The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1910-09-22
Over the State

shows a growth of 1885, or 46.9 per
cent, since 1900.
Bellaire.-John Boles, miner at Ft
Pitt, left $175 in his coat pocket while
working in mine, and came out to find
It stOlen.
Lorain.-Because ne was hungry and
stole milk bottle from porch, Mike
Polinsky was arrested and fined 81
and costs.
Upper Sandusky.-Past Grand Mas
ter of the Grand Lodge George D.
Copeland Of Marion, assisted by other
grand lodge officers, dedicated the ele-
CANT temple of Warpole lodge, 176,
addresses being delivered b. ]. P. Cur
rem Of Marion and Judge Babst Of
Crestline. Several hundred visiting
Knights and Masons were present.
Chardon.-John D. Rockefeller, the
oil king, gave away a dollar, and
Rodney Heath of West Chardon has
the dollar to prove it. Mr.. Rockefel-
Ter this summer has been motoring
from Forest Hill to Chardon nearly
every day. Frequently he has stopped
and engaged in conversation with
children he has seen at play. Recent
ly he met Rodney Heath and the boz
gave Rockefeller a large bouquet.
Then the Standard Oil head motorea
on. Rockefeller came back later.
Once more he met Rodney Heath, and
this time Rodney was presented with
a shiny new silver dollar
Pomeroy.-Syracuse, a village OF
1000 inhabitants, five miles from
here, which in 75 years of its eA,
istence has never permitted but one
negro family to live there, is to the
front with a tragedy growing out of
the peoples antipathy to the negro
race. A family of negroes landed
from a steamboat with their house.
hold goods. Boys and young men Of
the village began to stone the new
comers. The head of the family
snatched shotgun from among his
belongings and ran to the top of the
bank and fired at the first persons he
saw. Walter Duckworth, a baseball
player, and George Roush, a young
school teacher, who were passing, re-
ceived the full load of shot at short
range. Sixty shot pierced the body
of young Duckworth and he was prob
ably fatally injured. Six shot entered
Roush's face and neck, infiicting seri-
Gus wounds.
Fostoria.-Countess Agness o. 8.
M. De Bruyn, whose home is
in New York, and Allan P. Thomp-
son, said to have large hard
ware interests in New York and Chi
cago, were married here at the home
of her sister, Mrs. Fred Lockwood.
The party had wedding feast and
then the Thompsons left for a trip
which will include New York and Chi
cago. 1t is said that they will settle
in New York permanently. The
countess was Miss Agnes Dewitt of
New Washington, o., when she met
the Belgian Count De Bruyn in charge
of the Esquimau village at the Chica-
go worlds fair and later married him.
He died year ago in Seattle.
Napoleon.--While she was playing
about the barn where her father
was doing the evening chores, the two
year-old daughter of Albert Ruffer,
near Ridgeville, fell into a watering
tank and drowned.
Springfeld.-On a crowded street
car here Ike Mcdonald, lunch stand
keeper, was shot and instantly killed.
The slayer leaped from the car and
escaped. Mcdonald and the man
were heard quarreling when sudden
ly the latter went to the rear of the
car and fired.
Leetonia.-Frank Bradley, an iron
worker, and Walter Brock, a for
mer restaurant keeper, were ar
rested in this town charged with dy-
namiting the Presbyterian church
here in June, 1909. The dynamiting
was big sensation at the time, as it
was openly charged that the activi-
ties Of it's pastor, the Rev. J. j..
Grimm, in enforcement of the Rose
law, was the motive for the attempt
ed destruction of his church. The
church was not completely destroyed,
but the damage estimated at $3,800
Akron.-Charged with chiseling the
name of Frank Hailstock from
the cornerstone of the African Metho-
dist Episcopal church, Rev. ]. M.
Wheeler, pastor Of the church, ap-
peared in police court to answer to
the technical charge of malicious de-
struction of property. Some months
ago the church voted Hailstock- ne
gro attorney, out of the organization.
Il have the right to say what is
| done around my church." said Wheel
er. Il had that mans name Clipped
of the stone because he wss no
longer a member of my flock"
Youngstowns-George w. Ryder, a
farmer who resides at Mill Greek,
swerved quickly in his automobile,
while crossing one of the bridges
across the Mahoning river, in order
to avoid running down a woman in
his path. The machine struck Her
man Fenton, a farmer of Jackson
township then smashed the bridge
railing and plunged 80 feet onto a
passing freight train, carrying Fen
ton along Fenton's left leg was frac-
tured and will have to be amputated.
Cleveland.-Joseph Loncaroncor lies
dead in a morgue here and a
fellow countryman is being hunted by
the sheriff as the result of murder
at Randall. The trouble between the
two men arose over the murderer try
ing to borrow dollar from Loncaron-
cor. When refused the money he
whipped out a knife and cut Lonca-
roncors throat.
Upper Sandusky.-Byron Davis, 40
years old, a farmer at Sycamore,