The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1913-11-06
Buckeye Notes
(Western Newspaper Union. Special
News SerYice.l


thief, awaiting transfer to the
penitentiary, was thwarted in an
attempt to escape from the county
jail by Sheriff 3ray's wife, who dis
covered an iron bar removed from
the stairway to the second floor.
Hamilton's actions seemed unusual to
Mrs. Gray. Her husband was absent
and she summoned a deputy. An iron
window bar had been sawed off at the
rear of the corridor. in Hamilton's
cell we're a rope made from blankets
and stair rods. The prisoner had a
crude whistle and it Is believed he
expected aid from outside.
Cincinnati While two physi-
clans and two nurses at the City
hospital were at work on a patient
four beds away from the cot of Nor
man Joseph, 21, Joseph got up and
went stealthily to a window on the
second floor, raised it and leaped out.
falling to the court, a distance of
probably 80 feet. The injuries and
shock caused his death a half hour
later.
Zanesville-After being out two
hours, a jury brought In a YER
dict OF manslaughter against George
Shorts, colored hod carrier. charged
with killing A. ]. Kintz, brick
layer, by knocking him off the Fra
zeysburg school building and causing
his death.
Columbus. - Miss Mary Harding.
a widely known teacher in the
state school for the blind and
sister OF former Lieut.. Gov. Warren
G. Harding of Marion, died suddenly
at her home here from cerebral
hemorrhages.
East Liverpool. - j. H. Beard.
mayor of Salineville and pastor
Of the Christian church Of that
village, has resigned both Jobs. The
minister-mayor says that the remuner-
aticn was not sufficiently attractive.
He will go into the insurance business.
Mansfield. - After having roamed
over the United States and Eu-
rope for four years following vio-
lation of his parole from the Ohio
state reformatory, Ridgeway Fowler
returned to his home in Bowling
Green. He was arrested by his
father, c. p. Fowler, and brought to
the Mansfield institution. Young
Fowler returned to his home not
knowing that making arrests is his
fathers business.
Dayton. - One man, believed to
| hn oif hur
Dennis Glib, rs, a resident of To-
ledo, was killed when c., H. G d. pas
senger train No. Z, southbound, broke
an eccentric on the engine. The air
brakes being suddenly set, brought
the train to stop on bridge span
ming small creek. The victim was
thrown from the blind baggage" the
train passed over him and his body
fell to the creek.
Oxford. - An Indiana physician,
who withholds his name, has Of
fered two prizes Of $25 each to
the girls of the freshman class of the
! Western College for Women who
stand highest in physical development
and scholarship. The first prize will
be awarded in November, the second
in May.
Wellston. - A jury has found
John ]. Miller guilty of first de-
gree murder for the Staying of Walter
Chamberlain last November while
Chamberlain was guest at the Miller
home. There has been no other first
degree conviction in a Jackson county
court since 1883.
Amherst. 49, Mrs. Bert Glover fell
down the stairs at the Jack
son hotel here with her two-year-
old son in her arms. The mother was
uninjured, but the baby's skull was
fractured and he probably will die.
Marion. The new Eastman
hotel was damaged by fire here,
the loss being estimated at $4,000.
Adjoining buildings in the business
section Of the city were threatened
for a time, The origin Of the fire is
unknown.
Sandusky-An even hundred resi-
dents of Sandusky and vicinity
have perfected organizations of what
Is to be known as the Erie county di-
vision OF the Ohio Good Roads feder-
alton.
They elected William L. Allerdorf.
cashier of the Commercial National
bank here, president; e. Lea Marsh,
vice president; Attorney Russell X.
Ramsey, secretary, and Fred p. Zol-
linger, president of the Third Ma
tional Exchange bank, treasurer.
Cleveland. - Following an argu-
ment in the saloon of John Dad
dano, E. 13th-st and Webster-av S. f..
a man, known only by his first name,
Walter, was shot and killed. Police
say one of the men in the saloon took
a revolver and followed the victim
into the street and shot him three
times in the side. He fell dead and
his body was taken to the county
morgue.
leveland-School teachers from
all sections of northeastern Ohio,
members Of the Northeastern Ohio
Teachers association, held two-day
meeting in this city.
st. Clairsville. Over FIVE miles
from producer an unshot oil
we'll drilled into the Berea sand
Tuesday ON the Obed Hardesty farm
is said to have a 150-barrel production
Geneva.-Defying the opposition
of Emperor Franz Joseph of Aus
tria and the powerful house of