The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1911-03-09
State News

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]. H. Lowry that they we're opposed
to uniform school textbooks.
Delaware.-Lying face downward in
ravine, the dead body of Howard
McElroy, 81, missing more than
week, was found south of Olive Green.
Coroner A. H. Buck declared death
was due to exposure.
Toledo.-With carbolic acid, Harry
Flickinger, %, a street car conductor,
killed himself in room at the Wahl
hotel No motive is known. The
young man, however, had been in poor
health for some time.
Fostoria.-The large and compare
lively new country home of Mrs.
Henry Reiss, southeast of the city,
was burned to the ground. the ruins
dropping into the cellar The fire
was discovered by neighbors while
Mrs. Reiss was getting breakfast and
was due to a defective kitchen fiue.
Hamilton.-As a result of the col
lapse of the middle span of the new
railroad bridge at New River, Michael
Farrell, 40, of Cincinnati and John
Bicket, 35, of Piqua, were, perhaps,
fatally crushed, and James Rice, 35, Of
Dayton, was badly injured.
Napoleon-For the loss of his sight
during the November hunting season,
w. NJ. Ward, farmer near here, has
filed a $4,000 damage suit against
William Ballin in common pleas court.
Ward alleges that despite posted mo
Hunting" signs, Ballin entered his
farm and while shooting quail with a
shotgun carelessly destroyed his left
eye injured his nose and permanently
injured his right eye. Ward was husk-
ing corn at the time.
Bellaire.-After a lengthy examina-
tion of five ounces of coffee,
in which was found 1872 drains of
concentrated lye, Oscar Van Dyne, 38,
of this city, was arrested to be ar
raigned before Mayor Wassman,
charged with having attempted to
poison his wife, Clara Van Dyne, to
whom it is alleged he had offered the
coffee which was poisoned.
Hiram.-Fifty Hiram college stu
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weeks for taking part in the pa
jana parade through the girls dormi-
tory. The suspended men who live
out of town were ordered to go to
their homes for the two weeks and
the resident students must keep away
from the college for the time of the
suspension. The suspensions were an
nounced by President Bates at chapel
and the entire student body was dunn
founded with the severity of the SEN
tence pronounced. The suspensions
wasn't all, either. The boys were
given a lecture that made some of
them squirm.
Elyria.-E. G. Johnson, dean of
the Lorain county bar and for
80 years the dominant figure in the
Republican party of the county, died
at his home here of paralysis. Mr.
Johnson was stricken with paralysis
about two years ago and was forced
to retire from practice. A month ago
second stroke rendered him prac-
tically helpless. In the death of Mr..
Johnson, Elyria and Lorain county
loses one of it's most brilliant men.
Mr.. Johnson was born in a log house
in Lagrange November "a, 1886. His
father, N Porter Johnson came to
LAGRANGE with party of pioneers
in 1888, served this county in the
state assembly for three terms and
held a number of other elective and
appointive offices.
Lorain.-Mayor F. ]. King asked
for the resignation of Robert
P. Roberts, superintendent of the
water works department. The re-
firing official has held his post for six
years through three administrations.
He is responsible, more than any
other person, for the development of
the city water works to it's present
high state of efficiency. Mr.. Roberts
resigned Immediately Upon his receiv-
ing notice from the mayor. Charles
S. Ferguson, former city engineer,
takes the post. Ferguson is a Demo-
crat and a lieutenant of the mayors.
Mayor King refused to make any
statement whatever concerning the
matter.
Zanesville.-Ellis Lorick, "a, is held
in the Noble county Jail at Caldwell
on a charge of numbering his father
six months ago, when he is alleged
| to have struck him over the head with
hammer during family quarrel and
fractured his skull.
Cincinnati. A new indictment
charging George B. Cox with per
jury was returned by the grand
jury. AS in the first indictment, which
probably will be annulled, Cox's tes-
timony to the grand jury in 1906,
when, it is said, he testified that he
did not receive any portion of interest
money paid by banks, is the basis.
But in this latest indictment two
charges that Cox received some of the
: money is made. 1t is stated in the
bill that he received $17,500 from the
money paid to Tilden R. French while
the latter was county treasurer and
!. $48,50O from John H. Gibson while
Gibson was county treasurer, although
, he testified in 1906 to not having re.
ceived any money.
Upper Sandusky.-While playing
:, wild west show, Leo Davidson, 16, son
s of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Davidson
:, near Marseilles, was fatally wounded
y when 32-calibre revolver in the hands
s of a playmate, George Palmer, IA, was
= accidentally discharged. The accident
= occurred at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
a G. W. Palmer, where he was spending
. the day.
/ Walking off a porch
@ roof while asleep, Gorham P. Burgess