The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-12-30
BUCKEYE NOTES
News From All Sections OF
the State

er's drug store. They investigated
called a state liquor inspector to their
aid and DR.. Baker was fined $500 by
Mayor Frank Berry on the charge OF
selling liquor in dry territory.
East Liverpool. = Mrs. Catherine
Foell, aged Al, took two bichloride OK
mercury tablets in mistake for head
ache medicine. Her condition is
serious.
FlndIay.-The county jail is with
out a prisoner for the first time in
two years.
canton.-The board of education
has adopted public school banks
which will be associated with the
city banks. The bookkeeping will
be done by the commercial classes.
cIeVeIand.-Mr Mary j. Stewart
aged 50, was asphyxiated and her
made unconscious by gas fumes from
a badly constructed stove in their
rooms. A neighbor's call saved Mrs.
Morris.
CIeveland.-Rev. William McMahon,
well known Cleveland priest and
for % years editor of the Catho-
lie Universe, died in this city
at the home of his sister, Mrs.
Margaret McKearney. A weeks ill
ness of pneumonia, coming upon him
in his enfeebled condition caused by a
stroke of paralysis he suffered five
years ago, brought death.
Youngstown. Wick, wealthy
Youngstown coal man and banker,
died here from pneumonia after a
brief illness.
GeneVa.-A possible competitor for
Northeastern Oil & Gas Co. ap-
peared here following the grant.
ing of a franchise by council to
the American Fork & Hoe Co. The
Northeastern company raised gas
rates here to SO cents per thousand
over year ago. The Fork G Hoe Co.
expect to obtain gas from the new field
at Saybrook, four miles east Of here.
Columbus. - State chemists have
just reported the discovery of a
large amount of zinc poison in the
stomach of one of two children Of l..
J. Hotter of st. Marys, both of whom
died recently under mysterious cir
cumstances. Further chemical exami-
nations will be made to determine if
possible how the children were poi
soned.
East PaIestine.-For "a years Rob-
ert Donion of this city had not seen
his brother James of Montana James
has just arrived here for visit
over the holidays with Robert.
Sidney-Mrs. Anna e. Umstead,
who was married for the fourth time
at the age of twenty-six, has taken
for her new husband the nephew of
the one who died eight weeks ago.
Columbus.-Of sweeping importance
is the ruling of Judge Frank Taggart,
superintendent of the state insurance
department, warning banks and other
financial institutions, including build
ing and loan companies, that they
must stop a practice, which has
become very common, of coercing bor-
rowers into cancelling their insurance
and taking out new insurance in COM
pany represented by an officer or en-
ploye of the institution. The practice
was found to be more prevalent in
Cleveland than elsewhere. Deputy
Supt. Frank B. Patrick made an inves-
tigation of the practice and upon his
findings the department decided to
start campaign to stop the evil. The
department points out that both the
institution and the borrower, who is
given to understand that unless he in
sures with the company's officer or
employe he will get no money, are IL
able to fine of from 800 to $500 for
being a party to such transaction.
CIeveland.-James H. Cassidy has
returned to the city to spend
Christmas with his people. The ex-
congressman has been free to come
and go if he wished, but apparently he
preferred to remain away until his af-
fairs were Strengthened out.
ZanesviIIe.- Two burglars armed
with drawn revolyers entered the
home of Mrs. Louise Storey, bound
her hands with rope, gagged her and
then escaped with $4. Two policemen
were within half block when the
crime was committed.
Newark. - David Criss, aged 81
is in a serious condition from the
effects of an accidentally self-infiicted
gunshot wound that all but tore off his
right arm near the shoulder The &C.
cident occurred at his suburban home
in Hanover.
EIyria.-Julius Margolus, aged IS
years, Lorain huckster, was hit by a
New York Central flyer and instantly
killed at Amherst. His horse also
was killed, but calf in the wagon
escaped. The man, horse and calf
were hurled 1870 feet.
Warren.-Samuel w. Strain, aged
78 years, for more than half CEN
tury in the railway mail service, is
dead here from injuries received when
he fell downstairs.
GalIipoIis.-Joseph Marshall, night
watchman at Black Betsey coal
mines was brutally murdered and
robbed Of SIS, months pay. Mar
shall was literally chopped to pieced
with double-bitted AK. Wyatt WITH
row and Curtis Lett are in jail at WiiI
field in connection with the crime.
Springfield. Walter Flowers, agtk
rs years, was murdered In Georjs
Paige's cigar store by Bunk Ra
Bey, aged 35, and the police ata
searching for Ramsey. Three sho ls
were fired, two taking effect, one b
the head and the other in the left sidA,
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