The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1913-07-03
Buckeye Notes

Cincinnati. "A panic in Seton
academy was averted by nuns,
following an explosion of chemicals
in the laboratory of the Eclectic Med
ical college on w. 6th-st. next door
to the academy.
Mount Vernon. o.-Fire caused
loss OF $4,000 and threw 100 men out
OF employment when the plant Of the
]. B. Foote Foundry was destroyed at
Fredericktown.
Columbus - Frank B. O'Blenness,
| Il Columbus newspaper man, formerly
Of Toledo and Cleveland, has been
appointed secretary to Warden Thom-
as of the penitentiary. He succeeds
Walter Connor of Dayton.
Cincinnati. A warrant for the ar
rest of John c. Griffith, conf
Dental man in Cincinnati of the West
lake Construction Co. of st. Louis
was sworn out here It charges Grif-
fifth with being short $4,000 Of the
company's funds. G.. R. Reed, audi
tor of the construction company, who
swore to the warrant. declared the
amount may be greater than that
stated Griffith is said to have left
the city.
Massillon. - General Superintend.
ent w. H. Davey Of the Massil-
Ion Rolling Mill Co. has just
announced an advance of 10 per cent
in the wages of matchers and doub-
lers In sheet mills and a per cent
advance to heaters in tin mills, ef-
fective July z. Two hundred men are
affected
Circleville.-Vinton Gilmore, twen-
ty four, Williamsport, died here from
the effect of rat poison taken
when officers arrested him after it is
alleged he tried to kill his wife with
a shotgun. Gilmore was sent to
Mansfield reformatory a year ago on
charge of shooting with intent to
kill
Cleveland. - Dahaid Ashain, %,
a Syrian lately from Jerusalem, is
isolated in division of the contagi-
GUS building of City hospital as
leper.
Columbus. - Paving of the old
national pike across the state, a
dream and ambition Of Gov. Cox, is
about to be set in motion. Through
persistent efforts of Gov. Cox the gov
ernment at Washington has set aside
$120000 with which the fund for re-
constructing the pike from Columbus
to GAINESVILLE may be started.
Upper Sandusky. - George KEGS
snatched an oil lamp about to
explode from his wife's hands.
Before he could throw it out Of
the house the lamp exploded, ig-
hitting his clothing and the house. He
was burned severely but extinguished
the flames by rolling in the grass.
Berea. - After searching since
May 25 for the persons who
dynamited the west branch Of Rocky
river and filled their automobile with
fish which had been stunned by the
concussion Deputy State Game War
den H. P. Smith of Berea arrested
three young men and took them to the
county Jail at Medina. The prison
ers are Bert and Henry Heath OF
Elyria and Henry MCGEE Of Vermil-
lion.
Cleveland. - Louis H. Severance,
multimillionaire, Standard Oil mag
nate and philanthropist, whose ben
efactions have extended from Ohio
colleges and universities to the fur
thermost corners of the earth, died
suddenly here at the age of rs years.
Acute abdominal trouble was given
by DR.. Allen as the cause.
Dayton. Building a funeral pyre
out of his clothing, John Lands.
an Italian confined in the coun-
ty Jail, attempted to cremate himself
in his cell. The smell of smoke
caused the other prisoners to give an
alarm Lands was badly burned be-
fore he was rescued. He is now nurs-
ing his wounds in a padded cell.
Carbon Hill. - Several hundred
down their tools in this district and
marched to the mine of the Staulter
Coal Co. at Longstreth, one mile east
of here, where they forcibly carried
five non-union workmen from the pit.
Union officials declare that eight
mines in this vicinity are being oper-
ated in violation to the working agree
ment with the United Mine Workers
of America.
Circleville. - Tying a sheet about
, the banister, with the other end about
her neck, Mrs. Lydie Kellenbarger
jumped from the top of the stairs to
death in her home.
New Philadelphia. - Unable to
withstand the pleas of his sweet.
heart that he return home, Dal-
las Dayhuff, % years old, deserted the
United States army. That was year
ago. Friday he was arrested in the
attic of her home near here, after a
ten months search. He had been liv.
!, ing in the attic since his desertion.
Toledo, o. - September Morn,
barred from the windows of many cit
les, will be viewed by Toledoans with
out interference. 1t is a copy of a
J painting showing maiden in the
, nude stepping into stream and May
3 or Whitlock has ruled the picture is
!. art and only the evil-minded can see
evil in it.
Bucyrus. Raymond J. Hackett
was found guilty of murder in
the second degree. He killed his
: girl wife in a fit of jealous passion
' March 5, 1912. A motion for a new
5 trial was made.