The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-03-19
Buckeye Notes

Columbus. y With the statement
that hidden wealth can be fully
reached for taxation only by levy.
ing the different rates of interest
on different classes of property, off,
GERS of the Ohio Tax league have just
announced It is about to circulate
petitions for submitting to a vote of
the people proposed amendment to
legislation, authorizing the legislature
to classify property for taxing pur-
poses and also to exempt from taxa
tion public bonds.
The league addressed a formal let
ter to Gov. Cox in December, urging
him to ask the legislature at the spe-
cial session to submit this amend
ment to popular vote. This was not
done, and, therefore, the league will
have recourse to initiative petition.
The announcement is that 10000 sig.
natures are to be obtained. The
league maintains headquarters in
Cleveland.
Cleveland. - Revenge for continual
nagging was the reason given by
Frank Sticka, aged %, for hacking
to death Mrs. Anna Podogil, 80, house
keeper for his father, according to
Captain Schmunk, who says Sticka
confessed the crime Immediately after
his arrest After cutting, slashing
and stabbing the woman about the
head, face and neck, Sticka bound her
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her on the floor while he took a nap
en- couch in the same room.
The police say Sticka admitted he
tied the woman up SO she could not
get out of the house and inform the
police.
Coshocton. - The Coshocton Daily
Age was sold to the Times Pub
fishing Co. here. The age has
been the Republican organ and
leading newspaper in Coshocton coun-
ty for sc years. 1t was the first to be
established here and originally was a
weekly
J. F. Meek, owner and editor of the
Age, found it necessary to retire from
newspaper work because of falling
health. The Times is Democratic
organ.
Lima. - After several weeks dis
cussion, the board of education
has adopted resolution provid-
ing for the erection on the high school
building here of a modern wireless
telegraph station. 1t will be taught
to a class of boys as a separate
branch of their high school studies.
Newark. - Ruth Myers, II years of
age, shot herself with revolver at her
mothers home in West Newark in the
afternoon. Physicians say she cannot
live.
The girl had been despondent since
the death of her brother, telegra-
pher, who was found a year ago at
Kiel, Wis, on his Office steps with a
bullet wound in his head and whose
death, was never satisfactorily ex-
planned.
Youngstown. - Unmasked auto ban
dts took $50 from the cash reg
lister of the American restau-
rant, 13 Wick-av, after ordering at
taches and guests into the kitchen at
the point of revolvers. They then
ran to an automobile in Champion-st
and escaped south towards Federalst.
Coshocton. - John Potter, so years
old; Lester Potter, 20, and Rob-
ert Thonrsley, 30, charged with
burglarizing the Forest & Strome
general store at Warsaw, were cap
tured by the police after a running
pistol battle at the Potter home Just
north of this city.
The officers, suspecting the Potters,
went to their home with search
warrant. They were met by volley
of bullets, after which the three men
took to their heels. The police re-
turned the fire and compelled the
fugitives to surrender after chase
across several fields.
Sandusky. - Eighteen boxes, con.
aiming $50 pounds of butter, val.
sed at SIP, were stolen from a
;ar in the rear of the Erie Cold Stor- |
age Co.'S plant, three squares from
the central police station, some time
in the morning. The thieves left no
clew.
The car was switched into the sid.
ing late at night. An hour or so
after midnight watchmen found the
seal intact. At daybreak it was still
1nbroken, but at a. m. the door was
'ound open and the butter was gone.
Xenia. - Mrs. Violet Hatch, 102
years. old, is dead of pneumonia. AS
the widow of Ebenezer Hatch, a
revolutionary soldier, she drew pen
sion for 60 years.
Marysville. John Braun, 70, for
40 years clothier and merchant tailor
of Marysville, died suddenly of pneu-
Lorain. - Edward Leeper, an at
torney residing in Cleveland, was the
principal speaker at a dinner given
by the Lorain board of commerce. A
of the board later an
the close Of contest for a
slogan, adopting: "Lorain: Where
iron and Steel Meet" Over 1000 en-
tered the contest. Many suggestions
came from Pennsylvania, Indiana and
Michigan. ~tr.a. ..
Youngstown. In attempting to
hatch a batch of snowballs,
hen belonging to E. P. Freed al
most froze to death. The hen had
shown symptoms of wanting to set,
but was given no eggs. She found
1alf, dozen SnoWhalls which had hean