The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-02-12
Buckeye Notes

ANuhlg -OuSs a Ndo hlilCu
when the tree fell.
Lorain. - A. c. Wenger bled to
death from rupture of an artery sus-
tanned in fit of sneezing.
Akron. - Because the city OF
Akron is financially unable to pay
workmen for pushing the cleanup
movement sanctioned by sociological
students of the municipal university
and the health board, School Superin-
tendent Hotchkiss has ordered every
school child in the city into the service.
Kenton. - c. F. Baldwin of Ridge
way, charged with violation of
the Rose law, was round guilty berore
Mayor Cotterell of that town of keep
ing place where liquor was sold and
was fined 800 and costs.
Canton. - Oliver w. HoIl. coun-
ty surveyor of Stark county until
one month ago, was indicted in three
counts by the grand jury here on
charges of graft in making false bills
which were paid by the county treas
urer. The manipulations of Holl are
said to have extended oyer three
months and to have netted him less
than 5000. The offense Of which he is
charged is punishable by an indefinite
term in the penitentiary.
The technical charge against Holl
is that of receiving payments from
county officers on false bills OF pay
rolls. Recently Holl was made Off
cial county craftsman to get out the
new tax maps required by the new
county tax assessors. The appoint
ment was made under the new Warnes
tax law. Holl employed extra sur
veyors to work on the maps and is
said to have collected part of the sal
aries allotted to them.
Findlay. - Oyster suppers and So
cials as means of raising mon
ey to pay church indebtedness was
denounced by Rev. G. w. Vorts
of Upper Sandusky O., at the quarter
ly meeting of the Findlay district of
the Methodist church here Through
oyster suppers and kindred entertain
ments only SO per cent of the church
membership support the church, he
said.
Cincinnati. - A fine of $4,000
imposed by United States District
Judge Killits at Cleveland on the
Hooking Valley railroad for rebating
was upheld in an opinion by judges of
the United States circuit court of ap-
peals. They also affirmed Killits' ac-
fniTf<T bn ~
100000 for accepting rebates from the
railroad.
Xenia. - Safe blowers robbed the
postoffice in jamestown of $50 in
cash and $10O in stamps. Fright
ened away by shot fired from the
window by Miss Mildred Taylor, who
with her mother has apartments on the
second floor of the adjoining building,
the burglars fed, overlooking $500.
Youngstown. = Walter E. Brown.
colored, charged with assault with
intent to kill Jailer Martin Dit
manson, when he, with two others,
was trying to break out of the county
Jail, pleaded guilty before Judge
Anderson of the common pleas court
and was sentenced to Is years in the
penitentiary.
Mount Vernon. - Kingry N Sims
and John Magill, painters. we're in
stantly killed by falling girder in the
Mount Vernon Bridge Co.'s plant
Chardon. - Sheldon Chace, aged 70,
dropped dead Of heart trouble as he
took his place in the jury box in
Geauga county common pleac court
here.
Marietta.-Mrs. Christiana Grimm,
who was claimed to be the oldest
woman in eastern Ohio, died at
the county infirmary near her at the
age of 113.
Fostorla. - Money and pay checks
to the amount of several hundred dol.
lars were stolen from the office OF the
Electric Construction G. Motor Co:
here.
Bellefontaine. - Because she re.
FUSED to go away with him, Joe
May of Youngstown followed Mrs.
Hazel Mcconnell into the kitchen OF
her home here and slashed her across
the throat with knife May escaped
and was later arrested in Lima. He
was returned here and is in iail
charged with assault with intent to
kill. The woman was not seriously in
iured.
Conneaut. Harry LytIe, aged
~, formerly of Cleveland, a Nickel
Plate trainman, was killed while at
work. He was struck by train while
he was opening a switch.
Canton. - Pinned for three-uuarters
Of an hour beneath switch engine at
The B. & o. crossing in Navarre-rd
5. W., Salvato Filippon, So, crossing
:endef, dictated last message to his
family and had the service for the
lying administered to him as a large
crowd looked on. Rev. j. l., Wal
ieisen, assistant pastor of st. Mary's
catholic church, crawled through mud
Ind cinders under the engine tender
o give the dying man the last sacra-
nent by the light of a torch taken
rom the locomotive cab.
East LiveEpool.-One saloon, owned
~ Samuel Miller, will be ousted
liter thirty days as a result of
1anoverton village voting dry by four
'otes in Beal law option election.
The vote was dry 40, wet As. Two
ears ago the village went dry by nine
'otes in a county election. Six years
go it went wet by three.
Akron. = When the proprietor of