The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-08-03
BUCKEYE NOTES
News From All Sections Of
the State.


a clerk in the Citizens Trust &
Savings Bank of Columbus. o., had
confessed to a shortage In his books of
$3.50. said he lost the money at
poker to fellow clerks. Bailey was
arrested as he stepped from the train
from New Orleans. He said he was
on his way to Columbus to surrender.
Akron.-Sheriff James Corey has
declared war on reckless drivers
here as result of seven deaths
and injuries to thirty people in
Summit county since June 1. A close
watch is kept on all country roads by
the sheriff and his deputies. Sheriff
Corey has also ordered hospitals to
furnish him with a list of all traffic
accidents reported to them.
Amherst. - J. c. Holzhauer Of
this place has the banner corn
crop of this section of the state.
Despite this being poor and back
ward season for corn, Holzhauer has
on exhibition stalks that measure over
ten feet in height. He says they were
the smallest he could find in the
field
Lima. - When an automobile in
which he was riding turned turtle
on the curve of a road, Oliver,
six-year-old son Of E. P. Schregg,
Bluffton. was instantly killed. Charles
Young, 80, chauffeur, was seriously in
jured. Carl, four-yearold brother Of
the dead boy, was slightly hurt.
Coiumbus.-Mrs. Bernard B. Saw
yer of this city was surprised to
learn that she had inherited $25,00O
in Alaskan mining property from her
uncle, Col. Richard T. Collins, who
died in the West Indies.
DeIaware.-Rev. DR.. John Washing
ton Hoffman, pastor of the First Meth
odist Episcopal church of Duluth,
Mimi, has been elected the sixth pres
ident of Ohio Wesleyan university.
Fremont. - Charles DeRan, Sec
retary of the Fremont Chamber
of Commerce, has resigned to take
an interest in the jewelry firm of Ham
ilton & Beckberger.
Springfield. - After running over
Lorain Stewart, aged IA, Mrs. E. M.
Baker became excited and drove her
car on the sidewalk, injuring Luther
F. Young and A. B. Smith slightly and
fracturing leg for Mrs. Maud Wamer.
The Stewart boy was seriously injured.
Portsmouth.-Roy Moore aged %,
an ex-policeman, was found dead in
the Vanceburg, KY, jail, where he had
been placed for safekeeping. He was
found wandering aimlessly in the
woods back of his fathers home at
Emerson, Ky.
Lorain. - Martin Trowinski, re-
cluse, aged 67, of this city, was
bound over to the grand jury under
$4,000 bonds by Judge H. L. Job on a
charge of assault upon a seven-year-
old girl,
Bowling Green. = Ernest Cham
berlain, aged 20, was almost instantly
killed when his motorcycle collided
with another motorcycle ridden by
Loren Woods.
EIyria. - Ralph Hill, an EIyria
jeweler, swore to the arrest Of
Andy Needing, contractor, for instruct
ing one of his hired men to drive over
the unfinished pavement on Oxford-st.
Lorain. - Work will shortly be
commenced on the 400x50-foot ad.
dition to the B. & o. repair car shop
here. Over a hundred men will be
oddad IN tho Dracopf forno Of tho aopo
pletion Of the building.
Cincinnati. - The body of man
supposed to be Robert L. Harris, aged
40, a painter, this city, was found on
the Norfolk & Western railroad tracks
at Red Bank.
CoIumbus.-Although hundreds were
in the water at local amusement
park swimming pool, Simon Robich.
20, sank unnoticed and was drowned.
Youngstown. - Otto Cleary, Cam
bridge, o., telephone lineman, was
fatally shocked here when he came in
contact with an electric cable.
Springfield. - A blind man who
was a guest in the Metropolitan
hotel, smelling smoke, probably pre-
vented bad fire The hotel was dam
aged to the extent of $500.
Dayton - Fred Ley, aged eighty,
despondent because of ill health, COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself
here. The body was found by daugh-
ter-in-law.
ST. Marys.-lsaao Botkin, aged 81,
and Jack Howell, aged SO, are dead
from scaIds caused when steam tube
burst at the Western Ohio traction
power house here.
Cedar Point.-Lawre1ce Hummell,
aged II, son OF John Hummel,
Akron undertaken, went beyond his
depth while bathing and was drowned.
Mary Everhart, II, also of Akron, tried
to save the lad, but failed.
ortsmouth.-Poison traced to well
water has gripped the Frank Cantrell
family on Dry run, near here. One
member, the wife, Mrs. Emma Can
trell, 80, is dead, and six others are
seriously i'll.
Akron. - Earl Gossett a negro
chauffeur, is being held in charge
of manslaughter, and the driver
of another automobile is being sought
as the result of the death of Miss
Stella Sells. The woman was killed
in an accident while riding in an au'
tomobile driven by Gossett.
Napoleon. = Levi Hartman, aged
S6, veteran of the Mexican
war, has brought suit here for divorce
He alleges that his wife, Sarah, whom
he married in 1912. is many years his
| junior; that she frequently refuses tc
J speak to him and is often absent from
home.
CIeVeland.-The body of Miss
Hattie Goodman, a former schoo
teacher, was found strewn along thC
Nickel Plate railroad in East Cleve
land. 1t is thought she was walking