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

NEWS OF OHIO

years in the Ohio penitentiary by
Judge Rogers. Cavanaugh was found
guilty of having dynamite unlawfully
in his possession and Of placing it on
the street car tracks during the re-
cent strike.
Napoleon.-Officers of company F,
Sixth o. N. G., have received orders
to recruit to full strength and have
been given emergency transportation
blanks and emergency vouchers for
supplies for active service. In case
OF hostilities it is believed that regi-
ment would undoubtedly be called
out.
Canton.--Two Canton lads, Donald
Krupp, aged IA, and William Manust,
13, who were arrested on a charge
Of stealing SAC, admitted that they
had placed distractions on the Balti-
more & Ohio railroad tracks and had
used the dynamite house Of the COM
pany as a mark for revolver target
practice.
Cincinnati.-The operations of a
large band of boy bandits in the
city, according to developments, win
surpass in plot and incidents even the
yellowbacked fiction. Twenty-nine
boys, some of them belonging to old
and respected families, have so far
been implicated in the protracted sys
tematic plundering by the big band OF
youthful bandits. The police have
turned up jewels valued at nearly
$1,000, all kinds of sporting goods,
pipes, cut glass, clocks, silverware,
clothing and a conglomeration of
goods, the spoils all told being valued
at $4,000, making the property room
at police headquarters look like an
old curiosity shop.
Elyria.-The second case against
former Congressman ]. F. Laning
and the case against James G..
Gibbs, who was placed on trial
with him. on charges of having made
false entries in the books of the Ohio
Savings, Loan & Investment Co. of
Norwalk, collapsed here. Judge Wick
cry of Cleveland, who heard the case,
| took it from the jury and directed a
verdict for the two defendants. H.
Lindale Smith, Cleveland attorney,
and his wife testified concerning a
real estate deal they had with the
company, declaring that it was legiti.
mate in every way. In dismissing the
case Judge Vickery said that the &C.
ton complained of could not even
be criticised; that exactly the same
thing is taking place every day in
Cleveland and elsewhere where real
estate transactions are made.
Martins Ferry-After having re.
mained silent for ten days, appa.
rently taking no action in the
strike which has tied up it's mines
and caused idleness of about 5000 OF
it's employees in this district, the
Youghiogheny & Ohio Coal Co.
dropped bomb in the miners organ.
ization which, it is predicted, will re-
suit in an early settlement of the
strike or renew the break in the
ranks that was threatened when
President Lewis first issued the strike
order. The bomb was in the form OF
an official notice that the officers OF
the miners organization and it's mem
bers jointly and separately will be
held responsible for all damages re
sulting from the idleness of the mines
because of the strike which was or
dered for the purpose of bringing the
operators in the Tuscarawas district
to terms.
Columbus.-Otto G. Hayes, the
Gallon banker who, in 1905 was
convicted for violation of the fed
eral banking laws and sentenced tc
the penitentiary for seven and one
half years, has just been released
under the new federal parole law.
Delaware.-Two damage suits, ag
gregating $4,000, we're filed in com
mon pleas court here against Eli NJ
West, as receiver of the Columbus
Delaware & Marion Railway company
as result of the tragic accident neal
Stratford Thanksgiving evening, 1909
when William H. Irwin, dairyman, re
ceived severe injuries and his wife
Daisy Irwin, was killed. Paul M. Bliss
administrator of Mrs. Irwin, asks $40,
900 damages, and ]. Lee Porterfield
guardian of Mr.. Irwin, asks $25, ,00(
damages.
Columbus.-Louis P. Ohlinger, for
mer collector of internal revenue a
Cleveland and banker in Wooster
was released from the state peniten
tiary, after serving five years nin'
months and ten days. He was sen
fenced to eight years, after pleading
guilty to violating the federal banking
laws. Ohlinger goes to Pittsburg tt
join his wife, who is Ill there. Late
he man engage in business either il
Cleveland or Wooster. He is sc years
old.
Cincinnati The strike on thu
Queen & Crescent, which took $50 O
the roads firemen out and entailet
much damage to the road through tn,
loss Of freight and passenger service
as we'll as through the work of sym
pathizers, has been called off follow
ing a conference of the roads off
cials and representatives of the fire
mems union. Both parties found
necessary to concede points of differ
ences.
Massillon.-One hundred miners en-
ployed by the Massillon-MingIewoo
Coal company, at it's min near Nortl
Lawrence, narrowly escaped probabI
death by drowning by the discover
by State Mine Inspector Harrison tina
the men were within 28 feet of tn
abandoned, water-filled working of tn
old Minglewood mine, covering 800
acres.
Columbus.-Captain Perrin B. MonJ
peny of Columbus, attached to til