The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-16
BUCKEYE NOTES
News From All Sections oil
the State

Western Newspaper Union News Service
Lima.-Five thousand persons. at
least half of whom came from
a distance, some as far as Iill-
nois and Philadelphia, were chased on
the baseball park here before the time
for the boxing bout between Jack Dill
Ion of Indianapolis and Yankee Gilbert
of New York was scheduled to start
Company c, Second regiment, Ohio
National Guard, did the chasing. On
orders from Adjt. Gen. Hough, Sherin
Sherman Eley commanded Col. Albert
e. Gale to assemble the militia. The
boxers and many of the promoters
were not on the grounds when the
militia arrived.
With 36 men Of his company, the
colonel marched to the ground, formed
long line in center field, fixed bayo-
nets and proceeded to sweep everyone
from the park.
The militiamen then posted pickets
about the fences and took charge. The
ring was torn down and seats carried
from the field.
Youngstown. - Extraction of one
of her molar teeth, from which
she had been suffering for several
weeks despite efforts of dentists and
physicians to relieve her, disclosed to
Mrs. A. Millman of Republican, that
the cause of her trouble was grape
seed that had lodged near the root
and started to germinate. Removal
of the seed gave instant relief.
Marion. = Referendum petitions on
the Sprague gerrymander and Nc
Dermott liquor decentralizer are
not invalidated here because some
of the signatures were duplicated,
Judge William E. Scof1eld ruled, when
passing on the 1900 names presented
in court by the Marion county board
of elections.
Wooster. "A gas well the estimat-
ed production of which is 25,-
100000 cubic feet daily was COM
pleted Wednesday on the Lindsay
farm in northwestern Wayne county.
The well was drilled by the Arco Oil
Co. Of Pittsburg.
Cleveland. - William Cullen Rudd,
president of the Chandler & Rudd
Co., and brother-in-law of John
D. Rockefeller, died at his home here.
Mr. Rudd, who was 20, had been in ill
health for more than two years, and
had not been active in business in
| that neriod
Portsmouth.-Heavy rainfall which
turned streams in this section
into torrents caused one death
and much crop damage. While at
tempting to ford Straight creek near
Piketon, Miss Margaret Miller was
swept away to her death.
Cincinnati.-John CLANCY, a driv-
er employed by brewing COM
pany here, was shot and almost in
stantly killed in Dayton, KY. Thomas
Ryan, also a driver, employed by a
grocery company, is under arrest,
charged with murder. The trouble be-
tween the two men started when
Ryan began to drive wagon and
would not join the union, the prisoner
told the police after his arrest.
Columbus Massey Golden, aged
81, of Reese station, was killed out
right and John Albright, 40, also of
Reese station, was so badly injured he
died later at a hospital, as the result
of a head-on collision in a fog of a
freight car and shop car of the Sci.
oto Valley Traction line at Reese sta,
ton, seven miles south of here.
Elyria. AN explosion of gasoline
in the garage of the Elyria Au
tomobile Co. here resulted in the
destruction of the building and two
nearby homes by fire. Losses from
the fire will amount to $4,000. The
homes destroyed were those of John
w. CLANCY and w. G. Walters.
Bowling Green.-Robert Russell, 81
years of age, Of Weston, brooded sc
much over running down Fred Kitch
en-, II, with his automobile here that
he died suddenly of the shock.
ToIedo.-High wind, accompanied
by incessant rain, forced a post
ponement Of Labor day observ
ance here by Toledo unionists. The
storm ragged for "a hours, and did con
siderable damage to property in thii
city and its environs. Reports O.
trees and electric light poles blown
down are numerous.
NeWark.-David Stiffen, confined
in the county Jail charged will
being an accomplice in the muE
der of Policeman Boscown, was caugh
. saving the iron bars of his cell b.
l Sheriff Charles Swank. Stiffen viii
/ be kept in solitary confinement unit
( after his trial.
!. Springfield. A resolution wa
1 adopted by unanimous vote b,
l the West Ohio Methodist Episcopa
conference commencing Presiden
!. Wilson for opening recent session O
: his cabinet with prayer.
' MarysVIlIe.-Howard Wood, age
16, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Fran
3 c. Wood of Claiborne, this county, wa
r instantly killed near his home Will
a attempting to board an Erie freigh
. train. His body was ground to pieces
q Akron. - According to story toll
t to Probation Officer Switzer here
( two Akron boys, Mike and job
!. Myer, II and 8, are being held a
8 hostages by man in Milwaukee, to b
Z released when their mother, Mr.
!. Katie Myer, Akron, promises to MARI
r the man. Switzer wrote to Milwaukee
t police, asking them to investigate.
q Urbana. - A colt almost destroye
:. John Umble's chances for the schoC
r board. 1t found a petition In hi
. coat living in a field and had chewe