The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1911-11-30
Ohio Happenings

intent to kill, a man who said his
name was w. d. Cromley Of Toledo,
has been held to the grand jury in
$1,000 bail. Rezin Orr, International
treasurer of the Amalgamated Asso-
citation of Street and Electric Rail-
way Employees is the complaining wit
ness. Orr may lose the sight Of an
eye through the attack.
Coshocton.-The Muskingum River
will be made quarter of mile long
er in order to save abutments in this
city. The Muskingum is formed here
by the coming together Of the Wal
honding and Tuscarawas Rivers, and
the county commissioners have decid-
ed to cut back the island at the juno
ton to throw the current away from
expensive riprap work.
Announcement that the
Ann Arbor Railroad, in defiance OF the
edict of the Central Passenger Asso-
citation and the Michigan Passenger
Association, will have special reduced
rates for holidays, may result in the
breaking up Of the entire agreement
Findlay.-Terribly injured in an ex-
plosion of dynamite John Wilkes,
aged So, is dead. His right arm and
leg were torn from his body, he was
thrown so feet into the air and his
body was punctured with small peb-
bles that were lying loose where
stump blasting was being done. He
lived five hours after the accident
Bellefontaine - Charles Montague,
self-confessed deserter from the Uni
ted States army, has been arrested
here.
C1eveland.-Though allowed to set
tie out of court with the local hotel
he owed bill. w. r. Robinson, ar
rested at EIyria as he was about to
purchase a wedding ring, must an
swer to another warrant sworn out
by E. A. Wakeman, ticket agent at
the Union Depot, who charges Robin
son gave him worthless check for
$50 The wedding ring was intended
for Miss Elizabeth Short Of Amherst,
who Immediately renounced Robinson
when she learned Of his arrest
Sidney-The report of NJ. r. Tai
bot, state examiner, Of the county Of.
fees from Jam L. 1909, to April !,
1911, shows there is due the county
$1255.s7y and to the state $109.55.. For
mer County Treasurer J. B. Trimpe
owes the county $1993.12. Chief of
Police OIeary owes the state $109.55
and the county $61-82.
Akron.-Miss Clara Gayer, en- route
to the Panama Canal zone, where she
has accepted q position as a public
school instructor, is on board the
Prinz Joachim which went ashore on
the rocks off the Samana Islands.
CleveTand.-Mrs Margaret Burns,
who had attempted to start a fire
with gasoline, was pursued through
the streets by number of men and
women who sought to extinguish the
flames that were consuming her.
Frantic with fear, she finally was
overtaken and the fire smothered. So
badly was she burned that the doctors
at the hospital where she was taken
despair of her Fife.
New Philadelphia Brannon,
for 20 years has gone about in a
wheel chair, his back having been
broken by tree falling on him when
he was a lumberman. On the night
Of the 21st he returned from Licking
county with five rabbits, which he
shot while hunting. Il did not climb
fences" said he, "but kept on the
highway. Other hunters started tho
ro hhitc opd uhap thov napoo out in
the road, it was a case OF dead rab-
Bit My brother pushed my chair
! around"
Cuyahoga Falls.-Ill for several
days with walking typhoid fever and
not knowing the nature of his all
ment, D. w. Ferguson, aged 45, Mon
roe Falls, fell over dead.
Cleveland. Physicians said that
John Phillips, who shot and killed
Frank N. Gear of the F. N. Gear
Watch company here and then shot
himself, will recover. He Will be held
on a charge of first degree murder.
The shooting resulted from grudge
because of Phillips expulsion from
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi-
neers through Gears efforts.
Dayton.-John SiebenthaGer, promi-
nent in horticultural affairs in this
and adjoining counties, died at his
country home from brights disease.
Tiffin.-Damages were refused to
Frederick Mantz of Wheeling, W. Va,
in the first alienation suit ever
brought in Seneca county. Mantz
charged George Langhaus, wealthy
Tiffin man, with alternating his wife's
affections, and asked $4,000 dam
ages.
: Columbus.-In his annual report to
the state board of administration
Warden T. H. B. Jones of the Ohio
penitentiary showed a saving in ex-
penses of $4,000.
Zanesville.-William F. Wursters
aged So, prominent member of the
German American alliance, died from
. gangrene, due to stuhbing his toe. Six
months ago, while walking in a dark
room he struck the toe against a
chair, bruising it. Later the toe was
amputated. Recently his foot was
: amputated, but even this failed to
save his life.
Norwalk. - Miss Edith Heters q
school teacher of Bellevue, was in
stantly killed in front of her home
T at Heters Corners, by being struck
by Lake Shore Electric limited car
She crossed the track to mail a let,
ter and in recrossing the track she
} did not hear the car.
Marysville. = Mrs. Matte Ewing.
aged 10, was burned to death in her
home at North Lewisburg. while
starting the fire with kerosene. The
can exploded. The house was discov-