The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-07-20
BUCKEYE NOTES
News From All Sections Of
the state

or feet, Is at the hospital for crippled
children and will be equipped with
artificial limbs and educated to use
them. Hospital authorities state that
in time she will be able to walk and
do housework equal to q normal per-
son.
EIyria. Joseph H. Brown, q
farmer, has brought suit against
the C. & S. railway, seeking
the sum of S25, 900 for injuries received
in fall from a load of hay he was
driving across the car tracks. Brown
says the tracks were uneven and
faulty, causing. his truck to roll over.
Toledo. - When Charles Wilson's
taxicab went into a ditch Wilson
was thrown high into the air and
fell upon the edge of the broken wind
shield. which severed his head. A
woman passenger refused to disclose
her identity. She was cut and bruised.
Cleveland. - The body of Otto
Hilber, aged 81, was found in the
branches of tree in Rockefeller park
Police, who found the body, believe
Hilber's death was natural.
Sandusky. - Chester Harris, aged
Al, a prisoner at the central po-
lice station, made six unsuccessful at
tempts to kill himself. Harris, who
says he has no home, was found
dangling at the end of rope he had
made out of his shirt. Fellow prison
ers cut him down. Three times since
he has tried in vain to strangle him
self, and twice he has endeavored to
butt his brains out.
Cedar Point. - Federal inspec-
tion and a uniform bill of lad
ing are things the National Hay asso-
citation will get within the next year
if there is any possible way of obtain
ing them. Advocation Of these poll
cies was unanimously voiced in the
opening session of the associations
23d annual convention here.
Fremont. John Carmody, known
locally as Black" is dead. Car
mody was forced to take a bath
last week, the first in years, and was
QUILTED with new clothes and con-
tracted pneumonia. Although we'll ed
ucated, Carmody led a dissipated life
since early boyhood, because he was
fitted by girl
Springfield. - Bacon f. Houston,
street car conductor of this
city, is bequeathed a fortune by his
late cousin, DR.. Milton H. Collins Of
South Charleston, whose will has been
filed here. The estate is valued at
$5OO,OOO and Houston will receive one
eighteenth. s7-"
Dayton. - Word announcing the
death at Columbus, N. NJ, of her
son, Charles Nasco, %, a member Of
the Sd battalion of Co. E, United
States army engineers, was received
by Mrs. Frank Walters, 260 S. Will
liams-st. The message stated he had
been shot.
Sidney. - The city of Sidney
has filed an action against the
c., H. & d. Railroad Co. to compel it
to comply with a city ordinance
passed Dec. 27, 1915, requiring the eG
tension of w. Court-st. under their
track.
SteubenViIle. - AS result Of
venturing too near the swirling
waters below dam No. 10, north of this
city, in rowboat, William Sharp, 16,
was drowned, while his companion,
Hugh Clark, Jr, 16, narrowly escaped
death.
CIeveIand.-George Anderson, aged
29, an electrician in the employ of
the McMyler Interstate Co., stop 27,
A. B. c. line, Bedford, was electro
cuted when he came in contact with
high tension wire leading to the
plant
GaIlipoIls. - Capt. Jacob Lallance,
aged So, became crazed with the
heat and suicided by jumping into a
cistern at Syracuse.
observation-disclosures Weber, mem.
ber Of the Lakewood Boat club, clung
to the keel of an overturned motorboat
in the high seas off Rocky River for
more than an hour while hundreds
watched other boatment try to rescue
him. Young Weber, with his brother
Ralph and Peter, Carl and Albert
Christofferson, In the motorboat, went
to the rescue of two young men whose
canoe had overturned about 1000 feet
off the mouth of the river. Their en-
gine stalled and the boat overturned.
Young Weber was finally rescued by
swimmers.
Akron.-August Blocker died here
as a result of blow in the back
Of the head with baseball bat
Police arrested Charles Myers, charg.
ing him with assault.
Lisbon. - A Beal law wet and
dry election will be, held here Sat.
urday, July 20. It was called by the
vets, who presented a petition to coun'
Gil signed by $50 electors.
FindIay. - The two-year-old daugh.
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Vance Horn.
er died with q disease that doc
tors stated was infantile paralysis. The
utmost precaution will be taken to pre-
vent its spread.
Kent. - On complaint of Charles
Ebie, former engineer at Kent
normal school, that his daughter had
to work at the school dormitory IL
and 13 hours a day in violation of the
eight-hour law for women workers.
Miss Ely Smith, dormitory matron
was summoned before Police Judge
Harry Hodges.
Akron.-WilIiam Spree. aged 81
was found dead in Frank Baugh
mans feed barn at Barberton. He was
an employe of the Clark hotel in Bar
berton. Coroner e. s. Lyons pro
nounced the death due to organic hear
trouble.
Akron. - For selling a bunch oi
onions on Sunday, Morris, Sarbin
ski, a grocer, was arrested. A
new ordinance against keeping grocer
les, florists shops and food stores oi