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

corpse for burial. AS he approached
the slab he heard snores coming from
the supposed corpse
He turned on the electric lights and
saw the corpse standing in the cor
ner of the room and a derelict Sleep
ing calmly in its place.
In court the man gave his name as
Edward Sifton of Toledo, and ex-
planned he was looking for a quiet
place to sleep.
Toledo. - While Mrs. Paul G.
Retzke and her two small chill
dren were asleep on the first floor
of their two-story frame residence in
| Western-av, the tank of a hot water
heater in a closet over the bedroom
burst and the mother and both chill
dren were seriously scalded.
Toledo.-After relatives and friends
had searched unsuccessfully for him,
Frank Blaszczki, aged thirty-one, la
borer at the c., H. & d. roundhouse,
was found drowned in an ash pit 200
feet south of the roundhouse. The pit
contains IL feet of water.
Cleveland. - Rev. Elias D. Whit
lock, seventy, father of Brand Whit
lock, mayor of Toledo, died at st.
Luke's hospital here few hours after
the announcement of his sons ap-
pointment as United States minister to
! Belgium. Rev. Whitlock for 40 years
had been a leader among Methodist
ministers of Ohio. His death followed
brief attack of pneumonia, contract
ed shortly after his arrival here two
weeks ago to visit his son, w. G.
Whitlock, 1895 Westlake-av, Lake
wood. Rev. Whitlock retired from the
pastorate of fashionable Fremont
church two years ago to undergo an
operation.
Fostoria. - Bloodhounds are being
used in an effort to trace the
author of a fire which destroyed
George Esselbaugh's barn with loss
of $1,000. The barn was partially in
sured.
GAINESVILLE. - Stephen Archer, alias
Frank Bates, was arrested in Chan
dersvills by Sheriff j. j. Frick on a
charge of stealing a horse and buggy
from George Blackburn, livery man Of
Ava, Noble county. He is said to have
hired the rig Wednesday and that
night tried to sell it.
Cincinnati. - Major ]. T. Sprake,
who was in charge of the Saliva
tion Army Home for Workingmen
when it was destroyed recently and
five persons lost their lives, was
found guilty and fined $25 and costs in
police court for failing to obey an
order of the chief of the fire depart
ment to clean up the building.
1t was claimed that considerable
rubbish was in the place, and that
several days before the fire Maj
Sprake received orders to remove it,
which he failed to do.
Steubenville. After wandering
thirty-six hours in big sewer mains
under the streets of the city, unable to
make his cries for help heard, Steve
Hobolo, 23, an employe at the Carne-
gle steel plant, was rescued at noon
insane.
1t is believed Hobolo in some way
crawled into sewer entrance at the
river bank and was unable to find his
way out
Passersby finally heard faint noises
under manhole and pulled Hobolo
out, nearly starved and raving.
Chardon. - Miss Margaret Will
son, daughter of President Wilson,
sent the Geauga county tomato
girls some beautiful flowers and a
permit which will take the girls
through the White House.
The photograph of Miss Ethel Seeley
in her tomato patch has been placed
in text book, which will be used in
schools all over the United States.
This is the first time that a picture
of this kind has been placed in any
text book.
Xenia. = c. G. Jackson, former
cashier of the defunct Osborn State
bank. closed by the state bank
examiner was arrested at his home in
Hamlet, Clermont county, on two
criminal charges preferred by Charles
R. Miles, former Osborn business man.
The charges are that Jackson received
money for deposit after having knowl-
edge of the insolvent condition of the
bank, and that he made false entries
on the banks books by substitution of
notes. Miles deposited $500 in the
bank the day before it was closed.
Jackson was brought to Osborn and
arraigned. He pleaded not guilty and
waived preliminary examination His
bond was fixed at $6,000
Cincinnati, O.-Frederick Bader,
who recently became county aud
itor, dropped dead at the home of
friend whom he was visiting for
Christmas. The cause was given by
the coroner as fatty degeneration of
the heart.
Toledo. - While walking along
the bank of Swan creek, near
the foot of Westinghouse, man be-
lieved to be Patrick Pewter, Cleveland,
fell into the water and was drowned.
Motor Patrolman Rovey and Sergt.
Reilly recovered the body
Toledo. - John Jopp, a lineman,
was electrocuted instantly and e.
Ufer, driver, badly shocked and
rendered unconscious in an alley
between Prescott and Floyd-sts. Both
men were employees of the Home Tele-
phone Co. They were stringing tele-
phone wire when it caught in tree
and became crossed with a high ten
sion wire.