The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-12-28
BUCKEYE NOTES
News Fran Al Sections uf The Stats

H~~A-A'AAAAnt 80 AASAAs VI SeASAAn.
who brings from st. Joseph, Mo-, HE
manufacture of "autocamps," a motor
ing auxiliary Of his own invention.
Salem. - A truck carrying seven
employees of the Salem Lighting Com
pany was struck by an interurban
car. Two telephone poles against
which the truck was thrown were
snapped off. Edward Mckee suffered
fractured rib. George Bryan a bro
ken nose and Clinton Scott bruises.
steubenvilIe. - Because the faith.
| full watchdog died of heart fail
ure Just as Chief OF Police Blaine,
Carter and squad of police rushed .,
house, inmates failed to hear the usual
yelp of warning and the officers con-
Quoted successful raid on a speak
easy.
Newark. - Council has increased
the salaries of all police and
| firemen IS a month and restored vaca-
tions, which were taken from the men
two years ago. Employees Of the COM
bined light and water plant were also
given an increase.
Tiffin.-George d. Loomis, Tifnn
business man, celebrated his birthday
by donating $500 to Mercy hospital
Dayton. ri did this because
cannot have health. God for
give me. My money is in the Germania
| Building association. This will pay
my expenses" This was the note left
TO his wife by William L. Bitman, 81,
who threw himself under street car.
| CoIumbus.-A chair William Nc
Kinley used while governor of Ohio
and a leather topped desk used by
| former Gov. Salmon p. Chase, later
treasurer of the United States, were
found in the budget commissioners Of
fee The furniture may later be taken
! to the historical museum.
Ottawa. - Gilbert Fox, aged q,
was found guilty by Putnam
county jury of attacking an officer.
| Fox participated in the Lima riot Aug.
| 80, in which Sheriff Sherman Ely was
| attacked by a mob when he refused to
tell where he had taken negro pris-
oner.
iOlCuOs--IbtNClFSI w dllCl d. INOO6
of the Glover Leaf railroad has
been ordered by Federal Judge
Killits to disregard the provis-
! ions of the Adamson eight-hour law
until the supreme court has decided
on its constitutionality.
Tiffin. - James c. Cline, aged
| AZ, well known horseman, died sud
denly following a cerebral attack.
Cline came here from Belfast, Ireland,
20 years ago, and made a small for
tune on the turf.
Cincinnati - The United States
circuit court of appeals affirmed
| decision by United States Judge
Killits of Toledo thereby sus-
tanning his ruling finding the Toledo
| News Co., operators of the Toledo
| NewsBee, and N. D. Cochran, an
| editor on that paper, in contempt Of
/ court. The case grew out of criticism
of an injunction against enforcement
of an ordinance granting three-cent
| fare on the street railway.
Martins Ferry.-The largest pay
in its twenty-five years of operation
has been handed to the 1900 en-
ployeS of the Laughlin plant of the
! American Sheet & Tin Plate Co. here.
The pay approximates 100000 and is
due to increased tonnage due to
greater efforts of the men to augment
their Christmas pay.
Sandusky - Mrs. Peter Borolock
was killed at Kelleys Island when she
stepped from the island quarry track
to let one engine pass and, blinded by
steam, stepped in front of another
engine.
Marion.-When working inside a
John Dalton, aged "a, was electro
cuted by faulty insulation on an cleo
trio lamT, which he carried.
Akron. Knocked down by
freight car that was being shunt-
ed back of the B. F. Goodrich Co.'S
plant, Glenn Jones, %, had his left leg
crushed under the wheels and died
soon afterward in the hospital.
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.
MarysViIIe. 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 guam
tity of hay and grain
Youngstown. - A quart of pure
alcohol, purchased by Tom Sovitovich,
aged So, proved the mans death
warrant. He had tried to drink it as
liquor and had nearly succeeded, as
was disclosed when police found him
lifeless in bed with but a few droDs
OF the fluid remaining in the bottle
beside him.
Youngstown. - DR.. L. B. Chabut
was arrested here by federal Off
GERS on charges of violating the
Harrison narcotic law.
Youngstown. - E. D. Hamilton
of Aiken, S. c., was killed and
William Salt of New York was
perhaps fatally injured by an expIo-
sion in the plant of the Hercules Pow
der Co, near here.
ToIedo.-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.
Bellefontaine. - Herber B. Osborn,
aged AZ, farmer, fell while fix
ing a line shaft in his pump house
and suffered a broken neck.
EIyria.-While a sample of fluid
taken from the spine is being
analyzed in Cleveland to ascertain, R