The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1910-12-29
Ohio Happenings

which destroyed four business houses
with loss of $4,000.
Cincinnati.-Fire leveled four fac
tories in the shoe and leather
district on Sycamore street, damaged
eight other plants, cost two lives and
probably the life of a third person,
injured five firemen and caused a
property loss estimated at $2,000,000
Zanesville.-Rev. A. NJ. Courtney,
pastor of Grace Methodist Episcopal
church, the largest church in south
eastern Ohio, and Ad Ellsperman, edi-
tor and owner of the Sunday News,
engaged in fight in the News Office
here. Doctor Courtney took exception
to certain article in the paper and.
according to Ellsperman, struck at him,
and he, in turn, foored the minister.
Akron. An uncalled for letter
addressed by y. Russell" this city.
to IL. D. Hart, general delivery,
Cleveland" and returned from the
dead letter office to John Russell by
mistake, revealed white slave traffic
operations here. Russell placed the
letter in the hands of the government.
st. Clairsville.-Following a lofig
trial in Belmont common pleas
court the will of Charles Thompson
was set aside and the widow, Julia A.
Thompson, who brought the suit, will
secure an interest in the estate in
Belmont county valued at over
100000.
Akron. - Fright at finding him
self caught in dark elevator
shaft with the car descending upon
him, is given by Coroner Davidson as
the cause of the death of William
Winterberg, young husband. in the
Kirk Co.'s warehouse Although he
was caught so tightly between the
car and the floor that firemen had to
cut the woodwork away to get him
out, he was very slightly injured ply
sically, and no bones were broken.
ncinnati-Without cent of John
d. Rockefeller's money there has
been founded in this city a school
that promises to win a spot right up
close to the heart of humanityA 1t is
a school of courtesy" for bell boys.
The faculty is composed of members
of the Cincinnati Hotel Clerks associ-
alton. Our graduates will be a Joy
10 civilization and moneymakers for
their employers" said B. L. Smith of
the Palace hotel, father of the bene-
ticient scheme. 1--WE will teach the
boys how to behave towards guests as
though each boy held a million dollars
each of stock in the hotel"
Elyria.-Aroused by the statement
made recently by Councilman
Adams that the city of Elyria
has been made a dumping ground"
for meat and short measures of fruit
refused by other cities, the Elyria city
council passed an ordinance for the
appointment of man to hold the
double office of city food inspector and
sealer of weights and measures at a
salary of 5000 a year.
Millersburg. - The body of Mrs.
M. M. Heron, wife of the
superintendent of the Millersburg,
Wooster & Orrville Telephone Co.,
was found along the tracks of the
Cleveland, Akron < Columbus rail.
road south of here by searching par.
ties who went out to look for her.
She was on her way from Danville,
where she had been visiting, to her
home in this city. She was not miss
ed until the train reached here. 1t is
not known whether she fell from the
train or leaped to commit suicide. She
was an invalid. 1t is believed the
fall from the train was almost i'm
mediately fatal.
Wooster Alfred T. Slutz, the
wealthiest resident of Fredericks.
burg and prominent in the Meth.
odist church, is now in the penitentiary
to serve two and half years for at,
tacking Helen Franks, IA. The crime
Cor which he was convicted was COM
mitted nearly four years ago. Slutz
was convicted and sentenced to serve
four years, secured a new trial con.
viction again followed and the sen.
tence was reduced. The case was
fought to the circuit, then the SUI,
preme court, which confirmed finding
I of the lower courts.
Fremont.-As the result of a quar-.
rel over land, it is said, Charles
kodotski, aged 40, a farmer who
lived in Townsend township, was shot
and instantly killed. Fred Kodotski
a brother of the victim, is alleged to
have done the shooting.
Newark.-After 1S hours delibera
tion the II men who since December
have been sitting as jurors in the
first of Is first degree murder cases
growing out of Carl Etherington's
lynching last July, found Montelle
Watha, the Haytian, guilty of man
slaughter.
Akron.-In an attempt to arrest sew.
eral foreigners for robbing cars here
Detective H. L. Wilson of the B. & o.
railroad was cut in the neck by one
of the men and is now lying at the
City hospital in critical condition
After being cut Wilson fired at the
gang and shot one of them twice. This
man was taken to the hospital and
will be arrested as soon as his condi
tion will permit. One other member
of the gang was arrested.
Shelby.-The plant of the Bright
man Manufacturing Co, one OF
the largest institutions of it's kind
in the country, burned to the ground
The factory building was originally
built by the American Bicycle Co. and
was one of the finest factory buildings
in the state, valued at between $780,.
600 and $150000. Recently $50 men
have been given employment manufac.
turing shafting, shafting machinery