The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-08-02
Western Newspaper Union News ss-vsoa.

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of ledge into 40 feet Of water. He
could not swim.
Columbus. Charles w. Walcutt, pO-
liceman, while driving an automobile,
ran over William Flickenger, IS, and
killed him.
Alliance.-Kicked by a horse, Lem
Vel Foulk, 73, received injuries which
caused his death at Berlin Center. He
was a veteran horse dealer.
Dover.-Despondent over i'll health.
Benjamin Haas, 65, Evans Valley
farmer, committed suicide by hanging
himself to a tree.
Conneaut-Harold Reagan of Al
bion. Pa. -, student at the UniVerS-
ity of Buffalo, was drowned at North
Springfield. east of here.
Medina.-The village authorities and
various private individuals are fight
ing the tussock moth, which has ap.
.peared in Medina.
Toledo. - Twelve hundred electric
bulb makers in Ohio have been grant
ed a 35 per cent increase in wages,
according to William P. Clark, inter-
national president of the Flint Glass
Workers union.
Ashtabula.-A military service was
held for Private George Robinson OF
Company E, Fifth OHIO infantry, who
died as the result of injuries suffered
when he was struck by locomotive.
st. Marys.-For many years in
charge of the Grand reservoir bulk
head lock, Charles H. Marshall, IS,
was killed by Lake Erie & Western
passenger train, which struck his
buggy on a. grade crossing.
Newark.-F. B. Williams, former
deputy sheriff of Franklin county,
hanged himself in a barn at Summit
station. west of this city. He was
respondent over i'll health.
Toledo.-Left alone in her home for
= few minutes, Lucy, the 2-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Finch,
began playing with matches. Soon alk
the clothing of the child was afre.
She died an hour later.
Dayton. - Lightning struck and
killed r. Wilson, London, o., and his
team of horses, at the government
aviation school at Fairfield, near Day
ton. Another unidentified man was
slightly injured.
GAINESVILLE. - During an electrical
storm here lightning struck the home
of John Godfrey, fatally injuring his
daughter, Mary, II, and wrecking the
house. The child's clothing was
burned from her body.
Galion.-The Daily Leader, local Re-
publican organ, established in 1891.
suspended publication July rs. The
paper is owned by stock company
No cause is given in the announce
ment of suspension.
Salem. - City flremen here have
served notice on council that unless
their sleeping quarters are put In
sanitary condition they will go home
TO repose and let fire alarms take care
| of themselves.
Minerva. - Floyd Scarlet, son Of
Brazil Scarlet, living three miles south
of this village, was struck by lightning
and instantly killed. He and his faith
er were cutting wheat when thun-
der storm came up
Dayton.-Tony DeMonskey, the 10
year-old son of James DeMonBkeyr
was drowned near the pumping station
in Mad river.
Galion-Waide NJ. Condor, local.
news writer, has been appointed clerk
to the committee ON pensions Of the
national house.
Toledo-John j. Canfeld, 80, of
Pittsburgh, bet companion he could
swim the Maumee river from the west
end of Pennsylvania bridge to the
middle draw before the other could
walk the distance. The bet was ac~
cepted. Canfeld was drowned.
East Liverpool.-Miss Garnet Braley
of Wellsville, 25, suffered severe in
juries to her neck and shoulder and
several other passengers were shaken
up when an interurban car crashed
into the rear of city car in the East
Liverpool Traction & Light Co. line
here.
Wooster.-A. D. Selby, botanist at
the state experiment station here, re-
ported the discovery Of late blight in
samples of potato vines sent to the
station from Wooster. Late blight,
Prof. Selby explained, is a deadly dis
ease, preventable only by spraying at
two-week intervals with Bordeaux
mixture.
Newark.-Frank Williams, 10, a
farmer residing near Summit, hanged
himself in his barn. He was despond-
ent over financial reverses.
Dayton.-Thomas Gleason, 78, who
could recits the Declaration of Inde-
pendence verbatim and repeat the
names and the salient facts connected
with every one of the signers, died at
his home here. Gleason knew Ameri-
can history backward and forward.
Lima.-Backing two walters against
the wall at the point Of revolver, a
lone bandit held up the New York
restaurant and escaped with $50 from
the cash register.
Fremont.-William Kiser, 80, San
'usky township farmer, fell from a
Lherry tree at his home here, breaking
; his neck. Doctors say he will die.
, Dayton.-The mangied body of Clar-
ence L. Robinson, 27, an employe OF
the Bronell Boiler Co. Of this city, was
discovered along the track where the
Big Four railway crosses Mad river
lust east of the city.
Chardon.-Five were injured when
an automobile owned by Frank 3.
Ford, cashier of the Chardon Savings
bank, struck another machine in
which a man and woman were ridiRy
on Claridon road.