The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1911-04-06
State News


plant in Sandusky, and that 1t has
taken 3O-day options on about 300
acres of land just west on the M. A.
Hanna Co.'s docks in the northwest
ern part of the ely, is in substance
the information that comes from what
is said to be an absolutely reliable
source in Pittsburg. Option takers, it
develops, have been busy for sew
eral days and have secured almost, IL
not quite all, the property they want
Canton.-George ]. Slutz, 70, Of
Howenstein, this county, was killed
and his wife, 6S, was fatally
injured when a buggy in which
they were riding home was struck
by a Wheeling C Lake Erie pas
senger train at an unguarded
crossing. The couple were thrown 80
feet. The horse was killed and hurled
40 feet. Slutz's head was crushed
and he lived but few moments. Mrs.
Sultz is in Ingleside hospital suffer
ing from internal injuries and many
cuts and bruises. Four children sur
vive.
Cincinnati.-Because a melodrama
which she had just witnessed
and in which the heroine lack
ed the guidance of mother love, por-
trayed almost exactly her own life,
Elizabeth Cook, 81 years old, of Clar-
water, Mich, known here as Mrs.
Richard Muir, committed suicide.
Muir is employed evenings, and the
woman therefore went to the theater
alone. When she returned home she
was greatly depressed. II have just
seen sad show" she told Muir. 81
never knew what it was to be with
out a mother until now. Goodby."
Grasping a bottle of carbolic acid she
drained it before Muir could spring
across the room to her side.
Lima.-Mayor George Dyer, former
Mayor Theodore D. Robb and six
prominent citizens of Lima have been
subpenaed as witnesses in the trial
at Independence, Kan, Of AL o. Trusk-
ett for the murder of ]. D. S. Neeley,
Lima banker.
Zanesville.-Stricken with paraly-
sis on the eve of her wedding
to George w. Francis, Al, Miss
Sadie E. Elliott, 43, was removed to
the Bethesda hospital where, propped
up on a cot, the ceremony was per-
formed.
Bucyrus. Allen, 5, and his
sister, 3, were playing "William Tell"
when the boy shot and instantly killed
his sister. The boy had a Flobert
rife and his sister held up bottle
for him to shoot. The girl held the
bottle in front of her face and the
boy fired, the ball entering the brain
of the girl. Death was instantaneous.
Xenia.-Taking the law into their
own hands and going over the heads
Of city officials and police, a party Of
sixteen Greene county farmers, head
ed by Prosecuting Attorney Frank l..
Johnson, conducted a raid on six Of
Xenia's alleged blind tiger" saloons.
Two drayloads of whisky were cap
tured and hauled into court.
Lima.--With half the women of the
city in attendance every afternoon at
the Billy Sunday tabernacle meetings,
burglaries are being reported in many
parts of the residential sections daily.
imprisonment in the
federal penitentiary in Leavenworth,
Kan, for three years and fines aggre-
eating $1,000 was the sentence i'm
posed on William P. Harrison, wealthy
head Of mail order concern, by
Judge Hollister in the United States
district court. Harrison was found
guilty of using the mails to defraud,
conviction coming on all seven counts
of two indictments, alleging he adver'
vacuum carpet cleaner and a washing
machine, neither of which would do
the work required Of 1t.
Oberlin.-The deans of all depart.
ments of Oberlin college are hot on
the trail of an aggregation of boys,
who, disguised as girls, enjoyed the
annual "Yale-Princeton game" This
contest is battle between two select
girls basket ball teams, and is for
the eyes of women only. The boys SO
cleverly dressed themselves that they
we're able to slip into the gymnasium
unnoticed by the piercing glances of
DR.. Hannah on the door. They were
silent through the performance, but
before leaving burst forth in a cheer
that betrayed them. The matrons
were so Mortified by the voices of
men in the sacred sanctuary of the
women's gym that the assistance of
the deans was at once summoned.
Cleveland.-Charging that her hus.
band, John H. Buhlart, drove her from
home by opening the doors and win
dows of his home while she was i'll
with a severe Geld, Mrs. Alice Buhlart,
aged II, filed a petition for divorce.
She also asks the court to order her
husband to restore wearing apparel
Of hers, which she claims is in his
possession. The couple were married
August rs of last year.
Youngstown.-The conductors and
motormen in the employ of the Ma.
honing Valley system will be given
an increase of one cent an hour start.
Ing April /, when they will get 25,
rs and 27 cents an hour, according to
the time they have been in the serv-
Ice of the company. Next year the
men will get another increase of one
cent an hour.
Cambridge.-The body Of John
Micha, 30, married, who was robbed,
murdered and thrown under a C. & P.
train, was found on the railroad
tracks. The police are OBTAINING two
men pending investigation.