Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1913-11-07
Buckeye Notes
Western Newspaper Union, Special
News Service.)

years old, we'll known as a motor
cycle racer throughout southern Ohio,
died in a local hospital from injuries
received when he was thrown from
his machine while travelling at a so.
mile speed on a local turnpike. He
was thrown 40 feet, alighting on his
head and fracturing his skull.
Marion. = Marvin Woodruff, aged
sc, wealthy resident of Van
Vert, who recently gave 100000 to the
Lutheran church at Van Vert, killed
himself by hanging at the Sawyer
sanitarium.
Coshocton. - Edward Baker, aged
45, a wealthy farmer, was found
mangled beyond recognition along the
Toledo, Walholding Valley & Ohio
railroad tracks at the north edge of
Coshocton. Police believe he was
sandbagged, robbed of the proceeds
Of the sale of his farm and then
placed on the tracks to cover up the
crime.
GAINESVILLE. - Mrs. G. w. Thurner,
entering the room Of her mother
in-law, Mrs. Martha Thurner, aged
81, found the woman dead. Her cloth
Ing had caught fire from an open
CRATE. Mrs. Thurner was feeble and
unable to help herself.
Lorain. - Curtis Allan, aged So,
Bellevue, was killed when a Nickel
Plate car plunged through the draw
of the bridge over Black river and fell
40 feet into the water.
Wooster-A rearend collision of
freight trains near Loudonville cost the
life of George Wallace, Pennsylvania
line fireman, and seriously injured
Frank Hoffman, engineer.
Lancaster. - Barton Griffith, an at
torney, Columbus, in his automo-
bile collided with the machine of
F. M. Kreyssig, Haydenville, and
knocked it off a bridge, two miles
west of Carroll, Fairfield county. Mr..
Kreyssig, his wife, mother and two
sons were pinned under the car in a
creek. The wife suffered internal in
juries which, it is feared, will cause
her death
Lorain.-Douglas Wagner, former
board of health member, who re-
signed Wednesday,, was arrested
Thursday on warrant charging
him with soliciting a bribe. The war
rant was sworn to by DR.. Charles V.
Carver council member, and charges
that on Oct. Is Wagner asked him for
$3.50 as a consideration for Wagner's
vote to remove DR.. E. V. Hug from
the position of city health officer and
to vote for DR.. Carver to fill the va.
cancy.
Cincinnati-After being out less
than an hour jury in the United
States district court here reached a
verdict of guilty in the case of Charles
c. Shepard, 90, formerly a barber of
Ironton, o., charged with violating
the Mann white slave law.
Pansy Lipscomb, IT, accused Shep-
ard of meeting her while she was
waiting for train at the Covington,
KY, depot to go to Butler, KY, and
under false pretenses induced her to
go to Ironton with him. The girl tes-
titled that she thought he was accom-
panying her to Butler. An Ironton
hotel register showed that Shepard
registered with her as Charles Shep-
ard and wife,"
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 1t and leaped out,
falling to the court, distance of
probably 30 feet. The injuries and
shock caused his death a half hour
later,
Sandusky.-An even hundred resi-
dents of Sandusky and vicinity
have perfected organizations of what
is to be known as the Erie county d.
vision of the Ohio Good Roads feder-
alton.
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.
East Liverpool. - ]. H. Beard,
mayor of Salinaville and pastor
of the Christian church of that
village, has resigned both jobs. The
minister-mayor says that the remuner.
alton was not sufficiently attractive.
He will go into the insurance business.
Dayton. = One man, believed to
be either Dennis Greenburg or
Dennis Gibson, 25, resident of To
ledo, was killed when c., H. & D. pas
senger train No. 7, 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
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