The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1911-09-21
Buckeye Notes


around a fire in front of her home
when Hance Creter, an aged man,
threw a can of gasoline on the flames.
Instantly the child was enyeloped by
flames and before they could be ex-
tinguished by John Anderson all her
clothing was burned! Anderson also
was burned about the hands and arms.
Coroner A. w. Davis conducted an in
quest and declared the child met
death accidentally. Creter, heart
broken, says he warned the girl be-
fore he threw the gasoline.
Chardon.-Centennial are becom-
ing popular in Geauga county.
ty. Claridon township no more than
finished cleaning up from her Tooth
birthday celebration than Bainbridge
township announced one for October
Z. Since cambridge made the an
nouncement Troy township has decid-
ed not to let her Tooth birthday slip
by unnoticed and is going to beat
Bainbridge's time, having set the date
for September %.
Portsmouth.-Judge A. q. Blair
called a special grand jury which,
it is announced, at once will
begin the final roundup Of vote bar
terers. The judges action promises
to cut off several votes by disfran-
chisement just when they will be
needed in the coming wet" and dry
election, fast developing into the most
active campaign in the history Of
Scioto county. 1t also was announced
the special grand jury will investigate
alleged violations of the primary elec.
tion laws. Virgil Benner came into
court and after pleading guilty to sell.
ing his vote was fined 5000, sentenced
to the workhouse for six months and
disfranchised for five years.
Lorain.-Ice cream sodas, which
for nearly 20 years have sold for
cents by large number of the drug
gists and confectioners in the city
This action, it was announced, is due
to the increased cost of sugar. The
dealers say sirups cost more and they
are unable to furnish sodas for the
old price.
New Philadelphia.-S u m b / n 6
blindly while temporarily insane,
Charles Won Bergen, &c, plung.
ed from the roof of his home and was
fatally injured. He left his bed while
other members of his family were
asleep.
Portsmouth.-Th head of Upper
Twin creek, the scene of many
murders and bloody feuds, was
stirred by another tragedy, when John
Blevins and his stepson, Irwin Keaton
were fired upon from ambush. Blevins
was shot in the foot and his stepson
was shot through the right shoulder
receiving an ugly and dangerous
wound.
Steubenville.-Citi of Scio are
intensely indignant over the re-
moval of the old college from
that town to be consolidated with
Mount Union and their feeling result
ed in an outbreak against President
r. Emory Beetham when he departed
| for Mount Union. During the day
| President Beetham was hooted anC
eggs were thrown at him as he went
about the streets. Later in the even
ing, when the college head went to the
train, the mayor and marshal of the
town accompanied him to the station
and stood guard. When the train ar
rived they, with railroad men, formed
hollow square about him to protec
him from rotten eggs and other mis-
siles which were thrown by men in the
riotious crowd.
Canton.-George Burke, 23, TOLD
Judge w. B. Quinn in court tha
he escaped from the Stark county
workhouse because of longing tt
see his young bride, whose charges
had sent him to prison for disturbing
the peace. Burke was soon captured
after leaving the workhouse through
tip from a farmers wife, where hi
had stopped in efforts to get changt
of clothes and to get rid of his prison
garb. His attempted escape will cos
Burke double sentence. He will nov
| have to serve 25 days. At the time
his term was almost up.
Cleveland-Fifteen thousand Cleve
landers paid homage to the mem
ory of Oliver Hazard Perry il
| Wade park in celebration of the
ninety-eighth anniversary of the battle
of Lake Erie.
Alliance.-Frank Hoyles, As, +;
teamster, hanged himself in thu
city Jail with his suspenders. HI
was arrested for intoxication.
Marion.-Four boys all unde
II, alleged by police to b.
members of a band that have commit
ted more than Is burglaries in tn
farming community around Mario
and many other robberies within thi
city, were captured by several farm
ers whose homes had been robbed
The boys, Carl Buertche, Thurman
Huntsman, George Parker and Alber
MeWhorter, had large sums of money
watches, rings, pocketbooks and othe
stolen valuables in their possession
when arrested.
Alliance.-Grieving for his youn
wife, who died three weeks ago t
the very hour, Lloyd Lemuel, q, CON
mitted suicide here by drinking cal