The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-06-22
BUCKEYE NOTES
News From All Sections Of
the State

not resign ana would HBhI 10 retain
his position.
Gallipolis. - Officers captured East
man Alexander ut Point Pleasant,
near here. He is being held in
connection with the murder Of Spe-
cis' Agent II. L. Worries Ct the y. t. o.
railroad, killed a few nights acC J.; st.
Albans, w. Va. Alexander tried to
kill the officers before being overpow-
cred and shackled.
Middleport. - When the cashier
w. E. Russell, opened the Cit
liens National bank here Wednesday
he found that an attempt had been
made to blow the safe some time dur
ing the night A charge of nitrogly-
cerin was exploded on the vault door,
but failed.
Bellevue. - Leonard Cook, aged
twenty, was killed and Frank Sin
ming suffered a broken leg when a
large automobile in which they were
passengers skidded and overturned
just east of this city.
Akron.-Chamber OF commerce in
vestigators estimate that a lack of
houses here has driven 10000 men
from Akron since the first of the pres
ent year.
Findlay.-Work on the Dixie high
way Between this city and Bluffton has
been started It. will be paved with
brick The distance is II miles.
CleVeland.-Jerome Humphrey, 40,
dropped dead at League park just be-
fore the Indians made their first run
against New York.
Eaton.-Delton and Claude Wohr-
man found a den of blue racer snakes
while working on nearby farm. They
killed 16.
SpencervilIe.-Allen county citizens
Just completed an organization of a
volunteer army which undertook
to repair 20 miles of road in their COM
munity in a day. Equipped with 10
motor trucks, 10 tractors, $50 teams
and other implements, 500 men work
ing in 10 groups spent the day work
ing on the highways. Each group was
assigned to a section of road and a
prize was awarded at the close of the
days work to the group whose section
showed the greatest improvement.
Experts were in charge of each group.
Akron.-Showing what doctors agree
was a remarkable exhibition of nerve,
DR.. B. o. Miller, Akron surgeon, went
on the operating table at Peoples hos
pital and had his appendix removed
without taking an anaesthetic. While
Drs. H. H. Jacobs and r. H. Mckay
performed the operation, DR.. Miller
watched with keen interest and even
made suggestions to them as to pro-
cedure. He will recover.
Delaware.-The appointment of a
committee of II to consider the selec.
ton of a successor to President Her
bert Welch, recently elected bishop
of the Methodist Episcopal church,
was the most important action of the
trustees of Ohio Wesleyan university
at their session here. 1t is not expect
ed an appointment will be made for
several months.
Elyria.-Edward Giberson became
curious when he found a peculiar
metallic tube two inches long near his
machine at the Fay Stocking Co. He
started picking out the contents with
knitting needle. Now Giberson is
minus the thumb and three fingers for
the funny little tube was a dynamite
cap. His forehead will also be SCARED
for life.
Oberin.-Alumni day, with over SOC
old graduates of Oberlin back for the
festivities, marked the height of the
S3d commencement week The fea.
lures of the day were the alumni as
sembly, at which President Henry c.
King made his annual report, the an
nual class day exercises and the alum
nj night celebration on the campus.
Lorain. - Sturgeon are becoming
common in the fishing banks in Lake
Erie off Lorain. The Regar & Werner
fishermen brought in 140-pound
sturgeon. They caught a 120-pound
fish of the same variety before. A 12
pound pike was also included in the
catch. Fishing generally is improving
off Lorain.
Cincinnati. = Harry Armacost, the
conductor of a dorchester troll
ley car, and Miss Anna Miller, a pas
senger on the car, were probably fa
tally hurt and IL other passengers
were more or less seriously injured
when the car was struck by Big
Four railway switch engine at rail
way crossing.
cleVeland.-Miner G. Norton will
not run for the Republican nom
inatiOn for governor against Gov
Willis. He has withdrawn, explaining
he only entered to be in a position to
go after the nomination had Gov. Viii
lis been selected at Chicago as vice
| presidential nominee.
Canton. = Earl Deitz, aged 25
of New Berlin, principal Of the schools
of Wadsworth, was killed in the bus
lest section of the city as he was light
ing the tail light of his automobile
Bert Garmire of East Akron, driving
a car, crashed into the Deitz machine
and Deitz was crushed to death. Gar
mire was arrested and is being held Cn
charges of assault and battery and
reckless driving.
Cleveland. - Three children, girl
and two boys, we're seriously in
jured when railroad torpedo they
had found exploded in a brick fur
mace" they had built.
Youngstown. H. Donald, former
resident here, has been officially com
mended by British military authorities
for his daring achievement as an avi
ator in France.
SteubenVilIe. - Charles Vendent
aged %, a mill worker, sustained
fatal injuries here when an automobile
| ho xuoS driving Slxifda6 and InSot