The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-06-07
BUCKEYE NOTES
NsWE FIRM al SSstiOHS Of the Stats

hVip luS INeu OTOSS.
Elyria. - Miss Victoria Mansfield Of
Chardon has resigned as superintend-
ent of the Social Settlement associa-
tion here and will be succeeded by
Miss Edith Gill of Medina.
Marysville. - John Crafty, farmer
near Prospect, was killed in a runa-
way accident His team became fright
ened and he was thrown from his
wagon and dragged 80 feet
Athens.-Burton Bankes, %, of NAL
to, two years a patient of the Athens
State hospital, was killed by a freight
train west Of Athens following his es-
cape from the institution. Bankes was
a trusty.
Columbus.-Otto ]. Boesel has been
appointed probate judge of Auglaize
county by Gov. Cox to fill a vacancy
created by the death of Judge James
o. Kridler.
Canton.-It cost James Sheerer, 60,
of Canton his life to be hero. Sheer
er stopped a runaway team, probably
saving the lives of several persons.
He was knocked to the ground, how
ever, and his head was cut. Lockiaw
set in and Sheerer died at his home
here.
POrtsmouth.-Hobart Daily, 7, acci-
IDENTIFY shot and killed his half brother,
Clarence Lacy, 5, at their home in
New Boston, three miles from here.
Lorain.-An unidentified man was
knocked speechless here when he was
thrown while trying to board B. & o.
train. He fell on his head, but physi-
clans say his skull was not fractured.
Youngstown.-A Lake Erie & East
ern freight train left the tracks under
the South avenue viaduct here, piling
up II cars and tearing out the bridge
abutment and supports. None of the
trainmen were injured.
Observation-Disclosures who steal
calves with an automobile is the latest.
Two men in an auto picked up r. w.
| Mosely's calf on Mentor avenue and
got away with it with people watching
the performance.
SohIOA' ChSN SOhl bhy JA'g
10-month-old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Law
renee Conrad of Alliance, smothered
to death In his crib after he had
kicked the covers up over his head.
Bellefontaine.-The Logan county
dry campaign was opened here at a
dinner at which 300 men heard ]. A.
White, state dry manager, call the
liquor business German ally"
Xenia.-Gov. Cox was the speaker
at the Ohio soldiers and sailors
orphans home here Decoration day.
At the same time Cox was at the home
former Gov. Frank B. Willis was
speaker at the Memorial day celebra-
ton in this city.
Canton. - Mayor Charles A. Stol-
berg has just announced he would be
candidate for reelection for third
term.
Circleville.-Lincoln Campbell, 80,
was instantly killed here when the
team which he was driving frightened
at train. Campbell was thrown from
the wagon and his skull fractured.
Elyria.-Mrs Alvin Walker, 40, and
her two daughters, Eva, II, and Ma
rion, Is, residents of this city until
two years ago, and two friends, were
killed when an auto in which they
were riding was struck by fast train
near Oakland, Cal.
acknowledgements on city street
car were thrown into panic when the
controller of the car caught fire and
blazed up. In a rush to escape from
the car Mrs. John Blackburn was seri.
ously injured about her head.
| Mansfield-Robert H. Markley, pri-
vate in the United States coast artil-
lery, was drowned while in bathing
near Fort Dupont, Del, according to
word received here by his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. H. E. Markley.
Canton. Following the death of
four persons in Canton from menin-
gifts the past month, the Canton
special meeting to consider Quaran-
timing all residences in which there
are now cases of cerebro-spinal men
lngitis.
Upper Sandusky-Gen. I. M. Kirby.
veteran of the Civil war, died here.
He was 80. He was born in Columbus
and was breVet brigadier general of
the Fourth division of the army of the
Cumberland under Gen. Thomas.
Sandusky.-Walter Murphy, Cleve-
land, lineman working for the San
dusky Gas and Electric Company, was
electrocuted while working at the top
of pole in South Sandusky.
ansf1eld.-Mansfeld is to conduct
a municipal garden, where produce
which can be stored for use in the win.
ter will be grown. Beans, potatoes,
turnips, cabbage and similar vegetable,
all of which can be grown without any
great effort, will be raised. Prison
labor will be utilized.
Sandusky.-When 4-year-old Luther
Switzer was killed by New York
Central train here his mother, Mrs
0pper Switzer, saw the accident.
| Clev leland Sudden illness, to
gn'h her with advanced age, caused the
death of Washington S. Tyler, a pio
neer Clevelander who has been a
manufacturer here for more than hall
century. He was the founder and
president of the W. S. Tyler Co.
Mt. Vernon.-L. G. Keefer, q, Wal
bonding railway agent in Greer, wrote
Ada, love you before l die" on a
slip of paper in his Office and then shot
himself in the head, dying instantly
Warren. - Andrew Garrett, 27, fell
under the wheels of freight train al
the Trumbull Steel plant. Both of his
legs were cut off.
Elyria. - Jack Burton and Thomas