The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1911-06-29
NEWS OF OHIO


ed coal oil over a seine and applied
a match to it in an effort to destroy
it. He was fined S25 and costs.
Hamilton.-Butler county's mag
nifcent court house was rotten
egged" by unidentified persons,
who in addition knocked large
pieces from the stone window ledges.
When the janitor arrived he found
the High street entrance bespattered
with eggs of ancient vintage.
Sandusky-Odd Fellows of the
grand lodge of Ohio, holding their
seventy-fifth annual convention here
and at Cedar Point, will not con-
denim their grand master, Senator
Isaac E. Huffman of Oxford, indicted
as a result of the recent graft probe
at Columbus. They say the constitu-
tion Of the country provides that a
man shall be considered innocent un-
til such accusation that may be
lodged against him is proven.
Toledo.-Myrtle Walker, Toledo
resort keeper, charged with PAN
dering, was found not guilty by
a Jury in the court of Judge G. E..
Chittenden. This is her second trial.
The charge against the defendant is
enticing two 17-year-old Cleveland
girls, Ruth Tiffany and May Riley,
into her house of ill-fame in Toledo.
The woman is still held in Jail, how
ever, as there are three more indict-
ments of a similar nature pending
against her.
Portsmouth.-Just as Judge Blair
started instructions to a special
grand Jury James Cooper, a far
mer, came in and said he under
stood he was wanted for selling a
vote. The records were hastily looked
up, and it was found he had been in
dicted some time ago. He pleaded
guilty, was fined $25 and costs, given
six months in the workhouse and dis
franchised for five years. The fine
and Jail sentence were suspended. 1t
is probable more vote sellers will be
given attention.
New Philadelphia.-Afte having
lived in ignorance of it for over
year. Frank Cobb, Malvern man,
has discovered his neck is broken.
In 1910 Cobb fell from the smoke
stack of the Pittsburg & NAL
vern Clay Co.'s shop, alighting on his
head. He was under the care of a
physician for few weeks, but recov-
cred. Lately he noticed his neck was
sore, and he complained of sharp
pains at the base of his brain. He
went to a Cleveland specialist, who
discovered the bones in his neck had
been broken short off and were knit.
ting improperly, thus causing the pain,
His neck was rebroken and his head
placed in a steel cast. 1t is expected
he will recover.
Cincinnati.-A sheriff's sale is
to be held in Cincinnati on July
%, at which the Commercial Tribune
will be auctioned off to the highest
bidder. This newspaper is the Oldest
publication in the entire state of Ohio
and was one of the most famous Amer
ican publications for many years dur
ing the time it was owed and edited
pany was but recently made defendant
in suit entered by the Union Savings
Bank G Trust CO.. of this city, for
$250,000 alleged to be due the bank
for money loaned the publication com
pany. Its plant here is valued at $3.50,
900.
Canton.-Fire of unknown ori
gin destroyed the Canton Fer
tilizing Co.'S plant. The plant was
far from the city limits and without
fire fighting appliances. The loss is
placed at $4,000; insurance less thar
one-half that amount.
Delaware.-Mrs. John B. Hen
kle, wife of a we'll known travel
ing man, was arrested on charge oi
administering arsenic to her step
daughter, Miss Merle Henkle, in guam
titles large enough to kill. Miss Hen
kle is one of the most widely known
young 4adies of the city. She is al
present in the Jane Case hospital tt
which she was removed. The warrant
charged the administering of the ar
senic on June 1. 1t is alleged that the
woman had been Jealous Of her step
daughter.
Chardon.-Julius Dietrich, wealthy
Claridon farmer, will not have
to pay any damages for alleged
breach of promise to Miss Berth;
Ferry, 81, of Painesville, his so-callet
want ad" fiancee, who sued him TO
$4,000 heart balm. The jury hearing
the case was out only Is minutes, re
turning verdict against Miss Ferry
who claimed on the witness stand tina
l. she loved julius from the first TIM
:, she saw him. She came to his hom'
in East Claridon and Julius, according
to testimony, did not want to MARI!
: for a few weeks until his first wifi,
: had been dead year. Dietrich can
. not read or write, 1t is said, though
he has accumulated a competency
during the so years of his life.
Delaware. = Five seniors, whit
were expelled from Ohio Wes
leyan 25 years ago, have jus
! been granted their degrees. The pun
ishment in 1886 was inflicted for at
tendance at a production of "Richar'
III" at Columbus theater.
, East Liverpool.-Judge A. 2. Blai
' of Portsmouth, who disfranchiseI
: hundreds of Adams county voters
in an address at the Methods
church defied his enemies, whom h
said constituted ''the whisky system
and declared he would not be deviate,
from his present purpose of fighting
for purer government He declares
that he would ten to the world hi
own story of the illegal voting II
Adams county within 80 days whel