The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1911-04-20
State News

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barred ever1 other means OF egress,
six men we're seriously injured
when the machine and cabinet de-
partment OF the Ohio Valley Furni-
ture was burned. The property loss
is estimated at 100000.
Toledo.-Fire probably caused by
short-circuiting of electric wires
completely gutted the American
theater here. Fire Chief Mayo esti-
mates the loss to building and con-
tents at $4,000. The blaze was dlscoV-
cred by Manager Harry Winter Of the
Empire theater, who was passing and
saw smoke issuing from the upper
windows. The fire started in the gal
lery. No one was in the theater when
the fire broke out, there being NO
matinee.
Cincinnati.-Preside William A.
Hopkins gave out a formal state
ment saying that the Commerce
& Deposit bank, Incorporated under
the state laws of Ohio, for $50,000,
had decided to close its doors and that
every penny of the deposits will be
paid. He says that the closure is made
only because the people Of the institu'
tion wish to retire. Hopkins is the
treasurer-elect Of this county. J. viii.
lard Haley was deposed as president
of the bank last fall.
Warren.-Prof. w. H. Dana filed
complaint in police court against a
number of school boys, charging them
with marring and mutilating the
juniors cottage at Dana's Musical in
stitute. The boys plastered the front
of the building with a rotten egg mix.
ture, he asserts.
Sandusky.-While visiting at the
home of a brother, William Cul
len, near Vickery, Lester Cullen
10, son of Charles Cullen of Castalia
was kicked by a horse and was rem
dered unconscious for about FIVE min
utes. When his faculties returned, hi
got up and walked from the barn tC
his brothers house, about 100 yards
away. The boy told his sister-in-laW
of his injury and again became uncon
scious. Five minutes later he was
dead.
Zanesville.-Miss Blanche Stine
"a, jumped into a so foot vel
in an effort to commit suicide
at Porterville, near here and wal
rescued by her father, Thomas Slime
She was standing in five feet of water
which came only to her chin. A ply
sician who examined her said she wa!
unhurt. He left and the girl wa!
dead in an hour.
Canton.-A chase which led de
tectives into three countries TO
George B. Green, formerly of Cleve
land, charged with bigamy, has ended
in Chicago with his conviction anC
sentence of from one to five years il
the penitentiary. Mrs. Minnie Green
who returned here from Chicago wa!
the principal witness against Green
"I'm not the least bit sorry for him
because haven't spark of affection
left" she said. Her testimony showed
that Green married her in 1903 il
| Cleveland, and that he deserted he
in June, 1907. Other evidence showet
that in December, 1907, he married
Rose Rinemeyer in Chicago, and tha
only a few months after the secont
marriage he left her and took will
him $1,100 of her money. A searcl
for his record in Cleveland revealed
that he had never been divorced
Green was trailed through the Unitet
States, Canada and Mexico.
in the Plaisted home and left.
Findlay-Out of a band of 2
men selected for their bravery an
known in history as the "AndreV
Raiders" but five are living to cele
brate the forty-ninth anniversary O
the memorable event, which occurre
today. Because of the age of those liy
ing who were connected with this al
fair, no reunion of the survivors vii
be held. The living are William Bes
ninger, II, residing at McComb, il
this county; w. J. Knight, "a, Strykel
O.; w. w. Brown, 7S, East Toledo
O.; d. A. Dorsey, II, Lincoln, Neb
and John R. Porter, 72, residing i
Illinois. The men were all pickle
from the Second, Twenty-first an
Thirty-third Ohio regiments, all bt
ing organized in this part of the STATE
These % men, in disguise, wen
into the heart of the southern confeC
eracy on April %, 1862, and capture
the locomotive, General, from a pa
senger train on the Atlanta railroad q
Big Shanty, Ga, while the trainme
were taking breakfast. The purpos
of the capture was to come nortl
burn the bridges behind them an
thereby cut off the confederate arm
from its base of supplies and the r
treat of the army from northern All
bama, in making it's escape from tn
federal. army under Gen. o. NJ. Mi
chell. The captors were pursue
; closely by Conductor w. A. Fulle
Engineer JEFF Sain and Master M
J chanic Anthony Murphy and others III
: til for want of fuel they were con
: PEELED to abandon the General nea
: Chattanooga and fee to the moul
tains. Within a week every mem be
e of the fleeing band was captured an
9 placed in the dungeon of an old negl
$ iail at Chattanooga Ten of the nri