The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1911-06-29
: Short State Items


editor of the Dayton News, was sued
for divorce here by his wife. Mary L.
Cox. Mrs. Cox charges cruelty and
neglect.
Canton.-Firebugs have been busy
lately in the vicinity of Canal
Fulton. Houses, farms and other
have been set on fire
and destroyed within the last six
weeks, causing an aggregate loss of
about 100000. The biggest loss, about
$4,000, was caused by the burning of
the B. & o. coaling station near War
wick.
Cincinnati.-Charles Sebree, SIS,
living at Cleves, a suburb, was
arrested after, it is alleged, he
had applied match to the home. Of
ticers say they found a cupboard in
which an oil soaked mattress had
been placed. The floor had been sat
urated with the oil, the officers say.
Sebree was arraigned at once, pleaded
guilty and was bound over to the
grand Jury. 81 have never told a lie
in my life," he said. 81 cannot tell
one now. l am guilty"
Cincinnati.-"Auntie" Brown, who
is in reality Mrs. Lucinda White
Brown of Akron and who has
passed her seth year, was one of
the speakers at the annual conven-
ton Of the Universalist's Young Peo-
ple's union in Cincinnati Mrs. Brown
has been for 40 years the mother"
Of the Buchtel college students at Ak
ron. 1--WE are taught universal brother
hood" she said in her address. well,
practice that on everybody, and
everybody practices it on me. 1t is
simplicity itself. l meet with kind
ness wherever l go and find that
people always want me around. What
more could l ask. Up at Buchtel col
lege we have almost all the students
together, and / have never seen any
body of college men during my 40
years experience whom I could not
handle by applying this rule of uni
versal brotherhood. They are a nice
lot of boys and the people who don't
like them don't understand them"
Toledo.-A. E. Crosby, Toledo
motorman, was arrested by con.
stables from Justice Smiths court
on a warrant charging first-degree
murder. Crosby is charged with the
killing Of Alva Black, who, during a
scuffle with Crosby on a moving car,
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fallen to death under the wheels.
Cleveland.--An appeal for a high
er standard of social purity, di-
rected to young women, and indi-
rectly aimed at the young men of the
state, was made by President Ira Ian
drith of Belmont college, Nashville,
Tenn, in an address at the opening
session of the Ohio State Christian
Endeavor convention in the Chamber
of Commerce hall here. "If the young
women Of the nation" said Doctor
Landrith, would keep out of their
parlors young men callers Of. doubtful
morals, the men of this country would
soon clean up morally and the United
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highest social standards Of any nation
on earth. The trouble is that girls
unconsciously encourage your best fel.
lows in things that are seemingly
trivial but which lead to disaster. This
should cease at once. And further, ii
you young women decided to turn
down all the young men who drink in
toxicating liquor, in the course OF
time there would be total abstinence
by every male resident in Ohio. Sc
you girls see what responsibility is on
your shoulders"
Akron.-T expect to see a wei
and dry campaign in Cleveland
before Christmas and when 1t comes
it will be the liveliest thing of the
kind that has ever happened any,
where" declared Rev. A. S. Gregg
Cleveland, superintendent of the
American Civic Reform union, during
the course of an address at the First
Methodist church. "Akron's city of
ficials are permitting Knockout prize
fights, the sale of obscene postcards
gambling and other forms of vice
without molestation," declared Rev
Mr.. Gregg, who told his congrega
tion that he had made a personal in
vestigation in order to obtain tht
facts. He said that he had witnessed
a knockout prize fight here.
Toledo.-Filling the position o.
secretary Of the Novelty Sigr
Co. during the day and operating
through mails as Madam La Belle
fortune teller and clairvoyant, from
her room at night, Miss Clara Long
meier, rs, pretty Lima girl, was ar
rested by Postoffice Inspector c. B
Speer and Deputy United States Mar
shal Brown in that city. She wal
brought to Toledo, arraigned before
United States Commissioner Fred
erick Gaines on a charge of using thu
mails to defraud and bound over tt
the grand jury. Bail, fixed at $500
was furnished. Although for some
years, she had received considerable
mail from all parts of the country
recently it reached such proportions
that she received huge sacks of mai
almost daily. Postoff1ce inspectors
investigated and, they charge, discov
cred that she gave out formal letters
in return for money sent her.
Toledo.-Attorney B. F.. Long
necker Of this city met his deatl
| by accidental drowning off the nava
reserve training ship Essex in Lak'
Erie. Longnecker with Companies 4
and G, Ohio National Guard, left To
ledo for Camp Perry where they wer'
to go into camp for 16 hours. Th'
Essex arrived off Greene island at /.
o'clock. Three hours later the look
out cried, man overheard" Boats
were lowered, but no trace of thu