The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1910-10-13
State News


District Telegraph Co., on the charge
Of employing a boy in violation of the
state child labor law. He pleaded not
guilty.
Dayton.-All candidates for present
Offices in this county must submit a
statement in which code will be
sequered to state his views on the
subject of vaccination, according to a
resolution adopted by the Anti-Com-
pulsory Vaccination league. A mass
meeting will be held October 81, when
the statement will be discussed.
Akron.-Frank Beutty, a teamster
arrested here, is charged by the super
intendent of the Glendale cemetery
with stealing flowers from graves and
making bouquets, which he sells for
drink. Petit larceny is the charge
against him.
Ripley.--Because Clarence Ringo,
serving sentence for abusing his fam
lily, climbed 10O-foot flagstaff at the
Cincinnati workhouse and put up
new halyard for the flag, the superin-
tendent of that institution set him at
liberty and paid his transportation to
his home here.
Upper Sandusky.-B. E. Constein's
September crop report shows that the
average production of wheat to acre
in the county this year was 23 bushels,
and the quality compared with an aver
age was 110 per cent 1t is estimated
that five per cent of the crop of 1909
is still in the producers hands. The
average production of oats per acre
was As bushels and the quality was
115 per cent. There was 95 per cent
of normal crop and 50 per cent of it
will be cut up for fodder
! Fremont.-The sauerkraut famine,
which was threatened a month ago,
has been averted by the heavy rains
of the past few weeks. Cabbage,
which was selling at $40 ton dur
ing the dry spell, has dropped to So
a ton and is plentiful at that price.
All the plants of this city, which is
the American sauerkraut center, are
working overtime.
63, president of the Belmont National
bank of Belmont, is dead of typhoid
fever. He was prominent in the Ma
sonic lodge.
Delaware.-JohnB Banks, who served
during the Civil war on the United
States gunboat The Ohio, has been
made happy by news that the govern.
ment has granted him $12 per month
pension and $2,S40 back pay. The
fact that Banks served in the navy
under an assumed name made his
fight for a pension long and hard
one.
llefontaine.-Hunters who were
returning to Spring Hill through a
woods near the village found the de.
composed body of man, aged about
so, who said his name was Cyrus
Sewers. The coroner attributes death
to heart disease.
Findlay.-Frederick Welty, nearly
80, is dead at his home near Bluffton
He had lived on the same farm for 81
years, and was the father of IL chill
dren, IL of them living. He was born
in Switzerland, and had been mar
ried 54 years.
Elyria.-William ]. Perkins, who
drew . $4,000 from the bank tc
wed Mrs. Hattie Linn of Cleveland
despite the protests of his children
who attempted to have a guardian ap
pointed for him, filed a divorce suit
here.
Warren.-The forty-fifth annual re
union of the Sixth Ohio cavalry
was held here. The following of
ficers were elected: President, DR.
Charles Mcdonald, the noted alienist
of New York, who was the regimenta
bugler; vice president, Jacob Sager;
secretary-treasurer, c. F. Wolcott oi
Cleveland. The sword of Colonel
Steadman, given him by the colonel
after the war, was presented to the
regiment by A. H. Pierce of Smith
port, and will be hung in the G. A. R
relic room.
Hiram.-More than 800 students en-
rolled at Hiram college the first week
of it's session. The enrolment is the
largest in the history of the institu
ton. The freshmen class will number
more than 100. The number of min
isterial students is so large that the
dormitory reserved for them is al
ready filled. Five new instructors
have been added to the faculty. Pro
fessor Atkinson of Columbia univer
sity will hold the chair of economics
and Professor Hayes of the Univer
sity of Michigan will take the chail
so long filled by Professor Wakefield
Miss Beebe, graduate of Allegheny
college, will teach German, and Miss
Duncan, a graduate of Bryn Mawr
will assist in modern languages. Miss
Davis will instruct in voice and piano
Observation-Disclosures G. AuteI
was dismissed from the police
force by Safety Director Small, who
is conducting an investigation OF
charges that James Mu1liga1, saloon
keeper, paid for protection, and that
policemen are grating drinks. Six
saloonkeepers testified Auten drank
beer in their places while in uniform
played dice and pool, and never paiC
for drinks.
East Liverpool.-Combining theil
efforts to resist a raise in the
price of gas to private consumers the
people of eight towns in the Ohio val
ley agreed to hold joint meeting il
Steubenville for devising ways and
means of fighting the gas company
The towns are East Liverpool, Steu
benville, Wellsville. Toronto, Mingo
Junction, Martins Ferry, Bridgeport
and Bellaire. Consumers demand a
25-cent fiat rate. If the demand is
nressed. the gas comnanies nneratinp