The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1911-05-04
State News


eastbound train and was struck by
westbound train on the adjoining
track. Last October, his father-in-law
was killed in identically the same way
and near the same place.
Elyria-Two years ago reports
that w. w. Dean, president OF
! the Dean Electric Co., then divorced
but few months, was to marry Miss
Mary Mizer, his stenographer, were
so insistent that Dean issued state-
ment to the public through Elyria
papers that he did not intend marry
ing then nor as long as he lived in
Elyria. On April 25 Dean and Miss
Mizsr alighted from a Lake Shore
train, entered an automobile and were
driven to his country home in Ridge
| vile. At noon Dean announced that
he and Miss Mizer we're married re-
Gently at the Catholic cathedral in De-
| troit.
Mt Vernon.-The words not
| guilty from the lips of the fore
man of the jury, announcing the &C
quittal OF Lewis ]. Bolton, Newark
livery man, Of first degree murder as
one who aided and abetted the lynch
ing of dry" Detective Carl Ethering-
ton, were the signal for the most dra-
matte scene ever witnessed in a Grim
inal court in Knox county. With tears
streaming down his face, and his sis
ter, Mrs. Alice Miller, clasped in his
arms, Bolton stood at the bar of jus
tice while hundreds in the crowded
court room jumped to their feet and
wildly cheered the jury's verdict,
Then the crowd, beyond all restraint,
rushed for the freed man and nearly
carried him of his feet, while the
half-hysterical woman continued to
cling to him in an abandonment of joy.
olumbus.-Attorney General Ho-
gan has just announced that the
state would bring suit within a
few days against all of the banks
which it is alleged illegally paid in
terest on state deposits to the late
w. S. McKinnon, state treasurer. For
mer Attorney General Denman
brought suit against the estate OF Nc
Kinnon to recover the interest money
which it was alleged McKinnon failed
to turn over to the state. Hogan is
of the opinion that the banks which
paid the interest to ,McKinnon per-
sonally can be held liable to the state
The total amount is nearly $25O,OOO.
Norwalk-H. J. Noble, 81, a
Nickel Plate railroad detective,
lies mortally wounded at his home
in Bellevue, the result of an attempt
to arrest two men for beating their
way on freight train. Frank Gran
dali, 20, who gave New York City as
his home, and William Russell, 3S,
who claims Chicago as his residence,
are held at the county Jail here await
ing developments in the condition Of
Noble. The detective arrested Rus
sci in the Nickel Plate yards at Belle
vue and was leading him away when
he was shot in the back.
Columbus.-Real estate valuations
in 16 counties were boosted S97,-
319,397 by the tax commission. The
commission has now completed the
work of equalizing real estate values
In SO of the SO counties. Large in
creases have resulted in nearly every
instance. The result has been that
Ohio real estate will be on the dupli-
cate at its full value in money The
commissions increase in Wayne
county was So per cent; Champaign,
$8,659, ,O38; Clinton, $4,125,51 Della.
ware, $9,411 ,036; Franklin, $1O1, Sal !;
Green, Stab, ,269; Hancock, $6,212, ,746;
Hardin, $9,143,472; Henry, $4,239, ,752;
Hooking, $1,254, ,6SS; Jackson, $1,9S7,.
O4S: Lucas, $1,53S,2O7; Pickaway, Sc,
727,367; Putnam, $14,732,914; Ottawa
$3,318,5O6; Shelby, $5,579,627; Wayne
$12,51S,726.
Youngstown.-A near riot occur
red at the Polish Catholic church
on South avenue following the
morning services. There are two
/ rival social organizations among the
, members. One is said to be favored
, by the pastor Rev. FIR. Wilk. and the
} other claims to have been placed un
J der the ban by the priest. The priest
, came out of the church and found 9
, representative of the discredited fac
ton peddling bills for a dance. He
: ordered the man to desist, and the lat
/ ter refused. Then the priest seized
the bills and tore them up The bill
peddler it is charged, struck the
: priest, and the latter retaliated. BY
: ISLANDERS interfered and the police
quieted the people.
Zanesville.-Bhazel Brummage, 78
Roseville, near here, was scratched BY
a hen while feeding chickens and dice
/ later of blood poison.
! Toledo.-Taught for 40 years t.
t believe that her mother was dead
J Mrs. Emma Newcomb was sur
/ prised when her mother, Mrs. E
! A. Hal:neyer Of Ft. Wayne, walked
into her nome on Avondale avenue
Divorce troubles, when her daughter
/ was three and half years old, com
: PEELED Mrs. Harmeyer to give the
, child to the care of fostermother
She then lost trace of her until re
. Gently when a sister learned he
whereabouts.
Delaware.-An officer going tt
the home of Cicero Carson, soutl
: of the city, to arrest the man be
cause of complaints of neighbors tha
: he had left several animals to lie un
. buried about his place, found Carson
t dead He had been dead for severa
} days. He lived alone.
notwithstanding row be
!. tween Mr. and Mrs. Joe Whor
/ ton at their home near Buchtel, o.
the woman called for help, and Clar
ence Cover, Is, their grandson, seizet
} a shotgun and shot his grandtathe