The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-07-27
BUCKEYE NOTES.
News From All Sections Of
the State

to Charity hospital and probably will
die. He claims he was at the hotel
to collect a bill.
sandusky. - Dorothy Neill Of this
city and Josephine Morgan of Co
lumbus rescued Misses Thelma
Holzaepfel and LYDIA Woodward, both
of this city, from drowning in Lake
Erie off Kelleys island.
LoVeland. - Charles Bard, a farm
hand, charged with the murder Of
James Bell, railroad conductor, at the
home of the latter on Camargo pike,
has been held for grand jury action
by Mayor Harper.
sandusky.-Lester B. Lytle, aged
thirty, of Fremont, brother Of R. F.
Lytle of Cleveland, was killed and two
other men and three girls injured here
when an auto in which the party was
returning to Fremont from this city
turned turtle.
Hamilton. = Frank Gardner, aged
Sc, an employe of the Champion
Coated Paper Co., was forced against
a machine by the shell of a roll of
paper and his breast was so badly
crushed that he died.
AshtabuIa. - Fred Spencer, the
proprietor of the Ashtabula hand
laundry, after suffering from an abb
dominal abscess for several days, was
relieved when a 22-caliber bullet that
Spencer had carried in his body for 18
years was emitted.
circIeviIle. - Miss Kate Decker
was killed outright, Miss Gertrude
Perrill died later Of crushed
skull, Harold Decker is suffering
broken leg and Clifford H. Decker, the
father, is badly bruised as the result
of collision between their automobile
and Scioto valley traction car at
Fairview, four miles north of here.
Cleveland. - Fred C. Seller, aged
IS, was found dead in a dark room of
an old building in Harrison-rd. A
broken window showed where the
murderer had crawled in. Death was
due to strangulation and beating. Sell
Zer belonged to an old and wealthy
family Of this city, but had become
derelict.
SaIinevilIe. - When a swarm Of
hornets frightened a team of horses
that he was driving, Charles Fury,
45, farmer, was thrown against
the sharp knives of a moving ma
chine. His left leg was terribly
mangled
AshtabuIa.-Dorothy Beckwith, aged
three years, ran in front of q
large touring car on the south ridge
near here and received injuries which
caused her death. The car was driven
by Kenneth Rogers. Authorities held
the driver blameless.
Port Clinton The first ship
ment of the 1925, ,000-bushel peach
crop of Ottawa county has been made
by George Hollinshead, who has the
distinction of being the first grower Of
northern Ohio to put early peaches on
the market.
Elyria - Lightning striking one
barn on the farm of Garfield
Harris, between this city and Oberlin,
also consumed two other barns, to-
gether with 80 tons of hay and farm
machinery. The loss is $4,000.
Cleveland Karl Meyers, aged
49, head checkman at the New York
Central station, was attacked by high.
waymen as he was entering his home
in Lakewood and shot twice in abdo.
men. His assailants escaped.
Observation-Disclosures in the EN-
pire rolling mills had a miracu.
lous escape from death wher fly
wheel weighing IL tons burst and the
pieces were thrown through the walls,
One piece was thrown 800 feet from
the pit. No one was hurt.
Elyria.-Steve Gordon was fined
$50 and costs and was sentenced
to serve 10 days in Jail for selling in
toxicating liquors to Charles Davis, a
minor. Davis was fined $40 and costs
for entering a saloon.
FindIay.-The county Jail is empty
for the first time in many months.
ZanesvilIe.-In the common pleas
court here the divorce case of How.
ard Chandler Christy, the artist
against his wife, Maybelle Christy
was dismissed upon formal request oi
Christy's lawyers.
Marion.-John J. Crawford, aged
70, former president of the Marion
school board, is dead of paralysis
When young man he was sent to
the University of Illinois by former
Speaker Uncle Joe" Cannon.
AIIiance.-Former Mayor Andrew l.
Keller, aged 66, of Orrville, died
in the City hospital. He was operated
on several weeks ago in a Wooster
hospital For years he was superin
tendent of the champion Thresher Co.
of Orrville.
Dayton.-A fireworks accident to
7-year-old Margaret Kirkham resulted
In her death.
Marion.-Police are looking for the
meanest man. w. E. Harrison, blinG
broom salesman, was held up anC
robbed of $31.10.
CleVeland.-The City hospital has
the first case of pellagra reported il
Cleveland in years. The patient is 6
woman.
Van Wert.-Peter Anostoseff, whit
staggered into Delphos wounded, hal
confessed to the police that he sho
himself. He may live.
Fostorla.-Mrs. Newton Kemp wen
to sleep with her baby in her arms
When she awoke it was dead. 1t haC
smothered.
Toledo. - While armed guards
are patrolling the Jersey coast in
search Of the man-eating sharks
boys of South Toledo are patrolline
the tow paths of the Miami & Erie
canal, searching for four-foot alliga
tor that has driven them from their
swimming holes.
Eiyria. - The Elyr;a chamber oi
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