The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1913-03-27
Buckeye Notes


found on tie Miami river levee near
the Washington street bridge. Muir
der theory prevails, because Coroner
J. w. McKemy and the police have
been unable tc find any knife or razor
in the vicinity OF the body. Accord
ing to the victims sister, Mrs. Nellie
Quigley, with whom he lived. Quinn
had considerable money in his pos
session, but officers found only $1.25
in his pockets.
Warren = Frank Banning of Kins-
man, 55 years old, landscape gar
dener and florist of wide fame, is
dead He obtained a $1,000 gift from
Andrew Carnegie for Kinsman IL
brary and also gave $4,000 himself to-
ward the project. He was a grower
of the famous American Nlgna and
Panama gladioli bulbs. His houses
were visited last year by a Holland
delegation of bulb growers.
Orangeville. - This town was the
scene of big confagration when
ten buildings were burned to the
ground with monetary loss of pos
sibly $4,000.
Dayton. - John A. Smith, who was
charged with numbering Fred c.
Snethan Feb. IA, following a quar-
rel in saloon, pleaded guilty and
was sentenced for life.
Cleveland. - Mrs. Harriet Taylor
Upton, the state president, has
announced, following the recent
conference of suffragists in Cleve-
land that the petition for gaining the
necessary 10 per cent of the regis
tered voters at the last election would
be ready for distribution early in
April. Although 100000 signatures in
over half the counties of the state
are required by the terms of the ini-
tiative and referendum law, the suf-
fragists are undaunted.
Columbus. - Limping on two canes,
former Senator George X. Cetone
K Cetone entered the doors of
the Ohio penitentiary to begin serv-
ing a three-year sentence for accept
ing bribe. He was accompanied by
R. NJ Brumbaugh and Charles Kline
of Dayton, the former his attorney,
the latter a personal friend
Sandusky. - The appointment of
Benjamin F. Atkinson of Dayton
as adjutant of the Ohio Soldiers
and Sailors home, succeeding the
late Capt. John D. Wheeler of Paines-
Vile, was announced by Commandant
William r. Burnett.
Ada. - Chapel services at Ohio
Northern university were interrupt
ed by members Of the Students
Socialist club, who took offense
at remarks of John Wesley Hill, d. D.,
ex-pastor of Metropolitan temple, New
York, and president of the Information
al Peace Forum, who characterized
Socialists as towards, bomb throwers
and murderers who would cut off the
head of the Goddess of Liberty.
Lorain. - Rev. Stephan Soltesz,
pastor of st. Stanislaus Catholic
church, scored police when he
discovered his church had been
robbed for the seventh time in year.
Burglars entered the building and
robbed the collection box.
Kenton.-Two more victims were
added to the list of the dead
and two of those injured in Ken
| ton and vicinity within the past ter
days as the result of explosions
caused by attempting to start fires
with coal oil. Mrs. Olive Shepherd,
| 25, was burned to death at her home
near Yeiverton, and her year-old son
Lloyd, injured when the contents of
coal oil can exploded. Mrs. Pearl
Martin, 26, was burned and her two
year-old daughter so badly injured
that death resulted at local hospital
from the same cause.
Coshocton.-Thomas Hadley, twen-
ty-five, coal miner, was caught
under heavy rock in the Williams
mine near here and his left ear was
severed from his head. A companion
who rescued Hadley picked up the
ear and carried it to the city hospital
here, where surgeons sewed it back
in position.
GAINESVILLE - A. C. Moore, fifty,
employe of Columbus Butter com.
pany branch here, was crushed be-
tween the floors and elevator and in
stantly killed at company's factory.
pringfield.-Edgar Hildebrandt, a
bartender was shot and killed by
his employer, Deforest Malley, during
an altercation. Malley was arrested.
Ada. Trustees of Ohio north.
ein university in meeting in.
vestigating the causes Of friction be-
tween the student body and President
Albert F. Smith, decided aginst any
radical change in management or pol
icy. The trustees finding, although
received without applause at chapel
is accepted gracefully by most stu
dents. The anti-Smith movement be
gan last month when the president
expelled rs fraternity boys for al
legged infraction of rules and culmin-
ated in student petition bearing 400
signatures asking Smiths removal
Youngstown. Railroad trains
passing through the city will be
obliged to limit their speed to six
miles an hour and to conform to al
city regulations as the result of an
order issued by Mayor F. A. Harten
Cincinnati. - Elizabeth jackson
and Mary Shanks were asphyxi
ated by gas at the Jail in Lockland
A policeman turned on a gas stove in
the cell room full force, and then lef!
the building for the night
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