The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1911-04-20
NEWS OF OHIO


head and nearby was found S2-cali-
Der revolver with four loaded and one
empty shells. He had been playing
with q number Of companions during
the afternoon but all Of them profess
ignorance Of the affair. The police
are of the opinion that the lad killed
himself accidentally. Neighbors be-
lieve one of his little companions took
his life while toying with the revolver.
Akron.-Four hundred Slavs watch
ing baseball game in vacant lot
were plunged into a first-class riot
when a foul tip crossed the road and
broke a window in a foreigners
house. Police answered a hurry-up
call and made 21 arrests.
Sebring.-It is lucky for a bank
ing company at Alliance that
money paid by mistake here fell
into the hands of an honest man.
Clyde Oliver of Oliver & Petty, gro
GERS, went to the City National bank
and asked for so silver dollars. When
he returned to the store he was sur
prised to discover that he had been
given 20 $50 gold pieces instead Of the
silver dollars. He hurried back to the
bank and asked the cashier If there
hadn't been a mistake in his money.
The cashier thought not, but was sur
prised when Oliver showed him the
$1,000 in gold pieces. The Sebring
bank had just received the gold from
an Alliance bank, where the mistake
was made.
notwithstanding to be a
niece of Admiral Dewey, a daugh-
ter of George H. Daniels, former.
ly general passenger agent of the
New York Central lines, and the wife
of a brother of a public official of
Cleveland, Mrs. Lewis Landers plead
ed guilty to a charge of petit lar
ceny and was sentenced to pay a fine
OF 800 or serve 30 days in the jail
here. March % the woman, who
claims to have been the wife of a
man of the name Of Morgan of San
dusky, before his death, was married
by local minister to Lewis Landers,
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Plaisted, a retired merchant of this
city. In his absence the man and
woman collected most of the valuables
Lorain.--Officers of the Canadian
revenue service put one over"
on LOrain fishermen when in the
tug Home Rule they steamed upon
the fish tug Eagle, said to have been
fishing in Canadian waters. The Vigi,
liant was hailed as soon as the capture
was made and the Eagle taken to Can
ada. Such is the story fishermen
brought into port. The Eagle was
about two miles north of the interna.
tionol boundary line, doing land
Office business, when the tug Home
Rule, commonly stationed at Amherst
burg, in commercial service, hove in
Sight She bore down on the unsus.
pecting crew of the Eagle. When
alongside the American tug, Canadian
revenue officers appeared in full uni
form on the deck of the Home Rule
and then boarded the Eagle, which
they confiscated in the name of the
crown.
Toledo.-Billy Sunday opened UP
his six-week campaign against
sin here most auspiciously, 5000
people gathering at the three ser
vices. This breaks all previous at
tendance records for Sunday during
his work as an evangelist. Sunday
went right after the people of Toledo
at the start and made good. In the
morning he opened on church mem
bers, in the afternoon on Christian
warfare and in the evening on the
text "If any man shall do his will
: he shall know of the doctrines" Sun
day did not mince his language in ad
dressing the people and while he
shocked many, his hot remarks all re
ceived warm applause.
Steubenville.-The mystery of the
disappearance of pretty 17-year
old Minnie Demco has been solv
ed. She drowned herself in the
Ohio river near her home. She ha!
been missing two months. Her body
was found in the river and pos
I |
, missing girl by the coroner. Tht
body was found by three mel
about two miles and half down thu
river from her home. Minnie was il
. love with John Schultz. young engi
, neer at Glen Run mine. Her parent
insisted on her marrying Frank John
son, who was much older than Minnie
On the night that she was to hav,
!. been married to Johnson, in ,compli
y ance with her parents wishes, she dis
a appeared.
!, Canton.-George ]. Slutz, 70, o
r Howenstein, this county, was kille,
J. and his wife, 6S, was fatal,
n injured when a buggy in whicl
they were riding home was strucl
Y by Wheeling G. Lake Erie pas
> senger train at an unguardet
( crossing. The couple were thrown 8
!. feet. The horse was killed and hurle,
I 40 feet. Slutz's head was crushe,
|. and he lived but few moments. Mrs
n Sultz is in Ingleside hospital suffer
:, ing from internal injuries and man
i cuts and bruises. Four children SUI
vive.
Youngstown. - The complaint c
Jack Collins, inmate of the county il
y firmary, to Governor Judson Harmo
8 that there was favoritism being show
9 there, resulted in his being expelled
e Columbus. - Declaring themselve
Q heartily opposed to Warden Jone'
s plan of paroling 500 convicts fro1
r the penitentiary to relieve condition
!. in the institution, Daniel Torpy {
Q Marietta, president of the board {
9 managers, and Lemon G. Neeley {
A O. Morv'c anOthor mnmhar Of th