The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1911-12-21
Buckeye Notes

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oak Harbor has received the appoint
ment Of postmaster there He sue
ceeds Leslie Meyers, who resigned to
become cashier of the new state bank.
Bellefontaine. - Sanford Dulin, a
blacksmith, died here of blood poison
ing, the result of having a tooth ex-
tracted two weeks ago.
CleVeland.-The coroner's inVestiga-
ton of the fire in which the three
children of Julius Wanyerka were IA
tally burned several weeks ago, exon
Grated the East Ohio Gas company.
During the investigation Wanyerka
testified that the gas company had
neglected to examine leaks, though
requested to do SO, but the report of
the city gas inspector showed that the
fire was not due to an explosion of
gas.
Observation-Disclosures cut the frame
around the glass in the front door Of
L. M. Butch's jewelry store and stole
jewelry and 40 watches.
Cincinnati.-Frank Jester, aged 20,
an iron worker, fell 70 feet to his
death at the new Fourteenth district
public school in this city.
Washington c. H.-Nineteen cents a
pound is not SO bad for a beef on
foot, but that is just what Martin L.
Mccoy. a Fayette county farmer, re-
ceived for his Angus steer that won
first prize on foot and also first in the
carcass class in the International fat
stock show at Chicago
Zanesville.-Hugh French, aged 2S,
a stock buyer, was thrown from his
pony at Connellsville and probably
fatally trampled by the animal.
Coshocton.-Carl Spicer. aged 65, Of
Dresden was found dead in his seat
on a Pennsylvania railroad passenger
train in the depot here. 1t was be-
lieved Spicer was sleeping until the
train reached the station, when it was
discovered that he was dead. Heart
failure is believed to have caused his
death. He was employed by the rail
road.
East Liverpool.-As the result Of a
request made to Probate Judge L. T.
Farr of Lisbon to investigate the re-
ceipt of alleged obscene notes by a
13-year-old school girl Of Guilford,
seven children of prominent families
have been withdrawn from the school
by their parents. Instructor Harry
Ritz Of the Guilford school, it is said,
claims the notes are part of a con-
spiracy to disrupt the institution.
Lisbon-Charles G. Miller, aged "a,
of East Liverpool, during lucid period
came into probate court and asked to
be sent to the Massillon asylum for
treatment. Miller is physical direct
or and coach at Bethany college and
his mental condition is due to an in
jury to his spine received in a foot
ball game. Most unaccountable of all
and an occurrence of which he says
he@has not the slightest recollection
is his marriage, which was solemn
lied week ago at Canton. Develop
ments of the past few days show that
he accompanied a woman several
years his senior from West Virginia
to Canton and securing a license
there. made her his wife.
Cleveland.-"Cards" was the sub
ject of sermon by the Rev. DR.. z. J.
MacAlpine of the Boulevard Presby-
terian church, and his attitude was at
variance with that usually assumed
by the pulpit speakers. DR.. MacAl-
pine contended that the playing OF
cards, in the proper way, was ccndu-
Give to improved mentality, good fel-
lowship and sociability. The gambling
feature he condemned. In Cleveland
alone, he said, it was estimated that
100000 to 100000 changed hands
daily across the card table.
Youngstown.-According to a we'll
defined rumor the pudding mills of
the A. M. Byers Co. at Girard will be
lost to the Sons of Vulcan, whose
members have been on strike for the
last five weeks. The mills will be
opened this week, it is said, with
puddlers from the Amalgamated asso-
citation.
Cleveland.-The Cleveland centen-
nial commission has designated the
week in July, 1913, that includes the
22d as the time for the Perry memo
rial celebration in this city. July %
will be Cleveland day. Webster p.
Huntington, secretary-general of the
national Perry commission, attended
the meeting. He said all the lake
cities were preparing for big ceIebra-
tions with government cooperation.
Findlay.-Dr. Hubert Huber, a we'll
known Ottawa physician who has just
died, while in life prepared a monu-
ment of his own design, an immense
red granite boulder, which he carved
and placed on his own grave. The
lettering was completed with the ex-
ception of the date of his death. The
last line on the stone is this: Sorry
| cannot leave my future address"
Columbus.-The state of Ohio will
help Judge Edward E. Corn and Pros
ecutor S. NJ. Douglass clean up the
rottenness in Pike county revealed re-
Gently in the indictment of ten Pike
county citizens on charges of bribery,
perjury, intimidation and other VIOLA
tions of the corrupt practices law in
the recent elections. Scores more in
dictments are expected.
Canton.-Shouts of fire, coupled
with smoke, caused a panic in the
Harter block, driving out score of
tenants in their nightgowns and pa
jamas. Smoldering ashes in the base
ment started the alarm.
Hamilton.-Joseph Pigg. IL. was
shot, perhaps fatally, by his elder
brother, Montgomery Pigg, aged 19,
while they were hunting on the farm
Of Edward Rosencranz, four miles
east of this city. The shot entered
Co.