The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1910-12-22
Ohio Happenings

Akron.-John Welton, court bailiff,
found a pocketbook on the street con-
tanning $2,25O. He returned it to the
owner, who offered him 81 reward.
mo, thanks, don't need the money"
replied Walton.
Fremont The William Doepker
block and residence adjoining
at WoodVille we're destroyed by
fire, with a loss of $4,000; partially
insured. The block was occupied by
d. Littman & Co., clothiers, and their
stock was totally destroyed, and their
claimed loss is $4,000; insured.
Massillon.-A unmber of expert
cooks in the domestic science depart
ment of the agricultural school Of
Ohio State university are to begin a
war on the frying pan, claiming that it
kills more people than do rifles. The
state opened free school for farm
ers and housewives here December 10
and the first guns in the crusade
against the flying pan were fred at
| that time.
andusky.-Although David Hyma8,
poultry dealer of Castalia, was
| promised full forgiveness By his
wife il he would return home
with her, he refused to listen to her
hysterical pleading in Justice Deit-
rich's court. The woman declared she
| still loved him. Mrs. Hyman, made
! frantic by reports that her husband
was attentive to another woman; at
+a
and failing, she had him arrested on
| peace warrant
Akron.-The trial of Harry G.
Fravel, who shot his wife to death
in Barberton on April 10, came to
| a sensational close when Fravel
changed his plea of not guilty to MUIR
! der in the first degree to that of
guilty. The plea was accepted at once
and Judge d. A. Doyle, learning that
travels purpose was to bring about
his electrocution, requested that the
| jury in returning a verdict of murder
in the first degree accompany it with
a recommendation for mercy. This
was done and the court at once SEN
fenced Fravel to the penitentiary for
life. FraVel was sent to the peniten-
tiary at once as the county authori-
ties feared he would commit suicide.
Chardon.-Elredge Burr, seven, shot
in the head by his brother, Ralph,
nine, at Chester while the boys
were at play died there later. Early
in the morning their parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Addison Burr, went to Cleve-
land to spend the day, leaving the
boys with their sister, Nora, 10. BE
good, boys" were the words of the
parents as they kissed the children
and departed. 1t was a day of cold
wind and drifting snow and the boys
found it hard to find amusement.
Ralph finally procured a rifle. He
poited it at his brother and pulled
the trigger. The boy fell, bleeding pro-
fusely. The sister, upstairs, hearing
the report, rushed to the wounded lad.
With the roads high with snow the
girl was unable to penerate the drifts
and the child bled to death before a
physician could be reached.
Salem.-Esther Needham and Elva
Sheen, cousins, each Is years old,
were found asphyxiated in bed in the
Salem house. The fire in a gas stove
in the room is believed to have acci-
dentally eXtinguished.
llefontaine.-Elmer Fawcett,
farmer of the city of GAINESVILLE, this
county, captured a bald eagle alive.
1t measures eight feet from tip to tip.
Mr.. Fawcett found the agile with it's
talons fastened in a lamb. He ran
into the field to frighten it away but
the eagle remained to fight and in the
tussle Mr.. Fawcett received some
scratches on his face and some hard
blows from the eagles wings, but
finally captured it and has it in cap
tiVity.
Salem.-Salem meat consumers are
just at present engaged in a live
ly meat war that is playing havoc
with the retail business of all eight
dealers in the city. The agitators of
this meat war now threaten to ex-
tend their boycott into the grocery
line. A meat club composed of 500
workingmen has been organized for
the purpose of buying meat from a
wholesale firm in Pittsburg, because
they claimed that local dealers
boosted the price of all cuts above
that asked in other towns and then re-
fused to reduce the price. These men
by sending their orders together get
the advantage of wholesale prices
from Pittsburg.
Cleveland.-Governme inspectors
postoffice, rummaged through it
and found 1900 pieces of undelivered
] This mail belongs to the more than
J 1000 people living on r. F. D. No. /,
extending % miles from Warrensville
toward Cleveland and running up to
the Cleveland city limits. For more
than two months the citizens have
been complaining strenuously to the
authorities that their mail was not
being delivered One hundred and
fifty property owners signed the petit
|! ton and sent it to Postmaster Floyd
of Cleveland, but Floyd could not
step into the district. Two carriers
, on the rural route resigned their
places because they couldn't cope
with the work.
Lima. = Coroner A. Pieffor has
Just rendered his verdict that
Joseph A. Butler died by his own
hand in a rooming house in this city.
Mayor Dyer dismissed Mrs. Mary But