The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-02-05
Buckeye Notes

Canton. - Pinned for three-quarters
OF an hour beneath a switch engine at
the B. & o. crossing ia Navarre-rd
S, W., Salvato Filippon, S5, crossing
tender, dictated last message to his
family and had the service for the
dying administered to him as a large
crowd looked on. Rev. ]. L. Wal
deisen, assistant pastor of st. Marys
Catholic church, crawled through mud
and clnders under the engine tender
to give the dying man the last sacra-
ment by the light OF a torch taken
from the locomotive cab.
Filippo lay helpless, crushed about
the waist and legs. The engine fin
ally was lifted with jacks and he was
extricated. Although he had been
conscious as the work of rescue pro-
gressed, Filippo became unconscious
after being released. He died at H.
gleside hospital soon after the am
bulance reached there with him. Flip
po fell under the engine while try
ing to alight at the crossing.
Cincinnati. Four policemen were
suspended as the result of an
investigation into their habits which,
was conducted by Chief of Police
Copeland. The investigation came
| about through certain letters written
to former Mayor Hunt and one found
on bridge over the Ohio river. The
letters reflected on the moral char
acter of policeman. The letter found
on the bridge, with bundle of cloth
ing, led the police to believe a girl
had jumped into the river with her
baby.
The policemen examined admitted,
it is said, that they visited room
back of plumbing shop on 7th-st and
drank intoxicants.
Akron. - Daylight robbers entered
the home of Oscar d. Crum
here and after taking several dol
lars from a >babys bank, made
away with $75 worth of jewelry be-
longing to Mrs. Crum.
The thieves entered by breaking a
lock in the rear of the house. Mrs.
Crum returned from a shopping trip
to find clothing and furniture scat
tered about in all the rooms. Police
believe the thieves took at least an
hour to rob the house.
Chardon. - Climbing upon stove
and reaching to a shelf, Caryl
Sterling Short, 20 months old, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. H. c. Short of New
bury, drank laudanum from bottle.
The child complained Of feeling
drowsy and Mrs. Short, unaware of
what he had done, rocked him to sleep
which brought death.
Cleveland. - Chagrin Falls town.
ship was voted dry at the local option
election by vote of 46 to 2S.
Dayton. - Elk Congressman C. @.
Hidebrant of Wilmington, Charles
Thomas, Leo Weitz, clerk of Clin-
ton county courts, and A. W.
Doan, deputy probate Judge of the
same county, were knocked uncou-
scious when they were hurled from
Mr.. Thomas auto near Alpha, Greene
county.
Marysville. - Nineteen horses, so
tons of hay, grain and farming
implements were burned up when
a barn owned by Newton Gra-
ham, one mile east of Marysville,
caught fire. The loss is $4,000. The
fire is believed to have been of in
cendiary origin
Cincinnati-The body of Mrs. Mil
lie Hurrell, 20 years old, was found
wedged underneath her bed in her fiat
here. There was a jagged wound in
her temple and her skull was frac-
tured in two places. Her arms were
crossed on her chest and her entire
body swathed in towels.
Lima. = Clement Strawser, aged s,
fell from the front porch of his
home into puddle of water four feet
below. He died shortly afterwards
in hospital. Investigation disclosed
that a nail in piece of board at the
bottom of the puddle had pierced his
skull.
Fremont. - Swint brothers, who
are proprietors of large stone
quarries here, have decided to adopt
q profit-sharing plan such as is in
vogue at the Ford plant in Detroit.
The quarrymen have announced to
heir employees that in addition to thei.
daily wages they would be paid a
bonus on the tonnage of stone quar-
ried and stone crushed. The first
lays work showed an increased ton
mage of 40 tons. The men expect
about 20 cents day more in ray ac-
cording to the stipulation of the new
plan.
Port Clinton. = Ohio lost prom,
nent fruit grower by the death
# William Miller, 60, of Gypsum which
vas caused by apopleXy. He was one
If the organizers of the first fruit
company in this county and was the
irst Gypsum man to grow peaches for
market. He was active in the Ottawa
county farmers institute and for years
served as president of the Ohio state
board of agriculture, and president of
he Ohio Horticultural society.
Akron. = John Miller, aged 40, com.
nitted suicide here by throwing him.
'elf under Baltimore & Ohio passen.
ger train.
Newark. : Jacob Woodruff, be-
ieved to be the oldest man in
he state, died at the licking county
nfirmary at the age of 112 years. He
las been an inmate of the institution
or more than 40 years, and though
he records do not show the date of