The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1913-09-18
Buckeye Notes
(western Newspaper Union, Special
News Service.)

News SerYlce.)
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 so, 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
]. A. Stine & Son caught fire
and burned to the ground. The
sheds were filed 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 30
years dean Of the Ohio Dental College
of Surgery, died at his home here. He
was a 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 hap from a
bridge and jumped in after her. Henry
Weaver pulled them out.
Alliance. - What is probably the
smallest child ever born Alli-
ance arrived early on Thursday
when a 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 $4,000 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
Mahonlng Valley works of the
company will cease to exist on Oct l.
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 Heroes Reinterred.
Putin nov - Minute guns doomed
from al militia ships and
bells tolod 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.
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 Lattanner
to come personally as he found at
fairs tangled.
Attorney Robert Black OF the bank
department is now in Fayette and will
assist in getting the work of Lquida-
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,
robbed of So in cash and watch, and
then held prisoner in his room until
united by attaches OF the hotel
The stranger entered the Widell
hotel about noon and registered from
Pittsburgh. Late in the afternoon he
called by telephone the clothing store
of Charles Sukolski, on S. st. Clair-st.
Sukolski, in answer to the summons
that the man wished to purchase some
clothing, responded. Hardly had he
entered the room than he was con-
fronted with a revolver held by the oc-
cupant of the room.
"If you make holler, III blow your
head off," Sukolski says the robber
told him. Sukolski attempted to de-
fend himself he says, and received a
stunning blow on his head.
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crib walls, the side of a twelve.
. foot sewer ditch caved In and
!. buried four men, one of whom was
killed and three injured, under sew.
eral tons of sand at the Morgan
Marshall Rubber plant, under con.
Btruction here. Peter Sheron, 40
= married, Slav laborer, was suffocated
to death.
Findlay.-The Citizens party, nom,
mated at the recent primaries
, at North Baltimore, has just promul,
!. gated it's party platform. II
q agrees that all it's candidates, except
:, marshal, if elected, will return one.
:. half their salaries to the village treas
. ury, asserting the salaries at present
;, are excessive.
4 Gallon. - For three days Wesley
a Sherman, forty, had been missing
h from his home, diligent search fail
+ ing to reveal his whereabouts. His
q body was discovered between 9
/ freight car and grain elevator. His
:. head was gashed. 1t is believed Sher
!. man was struck by the car when il
=. was backed into the warehouse siding
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