The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-03-21


national organizations
Norwalk. = Matthew Grimmer,
prominent resident Of a German set
tlement two miles west, died sudden
ly of Inflammation of the brain, re-
sulting from fall in which he struck
on the back of his head.
Fjndlay.-There we're to have been
many festivities at the home or
Joshua Smith on his seventy-sixth
birthday anniversary. Instead Mr..
Smith died suddenly. He was a men,
Der of the Twenty-first Ohio regiment.
Akron.-Announceme was made
by the Northern Ohio Traction e.
Light company that, commencing
May /, an increase of / cent an hour
will be paid conductors and motoE~-
men. The increase affects 1000 men.
Ravenna-Sage Hurlbert, GO, farm
er of Portage county, was killed and
his wife was fatally injured when the
closed carriage in which they were
driving to Ravenna was struck by
westbound passenger train No. 3 on
the Erie railroad, five miles from here.
Portsmouth over the
loss of his job, Edward Toben, IS,
former employe of the Portsmouth
Steel company, drowned his troubles.
His body was found in the hills back
of this city. 1t is supposed he died
from exposure, after becoming intox-
icated.
Akron.-While working a. the top
of a strawstack on his farm near
Uniontown, Samuel c. Young, aged 6S
years, fell with the stack and was
buried under several tons of straw
for some time. When he was dug
out by farmhands he was dead.
Lancaster.-Rev. Hugh Leith of
the Presbyterian church, of which
Mrs. Nancy Hall, indicted for first
degree murder for the alleged poison
ing of her daughter Ruth, aged IL,
started a movement for a defense
fund for the accused woman.
arysville.-Little Eveline Sands,
the six-year-old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Earl Sands, farmers of
near Lilly Chapel, died in cOnvul-
sions as a result of burns. The
child was playing in the kitchen and
ran into another member of the fam
lily carrying pan of boiling grease,
which was upset over her.
Steubenville.- Johnny Little,
Is years old, was playing with his
fathers revolver in the parlor at his
home, the weapon accidentally was
discharged and the bullet entered the
leftN breast of Willie F. Harris, IA
years old, his companion, who died
in a short time. Johnny says he did.
not know the revolver was loaded.
Mount Vernon.-Clarencn Foster,
convicted of larceny in connection
with the robbery of the E. E. Nc
CURE store at Centerburg Dec. Is,
| following it's partial destruction by
| fire, was sentenced to serve four
years in the Ohio penitentiary. Chas.
| Foster, brother, was sentenced to
serve IL years in the penitentiary on
charges of burglary and larceny.
Columbus.-State Treasurer Crea-
mer put into Ohio'S exchequer So
conscience money" turned in by a
Michigan man, who says he took SO
cents of the states money years ago
to buy spring lock on gun. He
says he stole the money from his
fathers desk His father, the writer
says, was a national road toll col
lector.
Elyria.-ACtion by Police Captain
Myers in giving antidotes saved the
life of w. 3. Sweeney of Vermillion,
a travelling salesman for the Cleve-
land Refining company, when he
drank carbolic acid in his room at
the Topliff hotel early this morning.
Sweeney is said to have been de-
spondent becauseta stroke of paralysis
had left his speech impaired.
Bowling Green.-Pftkin & Brooks,
cut glass manufacturers, sustained a
loss OF $4,000 on their factory and
probably $4,000 on fixtures, machin-
cry and stock when fire gutted the
large brick factory building. The
fire is supposed to have been caused
by a spark from the power plant,
igniting the dry wood of the cupola.
1t throws 70 persons out of eMploy-
ment. Insurance Of 80 per cent was
carried. The main offices are To-
Gated in Chicago.
Pomeroy.- -Neighbors who called to
inquire as to the condition of Mrs..
4 George Baer, aged so years, found
the woman had died three days ago
and that during all CT that time the
body lay alongside that of her aged
husband, who is paralytic and had
been unable to give the alarm.
Youngstown.-The council has art
thorized q bond issue of $1,000 for the
purchase of several lots on the South
Side for playground purposes. The
officials will establish Fairgrounds in