The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1913-09-11
J Buckeye Notes
CWestern Newspaper Union, Special
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News Service.)
Upper Sandusky. = Frederick Stief,
q prominent Salem township farm
er, left the dinner table and
took poison. He died. His reason
for suicide is not known.
Ravenna. - Leone Padella, aged 81
years, married, an employe of the
Pennsylvania Co., fell through a
bridge near Ravenna and died at the
White hospital.
Kings Mills. &C. P. Wells and
Harry Crotheime were instantly
killed and a building was COM
pletely wrecked by an explosion of
powder at the King powder mills here.
The cause of the explosion is not
known
Lima. Allen county leaps into
fame as the habitation of the
first back to nature" colony
where rs persons-men and women
are running about as Adams and Ewes.
The improvised camp made of boughs
and mud is three miles southeast of
this city. Its inhabitants are stranded
gypsies.
Columbus. Adam G. Grant, 78
years old, we'll known as an electric
railroad promoter, is dead at his home
in Grove City, a suburb. Grant was
for a number of years sole owner
of the Grove City & Southwestern
y fol tuifh
the Ohio Electric Company.
Ashtabula. - Charged with forging
the name of w. F. Holden, his
brother in law, to two checks on
the national bank of this city, Boyd
Lewis was brought here from LineSA
vile, Pa, and pleaded guilty. He
was taken to Jefferson jail.
Sandusky. - Government life saw
ers here told of the narrow es-
cape OF Herbert Baker, William
Margruder, son of an Ohio State Uni
versity professor; r. G. Oliver, attor.
ney for the Pennsylvania company in
Columbus territory; Jean Walker and
Henry Storms, all of Columbus, from
death in burning launch mile and
half off Lakeside.
Toledo. = The municipal political
situation was somewhat further mud
died when a committee of independ-
ents, opposed to the nomination OF
City Solicitor Cornell Schneider for
mayor by an independent convention
placed another ticket in the field with
the name of Mayor Brand Whitlock
at the top.
Lima. - After saving the life Of
John Williams, aged 80, stranger,
whom he rescued from a perilous po-
sition on the cliff of stone quarry,
Patrolman Mike Sullivan locked Will
liams in the city prison on the charge
of drunkenness. Hundreds of people
stood by Mortified as Williams fell
through a barbed wire fence that
guarded the cliff and rolled out upon
the brink of the precipice. His trous-
ers caught in the wire, however, and
he hung head downward. The officer
rescued him by lassoing him with a
rope.
everything before them at the
annual meeting of the Ohio
Printers federation in connection
with the cost congress. The Sixth
City was awarded next years con-
vention and one of it's prominent
printers, Charles P. Carl, general SUI
perintendent of the ]. B. Savage Print
ing Co., was chosen president.
Other officers elected are: First
vice president, George M. Gray, Fos-
toria second vice president, A. ].
Braunwart, Cincinnati; secretary,
Charles N Bellman, Tolede; treas
urer, Carl Jettinger, Delphos.
Members of the Associated Ohio
Dailies, headed by John T. Mack
Of Sandusky, president, were the
guests of the Ohio Printers Fed
Grafton at the cost exposition Thurs
day. With the Ohio editors came
members of the Michigan State Press
association and the Wolverine Press
association, also Of Michigan.
The editors inspected the big ex-
part in the entertainment given at
night by the Pleas, the hippodrome
adjunct of the printers federation.
Alliance. - Alfred Nicholas, aged
81, retired plasterer, dropped dead
from heart disease at his home. His
wife and one daughter survive. Will
liam W. Shidler, 55, treasurer of the
Alliance Brewery Co. and a veteran
hoTseman, dropped dead at his home.
His wife and one son, City Civil En-
gineer Wade W. Shidler survive.
Painesville.-An automobile which
contained w. A. Briggs and wife
and ]. w. Bannader and wife of Lodi,
o.. was struck by a westbound linn
tied car on the c., p. G. E. railroad.
one mile east of here, at the Diagonal
crossing" Both women were serious
ly hurt and Mr.. Bannader, who was
driving the car was bruised.
The approach of cars from the east
Is obscured by high stone wall.
Briggs states the machine slowed up
and almost stopped, but as they could
not see or hear an approaching car,
they drove ahead. When the car
struck the auto it was hurled into the
ditch and demolished.
Columbus.-Governcr Cox welcomed
to Columbus and the state fair
Sunday night the prize corn grow
ing boys of the state. There were
over 200 present, all prize winners in
tho nontpcf 1oct yoor