The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-06-28
BUCKEYE NOTES
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Millersburg. - Adolph JOberg, 50,
blacksmith, of Walnut Greek commit.
ted suicide by hanging.
Fostoria.--A lre in the Milton Say
lor block, formerly known as the old
Foster block, here did $4,000 damage.
Cincinnati.-Seventeen persons were
bitten by mad dog at Riverside,
suburb, before Lieut.. McNulty killed
the dog with a shotgun.
ToledO.-John Kucieka, 3S, was shot
seven times and killed on Warsaw
street in the East Side. His assailant
is still at large.
Lorain.-An advance in wages Of 2
cents an hour for motormen and con-
ductOrs on the Lake Shore Electric
railroad has just been announced.
Huron.-George Reiber of Sandusky,
formerly switchman here, met death
in the Wheeling yards when a switch
engine struck him.
Athens.-The Hooking river claimed
its first victim of the summer when
Charles Smith, 10, son of a miner. was
drowned near Circle Hill.
Georgetown. - John McAsee, 81,
was killed here and James Love, 65,
farmer, was arrested, charged with
the crime.
Portsmouth.-A wire clothes line
proved fatal to little Nellie McGinnis,
Fullerton, Ky. Lightning struck the
wire, killing the girl at one end and
pig at the other.
Mt. Vernon.-Mrs. NJ. o. Sanborn
of Cleveland suffered a fractured col
lar bone when the auto in which she
was riding overturned at Milwood,
Knox county.
Tiffin.-New KinZer, a soldier OF
Company B, Third regiment, on guard
duty here, stepped from shanty in
front of a Pennsylvania engine. He
Is badly injured, but will recover.
Lorain.-Two railroad men were in
jured, three cars were burned and
two other cars damaged when two
Nickel Plate freight trains met in q
rear-end collision east Of Lorain.
Toledo.-A deed of assignment has
been filed in probate court by the
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manufacturers of fountain pens in the
United States.
Bellefontaine.-Wr. Wesley Turner,
62, physician, residing at Santa Fe,
shot himself with shotgun, acci'
dentally, according to his family. The
coroner has not yet returned verdict
st. lairsville.-William Price, a
Pennsylvania passenger engineer, died
of injuries sustained when his engine
overturned on a curve south of Bel
laire and he was scalded by escaping
steam. No passengers were injured.
BelIaire.-Joseph M. Diehl believes
good man should not allow himself
J to be kept down. He is a steeple jack
and has applied for place in Uncle
Sans aviation school at Beech Bot
tom, W. Va.
: Dayton-What may have been q
] plot to blow up the city building was
unearthed when Sergt. T. c. Grundish
while ascending the stairway leading
to police headquarters, discovered two
! sticks of dynamite.
Mt. Vernon.-One hundred and six
: ty automobiles carried 800 farm foll
from Knox county to the Wooster ex
; pertinent station. One machine was
overturned and Mrs. Jasper Walker o.
, Gambler, caught beneath it, was in
jured.
, New Lexington-Amon Miller, 55
, of Somerset was instantly killed wher
y he fell against a buzz saw at saw
? mill pear Mt. Perry. The top of hi
, head, right breast, shoulder and arm
: were severed.
: Akron.-One man was killed by I
Baltimore & Ohio train in East Akrol
and another was seriously injured
y when his automobile plunged over al
embankment near here. Run dow
, while walking across the tracks, Al
bert Nelson was instantly killed.
Canton.-No casket large enougl
= could be found in Canton to hold tn
. body of H. A. Gerber, 60, who wa
found dead in bed at his home. H
= was more than six feet six inches tai
A special casket was ordered befor
the body could be sent to Ragersville
Tuscarawas county, for burial.
Toledo.-John Macarthur, 20 year
-, general agent of the Detroit & Clevt
= land steamship lines in Toledo, she
= and killed himself in his office. Ofic
. attaches say Macarthur, who was 81
= suffered recently from illness brougt
:. on by overwork.
u Girard. Thomas G. Blackstone
T. three times mayor of Girard, wi
" again seek the mayoralty, runnin
/ against the present incumbent, e.
. ward H. Vaughn, for the Republica
% nomination.
1t Canton.-One of the smallest Unite
9 States flags ever made by hand, a
IT cording to official regulations, hs
e been made by Mrs. Nicholas Lehr {
Canton for Mrs. Woodrow Wilson
The flag is made of Alsatian crochete
8 work on double A silk thread and a
the stars have been placed with mi
= ute detail. The flag measured 2121
= inches. The crochet stitch consis
3 of small rings.
q Barnesville.-Ohioans are patriot
3 Many housewives wave flags at trail
g bearing soldiers across the state, b
3 more use dishrags in the backdoor S
e lutes to the speeding soldiers. This
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