The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1911-02-02
NEWS OF OHIO
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shot and killed by William Delehanty,
city detective, who was trying to ar
rest Phillipsh for robbing a drug
store proprietor and two pedestrians
at the points of revolvers.
Sandusky.-Under an order of the
board of trustees of the Ohio Soldiers
and Sailors home, just issued, the
inmates will be permitted to sleep a
half hour longer in the morning than
heretofore. The order says that in
the future the "get up" whistle will
not be blown until $50 and the break
fast call will be sounded at 6. The
custom has been to arise at 5 o'clock
and to breakfast at $50.
Canton.-Frank Genshe-, 33 years
old, former store clerk in the en-
ploy of the Wheeling & Lake Erie
raidroad in Wooster, pleaded guilty
to bigamy in common pleas court and
was sentenced to 1S months in the
! penitentiary. Gensher had two wives,
Nora A. and Eva Gensher, both living
in Canton, and lived with each at diff
ferent times. Nora A., the first wife,
had him arrested.
Columbus.-On the charge that the
McCaskey Cash Register Company
Of Alliance is a trust, Attorney
General Hogan has filed custer
proceedings in the circuit court of
Franklin county. He asks that the
corporation, capitalized at $1,000,000,
be declared a trust under the Valen-
| tine antitrust law and be dissolved.
| Attorney Hart, Pomerene and Korhler
of Stark county and E. N. Higgins of
Columbus are associated with him in
the proceedings. The attorney gen.
erals petition is based on complaints
OF the American Cash & Register Co.
of Salem, o.
Amherst.-Lying in a pool of blood,
with his head crushed, and sew
eral bones broken, o. E. Whittier,
81, remained for nearly eight
hours in the lonely power station of
the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern
railroad near here. When rescued his
body was almost drained of blood. He
will die. Whittier in attending to the
machinery had become entangled in
the fly wheel. After the wheel had
released it's victim Whittier grawled to
his bunk, leaving a trail of blood. AS
the hours drew on and no assistance
came, Whittier wrote in letters of blood
on the wall 81 want to die"
olumbus.-William c. Groeniger
Of Dayton has just been appoiHt-
ed the new state plumbing in
spector by the state board of health.
He will receive salary of $1,S00 a
year. The act creating this Office was
passed last winter. 1t will be the
duty of the state plumbing inspector
to see that there is sanitary plumbing
in all public buildings. The board has
ordered Lima, Ironton and Cambridge
to improve their water supplies by in
stalling filtration plants. Ada and
Salem are ordered to install sewage
disposal plants. Lakeside submitted
plans for improvement of it's water
supply.
Findlay.-Mortimer, small viii
lage near here, received it's mail
for the first time in more than one
month. A postoffice inspector from
Toledo distributed it, w. H. Essex
last December was appointed post
master and Immediately qualified. In
few days Essex tired of the job, say
ing it was not what he thought it
would be. He Immediately locked the
Office and advised Washington that he
would not serve. Mail kept on arriv-
ing all during the Christmas season,
and the villagers got none of it.
Finally a report was made to the post
office department, which notified an in.
spector at Toledo to go there at once.
When he reached Mortimer a half
dozen sacks of mail had accumulated.
Cincinnati.-Two thousand police,
men are searching for a negro,
who, after binding and gagging Miss
Alma hammers, servant in the
home of her employer, Benjamin
Loeb, stuffed her into a cedar chest,
clamped on the lid and left her to
smother to death. That the lid did
not fit tightly and that passers by
noticed the open door and an over
turned water bucket caused her res,
cue in time to save her life. The girl
is in hospital, unconscious and in a
critical condition.
Lima.-The horism of his six-year'
old sister saved little four-year-old
Bobbie Fortner from death by suffoca
ton and possible incineration in fire
which destroyed the residence OF
Frank P. Fortner in Delphos.
Ravenna.-After four hours delib
Grafton a jury brought in a yer
dict of $1,000 for the plaintiff in
the $4,000 damage suit of Alice Mil
burn of Cleveland against children OF
Wilson Ruggles, wealthy farmer
The suit was for damages for alleged
false arrest, Mrs. Milburn claiming
that 81 100 she got from Wilson Rug
giles was to be held in trust, while
the warrant upon which she was ar
rested charged larceny.
Findlay.-Henry A. Langley, late
Republican candidate for representa-
tive of Wyandot county, has filed a
deed of assignment of 260-acre farm
: to Henry Daniels, for the benefit oi
J his creditors. 1t is said his debts
amount to about $4,000. He has been
} sheep breeder on 6. large scale and
: was generally thought to be money
maker
Massillon.-AttacIed by a vicious
horse while at work in a field neal
| his home, Cullen McFarren, IS, sor
of farmer, was kicked in the head
and injuries inflicted which may prove
fatal.
Toledo.-DeSerted by his better
half after quarrel when she