The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1911-06-22
Over the State

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tice E. G. Huntington.
Dayton.-Despondent over declin-
ing years and no friends, John
Mccarthy, 70, inmate of the Ma
tional Soldiers home here, committed
suicide by hanging.
Xenia.-Rev. w. f. Lee, d. D.,
SO, president of Morris-Brown uni.
versity, Atlanta, Ga, died suddenly
of heart failure while at dinner at Will
berforce university. Acute indiges-
ton is thought to have superinduced
the attack.
Martins Ferry.-The Laughlin tin
plate plant of the American Sheet
& Tin Plate Co., which closed
two months ago owing to lack
Of orders and began what seemed to
be an all summer suspension, has re-
sumed operations. The plant contains
% mills and all but seven of that
number are manned.
Delaware.-Mrs. John B. Hen
kle, wife of a we'll known travel
Ling man, was arrested on a charge of
administering arsenic to her STEP
daughter, Miss Merle Henkle, in guam
titles large enough to kill. Miss Hen
kle is one of the most widely known
young ladies' of the city. She is at
present in the Jane Case hospital to
which she was removed. The warrant
charged the administering of the ar
seRic on June /. IT is alleged that the
woman had been jealous of her step
daughter.
Ashtabula.-As the result of her
bravery in saving Harry Strubbe
from drowning. in Lake Erie at
Woodland park here, friends of
Miss Ruby Mcnamara, the 18-year-old
Ashtabula heroine, are urging a Car
negie medal for her and will take up
the matter with the hero fund com.
mission at Pittsburg and have an i'll
spector brought here to investigate
the case.
Elyria.-Brooding over trouble
which caused a separation from
her husband, Mrs. Bessie Ter
rell, 26, committed suicide by taking
carbolic acid at her home here.
Cleveland.-The biggest merger
of lake steamships companies since
the formation of the steel trust
and the Gilchrist fleets years ago was
formed here when $6000,000 organ
ization was formed by the United
States Transportation Co., the L. c
Smith Transit Co., the Wilkinson
transportation Co., the Standard
Transportation Co., and the American
Transit Co., comprising a fleet of q
vessels. The organization and the
ace S. Wilkinson and his Syracuse
N. Y, associates. The company will
be known as the Great Lakes Stem
ship Co.
Cleveland-Waylaid on their way
home from work, William S
Grimm and Arthur Denholen, his
roommate, both nonunion structura
iron workers, were severely beaten BY
eight men. The assailants were al
armed with revolvers and blackjacks
Grimm sustained eight scalp wound!
and his teeth were kicked from his
jaws.
Mt. Vernon Michael T. Lee, fol
years a prominent politician here
and a member of one of Mt
Vernons best families, was convicted
of manslaughter. The verdict was re
turned after the jury had deliberateC
more than seven hours. Lee was founC
guilty of having killed Charles E. Met
| calf of Mt. Vernon on the night o
March 20, 1911. Lee had been con
| ducting a saloon in Mt. Vernon, bu
was forced to close when Knox count!
went dry. Later he was arrested ol
charge of "bootlegging. Metcal
! was the chief witness against him
; The case was to come up for hear
ing on March 81, but on the night o
March 20, Metcalf was found dead un
der rig short distance from Mt
Vernon. 1t was shown in the tria
that Lee had given Metcalf ether an,
had employed man to drive him int
the country. Lee filed motion for
new trial.
Elyria.-Frederick S. Reefy, Il
, 80 years editor of the Elyri
Z Democrat and closely identified wit
the business and public life of Elyris
died at his home here. For severa
weeks he had been confined to hi
o home after an active life of more tha
! half a century. Mr.. Reefy came t
Elyria in 1872 and purchased the cor
trolling interest in what was the
! known as the Elyria Independent. b
. ing a staunch Democrat he rename
: the paper the Democrat and since tha
time he has been an ardent supporte
of the party founded by Jefferson
During the two Cleveland administr;
. tions from 1859 and 1887, Mr.. Reef
was postmaster of Elyria. Since tha
= time he has been member of tn
board of health and for the past te
years its president. He was also a
the head of the city humane society.
Cleveland.-Two big industris
surprises developed in Clevelan
" June 7. The cloakmakers went OF
u on strike and about 1000 people bega
y the struggle for better working col
ditions and more pay.
- Portsmouth. - Timely discover,
. just at a moment when deaf
- had apparently arrived, has prol
- ably saved the life of Frank Wa
= ker of this city, While emerging frol
y his cellar and as his head was abov
- the two folding doors, the doors wer
- slammed shut by the wind, .catchin
: him about the neck. His struggle
, were in vain and so tightly had tn
- - doors wedged about his neck that h
- could not scream for help, Elme