The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-09-14
BUCKEYE NOTES
News From All Sections Of the State

discover rats gnawing away the toes
Of the right foot of her eight-month-
old son, whom she had left in a crib
The rats then attacked Mrs. Vuack,
who finally succeeded in beating the
rodents off with a broom. An exami-
nation revealed that every toe on the
tots right foot had been gnawed OF
and that on one of the toes only did a
little flesh remain. Bone and all was
eaten. Mrs. Vuack estimates that
there was fully a dozen rats The
Vuack home is located near where
was formerly located the city dump.
The dump has been removed and the
rats are starving and ravenous. The
residents Of that section have been un-
able to sleep nights as the results Of
the rats making the rounds in search
OF food and running over beds. This
Is the first case reported where rats
have actually attempted to eat up a
live human being. Medical aid was
Immediately summoned to prevent a
possible infection.
Sandusky. - Milan residents are
talking of organizing for the purpose
of resisting marauders from other To-
calities. Yeggmen have been more
numerous in Milan this year than ever
before. An invasion every now and
then that always happened to be
halted more on account of good luck
than anything else, led the people to
expect the attack on the Milan bank.
Sheriff w. H. Lundy is satisfied, after
investigating, that the yeggs came
from and returned to Cleveland and
that William Bedell, horseman, hit
one at whom he sent the contents of a
shotgun while he was secreted in a
doorway as watch. There is, how
ever, no clew.
Tiffn.-The state fish and game
commission may be called here to in
vestigate the cause of the death of
thousands of fish in the Sandusky
river in the downtown district. The
| waterworks dam above the city is
closed, and what water goes through
it now is leaking out of the Bacon
dam below the city. For some reason
the fish are dying and lining the river
banks. Because of the low stage of
the river the sewer mouths along the
river are uncovered and what water
is in the channel is almost a concen-
trated solution of pollution.
Lima.-Physicians are watching the
condition of Melvin Hull, 80, of Am
herst, six miles south of Lima. He is
an accident in which he shot and al
most instantly killed his three-year-
old daughter Helen, who was rocking
a doll to sleep at the time. Hull was
cleaning a gun. The body Of the little
| girl was buried and since then the
mans agony has been uncomfortable.
Tiffin.-The Association of Cole.
giate Alumnae, an exclusive organiza.
ton of college graduates, has chosen
and installed these officers and com.
menced it's years work: Miss Helen
Watson, Western Reserve, president;
Miss Louisa K. Fast, Smith, first vice
president; Miss Nettie Young, Heidel-
berg, second vice president; Miss
Mary Isabel Park, Yale, third vice
president; Mrs. Heath X. Cole, Hell
delberg, secretary; Miss Catherine
Moser, Heidelberg, treasurer.
Toledo. - The Federation OF
Churches will hold it's annual meeting
Sept. 25, at 1880, in the Y. M. C. A.
Morton c. Pearson, executive secre.
tary of the Indianapolis Federation
of Churches, will give an address. Mr.
Pearson will come to Toledo on that
date to speak before a joint meeting
of the Federation and the Toledo Min.
isters' union in the morning officers
will be elected.
Port Clinton.-Ed Holsinger OF
La Carne had a narrow escape from
death on the Camp Perry road when
he was struck by an automobile and
knocked unconscious. Holsinger was
riding a bicycle and had turned out
for rig when the automobile ran into
him. The bicycle was wrecked and
the rider suffered a broken shoulder
blade and had his head badly bruised.
Defiance. - Daring burglars forced
their way through a side window
in the building of the Sherwood
Savings bank, this county, touched off
two charges of dynamite that wrecked
two doors in the vault, and then car
ried away 5000 in coins and currency
without arousing anyone in the town.
Cincinnati.-Gil Anderson of In.
dianapolis, whose racing car went
into fence at the Sharonville speed.
way, will recover. Anderson sustained
a broken leg and many bruises. Bert
Shields, Anderson's mechanician, prob.
ably suffered fracture of the spine.
Warren. Mabel Albertson, aged
twenty, of this city, was thrown from
the running board of an automobile
near Niles and suffered a fractured
skull. She is in the hospital here in a
serious condition.
Sandusky. - Four persons were
dead here and two others dying
as the result of the plunge OF
an automobile over a 14-foot embank.
ment at midnight. The victims in
morgues are Mr.. and Mrs. Don Starch
H. A. Millman and Martin Eschelbach
all of Ann Arbor, Mich. Paul Rieul
and Milton Jacobus are dying and E
G. Huesel is less seriously hurt.
Cincinnati. - Miss Elsie Pozey
was almost instantly killed, while
her sister, Mrs. Mollie Bush, and
Frank Marty were dangerously injured
when their auto skidded over an en-
bankment on the Carnegie pike.
FlndIay.-Sale of the entire prop
erty of the Belmont Oil Co., whose
headquarters have been in this city
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