The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1911-01-12
Ohio Happenings


has failed to report to headquarters
for the last six months, was the story
told by Mary Ligott, Is, an Italian.
Steubenville. - The JeffersOnville
county grand jury, after four
days session, returned 81 indict-
ments. What caused a sensation was
the indicting of prominent citizens
several of them church members for
renting property to be used for i'm
moral purposes. Names are withheld.
Dayton.-Thre masked young men
boarded a Hammer avenue car at
First and SAKE streets, pulled the troll
! ley from the wire and grappled with the
conductor, Henry Izoe. Motorman
John Hollis hurried to his rescue. One
of the highwaymen fired twice at the
motorman, one shot entering his left
forearm the other striking him in
the forehead, making a deep scalp
wound. The men robbed the conduc-
tor of dollars worth of street car
tickets and some small change. Three
suspects have been arrested.
Springfield.-Rev. DR.. Samuel A.
Ort, dean of Wittenberg college,
died here from paralysis with
which he had been afflicted for the
last year. For 25 years he was pres
ident of the college and was one of
the most widely known Lutherans in
the United States. At one time he
was president of the general synod.
He was 6S years old. Doctor Ort
was born at Lewistown, Pa, and
taught Latin and literature at Hagers-
town, Md In 1882 he was elected pres
ident of Wittenberg.
Canton.-In police court here fac
ing the charges of abandoning her
two-months-old daughter, who was
brought to this city after her birth in
Cleveland, Mrs. Hortense Smith al
legged that her husband used her as a
white slave. Mrs. Smith said that her
husband represented her merely as
his housekeeper. The husband, John
H. Smith, had been held as an accom-
plice in the abandoning charge, and
was being tried on the technical
charge of disorderly conduct His
wife's statement cost his freedom for
about three months. Judge Quinn,
after hearing the woman's story in
private, decided to give the man the
limit-$50 and costs and so days in
the workhouse.
Zanesville.-William Tool, IA, was
fatally burned when nc attempted to
start the kitchen fire with gasoline.
The father was also badly burned.
Crestline-Detectives are seeking
vandaI who threw open the throttle
of a Pennsylvania locomotive and
caused two wrecks. The wrecks badly
damaged four large Pennsylvania pas.
senger locomotives and blocked both
the Pennsylvania and Big Four rail
roads by tearing up the tracks where
they cross.
Painesville-The farm residence OF
Truman Palmer, Leroy township,
burned Palmer his wife and sons,
Harry and Hart Palmer, were asleep
in the house, and barely escaped with
their lives. Truman Palmer was
burned and Harry Palmer was cut on
the feet by broken glass. The feet
of Mrs. Palmer and Harry Palmer
were frostbitten while they were run.
ming in the snow to their neighbor's,
quarter of mile away.
Martins Ferry.-The Manufacturers
Heat & Light Co., known as the gas
trust, by deal just completed, COB,
bled up all of the rich gas producing
territory north Of this city, except
that owned by the railroads, govern,
ment and coal companies. Several
wealthy citizens were planning to buy
the land to obtain cheap gas, to in
duce industries to locate here.
Cincinnati-The opening of the
Office desk of John E. Humphreys,
a wealthy attorney and investment
broker who has been missing since
December 20 upon writ of attach
ment, brought to light the fact that
Humphreys was a self confessed
forger of his Wifes name to a deed
which conveyed his magnificent home
to w. J. Carey, a real estate broker,
in settlement of notes given in gam
bling transactions in stocks. He lost
100000 of his own and it is said that
more than that amount he held in
trust for several widows estates.
Washington c. H.-George S. Jack,
son, &c. son of George Jackson, and
junior member of Jackson & Son, gro.
GERS, dropped dead from heart failure
in front of his residence while sweep.
ing snow from the pavement.
Bucyrus.- Squires returned
to his bride in this city with an af.
fidavit showing that he had not pre-,
viously been married, as was charged
against him by his mothers house
keeper at Norwalk. Squires has an
affidavit duly acknowledged by no.
tary, and signed by Mary Parker, who
had claimed to be his wife, in which
Miss Parker swears that she has no
claim on Squires either as common
law wife or by license.
ST. ClairsvilIe.-Elmer e. Baker has
filed suit for $4,000 damages from
DR.. Hale L. Walker, one of the best
known physicians in the county. The
petition alleges that Doctor Walker
failed properly to set a broken ankle
bone for the plaintiff October 25,
1909, and that he is permanently Grip
pied.
Chardon.-Julius Dietrich, aged so,
prosperous farmer of East
Chardon, was made the object of a
$4,000 breach of promise suit in COM
mon pleas court by Miss Bertha Ferry,
who for some time has been employed
as housekeeper in Painesville.
Findlay.-During the year just
closed, Dan Cupid has been unusually
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