The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-04-01
BUCKEYE NOTES

meal in q restaurant.
II think / am" said Tanner. -.
With this the man pulled q small
testament from his pocket and began
to read from the Scriptures, while he
removed Tanners purse from his
pocket.
Tanner saw the man take his purse
and grabbed him. The thief broke
away and ran into the arms Of q po-
liceman. He was fined $500 and SEN
fenced to 80 days in the workhouse.
Toledo. - Five Toledo baking COM
panies and four individual bakers
were indicted by the Lucas county
grand jury. Violation Of the state
antitrust law is charged. 1t iT
alleged bread prices we're raised re-
Gently by agreement from 5 to 6 cents
a loaf, and that when the price was
reduced to the former figure size Of
loaVes was cut from 16 ounces to IL or
IL ounces. The indictments are against
the General Baking Co., Maumee Val
ley Baking Co., Seyfang Baking Co,
Home Baking Co., Toledo Bread Co.,
Gustav Lay, George Pickard, Matthew
Seyfang and H. D. Falls.
Norwalk-Miss Lillian West has
brought suit for $4,000 for al
legged breach Of promise against
Frank Atwater. Both reside in Belle
Vue. Miss West, who is 40, declares
she has been keeping company with
Atwater for II years, that she became
| engaged to him in 1906 and that the
wedding day has been set several
times but that Atwater has constantly
put off marrying. She also says she has
suffered financial loss, been terribly
humiliated and that her chances Of
marrying have been greatly lessened.
East Liverpool. - Mayor V. 4.
Schneider, elected as an independent
by the church vote, announced he will
not be candidate for reelection.
81 promised when elected that two
years would end my political career"
he said. This followed the announce
ment of the candidacy of Safety Di-
rector ]. N. Vodrey, Schreiber's ap-
pointee, for the Republican mayoralty
nomination. Schneider temporarily
quit the study Of theology to accept
the mayors office.
Canton. Il. w. Slutz, elder in
the Christian church Of Waynes-
burg, is charged by Mrs. Leoda
Syckefoos, secretary of the church.
with having falsely accused her of mis-
appropriating $5.35 of the church
funds, in case which went on trial
here. She asserts statements the elder
made led members of the congregation
to believe she was dishonest.
Sandusky. - Rev. Manley Wilson,
aged SO, an evangelist, well known
throughout Ohio, Indiana and Michi-
gan, died in Detroit. Death was due
to Paterson's disease, with which he
became afflicted two years ago, when
he was compelled to cancel engage
ments booked three years ahead. Rev.
Wilson made his home here.
Painesville - Henry Smell found
the body of an unidentified Ital-
ian or Slav on the banks of Grand
marks about the neck that might have
been caused by rope or wire. The
man was about As, weighs 100 pounds
and has black hair with heavy mus
tache streaked with gray.
Napoleon. Two were injured
and the shop wrecked when a
gas tank exploded in the Piumme- &
Ritter motorcycle repair shop here. o.
R. Plummer was burned about the
head and l. E. Kile was bruised about
the face. The top of the tank was
blown through the roof.
Columbus. - Samuel Klinger, serv-
ing an indeterminate sentence from
Muskingum county, who walked away
from the prison farm at Orient
Wednesday, walked 20 Columbus
Thursday and gave himself up to
prison authorities. He explained he
was dissatisfied with the treatment ac-
corded him at the farm.
Lima-Knocked from the top Of
a freight car, supposedly when the
train bumped, Andrew ONeill. aged
: A years, switchman foP the c., H. &
D. railroad, was instantly killed when
the train ran over his 5Ody. He had
been in the employ OF the road 27
years.
Columbus. William Carruthers
carefully covered the carpet of his
room with papers, then fred one shot
into his stomach and one into his
right temple, ending his life. Give
my body to the medical college. My
nfn he
body.
Bowling Green. - Charles Corso
aged "a, was drowned i'll two feet oi
water near Mermille when his motor
truck skidded into a 15-toot ditch and
overturned, pinning him underneath.
Warren. - Unknown robbers blew
the safe in the Newton Falls
electric light and power plant here
early in the morning, securing two
checks and small change
Columbus.-Franklin Warren coUn
ty, voted dry under the Beal law. The
majority was "a.
Vermilion. - Prohibition propagand
lists here fear their ranks will
shrink if the city continues at in
tervals to paint the inside of the set
a Ting basin at the waterworks with 4
d coat of tar, as has just been done. Tn,
s bitter after taste of the water ha1
c aroused storm of protest Citizens
S claim the water tastes worse thar
e Cleveland's chlorinated product. Man!
e threaten to hop off the water wagon i
!. the water isD't made better.
r. Marion.-By a majority of fourteen
q Caledonia, village near here. Votet
it's one saloon out of business in I
Beal law election.
ainesville-Spencer Munson. aget
IA years, we'll known here, died a
= his home on Walnut-st after an illness
. of one week of pneumonia. Mr. Nun