September. 1902. long
er than any other president of the in
stitution
Lima. - When Frank D. Herbst
nineteen, an aviation student, tolC
his 17-year-old financee, Clorida Bis
hop, that he intended soon to become
full fedged aviator, the young. WON
an said: Take your choice, me oil
the old airships. Pm not going tc
wear any widows weeds for few
years yet" "You, if you'll hurry" he
said firmly. They were married.
Elyria. - Richard Gibbons of Ridge
vile was instantly killed at stop 6!
on the Green line and Peter Smith ot
that village, seriously injured wher
the horse they were driving backed
the buggy on to the tracks in front o.
car bound for Cleveland
Bellefontaine. - Frank Pence, four
year-old son of James Pence, was
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was accidentally discharged. The
little boy was going into the house
when the door closed behind him
jostling the gun down from its
resting place. The, gun was dis
charged and the entire contents o.
the load struck the boy in the lef
eye.
| GAINESVILLE. Joseph Wise, 65
who lived alone was burned to death
in his cabin home, nine miles wes
of the city.
Kenton. - At a session OF the
Evangelical conference Of the Ohio
district state federation of thu
brotherhoods of the district was eff
fected, this action being regarded al
the most important taken thus fa
during the conference. DR.. w. G
Hamm of Chillicothe was choser
president of the new federation.
Cincinnati. - Three year old Mil
dred Wilmes was instantly killeC
in the street in front of he
home at Hyde park by being run ovel
by a milk delivery wagon.
Xenia. = Otis Hurley, ''prisol
Demon" arrested at the peniten
,iary gates recently and held herr
on charges of horse stealing ant
grand larceny, made an attempt tt
escape from the county Jail, Sheriff
w. B. McAllister found seven stee
bars between the turkeys room ant