The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-12-21
BUCKEYE NOTES
News From Al Sections Of the Stats

OF AIKEN, >. T., was Killed ano
William Salt of New York was
perhaps fatally injured by an expIo-
sion in the plant Of the Hercules Pow
der Co, near here. The men were
guards on the outside Of the building
and we're struck by flying timbers.
Warren. - Peter Jacco reported
to the Niles police that he was
held up and robbed of $40 on
the B. & 0. railroad in that city. Jacco
identified Jack Nagro and a man
named Firvue as the men who staged
the holdup.
Toledo.-Citizens of Helena, San
dusKy county, engaged in a gun
battle with ten bank robbers at
that place. The robbers blew the He
lena Banking Co. safe, but got only
some small change. The, whole town
was aroused by the explosion and
Frank Meyers, cashier, and others,
armed with shotguns and revolvers,
rushed to the bank. They were met
with a volley Of shots and sought
shelter. The yeggs continued their
work until the crowd of citizens be-
came so large that they feared to stay
longer They fed in autos.
MarysViIle. - Fire on the, farm
Of John Wilson, in Jerome town
ship, destroyed large stock barn and
contents, including 10 head of cattle,
four horses, an automobile and a guam
tity of hay and grain.
Bowling Green.--When their ma
chine was struck by an Ohio
Electric car near Tontogany, Manager
Charles j. Rapparlie, 29, of the Bell
Telephone Co. here, was instantly
killed and the two other occupants,
Clyde Delong, 80, and Otto Young, "a,
were badly hurt.
Youngstown. - DR.. L. 3. Chabut
was arrested here by federal Off
GERS on charges of violating the
Harrison narcotic law The arrest was
brought about by an investigation of
Inspector A. A. Cortol of Cleveland.
Dr. Chabut will be taken before the
United States commissioner at Can
ton and later to Cleveland.
Gallon. - While they were sit
ting in the caboose of an Erie
freight train, three men were instant
ly killed here in rear-end collision.
The dead are John Diday, engineer;
Walter Gillin, brakeman, and Fred
Holden, brakeman, all of Marion. In
fire which followed 10 cars were
burned.
SteubenViIIe. - Noble Hope, aged
twenty-five, was instantly killed at the
Pope tin plate plant here when a
crate of tin plate broke loose from a
crane and fell on him, crushing his
skull.
Oak Harbor. - Fletcher Gill is
known as Oak Harbor's hard luck
man. He has a broken hip, received
from a fall. Gill has had this same
leg broken three times.
Portsmouth. - Rather than sub
nit to an operation for the am
putation of a leg which he broke
in a fall from the G. & O. Northern
bridge seven weeks ago, H. B. Curtis,
%, of Vanceburg, XIV, got hold of
revolver at local boarding house and
fired bullet through his brain.
Warren. - Old employees of the
Harris Press works at Niles, who
have been striking for the past
eight months, met in this city and, by
a vote of "a to 13, decided to call the
strike off.
Portsmouth. - Making the second
victim in forty-eight hours, F. c.
Jakel, 80, of Amigo, Wis, fell of the
new c. & o. Northern bridge here and
was almost instantly killed.
Lorain.-Christopher Jackson, aged
en-. Elvria, was instantly killed at
Elyrla when he was struck by q B. &
o. train.
Akron. - Grant Furry, aged fifty,
WadswOrth, shot and killed his wife
in bed and then turned the weapon on
himself. The bodies were found in
bed by their children. They have
seven children. Police said Furry had
been drinking heavily.
New Lexington.-William Bowman,
4S, resident of Maxville, is dead of
paralysis.
MarysVille. - Mrs Louise Mitten-
dorf, the matron of the woman's re-
formatory, has abolished the striped
dresses which have been worn by
women prisoners for years.
Marion. II mail carriers knock
at the door probably saved the
life of Mrs. Frank Bensley. She
had been partially overcome by
gas fumes and her cries for help were
heard by the mail carrier, who carried
her to the open air.
Columbus. - Helen HUFF, postmis-
tress of Duncan Mills, was fined $50
and costs for making false accounts to
the government.
cincinnati.-Francis H. Baldwin. SO.
one of Cincinnati's Oldest publishers,
is dead.
Marion. - Frank Goslee, who es-
capped from the prison farm at
London, Sept. Is, was caught here. He
was living in Marion under the name
Of Charles Peck.
Columbus. Six hundred and
forty Ohio editors have been sent
invitations to attend a press smoker
to be provided by the Columbus Cham
Der Of Commerce in connection with
the Inauguration of Gov-elect James
M. Cox on the night of Jan s. James
W. Faulkner is chairman of the COM
mittee in charge.
Toledo.-Despondent over the death
of his mother. six weeks ago, Robert P.
Cummins, IS, shot and killed himself.
Findlay. - Daniel Baney, aged 56,
dropped dead in his harness store
at Vanlue while waiting on a Gus
tnT"er. He lived in this city.
-...SuOn. - Burt KiIe and Lucius
Parsons fought a gun duel with
a robber who broke into Leslie &
Kyle's store at East Chardon. Kile