The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1913-06-26
Buckeye Notes

Dayton. - A burglar entered the
home of John Fifer and, after admin
istsring chloroform to Fifer and his
wife, robbed them of 500 and gold
watch.
Upper Sandusky. - H. 3. Kinzly
has been confirmed as postmaster at
Nevada, O., succeeding Frank E.
Holmes, appointed in December by
Taft.
Maynard. After being told she
had tuberculosis of the spine, Pherese
Pastor, II, drank carbolic acid and
died.
aallipolis. Harry Womeldorf,
superintendent of the Gallia county
inflrmary, is out ON bond facing
charges of changing bills made out
for supplies for his institution.
Newark. Miss Elizabeth Hurt,
so, former matron of the Pythian
home at Springfield, o., died Thurs
day.
Shelby. - The annual convention
of district No. ~, Lady Macca-
bees of the World, selected Crest
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line as the 1914 convention place.
GAINESVILLE. - Postoffice authori-
ties claim that Howard Laish-
ley of Clarksburg, w. Va, sent OBJ
scene letters through the mails to
Miss Eva Daniels, young woman
living in GAINESVILLE. Laishley plead
ed not guilty. He will be taken back
to West Virginia.
Alliance. - Lawrence Matz, twen-
ty-two, Lake Shore brakeman, fell
under his train. One of his legs was
severed He is in the hospital. His
recovery is doubtful.
Elyria-Fully 5000 persons, many
of them delegates at the ninth
annual state convention Of the Fra
terna1 Order of Eagles, saw Rob
Robinson of Cleveland, heat-stricken
and unconscious, drop like log with
his torn, tapping parachute 7GO or
more feet to earth. Hitting a small
embankment, his body doubled and
rolled to the bottom. He lay as he
ell-unconscious-bu will live to tell
the tale.
Bellefontaine. Timothy Curran
sprained his ankle while working in
the local Big Four boiler shops and
took his first leave from work in is
years.
Sandusky. - Miss Viola May Matz,
A, of Mansfield, long in ill health,
committed suicide by drowning. Her
body was found in Lake Erie near
the end of the government pier.
Lima. - Leaping in delirium from
his cot, Harry Bowers, 45, injured
four patients in ward at the City
hospital and fought three nurses be-
fore he was overpowered.
Columbus. - A three day siege Of
hiccoughs brought death to Albert
Prevetette, a prisoner at the Ohio
penitentiary. The prisoner was op-
Grated on for appendicitis. The reg
ular nurse at the prison was called
off the case and substitute failed to
realize the seriousness of the spell of
hiccoughing.
Sprinffield. Clark county has
filed a claim for unpaid taxes against
Albert McCarter for IA cents. The
case will be heard in justice court.
Toledo. - Officials Of the Ohio Or
ganizations of the National Associa-
ton of Stationary Engineers elected
at the final session Of the If
teenth convention in Memorial hall
are: President, ]. F. Radigan of
Cleveland; vice president, w. d.
Spangler of Lima; secretary, Daniel
E. Kennedy, Cincinnati; treasurer,
John M. Wirmel, Cincinnati; state
deputy, Joseph Howlee, Cleveland;
conductors, c. A.. Krickenberger,
Greenville; D. E. Emerson, Alliance.
Lorain.-Workmen found the body
of Henry Hubata, 46, hanging to a
tree in the city park. Hubata had
been dead about an hour.
Chillicothe. - Mrs. Jennie Graves,
forty, was found dead in her cell
lar by her husband. Her skull was
fractured, and it is believed she fell
down the steps.
Columbus. - Mrs. Mary Frances
Entrekin, widow of Col. John c. En-
trekin, former internal revenue
collector and at one time speak
eE of the house, died at the Glenrest
sanitarium, near Worthington She
had been in the sanitarium for sew
eral weeks and her death was due to
apoplexy. Mrs. Entrekin was 60 years
Of age and lived in Chillicothe. The
body was shipped to Chillicothe.
Cleveland.-The first step in a cam.
paign of state labor officials to stop
the overworking of boys employed by
telegraph and messenger companies
was taken here when a complaint was
sworn out for the arrest of G. M. Pur-
dy, local manager of the Postal Tele-
graph Co., charging him with violat-
ing the state labor laws. He is al
legged to have worked Isadore Levy,
aged IA, between the prohibited hours
of 6 p. m. and a. m. The boy also
declares that he worked sever days a
week.
Cambridge. Following FIRE
discovered in clothes press ON
the second floor of the Guernsey Coun-
ty Children's home, Rosa Davis, 12.
an inmate, is said to have confessed
that she started the blaze. The fire
was extinguished before much damage
had been done.
Lima. - John Good, a farmer
of Conner, three miles west Of
here, crushed the life out of his five.
year-old son, Warren Good, when he
accidentally drove over the boy with
a farm wagon. The child in his play
had crawled under the wheels un-
noticed by the farmer.
Sandusky.-The power house and