The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1911-03-30

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year-old son of the injured man |
climbed upon the bed and the father
gazed at him for several moments |
and then passed away. The accident |
took place on curve in the yard of
the Canton Roll g. Machine Co.
! Mt. Vernon.-Knox county officials
believe that Charles Metcalf, who
was found dead in the road, three
miles south of here, was MUIR
dered to forestall the prosecution of
bootlegging case, Of which Metcalf
was prosecuting witness. The case
was set for trial in the common pleas
court, but was postponed because of
his death. The officials will not dis
close the names of those implicated
in the alleged illegal sale of liquor.
Wooster.-Thieves, during the last
few weeks, stole practically every
fish out Of lake covering two
acres. The little body of water
was filled with carp, bass, blue gills
and perch.
Youngstown-Hiram Smith, GA, a
solder of the Civil war and a
resident of Braceville for many
years, died of heart disease in his
buggy while driving through Newton
Falls. Smith was director in the First
National bank of Newton Falls.
Sandusky.-The cause of the ex.
| pIosion at the gypsum plant of
the American Gypsum Co. of Port
Clinton still is unknown, although Of
ficials OF the company adhere to the
suppositicn that a workman going off
duty at 2:30 a. m. dropped a lighted
match or a cigar or cigar stub in
passing the powder magazine on the
way from the tool house after putting
away the tools. A careful investiga.
ton proved conclusively that no lives
were lost and that six persons were
injured. All the window panes in the
plant were shattered.
Toledo-The body of a middle
aged man, believed to have been
N. E. Hilliard, an oil we'll driller,
who lived at Cygnet, o., was found
at the bottom of Swan creek. A roll
of 500 in currency was found wrap.
ped around the dead mans left ankle
under the sock and $50 was in sim.
liar position around the right ankle.
A purse, empty, bill book and blank
checks were found on the river bank,
leading the police to believe that
the man had been the victim of thugs.
Fostoria.-The following resolu'
tion was unanimously adopted at
night session of the mid-year
after a number of stirring speeches
by delegates and citizens. ITO his
excellency, Hon. ,Judson Harmon, gov.
ernor of Ohio: Resolved that we en-
ter vigorous protest against the
Dean-Fulton bill and respectfully re-
quest that you act promptly in using
all means at your command to pre-
vent the passage of said bill and if
it should pass the legislature that
you use your power of veto, thereby
| conserving the best interest of state"
Lima.-Stricken with apoplexy
while taking a seat in the sec
ton of the choir left reserved for
ministers at the Billy" Sunday taber-
nacle, death came to Rev. Parker P.
Pope, one of the best known ministers
in the central Ohio NJ. E. conference
/ and presiding elder of the Toledo and
, Defiance districts for IL years.
Sandusky.-The annual report to
induct farmers to grow cabbage
for sauerkraut making, was in
stituted by representatives of various
firms in this, the center of the sauer-
: kraut industry in America. Numerous
contracts providing for the purchase
, at good prices of all the cabbage
grown on large tracts will have been
entered into by the time the canvass
ends, April 1. The sauerkraut manu-
facturers say that their product is
no longer an article Of ordinary food,
but that on the contrary, it has be.
come so popular even among the rich
by whom it was at one time, looked
upon with scorn, that it is almost i'm
' possible to meet the demand.
Massillon.-The attention of the
Massillon State hospital physicians
has been attracted to the strange
and wholly unexpected beneficial eff.
feet of maple sirup on the inmates of
the institution. They are unable to
explain it except to say that it makes
them gentle, just as sugar will make
horses gentle.
leveland.-Discussion Of national
and state issues, as well as Of
the newly dedicated federal build
: ing, marked the banquet at the Cham
, ber of Commerce. The dinner con
l. cluded the exercises of the day. At
. :, torney General Wickersham, Federal
Judges Killits and Lands, Senator
Burton and others gave to the 500 mer
present words full of compliment fol
Cleveland and much patriotic advice
. Lima. - Rev. William A. Sunday
. who now claims conversions in Lima
II numbering 2,21O, broke rock with the
prisoners in the city workhouse, de
livering a ten-minute sermon.
Washington, D. C.-The postoffice
. departments at Cleveland, Cincin
natl Columbus, Toledo and Cantor
: along with the postoffices in othel
large cities scattered over the coun
. try are to be completely reorganized
The various divisions are to be con
solidated into not more than two de
partments in manner which it II
believed greatly will add to the eff
cheney of the service as well as ma
! terially lessening the cost OF opera
= ton. The offices are to be reorganizeC
!. into two divisions at the start. one I
= division of mails and the other . divi
! sion of finance.