The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1910-09-01
Over the State

JOEyy Was DuEHSu u u6dll III his
fathers barn in a fire which was
caused by the little boy and his older
brother playing with matches. The
contents of the barn, including two
horses, two cows, machinery and
crops and the family residence, with
the household goods, were destroyed.
Piqua.-Sammy Davis, a small boy,
while fishing in the Miami and Erie
canal at Tippecanoe City, discovered
that he had hooked the body Of baby
instead of large fish. The child was
less than a month old, and the boys
father, who notified the authorities,
found that the child had been killed
with blow on the head from a blunt
instrument and then it's body thrown
into the water.
Cleveland.-Colonel Roosevelt, on
his trip to the west made speeches
in this city, Ashtabula, Conneaut, Ely
ria and Toledo. He was greeted by
thousands of people.
Wooster-Daniel Beals, a farmer
of wealth and a leader among
the Democrats of the county, was
made defendant in suit for $4,000
damages brought by Barclay Hursh,
who charges Beals with alternating the
affections of Mrs. Hursh. Beals is 70.
Hursh, who was married last January,
also applied for divorce, charging
his wife with gross neglect of duty
and improper conduct.
Toledo.-After spending many years
over the washtub in an effort
to keep together her brood of six
children made fatherless by the death
of her husband several years ago,
Mrs. Albert Navarro of Toledo be-
lieves she is to have money plenty
in her declining years. Mrs. Navarro
and her four sisters, two brothers and
mother have just been notified by
Canadian authorities that they are
heirs to an estate valued at $2,00O,-
600 left by grandfather.
Columbus.-Senator Dick says that
if Chairman w. F. Brown sayshe (Dick)
wrote him that President Taft wanted
Secretary of State Carmi A. Thomp.
son selected chairman of the Repub.
lican executive committee that Brown
is telling a falsehood and knows it.
He says he never mentioned that
President Taft wanted this move The
and selected Lewis G. Laylin to head
this committee, which will have
charge of the campaign to be made.
Elyria.-Chalon Fowls of Oberlin
village has record for honey raising
that has not been beaten in this
part of the state. He has extracted
and stored ten tons of honey so far
this season and he has not yet
finished. He expects to have total
crop of $4,000 pounds early next
month. The crop of honey this year
was mostly from white clover. There
was an immense amount of clover and
the bees worked hard during the
month of June and until the middle OF
July, when the drouth came
Marysville.--Mrs. Lavina Beebee OF
Redwood, who has been taking in
washings for a living, has been mott
fed by the government that she has
been allowed a pension Of SO pei
month from August, 1895, to April, 1907
and from then until the present time
at $12 per month. She also received
the accrued pension of her husband
the late Joshua Beebee, whose death
occurred in 1894. The whole amounts
to $1,63O.
Upper ndusky-Herman Link, 25
grounding hole, a bullet wound
through his breast. 1t is supposed he
accidentally discharged his gun while
digging for the grounding.
Cleveland.-Churches church mem.
bers and ministers were severe,
ly arraigned when James Cor.
bin of Findlay, o., the oil man evange.
list, addressed large crowd in the
square. The address was peculiar in
that it was a strong defense of Chris
tianity and at the same time a sting.
ing criticism of the modern church
and it's methods. Ministers were de-
scribed as spindle legged men with
1 spinal columns like silk threads" the
churches were called places of enter.
tainment while the average church.
goer was depicted as hypocrite US
ing the church as a cloak to cover his
"devilish meanness."
leveland.-Eleven persons were
injured, one perhaps fatally, when
a loaded touring car, running at
a high rate OF speed, collided with
another car, also loaded, in front OF
the Hollenden hotel here. The high
speeding auto, which witnesses say
was responsible for the accident, was
reduced to kindling wood. The other
auto was badly damaged.
Springfield.-The body of Howard
Gillespie, 81 years old, a painter
was found in the river, and circum
stances point to a murder. Clark
Slye, "a, is being sought by police
Slye and Gillespie are said to have
quarreled in a row boat near the spot
where the body was found At the
coroner's inquest it was proven GILES.
pie was dead before he was put into
the water. The mans skull was
found to be fractured and his cheek
was gashed badly.
Toledo.-The population of the city
of Toledo is 16S,497, an increase OF
36,675, or 27.S per cent, as compared
with 1922 in 1900. Such was the
official announcement from the census
bureau at Washington. Toledo is dis
appointed, but not depressed. Tole.
doans had hoped for 100000. Certain.
ly they had expected the city would
pass the 100000 mark made by Colum'
bus, Toledo's rival. This city, they say,
has moved on as Toledo, seeking to
impress no other mans land into its
service strictly for census purposes.
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