The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-06-11
Buckeye Notes


play, John Bowman, 70, wealthy farm
er and father OF the young man, was
arrested Wednesday on the charge OF
murder. He was brought to the coun-
ty Jail here and later released on bond.
The Bowmans lived alone on their
farm in Valley City. May 27 Jacob
was found dead on the floor at his
home A physician was called in and
burial permit was issued, declaring
that the man had died of heart dis
ease. Neighbors declared later that
the father and son had been drinking
and had quarrelled and it was inti-
mated that Jacob had been killed.
These suspicious were communi-
Gated to Prosecuting Attorney Arthur
Van Epp and Coroner R. G. Strong
and the body was exhumed.
An examination showed that the
mans skull had been fractured. The
| elder Bowman was given preliminary
arraignment on the charge of murder.
He protested his innocence and was re-
leased on $4,000 bond,
Neighbors could give no hint as to
the cause of the quarrel they declare
occurred between the two.
Urbana. William G. Lee, a
merchant of Mingo, this county, ts
now a patient in the Niles sanitarium
here taking treatment for injuries
which he says he received while pa
tient in the Columbus state insane
asylum. He was committed to the asy-
lum three weeks ago while in state
of violent insanity, but he is now al
most recovered. He says he was
placed in steel barred room entirely
devoid of furniture and in his delirium
he seriously injured himself.
He charges he was given no bed and
slept on the floor. He was too weak
to walk and says attendants dragged
him across the floors like a sack oil
grain and his knees were cut and
bruised and he is now unable to stand
The left hand and elbow are bruised
and swollen and covered with ulcers
and a vaccination scar on his left arm
is a raw sore. He does not know how
he received the injuries, but thinks
they were made in his rawlings. Since
regaining his reason he declares the
asylum attendants gave him no atten
ton, but left his cuts to tester. He
was unable to obtain cot, and he de
clares he suffered torments trying tt
sleep on the hard floor.
Cincinnati. - Blind taking mere.
: on the blind was in evidence her
in the municipal court when Judg'
Bell was called on to judge thu
case of Fred Meyers, accused of pro
fessional begging. Both judge ant
: prisoner were totally blind, but thi
.. was not brought to either until Meyer
said he was blind and had but 2 cent
and was trying to beg enough to get t.
Richmond, Ind, where he has relatives
The Judge then informed the pris
oner he, too, was blind and with tn
help of court officials the men shool
hands. Judge Bell arranged for tn
transportation OF Meyers to his dest
nation.
: GAINESVILLE. - Following the resis
nation of Rev. C. S. Holden, pa:
tor of the Market Street Baptis
church, the largest in the city, jus
announced, it develaps that the minis
ter, aged 60, married in self-defens
to get away from matrimonial attel
tions. Trustees had told Rev. M
Holden he was being criticized fC
marrying Martins Ferry woman, Mis-
Martha Hackensack, one year afte
the death of his first wife.
Findlay. - A. J. Owens, an a
torney of Bluffton, and his so
Joseph, are in a hospital and til
formers brother Frank Owens, hs
seven ribs broken, the result of an a
tempt to teach Frank how to run a
automobile. Frank ran the car off
bridge. Had it not been for party
women happening along it is believe
all would have been killed. The wome
raised the car from the mems bodie
Cincinnati. - "Self-preservation
y the first law of nature. Kill Il
man who rocks the boat" sa
Health officer J. H. Lands in
~ weekly bulletin. 'If an automatic
y not handy, use a club, an oar or
boathook,,
Columbus The boiler on
Norfolk & Western railroad engine e
= ploded, wrecking the locomotive, as t
~ train was leaving a small station thr
10 and half miles north of Ashvil
20 William L. Wier, the engineer, W
killed instantly. Robert Harmon, t
fireman, died while being rushed to
hospital here.
Columbus. = Romulus Cotell, ag
be 25 years, who was committed II yea
Ie. ago to life in the penitentiary on &C
IN yiction of murder. left Mt. Vernon pc
~ itentiary farm Wednesday under &C
ditions stipulated in his parole. {
2" tells destination has not been public
announced. In 1897 Alvin Stone, M
all Alvin Stone and Ira Sti1lsan, an e
ay ploye on the Stone farm near AkrC
he were murdered, beaten to death wi
a baseball bat.
Middletown.-Word has just reach
here that Miss Lillian Eisenhaus
- daughter Of August Eisenhauser, di
ny on board the President Lincoln of
ne Hamburg-American line, bound
~ Germany
- Wooster. - Louis Ballinger, clai
'ee ing East Liverpool as his hoI
Il