The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-10-15
Buckeye Notes

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Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Toledo-Brig. Gen. Edgar R. Kel-
logg, U. s. A., retired, died at his home
here,
Gen. Kellogg was 72. He served
throughout the four years of the Civil
war and later saw service at the battle
Of San Juan in the Spanish-American
war. Gen. Kellogg was born in Nor
walk. o. On the day that Fort Sumter
was fired upon he enlisted in the oath
Ohio Volunteers. At the close of the
Civil war he was a captain. His body
will be taken to Norwalk.
Crestline. - Playing cowboy" was
fatal to Paul Morton, aged 10, son
of Harry Morton of this town. Morton
and school chum, John Burcaw, son
of l.. d. Burcaw, returned from school
to the Burcaw home drenched with
rain and went upstairs to change their
clothing. Finding two old army pis-
tolls, the boys barred to the waist and
proposed playing cowboy.
The Burcaw boy got the drop on his
chum and young Morton fell dead with
bullet in his head. Burcaw was dis
tracted, saying, he had taken car
tridges from the pistol several days ago
and didn't know it had been loaded.
Lima. - Fifteen hundred dollars
worth of ice was destroyed in a
fire which swept the plant of the
Hover Ice Co. at McCullough's lake.
But for the warning of Capt. ]. Wilcox,
Assistant Chief Harry Eyster and
Fireman John Burgoon would have
been caught under falling walls. Both
escaped with slight injuries. The loss
on the plant was $4,000.
Youngstown. - Cincinnati was an
nounced as the next place of con-
vocation of the Ohio grand chapter
of Royal and Select Masons, which
terminated it's S5th annual convention
in this city. The fraternal assembly,
in which were 800 visiting Masons,
formally thanked the city for its hos
pitality.
Observation-Disclosures Carnegie will
give the Methodist church $1,000 to
help pay for an organ, provided the
congregation raises an equal sum, ac-
cording to announcement Just made
public.
Sandusky. - Judgment for $14,-
7S1.16 was returned by a jury in
court of common pleas here in favor
Of Mrs. Carrie Brennan, whose hus-
band, motorman, was killed in a
wreck near the Soldiers home two
years ago, against the Lake Shore
Electric Railroad Co.
Napoleon. - Mrs. John Brown was
seriously burned on her head and
arms and her husband suffered
injuries to his arms while remoV-
ing her clothing when her dress
preached the home of Mrs Schilling to
arrest her the woman fired several
shots at him, but he was not hit and
finally succeeded in arresting her. Mrs.
Schilling is believed to be insane.
Sandusky. - The board of direc-
tors of the Cedar Point Resort Co.
has decided to erect q 500-room
hotel on the Sandusky bay shore Of
the resort. The building will consist
of five wings. The announcement was
made by President George A. Boeck-
ling of the company,
Sandusky. - Twenty-Five veterans,
wards of the institution, have been
killed by street cars since the
Ohio Soldiers and Sailors home was
opened. according to statistics COM
piled for certitication to the fedral
pension bureau.
Massillon. The expansive girth
of John Cincinnati Of Navarro is
a burden in more ways than one.
When his son Robert. two, fell
into the cistern at his home he unhesi-
tatingly jumped into the circular open
ing, but his stomach stopped him, and
he hung suspended, kicking his legs in
the cistern and calling for help. Finally
he dropped through. Neighbors res.
cued both. Neither was seriously in
jured.
Sandusky. - By forming a hu.
men chain, tugmen off the tug Gay
nor effected rescue after the fashion
of the one that marked the familiar
old melodrama, THE Span of Life"
when Mrs. William Dress. 35, of w.
Water-st, was discovered in the B. &
o. elevator slip
Defance.-Mistake for a ground.
hog through deep foliage on &C.
count of the color of his hat, Felix
De Rosa, "a, unmarried, was shot and
killed by Emmett Traxler, 19-year-
old hunter.
Bellefontaine. - Young Busser of
Champaign county recently lost two
diamonds valued at $500. He of.
fered $50 reward for their return,
and has just paid the money to his
daughter. who found the gems in the
back yard of their home.
Lima. - More than $3.50 worth Of
narcotics was stolen from the
offices of DR.. ]. C. Pence. Lima
physician. and officials of the state
dairy and food department. who have
an exhibit at the Allen county fair
here, are investigating. The robbery
was committed while the physician
was absent from his Office, and it is
the general belief of the police that
the man who committed the theft is
wanted for the illegal use of drugs.
Entrance was gained to the Office by
use of skeleton key.
st. Clairsville. - The union min
ers supply store at Provident, near
here, was destroyed by fire with loss
of $4,000, the second time since the
coal strike began seven months aro
The second story of the building was
used as school for foreign children.
Newark. - After being adjudged