The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-05-14
NEWS CULLED
IN THE
WHAT LEGISLATORS ARE DO
ING AND OTHER HAPPENINGS
Thanks South for Return of FLAG.


Government homes for old soldier:
should shelter Confederate veterans
as we'll as soldiers who fought under
the Union flag, Cox. Cox SAYS in 8
letter 20 Confederate veterans, who re
turned the flag of the Seventy-sixtt
regiment, o. V. l., captured in the bat
tie of Ringold, Ga. in 1863, Tuesday nt
Jacksonville, Fla. The letter was
made public here Wednesday. A com
mittee OF Ohio veterans secured the
flag and will return with It to the state
house here.
1t has been my ambition to see the
soldiers home at Johnson City, Tenn.
opened to the ex.Confederate soldiers, u
says the governor in his letter. Such
measure has been before congress,
From indications it is believed It will
not be long until those who marched
under the stars and bars and who are
dependent in their old age will be
sheltered by the government, which is
in every sense their own. l believe
your generosity in returning this ban.
ner, which you captured fairly in
strife, will have a softening influence
from one end Of the nation to the
other"
Rodney Olegle Leaves Pen.
Rodney ]. Diegle, former sergeant
alarms of the Ohio senate, left the
penitentiary at midnight May a
free man. He had served out his
term, to which he was SEN
fenced for completely in the legislative
bribery scandal CT three years ago.
Though his plans were carefully kept
secret, it is understood that he left
with his wife and daughter immedi-
ately for Sandusky, his former home,
where navigation company Is re.
ported to have offered him a good DO.
sition. Diegle planned his leaving for
Thursday night, the moment his term
expired. in order to elude newspaper
reporters. Because Of good time" al
lowed, Diegle served only two years,
two months and six days. Very little
or Diegle's term had been spent be-
hind the penitentiary walls, however.
For two years he had been foreman OF
prisoners at the state stone quarries,
Banker May Serve Time.
Unless there is interference from
The supreme court, Glenn 8. Baxter,
Lima, former deputy superintendent
Of the state banking department, is
iue to serve an indeterminate SEN
.ence in the Ohio penitentiary charged
with embezzlement of $3,14o from the
Columbus Savings & Trust Co., when
{ failed two years ago.
Convicted In the court of common
pleas here, his case was taken on er.
or to the court OF appeals. The de-
'ision In the case reached the court
'fficials here, and was an affirmation
II the conviction in the lower court.
The opinion was written by Judge
Walters and concurred in by others.
t states positively no error was point.
I'd out In the record that would war
ant a reversal and retrial.
Law Clutches Clergyman.
Are chaplains Of county infirmaries
lnder state civil service? This was a
uestion asked by Rev. ]. R. Hunter
II Lebanon, chaplain there for ten
ears. He draws $3.50 a year from
he county for the work. He will be
informed his place is under the civil
ervlce law and special examination
will be made for him.
Many Applicants for Jobs.
A force of something like Is will be |
eeded to manage the Ohio building
t the Panama-Pacific exposition.
here will be no dearth of applicants
Or the places. The state will pay the
raveling expenses of the appointees
ding to and returning from San
rancisco and give fairly lucrative
ay for the services rendered at the
xposition. 1t will be an advantageous
'ay to take in" the big show. Hun.
reds have sent in applications for
lese Jobs, but they will not know If
ley are to get them until late in the
Ill. when the appointments will be
lade. 1t will be unwelcome news to
lany who aspire to the positions to
'arn that they will be filled under the
vil service law.
Discusses Radium az Cure.
Radium is positive cure for some
ases of cancer while in other cases
curative effects are only meager or
osolutely nil, according to statements
ade before the Ohio State Medical
'sociation at its annual convention
ere by DR.. Robert Able. senior sur.
con In st. Luke's hospital, New York,
Id one of the most noted radium ex.
.rts in America.
Endorses Eight-Hour Day.
A universal eight-hour working day
as endorsed by the iron, steel and
n workers, who met in Columbus.
were also adopted protest.
& to President Wilson against the
rest and Imprisonment of miners in
est Virginia and expressing the
nse Of the convention concerning
e atrocities of the Colorado mine
rike. /
Many Failed 20 Vote.
Twenty-Five per cent of Ohio's male ]
sidents failed to exercise their vot. {
g franchise in 1910, according to the
rvey which has been made by the ..
5islative reference bureau in its eff. {
rt to determine whether compulsory :
ting should be instituted in the I
ate. The bureau unearthed many t
1er interesting things relating to the
bject of how men fail to take ad. 4
ntage of their suffrage. For ex. e
lple, there were three large cities Il
itch in 1910 cast only 55 per cent Of O