The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1913-02-13
Buckeye Notes

DClOW u6Ie.
Bryan.-A barn owned By Henry
Miller in Montpelier caught fire and
Ed Thomas, who was sleeping in an
adjoining office, was consumed.
Lima. - Because they Uttered at
baptismal services in a negro church
here four negroes were fined S. and
costs by Mayor Shook. Charges were
preferred by the parson.
Steubenville. - Howard Riley of
Cincinnati, a young G. D. & P.
telephone lineman, was struck by
a Panhandle passenger train in the
Mingo yards. and died while en- route
to the hospital. Riley was struck as
he leaped to the track to escape being
hit by a pole as it rolled from a car.
Toledo. = August Gladieux, street
car conductor, was killed when
his car was struck by Mich
igan Central switching engines. The
motorman and two passengers es.
capped with bruises.
Akron. = John Mcdonald, indict.
ed by the grand Jury for frs;
degree murder for killing his three
year-old son, pleaded guilty to second
degree murder and was sentenced to
the penitentiary for life. The murder
was the result of family trouble.
Chardon. - While her children
we're playing in an adjoining room,
Mrs. Adie Ishe died suddenly at
her home in Huntsburg. The chill
dren heard rafting sound, but paid
no attention to it.
Van Vert. - John w. Jenkins,
sixty-five, Union township farmer, this
county, many years director OF the
Van Vert County Agricultural society,
committed suicide by shooting through
the heart with shot gun in an aban-
doned dwelling on his farm. He had
been in poor health for some time.
Batavia. After being out an
hour, the jury in the case of Will
liam Clancy, infirmary director,
charged in the presentation of fraud
ulent claims, returned verdict of
guilty. His attorney made applica.
tion for new trial.
Jackson.-Fifty young men have or
ganized a Boosters club with David
Armstrong as president. A banquet
will be given to which the members
of the Columbus chamber of com.
merce will be invited.
Toledo.-Burglars travelling in an
automobile broke into the Sylvania
Tanning Co.'s plant and stole so fur
coats and quantity Of fur mittens,
valued at $1.250, and $3.50 in G. o. D
express money orders.
Columbus. George j. Magley
secretary of the Teutonia Savings
& Loan Company of this city, is
in Jail on a charge Of having made 9
false report to the state inspector Of
building and loan associations last
December. An inspection Just com
pleted is said to show $4,000 missing
Canton. - Announcement is made
made of a combine of several avia
tion interests Of the United States
The Silver Lake Aviation Co., a con
solidation of the Akron Aviation Co.
the Milwaukee School and College o
Aviation and the American Flying Ma
chine corporation of Milwaukee, ha:
been incorporated in New Jersey will
capital stock of 100000. The new
corporation has leased sc acres of lan(
at Silver Lake, near Akron, where /
will establish a school of aviation ant
will manufacture hydro-aeroplanes ant
aeroplane supplies.
Youngstown. - About $4,000 EN-
ployes in the independent iron ant
steel mills in this locality were noti
fed of 10 per cent increase in wages
The increase, which went into effec
Saturday, is intended to equal tina
made by the United States Steel Cor
poration. The concerns affected ar
the Republic Iron & Steel Co., tn
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. and th
Youngstown Iron & Steel Co.
Findlay. - George Fl. Phelps wa
given five cents damages in
suit for 100000 he brought agains
a Standard Oil subsidiary, the Obi
Oil Company. He contended that be
cause of a combine the real price o
: oil was never paid him by the Stand
ard. The jury brought in its verdic
after Judge Baldwin had written it.
Cleveland. Ten thousand pee
pie, pouring from Office building
after their days work, swarmed t
watch the fremen fight the bigges
fire of the winter, blaze which de
stroyed a four-story brick building
, burned up 185 automobiles and II
) flicted damage estimated by Assis
: ant Fire Chief Whyler at $6S7,0OO.
Findlay. = Mayor E. L. Grove
has forwarded to Washington Fine
lays acceptance of the bath tu
from the battleship Maine. The tn
! will be received in this city with
! aweek.
I Bryan. - Horace Wilcox, for fol
: ty-one years an employe in the LAX
3 Shore freight office here, droppe
: dead while on duty.
Brink Haven.--lda Frillman, age
n 40, is dead of pneumonia, Injured !
s infancy, she had spent practically he
S entire life in baby carriage. Sh
g was a constant reader and was verse
in the languages and proficient /
mathematics.
n Cincinnati. - Officers Of the Obi
t Humane society began a crusad
g against parents who leave childre
:, outside of moving picture theater
!, while they attend the shows. Th
e society was notified that a baby wa
d left unattended in carriage outside
y 6th-st moving picture theater for NOR
l. than an hour. The child suffere
5 from cold until its parents came ou