The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-08-06

president OF the associated Onlo
Dailes at the summer meeting at
Cedar Point, to succeed the late Hon.
John T. Mack. Mr.. Perry is publisher
of the chIIcothe Daily Gazette.
East Liverpool. - The Eastern
Ohio Classical Sunday School as
sociation, which closed it's 43rd an
nual convention at Lisbon, elected the
following officers: President, Rev. G.
p. Fisher, Warren; vice president, ].
G. Houlette, Columbiana;S secretary,
Miss Ada Klopfenstein, Paris; assist
ant secretary, Miss Ruth Berger, Gala;
treasurer w. G. Webster, Youngs-
town. Petersburg was chosen for the
1915 convention.
Sandusky. - Publishers of Ohio
select list newspapers, holding their
annual midsummer meeting at Ce-
dar Point, elected as directors w. 0.
Littick, GAINESVILLE; Louis II. Brush,
Salem; Charles H. Spencer, Newark;
L. A. Culbertson, Mt. Vernon; L. H.
Harness, Marietta; Malcolm Jennings,
Marion, and R. G. Snyder, Norwalk
The directors reelected President
Jennings, Vice President Littick, Sec
retary Brush and Treasurer Snyder
Columbus. Miners and opera
tors of the Hooking coal district,
at a joint meeting here, signed a wage
contract for two years, ending March
81, 1916. The scale is based on the
rate of At and 67.6 cents a ton, re-
spectively, for machine and pick
mined coal. Operation in the district
will be resumed at once. About 10000
miners are affected by the contract
Fremont. - Two of the three in
dictments against former State Sen
ator U. S. Grant Deaton of Toledo,
pending in the Fremont courts for
some time and which charge Deaton
with Irregularities in connection with
the defunct Indiana Mining Co., have
been dismissed by Judge Young in the
common pleas court and a third in
dictment sustained, on which Deaton
must stand trial The indictment
charges that Deaton published false
report and prospectus regarding the
mining company.
Lorain. - Attired like MISS IN
nocence," two women bathers caused
CONSERVATION on the beach here
Custodian Smith Stone observed
that the women had forgotten
something before they went into the
water. After an argument the custo-
dian induced the fair bathers to return
to the shore. AS other women turned
their backs and blushed, Stone also
blushing, led the two women to the
bath house and locked them in until
they agreed to dress.
East Liverpool. - Following in
vestigation of private detectives
working under the direction Of
Mayor V. A. Schreiber, the police be-
gan a crusade against the sale of
major league baseball pools, playing
of pea pool and the illegal sale of in
toxicating liquors.
Massillon. The strike of the
Massillon civil service commission,
composed of former Mayors c. J.
Remley, Tobias Schott and C. C.
Miller, for a salary, which threatened
to delay examinations so that it would
be impossible to fill municipal offices
this year. ended when the city council
agreed to grant the demands of the
commission for 500 a year salary.
Steubenville. - Paul Strayer, aged
20 years, and Mike Patti, 30, were
killed when their motor truck stalled
on a crossing of the Cleveland & Pitts
burgh railroad and was struck by
passenger train.
Warren. Thomas Bremen of
Youngstown, an auto salesman, was
seriously injured when his machine
was struck by an Erie passenger train
at Evansville, near Niles.
GAINESVILLE. Despondent over an
unrequited love affair Robert F. Clark,
Al, contractor, committed suicide by
drinking the contents of two-ounce
bottle of carbolic acid.
Findlay. - George Spaith, aged
48, was buried alive in sewer cave-in
here and was dead before he could
dug out by fellow workmen, who wit
messed the accident, Spaith, against
the warning of others, attempted to
take out some joists and when he
loosened them, several tons of earth
caved in on him.
Akron. = Harry w. Anson, dep
uty clerk at the board of elec-
tions, died here Of Bright's disease.
Mr.. Anson had been i'll several months.
He was connected with the board OF
elections for five years and was prom
inent in Republican politics.
Gallon -Cavemine Detocco, aged 20,
an Italian, was drowned in the Erie
reservoir while bathing.
Sandusky. Beatrice Jones, "a, a
mulatto, ended her life by jumping
from the B. G o. freight docks into
Sandusky bay.
Mt. Gilead. = John c. Morrow,
who has been ON trial here for
week on charge of murder for
killing an infant, was found guilty Of
manslaughter. At previous trial he
was found guilty of murder in the
second degree. Morrow was charged
| With killing the child that he might
elope with its mother.