The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1911-06-01
Over the State

hig hwinds. Repairs had just been
completed when lightning shattered
The church steeple.
Within IS hours
after he had been captured in
Athens conuty by Scioto county off,
cials, Car Davis had confessed to muir
der, was arraigned, pleaded guilty, and
heard sentence of life passed by the
trial Judge. On the night April 8, Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Lair, an aged couple
who lived near Tick Ridge, this
county, were beaten by two masked
men and robbed Of $12O. Suspicion
pointed to Carl and Wallace Davis,
brothers. A few weeks later Wallace
was arrested, Yleaded guilty to burg
larry and was given life sentence.
Minerva.-Because the official
board of the Christian church con-
siders the moral influence of Virgil
Robart, playing in the Sunday school
orchestra, as harmful, it has passed
resolutions to prevent the young man,
who is now charged with second de-
gree murder and awaiting trial, from
so doing. hobart is charged with the
murder of Faber Elder April 80. He
is II years old, and has always at
tended Sunday school, playing with
the orchestra. Since his release from
Jail on bail he has attended Sunday
school, and some of his friends wanted
him to play as before. This brought
out the action of the church board.
Canton.-Luitpold Sollmann, 81,
pioneer druggist of Canton,
died at his home here from can.
GER Mr.. Sollmann left a letter last
February with DR.. J. H. While, in
which he directed the manner in
which his funeral service should be
conducted, the name of the pastor and
the kind of casket in which he was to
be buried. He specified a simple serv-
ice and no singing.
Akron.-In reply to charges to
vote buying set forth in pam
phlets widely circulated here, Judge
A. 2. Blair of Adams county displayed
one of them from the stage at the
Colonial theater, and referred to it as
IAN infamous falsehood." There are
employ of the Liquor league who fol
low me from place to place in an
4. effort to injure me-" he declared. He
declared that his work in Adams
county is only started, that before the
investigation into vote buying is end.
ed 800 more voters will be disfran-
chised for purchasing or selling Of
votes.
Youngstown-Wor was receiv
ed here that a controlling inter.
est in the Mahoning & Shenanga Rail.
way & Light Co. had been bought by
Broker Harrison Williams of Wall
street, who represents the General
Electric Co. The stock of James Par
melee and Myron T. Herrick of Cleve.
land and several others was trans.
ferred to the new owners. The Ma
honing & Shenango Railway & Light
Co. controls the traction lines of the
Mahoning and Shenango valleys, in
Guiding the towns of Warren, Niles,
? Youngstown, Newcastle and Sharon.
The lighting franchises of Warren,
Youngstown, Sharon and Newcastle
, also are included in the deals. The
local traction lines recently were
, granted an extension of their fran.
chise, which runs 25 years. The cor.
poration has been dominated by the
Herrick and Parmelee interests for
many years. 1t is said extensive i'm.
provements are planned.
Sandusky.-Ten inmates of the
Ohio Soldiers and Sailors home
all soldiers of the Spanish-Amer
ican war, have been discharged
under an order of the board of trus
tees, a recent medical examination
having disclosed that they are physi
, cally able to take care of themselves
, The men discharged are: Elmer
Rogers, Co. H, Seventeenth U. S. in
, fantry; Louis ]. Biehl, Co. K, Four
, teenth U. S. infantry; Peter Mertes
Sixty-second Co. U. s. coast artillery;
Frank M. Freeman, Co. A, Seventh o
, V. l.; Hugh c. Duncan, Co. E, Nine
teehth U. S. infantry; H. D. Chamber
lain, Co. D, Sixth o. V. L.; Redmond
E. Ney, Co. B, First West Virginia in
fantry; John ]. Cleary, Co. B, Tenth o
. V. l.; Neal Douglass, Co. X, Eighth o
V. l., and William Seigler, Co. F, Sec
!, ond U. S. infantry. The thinning O.
the ranks is the result Of decision
by the trustees to relieve the conges
ton that has been a problem at tht
home
Cincinnati-George B. Cox, Re
publican boss of Hamilton county
has retired from politics. This retire
ment, the third in recent years, is an
= nounced by Mr.. Cox positively as hi
= last. Following the quashing of in
:. dictments in which perjury was charg
y ed against him, the Cincinnati politi
: cal chieftain decided to lay down thu
:, reins of leadership. He does it, hi
: says, for the good of his party. Judge
: William e. Dickson ordered dismissed
= the indictments against Cox and il
so ordering declared the county pros
i ecutor, judge of the court of com
y mon pleas and perhaps the grant
jurors had conspired to deprive tn
. noted politician of his constitutions
o rights.
Canton.-Aroused because of
II murderous attack upon John Nc
. CURE, 35, miner, a crowd of Brew
= u ster residents\ surrounded the Jail a
u that town and threatened to lyncl
u James Ferrella, "a, an Italian. Mayo
+ Gebhart and Marshal Fetrow secretl,
y brought the prisoned to Canton.
% Mansfield-Edward Schrock,
. seven-year-old boy, was run dow
u by speeding automobile an
a. died in the hospital several hour
u later from his injuries. 1t was tn