The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1914-10-29
Buckeye Notes

again fought Thursday to determine
whether the saloons should return to
Wellington. and the drys wen by SO
votes.
1t is II years since the saloons we're
voted out. The vets thought that the
town could be voted wet because
of the recent prosecution of illicit
sellers.
Three petitions were presented to
the village council The first two
were rejected for lack of sufficient
names.
Kent. - The faculty and student
body at the Kent State Normal
school were thrown into sorrow
when news came that Mrs. Ida Mere
dith Layton was dead In a hospital in
indianapolis. She was at the head of
the department of domestic science in
the new normal in Kent and was taken
i'll with typhoid fever on her vacation
in Indiana.
Columbus. - George L, Marshall Of
Dayton was elected grand master
of the grand lodge of Ohio, Free
and Accepted Masons, which ad-
iourned after a session of three days.
The official report showed the total
membership of the Masonic blue
lodges of the state to be $4,000. Ohio
now ranks third among the states in
membership. New York comes first
apd ponncvIvonia cacOnd
Lima - Twelve years ago Charles
Miller, deputy state fire marshal
Of Columbus, while fishing at Lake
view, near Lima, lost 5000 dia-
mond studded ring. Wednesday he
recovered the ring in a local jewelry
store. Last Sunday Floyd Walters of
Lakeview, while fishing, brought up
the ring and, finding Mr.. Miller's name
engraved inside, turned it over to a
jeweler for safe keeping. Mr. Miller
identified the ring.
Canton, O.-Joseph Stonish, AL
lance man recently bound over to
the grand jury on charge of first de-
gree murder for the alleged killing of
a special policeman, was released from
the county jail on $4,000 bond, after a
second hearing. The action is pro-
vided in a statute never before called
into operation in Stark county, law
yers say. Witnesses were called in
the examination, but attorneys were
not permitted to question the wit
nesses directly All questions had to
be asked through the judge. Stonish
denied he knew of the shooting.
Beverly, o. Eight men, seven
of them foreign laborers, were
drowned near here when an over
loaded barge sank in the Muckingum
river. The men, who We're at work re-
pairing the government dam a mile
above this city, had loaded a barge
with stone and were attempting to
cross the river with it. When in the
middle of the river the bottom of the
barge gave way and the heavy load
sank, taking the II men with it.
Three men managed to reach the
shore. John Stevens of this city was
among those who were drowned.
East Liverpool, O.--Mangled as
result of dynamite explosion
and with his head submerged in
water, Oliver w. Wright, wealthy oil
producer of Ohioville, Pa was found
in the George B. Dawson coal mine on
the outskirts of this city Monday. 1t
is believed that he took his own life,
after suffering since birth from spinal
trouble, which left him a hunchback.
Wright was last seen alive Saturday.
Friends of the dead man say that in
conversation with him on Saturday
Wright is alleged to have said: My
end is not far Off"
Wooster, O.-The engine of a
northbound c., A. & c. accommoda-
tion train somersaulted when it ran
into an open switch north of Orrville,
landing with wheels in the air. Con-
ductor Osborne received bad cut in
the head. The switch, it is declared,
was opened by train wreckers.
Sandusky. O.-Stricken with paraly.
sis Sept 8, while dancing in the
public ballroom at Cedar Point,
Miss Ernestine v. Schrenck, %, died
at the home of her mother here Oct.
20. From the time she fell she had
been helpless invalid. Physicians
failed to decide the cause of her afflic-
tion. Up to the moment the stroke
was suffered she enjoyed health.
Columbus, O.-Foster Shy, aged
81, received at the penitentiary in
1909 from Cuyahoga county for murder
in the second degree, died at the
prison hospital from tuberculosis. Shy
was convicted of killing his wife in
1909.
Elyria. = Chief of Police Stank-
ard called all his policemen to
his Office and conducted the first
school" in the history. of the city.
Patrolmen were asked questions con-
cerning their work and were given in.
structions. The plan will be continued.
Bellefontaine. - Clyde Thompson
and his wife, bride and bride
groom. were held to the grand jury
here, charged with obtaining gre
,eries under false pretenses. They
ire spending their honeymoon in Jail
IN default of bail.
Cincinnati.-Common Pleas Judge
Cushing held constitutional those
parts of the workmen's compensation
act applying to employees of all po-
itical subdivisions of the state.
The case decided was in the suit of
he city of Cincinnati and the board |
II education, asking for an Injunction
against the county treasurer, county |
auditor and state treasurer to prevent
he state from collecting an amount