The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-10-31
Buckeye Notes

hilarity here among the students and
the object of the league is to curb
the animal spirits of some Of the
youth"
Painesville-John Wilson, rs years
of age, a farm hand, committed sui
eide at West Mentor by taking paris
green.
Cincinnati. - United States District
Judge Safer has sentenced Allan
Betsford, editor of the Owl, weekly
publication, to serve two years and
three months at FIT. Leavenworth,
Kan, penitentiary, on a charge of
sending scurrilous matter through the
mails.
Toledo. e. S. Griffiths of Cleve-
land was chosen grand master of
the grand lodge of Ohio Masons.
Matthew Smith of Cleveland was elect
ed grand marshal, and DR.. A. B. Mel
drum of Cleveland grand chaplain.
The next annual meeting will be held
il Columbus.
Kent. -- While Charles Crafts and
Marion Phile of Streetsboro were
being married in Ravenna,
message came announcing the death
of Crafts sister in Monroe county.
The honeymoon trip of the newlyweds
was to the sisters funeral.
Sandusky. - In a financial state
ment just issued, the executive
committee of the Ministerial associa-
ton backing the "Sandusky for Christ"
campaign announced that, with debts
of $4,000, collections to date amount
to only $1,400, leaving $4,000 indebt.
edness to the ministers. Some of them
have pledged have their salaries for
six months to liQuidate it.
Ashland. - Judge Weygand nolled
the indictment that charged Pros.
ecutor George J. Frey with as
sault and battery on the sheriff Of
Ashland-co. However, he sustained
the six other indictments charging
the blacksmith lawyer" with assault
and battery and resisting an officer.
Columbus. - Columbus companies
operating coal mines are planning
to advance the wholesale price
of coal again November l. The sud
den cold spell has brought rush of
business and difficulty is being eX-
perienced in supplying the trade be-
cause of the car shortage. Mines are
now being operated at about so per
cent. capacity, the limitation of opera
ton being due to the lack of facilities
20, IL, fhn inc
expenses have also increased, com
pared with the revenues say the oper'
: ators, because of the curtailment in
deliveries.
Fremont. "A divorce petition filed
I here by Alice May against Bon
, ner May contained but ten lines
/. The couple were married in 1904 and
. only lived together a week.
. Columbus. - Judge Kinkead in com
. mon pleas court held constitu
t tional the law providing an excise ta1
n on the gross earnings of corporations
q He sustained demurrer to the answer
in the suit brought by the state o
r Ohio against the Ohio Traction Co. o
Cincinnati, to force the company t.
|. pay $15,5S3.23 excise tax.
a Wapakoneta. - Deputy Game War
!. den Robert Martin of this city arrest
o ed six violators of the game laws a
o Fort Loramie and confscated larg,
;. amount of fish and nets and trot lines
n The men pleaded guilty and wer'
= fined $35 and costs.
r Columbus. - The Ohio Woman Sui
n frage association will hold thei
, state convention in this city Novem
t Der IA. The matter of continuing tn
q fight for enfranchisement of Obi
a women will come up for consideration
9 at this meeting.
n Toledo. - Acting in defense of hi
|. aged employer Otto Liebnau, age
r 23, was probably fatally wounde
d while at work on Hamilton street. Pt
lice are searching for his assailan
@ who was identified by witnesses of tn
i shooting as Tgnatius Aumeller, 10.
# Akron. - Two Italians, members c
IS railroad section crew at Ba
l. berton, were crushed under tn
e wheels of a box car Twenty Italian
had crawled under string of cars
q get out of the rain and an engin
D. started the cars.
n Massillon.-Plowing through part
t. of men, women and girls returnin
8 from the Tuscarawas county ia
at Canal Dover to their home
IT in Somerdale, a Wheeling & LAX
n, Erie passenger train left thre
a mangled dead, one fatally injured an
It two others seriously hurt lying
n the ditch
e st. Clairsville.-The GAINESVILLE di
g trict conference of the Methodist Epi
ID copal church will be held at Quake
n City November and 7. The Ste
Is benville district conference of tt
of same church will be held at East Ii
8, erpool November II and IL.
le Akron. - George P. Power, prom
Ie nent real estate man, and Harl
" Houghton, jr, sales department ma
le ager for the Goodrich Rubber Ct
"a were injured in a head-on automobi
collision here. Bowers injuries a.
10 SO serious that he may die.
ls Van Wert-Monroe Curl, aged
70 was struck by fast westbound ira
III on the Pennsylvania railroad at Il
20 Pollock crossing, west of here, al
% instantly killed.
Columbus. - The total valuation
81 natural gas companies doing bu
+ ness in Ohio is $92,9S0,000, q
" " cording to figures certified by Il
~ state tax commission to county aud
H. ors. Many valuations were increas
and a number of small companies n
y, y on the duplicate last year are asses