The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-04-30
Buckeye Notes
Western Newspaper Union News service.


Weadock and Deputy Sheriff Baxter
investigated, while a posse Of farmers
began search for stranger who, the
girl says, tore her school books away
and forced her at the point OF a re-
volver to write a note to her father.
The note, incomplete, written on a
scrap of paper hurriedly torn from her
copybook, reads:
Send $4,000 and my rings, and
#"
The girl, on regaining consciousness,
said the stranger told her that he in
tended to take her to Toledo and use
the $4,000 from her father to make an
actress of her.
Bowling Green.-Lucian Swartz, 50
years old, a farmer of Wood county,
was killed at the railroad crossing
near Stony Bridge when a Big Four
train hit his wagon. One horse was
also killed.
Delaware. - The Springfield con-
ference of the Miami synod, in
session here, elected the following
officers: President, Rev. C. c. Roof of
UrSana; secretary, Rev. H. L. Green
await Of Newark; treasurer, Rev. s.
H. Schwarm of Springfield.
Newark. The body of Jerome
Simpson, so years old, a prominent
farmer, near here, was found under
meath several sacks of mill feed and a
big farm wagon. He had evidently
smothered to death, as there were no
marks of violence on him. The wagon
was overturned in a ditch.
Alliance. - Falling into a big kettle
in which feed was being cooked
| for the cattle, three year old
Helen Greenawalt of Beloit sustained
burns from which she died a few
| hours later.
Marietta. - James P Clark, editor,
and Robert Owens, assistant editor of
the Marietta College Olio, a publica-
tion conducted by the student body,
were given public reprimand by the
college authorities for having bitterly
assailed President Hinman of the col.
lege in the April Olio.
Sidney. r. V. Jones,
aged So years, died at his home in Sid.
ney after several days illness Of heart
trouble. He had been postmaster for
16 years and was appointed by Presi.
dent Mckinley.
Ravenna.-Charles Albright, aged
"a years, of Sistersville, w. Va, was
decapitated by a Baltimore &c Ohio
train at Wayland. The dead man and
young fellow with him were desert
ers from the United States army, In
which the survivor said they enlisted
three months ago.
Uhrichsville.-Joseph Johnson, aged
eighty years, is dead, and Dr. G. w
Havertield, 65, is thought to be dying
as result of fire here. Johnson fel
against and open case fire. His heaG
was burned completely off. DR.. Hav
erfield was overcome by gas fumes.
Akron.-Deputy sheriffs frustrated q
Jail delivery when they discovered two
small bars on a cell window on tAe
first floor had been sawed.
Dayton. = Flying without a hand
on the controlling levers, Orville
Wright, at the Dayton aviation field
set a new record for fight in ar
aeroplane controlled only by stabil
iZer. For 10 minutes the biplane
circled in the air without human con
troll, Mr.. Wright breaking the record
of II minutes established on Dec. 81
last.
Fremont. - Thomas Williams, gar
age owner and Mrs. Maude Lesh
er were seriously injured and Bot
Krugh and Babe Forsythe were
slightly injured when an auto owned
by Williams and driven by Krugt
skidded, turned turtle and landed in &
ditch containing three feet of water.
Youngstown. - Indictments agains
the trustees of fraternal clubs
which operated bars in connec
tion with their club rooms, have
been nolle pressed. The clubs refused
to take out state licenses and the
trustees were indicted. The club.
have agreed to quit selling liquor.
Marysville. - A petition in bank
ruptcy has been filed in the Uni
ted States court by Paul Fuerst, /;
merchant of Raymond, this county
His liabilities are placed at $4,000 anc
his assets at only $500.
Kenton. - The midnight wall O
five-month-old infant daughter il
thought to have saved the lives O
Mr.. and Mrs. Rufus Draper anC
their six children. Coal gas escapins
from heating stove as result of &
clogged flue had filled the living room
as we'll as the sleeping rooms of thu
family residence. The mother, awak
ened by her baby's cry, detected some
thing was wrong. She was unable tt
arouse other members of the family
and summoned medical assistance. AL
were revived.
Steubenville.-Yeggs in robbing thu
Frank King real estate offices her,
passed up $4,000 worth of negotiable
securities. They stole but $50 il
money.
Mansfield. - Ross H. Rickner
20 years old, who risked his life in try
ing to save George H. Gribling from
being run down at grade CROSSING
here, died in the hospital.
Fremont. - Despondent over thu
death of her sister, Miss Am!
Rhodes, 60, jumped from the Ballvill,
bridge into eight feet of water in tn,
Sandusky river. Her body was re
covered.