The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-05-25
BUCKEYE NOTES
News From All Sections Of
the State

ordered by plants where strikes are
now in progress.
chardon.-Thomas ]. Pentock, forty
years old, a tailor, was burned to
death when an explosion wrecked and
burned a two-story business block
here. The blast is supposed to have
been due to the explosion of three
gallon can of gasoline in Pentock's
shop. which was on the second floor
Of the building.
Girard.-Eight hundred puddlers
employed by the A. M. Byers
Co. here have been notified that they
had been granted an increase in wages
of 674s cents ton for muck iron. The
plant is operated as an open shop and
the scale paid is slightly in advance of
that of the Amalgamted association.
Rittman.-An unidentified man ap-
parently thirty-fve years of age
was killed by train No. on the Erie
railroad a mile west Of Rittman. The
victim was we'll dressed and had $685.
in his pocket and wore hat contain
ing label of a Pittsburg store.
Fremont.-Mrs. William McAffee of
Lindsey had her hair burned from
her head and her husband was badly
burned about the face and hands when
escaping gas exploded in the cellar.
where they had gone with a lighted
lantern.
Portsmouth.-David Ealey of Chinn-
vile, KY, driver of the car which
overturned and killed two people near
here, has been fined $50 and costs and
sentenced to Is days in Jail for driving
car while intoxicated.
Findlay.-Findlay was visited re-
Gently by a snowstorm that lasted five
minutes.
Lorain. - Adam Orwaski searched
for gas leak at his home
with lighted match, and then some
thing struck him. He awoke a few
hours later wrapped in bandages. His
hair was burned from his head and
his face badly scorched. The Orwaski
home is wrecked.
MansfieId.-Prof, j. A. Hawkins,
sixty-three, dean Of Ohio dancing
teachers and former president OF the
American National Association Mas
ters of Dancing, died suddenly at his
home here. He conducted classes all
over the state and originated many
dances.
AshtabuIa.-The body of Carl Field,
hn nd
March q when he fell from the bank
into Ashtabula river, as the spring ice
jam was going out, has been found in
slip near the shipyards.
Toledo. -. Mrs. Florence Bennin
thirty, died at her home in Mau
NEE as the result of burns she suf-
fered recently. She was putting q
stick, of wood in the kitchen stove
when her dress was ignited.
kenton.-Carl S. Gilmore, thirty
five, florist, was found dead in
his bed Coroner w. B. Dingess pro-
nounced heart trouble the cause.
Portsmouth, playing with a
dynamite cap, Alfred Blanton, eight,
suffered the loss of his left hand when
the cap exploded.
Youngstown.-The first heat pros
tration of the season was reported to
health authorities when Stanley Jurias
was overcome while at work at the
plant of the Republic Iron G Steel
Co.
WilIoughby.-Louis Knieling, sixty
four, while butchering in a slaughter
house here, was seriously scalded
when a calf jerked him into kettle
of hot water.
East Liverpool. - Seventy-ive ware
housemen and more than thirty
laborers walked out yon strike in
the Newell, w. Va, plants of the Ho-
mer Laughlin China Co., following the
failure of the company to meet their
demands for wage increases. The
strikers gave the firm but four hours
to consider the demands. The strike
will throw 100 ware dressers, all girls,
out of work.
anesViIle.-Edward Shiplett, aged
forty, a blacksmith at Hopewell,
near here, was struck by lightning and
fatally injured in severe storm which
swept this section. The home of State
Senator ]. B. Carson was set on fire
by lightning and greatly damaged.
Two other residences were damaged
by bolts and three barns, containing
three horses, were burned.
TaIadA Tnnunrfc of YocnTn mic
sion work from all parts of the
country are expected as delegates to
the third annual convention of the In
ternational Union of Gospel Missions
to begin here Wednesday, The ses-
sions will be presided over by Mrs E.
M. Whittemore, founder of the Door
of Hope mission and president of the
international union.
Elyria.-Martin Bischoff, placed on
trial here for the murder of Night
Watchman Ruper Becker during a
quarry strike at Amherst sew
eral weeks ago, changes his plea from
not guilty of murder in the first de-
gree to guilty OF. murder in the second
degree and was sentenced to the pen
itentiary for life by Judge Thompson.
SalineVllle. - The miners and op-
orators in sub-district No. 4, United
Mine Workers of America, closed a
two-day conference here by signing up
an agreement. All questions involved
pertained to the work in the mines,
there being no wage dispute.
Wooster. - Mrs. Martha Newkirk,
aged IS, after existing 40 days
with no nourishment, is dead. For
many months she had rheumatism.
Doctors said it would be a physical
impossibility for her to taste of either
food or drink. With only her aged
husband, Newton Newkirk, as a com
naninn sha clnHnlsr ckn nrrEnd Il, dnnAh