The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-02-26
Buckeye Notes

James Stilion, 81, railroad section
hand, that a blow on his head may
have caused his death before his body
was burned in the fire which de-
stroyed his home In Granville. A
heavy wooden mallet and a flatiron
lying close to the mans body gave
credence to the theory that he may
have received blow on his head.
A tramp who has refused to give his
name and who is said to have been
seen in the vicinity of the fire is held
pending investigation.
Stilion was burned to death while
efforts to enter his home and rescue
him were being made by President D..
W. Chamberlain and several students
Of Denison university.
Columbus. - Worry over the SOL
itude to which he was confined
by the limitations of the will of his de-
ceased wife caused David Jacobs, 55,
wealthy contractor, to commit sui
eide at his home here. Mrs. Jacobs in
her last testament appealed to her
husband not to remarry and as re-
suit he lived in comparative seclusion
after her death.
Kenton.-Twenty Kenton men and
women were arrested on charges of
having violated the state liquor laws.
With news of the arrests came an
nouncement that dozens of others will
be made as a result of a quiet cam
paign carried on here for weeks by the
Hardin County Law Enforcement
league.
Prominent citizens are worried by
the fact that small army Of detec-
tives who have worked in Kenton have
made records of people seen in speak
easies. These will be summoned as
witnesses.
The arrests were made by Marshal
Simpson and Deputy Marshal Swallow
of Ridgeway, where affidavits were
filed before Mayor Cottreii, members
of the Kenton police force and detec-
tives in the states employ.
Columbus.-Smoking hot buckwheat
cakes with maple syrup on cold
winter mornings must be safe
guarded, the state dairy and food in
spector department. thinks, and Com
missioner S. E. Strobe announced a
campaign of prosecution of dealers in
adulterated buckwheat flour will be
started soon. Finely ground corn meal
has been found in much flour sold for
pure buckwheat product, samples of
which have been taken in many ports
of the state. simultaneously the dairy
and food department will renew it's
crusade against dealing in adulterated
maple syrup.
ellefontaine-James Vulpita, aged
twenty-five, was dragged to death by
his suspenders. He was knocked
down by locomotive at a grade cross
ing and fell in the center of the track.
The engine and several cars passed
over him without seriously iniuring
him, although tearing off part of his
clothing.
A rod on a car caught his suspenders
and dragged him. He died later in a
hospital.
Bellefontaine. - That the climate
is affecting the health of United
States soldiers along the Rio Grande
is given as the cause for numer-
Gus suicides, by Samuel Hall, pri-
vate in Company M, Twenty-sixth
United States infantry, stationed in
Texas City, Tex.
Writing to his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
L. w. Hall, here, he says: "There have
been 7 murders and 20 suicides among
the men. Three soldiers committed
suicide last week. ! don't know why
they do it, but believe the climate is
the cause of it."
Ravenna. - When the tenants on
the farm of Volney Rogers, Roots
town township, heard sleighbells
and went out to meet him as his horse
entered the yard, it was found that he
had died on the way, his hands still
grasping the reins. He was IS years
old. His home was at New Milford,
four miles from his farm.
Lorain. - The annual report of
DR.. E. V. Hugg, city health officer,
shows there were 1896 deaths and
TAO births in Lorain in1913. More
than 46 per cent of the deaths were
among children. 1t was stated the
new filtration plant has reduced the
number of typhoid cases.
Engine ExpIodes, Four Hurt.
Conneaut. Four persons were
burned when a gasoline engine ex-
ploded on the farm of Frank Lester,
near here.
Columbus. - Attorney General Ho-
gan has just ruled that women who
qualified as tax assessors cannot be
appointed, as they are not electors.
st. Clairsville. - Joe Rutar, Wheel
ing Creek merchant, fell over a rifle
while at target practice and was in.
stantly killed.
Rossvill. = H. U. G. Weaver, one
of the most prominent prohibition
workers in the state and one OF
the best known citizens of Mus
kingum county, died here follow
ing 10 days illness from septic poi
soning caused by erysipelas.
Ravenna. - Clarence E. Dundon,
thirty-five, Rootstown farmer and
township official, was crushed to death
under fall of sawdust while loading
wagon for his icehouse. He and his
hired man eXcavated under the frozen
surface, which suddenly fell on Dun.
don, crushing and smothering him.
Bellefontaine. - W. e. Bartholo-
new, Hardin county onion grow
er, tired of the destruction caused
by armies of rats in the onion fields
and storehouses, has purchased two