The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1910-10-27
Ohio Happenings

ton district the coal men agreed
to the Coalton rate, 81 per ton for
mining. The increase is to take effect
at once. Twenty-one hundred miners
will be benefited by the increase.
Upper Sandusky.-Two women were
killed and score Of other passengers
hurt when three coaches of Hooking
Valley passenger train, northbound,
were ditched one-half mile south Of
Harpster, this county.
Chardon.-Buckwhea cakes will be
scarcer than common this winter be-
cause buckwheat will be a light crop
in this section. The long drouth of
August and September retarded the
growth.
Ashtabula. - A head-on collision
of passenger cars on the Cleve-
land, Painesville & Eastern inter
urban line, near Painesville in the
morning, was followed at night by a
collision in this city, in which nine
persons were injured. In the first
crash none of the passengers was
hurt and the motormen saved them
selves by leaping.
Massillon.-When Martin Filey, a
Canton laborer, was fined 81 and costs
in police court by Mayor Renley for
intoxication, he unwrapped the money
from a large roll containing $3.50.
After Mayor Renley had made change
FiIey paid a fellow prisoner Is cents
he had borrowed during the night to
| send out for a lunch, and departed.
He said he had received the money
from an uncle who died recently in
| Germany.
Lisbon.-William Smith, Sc, chair
man of the Republican central com
mittee of Wayne township, and q
rural mail carrier, committed suicide
by cutting his throat with razor. No
cause is assigned.
Zanesville.-George Lambert Of
Junction City was brought to hospi.
tai here in serious condition from a
gunshot wound sustained while hunt
ing squirrels. He leaned his gun on
a log, then sat on the other end Of the
! log, jarring it.
Lima.-When Richard Reeves, driv'
er for local coal company, went to
deliver ton of coal that had been or
dered by telephone, he was attacked
by an unknown man, who knocked
him unconscious and escaped with
$40, which the firm had been re
quested to send by the driver in order
to make change. The robbery occurred
in broad daylight.
\ Canal Dover-Anna Whiteside. q
prominent Uhrichsville woman, vas
robbed of diamonds valued at $500 by
burglars, who entered her home in
broad daylight, while she was spend
ing the afternoon with a neighbor
The thieves also stole a purse con
tanning 1870.
Canton.-Mrs. Champie Bliss oi
Canton was granted a divorce from
State Examiner John A. Bliss. The
court giving the decree said that the
journal entry would be held few
weeks with the hope that the couple
would effect reconciliation. The
wife is to receive property valued al
$4,000. Mrs. Bliss charged cruelty
and said that Bliss had transferred
his affections to another woman.
Mansfield-The annual conventiS6
of the Ohio Baptist association
closed here after four days
session. Mission work was the prin
cipal topic of discussion at the las
meeting. The resignation of Rev, g
A. Reed as superintendent Of ChE
young peoples department was &C
cepted. The Baptist Brotherhood O.
Ohio elected the following officers
President, Rev. D. E. Green, Cleve
land; vice president, L. R. Zollers
Canton; second vice president, H. w
Young, Salem; secretary, D. L. VIII
liams, Columbus; treasurer, G. H
Wright, Fredericktown. GAINESVILLE
vas selected as the place Of holding
the 1911 convention.
Mansfield.-J. NJ holland, 81 year.
cid, of Freedom, Pa, was ground tt
pieces under yard engine in thu
yards here, and Harry Costello o
Newcastle, Pa, was seriously injured
Massillon.-Patrick McGinnis, 60
can neither talk, eat nor move as tn,
result of a fall down fight of stairs
at the home of his son in West Brook
field.
Newark.-The annual Ohio confer
ence of charities and corrections
came to an end with the elec
ton of officers for the coming yea
and the selection of a meeting plact
for 1911. Toledo was CHOSEN by th'
delegates, who elected the following
officers: President, Rev. r. A. Long
man, Cincinnati; first vice president
Mrs. Apollo Opes, New Philadelphia
second vice president, Rev. J. A. Ben
nett, Newark; secretary, H. H. Shirer
Columbus.
Painesville.-James H. Paine, Il
years old, secretary to President jane
A. Garfield during his prediction
campaign, is dead here. He had livet
here as a recluse for several years
Bellefontaine.-Miss Louis Smith
81 years old, daughter of Franl
Smith, used her apron in lifting {
vessel from gas range. The aprol
caught fire and she was so terribl.
burned that she died.
Cleveland.-National control of cor
porations and the creating of fed
eral laws governing child labor
divorce, the incorporating of compa
nies and of the great transportation
systems of the country was urged b.
former Gov. Curtis Guild of Massa
chusetts in an address heFora Son,