The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-01-08
Buckeye Notes

LOrain.-Tne nrSt DaDy Dorn IN
Lorain in 1914, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry Buttle, was showered with
practical and unusual gifts. The baby
won race for the prizes offered by
Lorain paper. He was born at three
seconds after midnight.
A daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tony
Kules arrived 27 seconds later. Eight
children were born in the night. Be
sides a cab, S5 bank account, all
manner of clothes and music for the
baby's christening, offered by an or
chestra, the father received a case Of
beer and bottle of wine.
Cleveland.-A hundred passengers
in an esstbound st. Clair-av car
we're bruised and shaken up when an
interurban straddled the switch at E.
11Oth-st and sideswiped the city troll
ley. The traction car was hurled from
the rails, turned half way round, and
stood careening at a dangerous angle,
blocking the tracks.
GAINESVILLE. = After John F. Jen-
nings, proprietor of q restaurant
here, and his brother, Orrin Jennings,
were arrested by Deputy State Fire
Marshals Miller and Davis, a charge
of arson was preferred against them.
The restaurant was on fire Dec. 16,
and several days before that John F.
Jennings had increased his insurance
from $500 to $1,000. When a second
fire occurred at the same restaurant
Dec 21 Fire Chief Tanner notified the
state fire marshal.
Several families live above the res
taurant, which is in the heart of the
city. Night watchmen discovered both
fires before they had spread and the
damage in both cases was trifling
Haskins.-Burglars blew open the
safe in the office of the Has
kins Farmers Grain Co., stole several
hundred dollars, broke into the Brand
& Moore hardware store and carried
away $125 worth of knives, silver
ware and revolvers, and burglarized
the general store of Earl Brown and
stole $125 worth of wearing apparel.
They decamped without being seen.
Napoleon. - Mrs. Mary Donnelly,
aged 60, wife of Appellate Judge
M. Donnelly Of this place, died from
nervous collapse suffered recently in
Ann Arbor, Mich, where the Don
nelly's were wintering while educating
three sons. She is survived by her
husband and six children.
No1
aged Is, son of J. N. Waters, went
through the ice on the Scioto river
while skating and drowned.
Newark.-C. c. Hughes of Utica
will be recommended for appoint
ment as postmaster by Congress
man w. A. Ashbrook. There were
two other candidates, S. B. Hull and
Knowlton Alsorf. Either was salts
factory to Ashbrook. The contest was
settled by the candidates meeting
Ashbrook and agreeing on mat:hing
coins, the first odd head" or tail"
to be the winner. Hughes won on the
first toss,
Van Wert,-Otis Bailey, aged "a,
IdlilOdu DIdhSIHdl llOIH FOII
Wayne, Ind, has asked to be locked up
as bigamist. He married Letha
Rutledge, May 16, 1912, at Hillsdale,
Mich. In July he married Florence
Case in the belief that his wife had
obtained a divorce. He learned later
that he had been misinformed.
Salem. - Charles c. Snyder,
wealthy dry goods merchant, who
died here recently, willed $4,000
to the Methodist Episcopal church of
Salem, interest from which sum, the
will stipulates, is to be used to buy
candy for children at Christmas time
each year. Large sums were left to
the Home for Aged Women and other
organizations.
Washington, D. Crank B. Niles,
internal revenue collector at To-
ledo, has opened negotiations through
the state department by which he
hopes to get a colony of Dutch set
tiers for marsh lands north of Toledo,
along Lake Erie. A large tract there
partly under water is to be reclaimed
and turned into garden farms by the
method employed in Holland.
Columbus. - Records of the state
bureau of mines show that the
year just closing has witnessed
greater loss of life among coal miners
than any other year in the history of
the state In the calendar year to date
there have been 165 fatalities in the
coal mines. In 1912 there were 1876.
An explosion in a mine in Noble coun.
ty that cost Is lives was the greatest
calamity of the year.
1t was because of this long list of
accidents that efforts were made by
the coal commission to prepare a
safety measure that would stop the
slaughter.
Dayton. - John Ritty, sixty-five,
veteran of the civil war, who is cred.
tied with inventing the cash register,
died at the home of his sister, Mrs.
Thomas Cooper, here. He got his idea
of cash register from watching the
distance recording device in the boiler
room Of an ocean liner. Although the
cash register has made millions for
those who developed the idea, Ritty
died in only fair circumstances.
Columbus, O.-Miss Hazel Curtis,
aged 20, daughter of Preston G. Cur.
tbs, railroad contractor, was perhaps
fatally burned in her home here. The
young woman was alone in the house
when she discovered her dress had