The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-07-26
BUCKEYE NOTES
HsuE FINN Al Sections Of the Stats
Voatorn Newspaper Union News servics

ordinance granting a Is per cent in
crease to all policemen, firemen and
employees of the city waterworks.
Port Clinton.-Charles p. Mauck, AZ,
Of Norfolk, Va. was found dead in a
cell in the city Jail. Alcoholism was
declared the cause.
Bellaire.-Richard Bow, 32, Of Nc
Keesport, Pa, was killed at the Car
negie Steel works furnace here. He
was laying brick when he lost his bal
ance, falling 80 feet to the bottom of
the big cylinder.
Geneva.-Despite the fact the auto
in which they were riding upset and
pinned them beneath il, Mrs. Rena
Cowden and her daughter, Miss Eliza
beth Cowden, escaped with slight
bruises.
Mansfield.-The f1fty-first annual re-
union of the Sherman brigade will be
held in Mansfield Aug. 1890. Eleven
members have died during the year
and there are now only about rs vet
Grams alive.
Ashtabula. John Schwentker. II,
was drowned in Grand river while
bathing near Mechanicsville, this
county. He was taken with cramps
and efforts of two companions to save
him failed.
st. Clairsville.-Turned. back by a
guard at a Baltimore & Ohio tunnel
near Glencoe, Mrs. Marie Sabel, so.
Braddock, Pa, was killed while walk
ing the tracks.
Elyria.-F. J. Arterburn of Peoria,
ILL.,, Big Four railroad signal inspector.
is in Memorial hospital. Arterburn
was making an inspection when the
tool box became unfastened from the
"speeder" and ditched the car.
Geneva.-Hail fell so thick in the
vicinity of North Center, near, here.
that it remained in piles along the
road three hours. Crops in the vicin-
ity were severely damaged.
illicothe.-Lawrence Bowles, who
made a remark that he would not be
caught with soldiers uniform on
him, was fined $50 and costs and re-
quired to make a public apology be-
fore members of Company II, Fourth
Ohio infantry.
Lorain.-Michael Ursic, 16, was
drowned in Black river, the first
drowning victim of 1917 in Lorain.
Ursic was swimming in the river and
when he jumped from boat he failed
to come up.
Napoleon.-More than 100 farmers
in autos rushed to Greiten, near here,
with milk cans of water and saved the
Toledo Grain & Milling Co. elevator,
when can of gasoline exploded and
ignited the building.
Alliance-A farewell party was CIV
en- Col c. c. Weybrecht of the Tenth
infantry by the Rotary club at the AL
lance Country club. On behalf Of the
Rotarians, Solicitor Arthur W. Morris
presented Col Weybrecht a gold wrist
watch.
Gallpolis. - Callan Vitatoe, Italian
merchant, Middleport, was sentenced
to two years in the Ohio penitentiary
for attacking a1 i1-year-old girl.
Mt. Vernon.-Seventy-fve years ago
the Muskingum conference of the
Methodist Protestant church was
founded here. The diamond jubilee
will be celebrated here Sept. to 10.
Cincinnati.-Paul Frederick Hasse,
German, was arrested by Chief Dep
uty United States Marshal Fred
Counts and is held as a federal war
prisoner under the proclamation of
President Wilson. He is said to have
attempted to go to Germany via Mex
ico.
Lorain.-A "big brother" movement
has been organized here by Mrs. John
Cobb, juvenile court probation officer.
Mrs. Cobb is placing her wards under
the care of business and professional
men, who agree to act as advisers to
the boys.
Alliance.-Henry McCarty was seri-
ously ill with blood poisoning caused
by being stabbed on the finger by a
large catfish he landed from the Ma
honing river.
Denison.-When Miss Rose SENT,
Is, stenographer, stepped on the back
porch of her home at night, she met
a masked man. She picked up bas-
ket filled with dampened clothes and
turned it over his head. He fed.
Cedar Point.-The unscrupulous loan
shark was pictured as worse than a
Stacker" and the small loan broker
was described as an individual the
public is coming to appreciate more
every day, during a session of the
third annual convention of the Ameri-
can Association of Small Loan Brok-
ers.
Canton.-"The little brick school
house" received special recognition
when the Stark county school board
announced increases generally for ru-
raj teachers throughout the county for
next year.
Youngstown. - Five section hands
were instantly killed when they were
run down by the Pittsburgh & Lake
Erie passenger train No. 1 between
Newcastle, Pa, and Lowellville, o.
The men all were Greeks.
Cedar Point.-Conservation of the
paper supply under governmental re-
strfctions was advocated by the Amer
lean Sales Book Manufacturers Asso'
citation at it's annual convention.
Toledo.-One man was killed, an,
other seriously hurt, several were
stunned and considerable property
damage was done by lightning in a
severe electrical and rain storm.
Alliance.-Caught by shaft at the
Alliance brick plant, William Wentz
was whirled to the ceiling, where, by
sheer strength, he held himself until
fellow employees threw off the power