The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1911-12-07

The bed clothes caught fire. His out.
cry attracted the hotel clerk, Thomas
McGarry, and officer L. R. Mercer
who were badly burned in extinguish-
ing the fire and dragging him out OF
the room. Eaton died later at the
hospital He was q years old, coal
tester, and his home near Birming.
ham, Ala.
Marion.-After Is years Of effort on
the part of Ohio congressman and
senators, Congressman Carl Anderson
has at last succeeded in obtaining a
pension for Mrs. Mary Ann Steadman.
rs, widow of a civil war veteran,
which includes $3.50 back pay.
Youngstown.-The family of George
McGlauslin several days ago received
a letter from Cumberland, Md, tell
ing of the horrible manner in which
McGlauslin had been murdered. The
family was on the point of having the
body brought here for burial when
the police received word that no such
crime had been committed.
Cleveland.-A tray containing dia.
mond-set iewelry valued at $2,50O was
snatched in the store of John Hueter
here by a man who made his escape.
Misunderstanding 70 feet from the
framework of the new library build.
ing on the Ohio State University cam.
pus, Emil Rieth, structural iron
worker employed by the Columbus
Structural Steel Company, was almost
instantly killed.
Bellefontaine. - Rev. William M
Haines, of Union county, who has
been chaplain of the Sandusky Sold
iers' Home for the past Is years, has
rendered his resignation to take ef
feet the first of the year. Rev. Mr.
Haines gives as his excuse for the
resignation that he has been there
zoo long. Rev. F. G. Mitchell, Of MI
amisburg, has been appointed success
sor.
Upper Sandusky.-Warren Rasor
and his son Herbert shipped the bal
loon Dayton back to Dayton, afteI
having landed on the farm of Joseph
Brooks, seven miles northwest OF
here, winning a three-hour race with
two other balloons. The Dayton made
approximately 105 miles without any
untoward incident.
Columbus.-Word has been received
in Columbus of the death by suicide
of William C. Mills, lumber merch
ant of Gallipolis, who killed himself
in Stockton, Cal, Sunday. His wife
is seriously ill in Grant Hospital, and
cannot be informed of her husbands
death.
McArthur.-Mrs. Elizabeth Cruise
of Starr, aged SO, widow, is dead
from burns received while rendering
lard over an open fire.
Circleville.-Miss Mildren Taylor
of Ashville and Grover Lake of Circle
vile, injured in an automobile acci
dent at Ashville, when two of theiI
companions were killed, are expected
to recover.
Marysville.-Miss Alice Fairbanks
d6Su ~ yCdl o. q lllCCC vi III AuCA ANS
President Charles w. Fairbanks of In
dianapolis, committed suicide at the
home of her mother, Mrs. Matilda
Fairbanks, near Chickery, this coun
ty, by swallowing a quantity of car
oolic acid. She told her mother that
she swallowed the acid, and before
she could tell why she committed the
deed she fell upon the lounge and
died. No cause is known why she
killed herself.
Columbus. - Announcement was
made of the candidacy of Will T
Blake, East Liverpool newspaper man
for the post of assistant secretary oi
the constitutional convention.
Mt. Vernon.-The second robbery
in week in Knox county occurred
when the Lonely & Nixon genera
store at Amity, eight miles north Of
this city, was burglarized and the safe
blown. The robbers got away with
about $500 in money and $50 worth
of jewelry. The postofice is in the
store. When B. J. Fletcher, who re
sides over the store, made an attempt
to give an alarm, the robbers opened
fire on him, but the man was unin
jured. 1t is believed that the jot
was done by the same men who blew
three safes in this city last Saturday
Cleveland.-Gulping down a drink
which he said would be his last, g
man, thought to be Frank Hollich
aged S5, walked from the bar at the
Streibinger Hotel into the wash room
here and shot himself in the head
When the bartender reached him he
was dead. Dependency is said tc
have been the cause.
William Bowden, who
was shot by Vitulia Denielo during al
argument over the theft Of a hal
pint of whisky Saturday night, dice
at the City Hospital. Denielo, who
was employed at the saloon, was ar
rested and is in Jail.
xenia.-Action has not been taker
by Prosecutor F. L. Johnson as the
result of confiscation under his order
Of 900 bottles of Cincinnati beer con
signed to the "E. Lodge" Xenia. The
beer was in the barn of draymar
when conflscated. johnson says he
will file charges of keeping a place
against the steward Of the Elks lodge
to which organization he AYERS the
beer belongs.
Alliance. Albert Shinn, aged
20, was killed by a Stark electric css
near Salem. She was standing at til