The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1913-05-01

was determined that all of the ami
mails had been poisoned, but the ma
ture OF the poison could not be deter
mined. An investigation is being
made.
Sidney. - George Kraft, saloon.
keeper, was instantly killed while
riding with friends, when his au.
tomobile struck telephone pole
and when down a 30-fcot embank-
ment.
Columbus. - Former Chief of Po-
lice John w. Walcutt of Colum-
bus filed with Governor Gov formal
complaint against Common Pleas
Judges e. B. Dillon, E. B. Kinkead and
Marcus G. Evans. He asks the gov
ernor to suspend them. The principal
charge is that they have tried to read
into the law certain provisions the
general assembly had declined to pass
and that, as litigant, he was the
victim of iudge-made law. Walcutt is
a public contractor and in his petition
sets forth the trials and troubles that
fell to his lot in contracting with the
city of Columbus.
Portsmouth. On the closing
day of three day session of the
fifth biennial convention Woodmen of
the World, jurisdiction co." J. H.
Boggs, Cincinnati, was elected head
consul over George Galloway, Cleye-
land, by vote of 1871 to 130 on first
ballot. Toledo was chosen for the
1915 convention.
Massillon. - A fortune teller and
a trunk have brought about
reconciliation between John Shively,
%, and his wife of four months, Helen
Miller Shively, 81, who left her home
here April 8 because acquaintances
had told her that her husband was
spending his money in saloons and
did not love her.
Dayton. - Unable to persuade his
eighteen year old wife, Elizabeth
from whom he had been separated
several weeks, to return to live with
him, Clarence Otto, "a, fired a bullet
into her breast, narrowly missing her
heart, and another into her left wrist.
He then turned the weapon on him
self, sending bullet into his own
breast and inflicting what is believed
will prove a fatal wound.
Mt. Vernon. - Charles Davis, held
to the grand jury on a charge
of grand larceny, escaped from
the county Jail by taking up part of
the flooring and pushing out ten
bricks from the wall. Other prisoners
claim they did not hear Davis at work.
Ravenna. Four persons were in
| jured when the rear Pullman on train
No. II of the b. &c o. jumped the
track when the train was entering
this city.
Urbana. - Mrs. Mary Heuer, who
shot her husband in the head, has
been adjudged insane and committed
to the Columbus state hospital.
Heuer will recover.
Mansfield. Former State Sen
ator M. d. Frazier, 81, died at
his, home here of heart trouble He
had been in failing health for several
months. He recently retired as man
| ager of the Mansfield Shield, after II
years service. He came here from
GAINESVILLE, where he had been busi-
ness manager of the Signal.
Columbus. - Through an error it
was stated in Columbus dispatch
which appeared in this paper that
Charles G. Green, former cashier
in the state treasurer's office and later
state treasurer, had been indicted in
connection with the indictments of
former State Treasurer Isaac B. Cam
eron. The statement was found out
later to be not true.
Washington. - The biggest post
Office appointment made in Ohio
came when President Wilson sent to
the senate the nomination of Forest
l.. May, to be postmaster at Dayton.
Other Ohio appointments were: Al
bert G. Witte, Elmore, and Charles r.
Gerding, Pemberville. The appoint
ments were made with the consent of
Senator Pomerene, who will urge i'm
mediate confirmation.
Toledo. - President F. r. Coates
and other officials Of the Doher-
ty & Company interests, on assuming
control of the Toledo, Light G Power
Co., granted wage increase to the
employees of the railway. Seven hun
dred motormen and conductors, car
washers, sweepcrs and coalers will
receive 1 to 2 cents an hour raise,
effective April Is.
Lisbon. - Antonio Saia was found
guilty of murder in the second degree
for killing Joseph Sperraza and Jo-
seph Balone while trying to rob them
in a shanty near Homework, Dec. 1G.
Gallon. - George G. Rankin, re-
ceiver, announces a final dividend
of 5& per cent, payable to de-
positors of the Gallon National
bank, which closed its doors Feb. 25,
1904. This makes a total dividend
of 50A per cent. When the bank be-
came defunct it's total assets were
$73,607, and dividends amounting to
$140,3S7 have thus far been paid to
creditors.
Akron. - Barberton citizens are
beginning to talk annexation to
Akron since the announcement sew
eral days ago of the offer of Buchtel
college trustees to make that institu-
tion municipal college.
Lima. A vice investigation will
be started in this city il plans
projected by the Social Service
club, women's organization, are car
ried out. A crusade that contemplates
an aldermanic investigation of COM
mercialized vice, an inquiry into con-
ditions in some sections of the city