The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1913-05-15
Buckeye Notes

and berry crops.
Columbus. Secretary of State |
William Jennings Bryan has been in
vited to be the orator at the COM
mencement exercises of Ohio State |
university on June IL.
Akron. At meeting of the |
Akron charter commission favorable
report was returned in regard to max
ing Buchtel college into a municipal
university.
Niles. - Mrs. John, Fleming, So,
was burned to death when she at
tempted to light fire with coal oil.
Her aged mother, Mrs. Mary Shira,
attacked by heart disease, died few
minutes later.
Kent. -. Ira L. Heriff, &C, mer-
chant and only undertaken in Kent for
80 years, died after long illness from
stomach trouble. He was a Civil war
veteran. He had ofiiciated at more
than 5000 funerals.
Lorain. - Two trainmen were in
jured and number Of passen-
gers were badly shaken up when east
bound Nickel Plate train due here at
9:25 a. m. was ditched at Florence
station, six miles west of Vermillion.
New Lexington. - DR.. b. F. Brown.
45, Shawnee physician, died suddenly
here of heart failure.
Warren. - Workmen tearing down
portion of the wall of the Union
Savings & Trust building found half
bushel of half dollars bearing the date
1888.
Cincinnati. - William Fogarty, a
contractor, was arrested for the mur-
der of Charles Baune, a carpenter
formerly in the employ of Fogarty.
The police declare the killing of
Baune was the result of knife duel
between the men in Charles Bakers
saloon in Avondale, suburb. Baune
received a fatal knife wound in the
head and Fogarty was severely cut in
the right arm. Fogarty charges
Baune snatched q half dollar which
Fogarty had laid on the bar and an
alteration ensued. Fogarty denies he
had used a knife. He is one of the
most prominent contractors in the
city and is wealthy.
Tifin. - First degree murder with
a recommendation Of mercy was
The verdict returned here by
jury IN common pleas court this morn
ing in the case of Edward Donnewirth,
former Bloomville liveryman, accused
Of killing his wife by shooting her in
the head with shotgun. The jury
was out only 55 minutes.
Portsmouth. The expected Blue
Sunday" did not materializc in
this city, although one newspa-
per, several drug stores and all of
the moving picture theaters were
closed as a result of the war which
former Judge A. 2. Blair, who dis
franchised 1865 voters of Adams
county for vote selling, has opened on
Sunday moving picture shows.
Columbus.-Columbus chose char
ter commission by vote of 1929 yes
and 2,S45 no. Only 20 per cent of the
voters took part in the election.
Canton. - Chief of Police Smith
had just laid his head on his
pillow when he was aroused by a
noise outside his house such as Is.
made when four men vigorously dis
agree and swing their fists. Clad in
his pajamas, the chief burst into the
street among the combatants and in a
few minutes haG them on their way
to police station.
East Liverpool. - Prompted by
dislike of the red flag over tho
Socialist headquarters. j. A. Stewart,
kiln placer In a pottery here. and law
student, accompanied by the owner OF
the building, hung the Stars and
Stripes on the roof, several feet high,
er than the scarlet emblem
Napoleon. - County authorities and
police of nearby towns are seeking a
| firebug who burned Edward Hoeffel's
barn, six horses and machinery. The
loss is $4,000.
Xenia. - Rev. Joseph Kyle, D.
D.. of this city was elected pres.
ident of the Xenia United Presby-
terian Theological seminary to sue
-ceed Rev. William G. Morehead, D. D.,
who retired after 40 years connec-
tion with the faculty. T. D, Kyle,
Judge G. H. Kyle and DR.. J. S. Nc
Campbell of Xenia were elected trust
ees Of the seminary.
Lorain. - A jawbone thirty-six
inches in length, containing teeth two
inches in diameter and tusk of
ivory five inches long, was discov-
cred in shale bank near here by
Nicholas Bunkert HNnkert who says
the bone, belonged to prehistoric
animal, hopes to sell the specimen to
the Smithsonia institution.
Zanesville.-The Muskingum river
gave up one of its victims, the body
Of w. H. Mccoy of Ell Paso Tex,
who was drowned week ago, when
his skiff upset, being recovered by
| Willie Calhoun, aged 16. one mile be-
low town. He will receive the $50 re-
ward offered by a bridge construction
company. The body of Frank Line
man Of Butler, Pa. who was drowned
two weeks ago, has not been recov-
cred.
,Sandusky - Henry Baker, farm.
er. committed suicide by hanging
at his home east of Birming-
ham. His brother.in-law, Conrad
Schisler, Who runs a general store at
Birmingham, says Baker worried
great deal because he was no longer
able to do his farm work.
GAINESVILLE. When Mrs. Sher-
man King, near Crooksville. heard
shot upstairs in her home, she
! investigated and found her husband,