The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-05-28
Buckeye Notes

Ashville. In his anxiety to make a
quick crossing he stalled the engine
just as his machine mounted the rails
AMI the traction car, whose motorman
had been frantically grinding his
emergency brakes, crashed into the
automobile.
The dead:
William NJ. Miller, so, president and
cashier of Citizens bank, Ashville.
Mrs. Agatha Miller, As, wife of Will
liam NJ. Miller.
Mrs Alice Stiger, 43, sister of VIII
liam Miller.
Mrs. C. E. Hill, 35, wife of Rev. c. E.
Hill of Mt. Sterling.
Vida Bond, Eve, daughter of DR.. H.
J. Bond of Ashville, dentist.
Mary Virginia Hill, 5, daughter Of
Rev. c. Il. Hill of Mt. Sterling.
Sidney. With his throat cut,
Otto Bohrer, aged 10, son of Henry
Bohrer, druggist here, was found dead
in the rear of his fathers drug store.
The discovery was made by Robert
Botter, 13, who works at the Bohrer
store. No motive is known for the
deed, as the young man had been
waiting on customers few minutes
before and was in jovial mood.
Calling his mother over the phone, 1t
is said, he told her to come up to the
store at once and after leaving the
phone he sent young Potter to deliver
| ha h0r Cd "a
found Otto lying with bloody razor
at his side.
Van Vert. Judge Hiram G.
Glenn of this city, who has been an
active member of the Odd Fellows
order in Ohio for so years, was ten
dered a surprise by Van Vert lodge,
No. 251, of which he became a mem.
ber June s, 1864. Judge Charles H.
Younger, grand master-elect of Celina,
| presented him with a gold jewel with
the figures so inlaid in diamonds. 1t
is the forty-fifth jewel presented in
the United States to Odd Fellows who
had been affiliated with the order SO
years.
Columbus. - Dragged down three
or four times and barely escap-
ing with his life, A. W. Collins, "a,
boys supervisor at the State School
for the Blind, was compelled to give
up an attempt to save the lives of two
of his pupils and watch them drown in
the Scioto river. The drowned boys
are: Fred Zindel, IT, Akron, and John
Weliver, II, Toledo. Between Is and
20 boys asked permission to go swim
ming, the first time this season. Mr..
Collins accompanied them.
Salem. - Attorney Frank Mercer,
aged 81, died of heart trouble while
sitting in chair at his home here.
For rs years h. had been practicing
attorney in Salem and was mayor for
two terms, having been an active Re,
publican.
Dayton. - Frank L. Baldwin OF
Youngstown was elected president OF
the Ohio Federation Of Humane socie'
ties and Charles Campbell of Cam.
bridge, first vice president.
Lima. - With the remark that
he Just wanted to lie down a
while" Lloyd Prater, resident of Lake,
view, near here, walked into the hotel
there and died before a physician
could reach him.
Akron. - Three girls, the Oldest
fifteen, two Of them sisters, were
taken out Of school by Detective Will.
son and detained at probate court on
charge Of petit larceny. The youngest
child, 10, stole first in December, she
declares, so she and her sister and
mother might have Christmas pres
ents. The oldest girl arrested is he1
sister
GAINESVILLE. - Muskingum county'S
oldest woman, Mrs. Jane Schwabe
who celebrated her 1O2d birthday Dec
10, died at the home of her daughter
Mrs. A. F. Munson, here.
Youngstown.-While chasing men
stealing iron on the premises Of the
Brier Hill Steel Co. James Fair, 65
dropped Of overexertion and died be
fore reaching the hospital
Columbus. - Gov. Cox has named
Arthur C. Johnson, managing editor
of the Columbus Evening Dispatch
trustee of Ohio university at Athens
for life. Mr.. Johnson Is an alumnus
of this institution.
Akron. - Burns suffered when he
fell into a pan, of boiling water
caused the death of John Ballas
Jr., two-year-old son of John Ballas
916 Westinghouse. The child was
playing alone in the kitchen when he
stumbled into the pan, left on the fiool
by his mother Death followed few
hours later.
Bellaire, = Henry Stock, farm
er, was shot and killed and Mrs
Peter Kuish was wounded by bullet.
fired. it is alleged, by the woman!
husband. officers are searching fol
Kuish in woods near the scene of thu
shooting. Stock and the woman were
driving along the public road at Stew
artsville, near here, when fired on.
Marion. - George D. Shockney O
Thurmont, Md, aged twenty-four years
pleaded guilty to bigamy and wa.
given an indeterminate sentence il
the Mansfield reformatory. Shockne!
told the court he thought his Mary
land wife dead when he married Mis-
Ethel CarliR Of Marion, formerl!
prominent in Gallon society.
Columbus. - Cooperation of tax
payers who discover official dere
LECTION is sought by State Auiito
Donahey in a circular being sent owe
the state. Mr.. Donabey promise
prompt aid in running down any re
ports.