The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1910-12-08
Buckeye Notes

the Toledo murderer VINO Ss-
capped the electric chair, and is now
serving a ten-year sentence in the
penitentiary, was sued for divorce in
the probate court here by his wife,
frankie Mackley.
ut.-Despondent, Mrs. John
Wooley of East Springfield commit
ted suicide. Her husband had been
away from home and when he re-
turned found her lying before look
ing glass in a pool of blood. She had
cut her throat with a razor while
looking into the mirror.
Cleveland. An investigation of
wool importations passing through
Ashtabula and other lake ports from
Canada, which will have wide bearing
on the wool industry through this
state and the east, is now being made
by government officials, according to
dispatch from Washington.
Troy.-Pneumonia caused the death
Of DR.. F. B. McNeal, former
state dairy and food commissioner,
at his home in this city. Doctor Nc
Neal, 70, was a Mason and veteran
of the Civil war.
Canton.-Chalmers Hudson of Al
lance, a marble dealer and prom
nent citizen, sued William Ault-
man, a farmer and widower living
west of Mount Union for $4,000 dam
ages, charging Aultman had alienated
the affections of Hudson's wife, Belle.
Mrs. Hudson is As years old, and is
now said to be employed as a sales
woman in a Canton store. She and
Hudson separated in September.
Springield.-A dog he was hold
ing in his lap saved the life of
Jacob Baker, Is, at the cost of its
own. Young Baker was sitting in
chair at his home in South Charles
ton, caressing the family pet when
shotgun in the hands of his brother
was accidentally discharged. The
contents of the gun riddled the dogs
body, killing it instantly Baker was
painfully, although not seriously
wounded.
Painesville.-T see a four-story
building in Painesville in flames"
This prediction, made by local
medium at sceance held here
several weeks ago, caused consterna-
ton among the superstitious, as the
city possesses only three four-story
! buildings. 1t was recalled when the
block at State and Main streets, next
! to the postoffice, a fouT-st0ry struc-
! ture, was found to be on fire. Re-
markable work by the fire department
4 saved the building, but the stocks Of
/ S. ]. Goldsmith, grocer, and the Parks
| pharmacy were badly damaged by
water.
STANDARDIZATION tying rope
around his neck and fastening the
other end to limb of tree Charles
Morris jumped off and died.
Akron.-The Beacon-Journal (Rep)
started boom for R. NJ. Wanamaker,
common pleas judge here for the Re-
publican gubernatorial nomination in
| 1912.
st. Clairsville.-Wilbur L. McWil
liams of Morristown, defeated Repub-
lican candidate for recorder of Bel
mont county, filed suit against A. E.
Nichol, proprietor of the St. Clairs-
! vile Gazette, organ of the Democratic
party, for $4,000 damages, for libel.
Shortly before the election, The Ca
zette published an article in which
McWilliams was accused of being
short in his accounts as village clerk,
and it is on this article that the ac-
ton is based.
Cincinnati.--Head brakeman Hunt
of eastbound freight No. S5 on the
Norfolk & Western railroad, living at
Wayne, w Va, was killed and fire.
man Roland Jacobs, engineer Cliff
Smith, Engineer Pyles of Westbound
freight No. "a, and J. H. Glove, head
brakeman, all of Portsmouth, o., were
injured in head-on collision at Perrin
town, Clermont county, o.
Columbus.-The first election ever
held in Westerville. the home of
the Anti-Saloon league, on the
question of the sale of liquor, re-
suited in a vote of 1862 "drys" TO 104
"wets." The village by ordinance has
been dry since 1879. Because of a
desire to make the illegal sale of
liquor more difficult and prosecution
more certain, the "drys" called the
election. The Citizens league, organ
ized to conduct the election campaign,
has announced that it will retain its
organization and follow up the victory
with prosecution of offenders.
Canton.-Three persons were in
stantly killed and two were injured
when a Wheeling & Lake Erie pas
senger train struck surrey at the
Maple avenue crossing in this city.
Morris Ress, one of those killed was
the fiance of Fannie Meyers, whose
injuries are critical. The couple were
to have been married on New Years
day. According to one version of
the accident, Fannie Meyers, with her
mother was driving to the home of
a seamstress she had engaged to pre-,
pare her bridal trousseau. When the
train struck the surrey occupied by
Mrs. Joseph Meyers, her daughter
Morris Ress and two younger boys
the five were hurled more than 100
feet.
Cleveland.-With simple, beau
siful service at Trinity cathedral
Judge Robert w. Tayler's body was
committed to the keeping of his fam
lily. The members of the family said
their last goodbys in the privacy Of
the Wade mortuary chapel at Lake
view cemetery and left their dead
there.
Cleveland.-Arthur B. Spear, who
was cashier of the Citizens Ma
tonal bank of Oberlin when the
Cassie Chadwick financial bubble
burst in 1904. died at Harper hosnital