The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1910-08-11
Over the State

B for their annual reunion. Ine DO
ings began with the legislative ball
and display of fireworks on the beach.
Next morning the legislators took
boat ride on the U. s. S. Dorothea and
in the afternoon they had a swim. At
night they had a banquet, but the
great feast came the next evening.
At that event Speaker Granville w.
Mooney was teastmaster and the
speakers included Governor Harmon,
Lieut.. Gov. Treadway, Senators ] E.
Matthews and T. A. Dean, Represent
atives A. P. Black and S. D. Shank
land and Frank P. Stockbridge of the
Cincinnati Times-Star.
Mansfeld-Guard A. w. Martin
at the Mansfield reformatory is
in a critical condition from knife
wounds inflicted by Ernie Johnson, a
prisoner from Hamilton county, SEN
fenced for robbery. Johnson is in
irons. Johnson, disciplined for refus-
ing to work, blamed Martin.
Youngstown. After an untirfng
search of months in which he
was finally compelled to ask the
police for a nights lodging, George
Harmon, IS, has located here his sis
ters, Nellie, %, and Rosie, II, who
he had not seen for eight years.
Toledo.-Ten sensational suits were
filed in the Ohio courts by the
stockholders of the Bremen Oil
Co. against the directors of that COM
pany, charging fraud in disposing of
the stock of the company. The direc-
tors, Albert E. Turner, representative
from that county; ]. E. Purvis and
others are charged with making an
agreement with the Standard Oil Co.
to buy the entire stock for it at $5S7
share and for the conspiracy where
by they only allow the stockholders
$3OS a share, representing a profit Of
$5O0,00O.
Washington, D. C.-The United
States census bureau has just made
public the result of the 1910 census
for the city of Cincinnati. 1t shows
the total population of Ohio's second
city this year to be 364,463. The CEN
sus of 1900 showed total population
of 325, 1902. This shows a gain in pop
ulation through natural growth and
annexation in the past ten years of
SS,561, or 11.S per cent.
Toledo.-Following a dispute with
the car crew over payment of
fare, Alva Black, aged %, an ice
man, was thrown bodily from street
car and instantly killed.
Celina. - ]. H. Vonderhaar, 81
years old, of Fort Recovery, was in
stantly killed and William Sudhoff,
40, of st. Anthony, so seriously in
jured that he died, when the large
engine operating the threshing ma
chine blew up on the ]. A. Doner
farm, seven miles west of this city.
Toledo.-The Sixth regiment, en-
route from Columbus where they
had been on strike duty in the
Columbus street car riots, raised a
purse of $500 which will be forwarded
to Mayor Duffy at Columbus with in
structions that the purse be given to
the destitute families of the strikers.
The regiment realizes that itst action
will create a sensation and Colonel
Howard has instructed Capt. POLAND
Webster to draft letter setting forth
the reasons for the regiments. actions.
Cedar Point.-The twenty-sixth an.
nual meeting of the Associated Ohio
Dailies opened at the Breakers hotel
August 3, and the session continued
three days. The most important busi-
ness that came before the association
was the consideration of the reports of
the committees on reforming the rate
card and on a uniform system of
making out bills for foreign accounts.
John T. Mack presided over the ses-
sions of the newspaper men.
Marion.-One man was instantly
when a southbound Pennsylvania
freight train struck an automobile
just west of Waldo, this county. The
dead man is Robert Place, 81, a farm
er, whose home is at Waldo. The in
jured man is Delbert Benedict, 48, a
piano dealer at waldo.
Youngstown.-John Stambaugh, jr.,
15 years of age, son of one of
the wealthiest men in the city,
startled his parents last Christmas
by asking to have his presents given
to him in cash as he wished to use
the money this summer. His father
agreed. The boy has just announced
he was going to give the newsboys
an outing. He intends to open a
camp near the city on a farm and
camp out with the poor kids" from
the city. He plans to run the camp
four weeks and will entertain ten
newsboys each week.
Columbus. - Contending forces in
the street railway strike here are
preparing for long drawn out con-
troversy. Despite the efforts inaugu-
rated by Governor Harmon to effect a
settlement, the company and the men
seemingly are further apart than ever.
A statement from union headquarters
that the strikers would never COM
promise" was followed by a statement
by General Manager Stewart for the
company in which he said the com
pany had never, recognized the union
and never would.
Columbus.-Attorney General Den
man has just announced that for
mer State Auditor Walter D. Guilbert
had settled the states claim against
him and the Capital Trust Co. of Co
lumbus, of which he is president, for
$5,747.32, due the state as interest on
state funds that Guilbert deposited in
his own trust company during his
term of Office. The state had made a
claim to the receiver of the Mer-
chants & Manufacturers National
bank for $31,S09, alleged to be due
the state as interest on deposits of