The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-06-13
Ohio Happenings

uenL Oh the huron county BanklnS
Co., rendered his resignation on &C
coun. Of iii health. The company re-
fused to accept it, granting, him an
extended vacation instead.
Millersburg.rDaniel Snail shot his
wife in the head and arm in jealous
rage and thinking he had killed her,
he then fired bullet into his head
and died in a short time. The WON.
ans chances for recovery are slight.
Cleveland.-Anna Kirschner, former
school teacher, was charged in muny
criminal court with resurrecting the
ancient rod long enough to give AL
fred Cornsweet a licking Alfred's
father, Charles A. Cornsweet, pro-
cured the warrant
Lorain.-Mary Ann Robinson, 80,
while descending some steps to pick
a flower, fell and sustained serious in
juries.
| New Philadelphia. Walking into
the home of Charles Hootman, Winnie
Clark, 1S, swallowed poison. 81 want
ed to make him sorry he left me-" was
her only explanation. Doctors say she
will recover
olumbus.-William M. Canter, who
is about 40 years old, employed as a
laborer on the Harrisburg pike, near
Grove City, is in a critical condition
at Mt. Carmel hospital with a pos
sible fractured skull as the result Of
being struck by an Ohio Electric car
near Grove City. He was unconscious
when picked up and was rushed to
Columbus on car and taken to Mt.
Carmel hospital.
Portsmouth.--The body of a dead
near New Boston has been identified
as that of Charles Johnson, 38, col
ored, who was recently discharged
from the penitentiary after serving a
term for burglary from Ross county.
The coroner found death due to hem
orrhage.
ellefontaine.-John w. McKinnon
has been elected superintendent of
Bellefontaine public schools for an
other year.
Washington c. H.-R. H. Kyle has
been appointed receiver for the Won
der Stove Manufacturing Co. of this
city. Internal financial troubles are
said to be the cause of the action.
GAINESVILLE. - Ben Kyger, "a years
old, keeper of stables for Loughlin
Bros, Columbus, took strychnine by
mistake at Frayzeysburg and died.
Youngstown.-Fire did $4,000 dam
age to John S. Orr & Sons undertak-
ing place of this city. Dewitt Nor
row, his wife and two children, mar
rowly escaped being trapped in their
apartments on the third floor of the
building. They were saved by barn
man, who had jumped from the second
story. The fire for time threatened
the Grand opera house and adjoining
buildings.
Columbus.-A. D. Alderman, post
master at Marietta, charged with en-
bezzling 5000 from his office, was
sentenced in the United States court
here to ten months in the Miami
county Jail and fined 5000. Alder.
man was secretly indicted by the fed
eral grand jury. Learning that he
was to be placed under arrest, he
came to Columbus. AS soon as the
shortage in his accounts became pub
lie Postmaster Alderman paid back
the eETbezzled money.
Cincinnati. - Discovery of the al
legged wholesale selling Of babies at
prices ranging from $40 to $100 is the
latest development in the war on baby
FARMS" headed by R. A. Longman
of the Children's home, last years
president of the state conference oi
charities. Information in the case OF
Nora Davis appeared to show that her
baby, which had been born in hos
pital was not dead as she had been
notified, but sold. Habeas corpus pa
pers have been drawn up to gain pos
session of the child
C1eveland.-Three operators of the
Bell Telephone Co. were injured by
plaster falling on them as they sat
at their work in the main exchange
building. They were Miss Pearl Dob
son, shoulder broken; Miss Augusta
Swanson, bruised about the head and
shoulders; Miss Anna. S. Brady
bruised. All were rendered uncon
scious. Officials of the company, how
ever, declare that the So other opera
tors at work in the room were not
panic stricken at the time but re
manned at their positions.
Cleveland.-A misstep sent Steve
Kaplavka, one of the repair gang al
work on top OF the stack at the cen
trail furnace, plunging down to the
ground $50 feet below. He was in
stantly killed
Cleveland-The batting of baby's
fists against the window pane
and his frightened cry gave the frs
hint that his mother, Mrs. Rebecca
jacobson, %, had been shot and killed
by a suitor whose advances she hat
repulsed in her home here. The suit
or, Sidney Phillips, who had been q
boarder at the Jacobson home, after
firing two bullets into the body of the
woman whom he could not win from
her husband, placed the pistol to his
head behind his left ear and fired g
bullet into his brain. He fell dead
beside the body of his victim.
Columbus. In a fall of 80 feet
Thomas Swartz, aged 40, lineman fol
the Citizens Telephone Co., suffered
injuries to his back that may prove
serious. He fell when pole upor
which he was working broke with his
weight. Swartz was taken to Mt. Car
mel hospital.
Fremont-Long given up for dead
Albert Delp returned to this city and
met his brother George for the first
time in 80 years. He has been II