The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-11-25
BUCKEYE NOTES
News From All Sections OF
the State

being done in municipal affairs occu-
pied delegates of the National City
Managers association Tuesday, while
the subject of Municipal Cost Data,
discussed primarily by Kenyon Riddle,
city manager of Abilene, Kan, brought
forth a discussion as to the best man.
ner in which to effect economy.
coIumbus.-On the theory that the
state demands that it's business be cor.
rect, even to the pennies, state exam
liners reported several Toledo firms
have been overpaid by the Toledo pub
lie schools and must make refunds as
follows: Matthias Brothers, 1 cent;
Percy S. Byron, / cent; Home Laun-
dry Co., / cent; Carl & Struckholz,
cent, and Roger Brothers, 9 cents.
sandusI<y.-Upon the application
of Mayor-elect H. R. Williams of Yer
million, Judge John T. Carver of
Fremont, in the court of common pleas
here, temporarily enjoined the village
of Vermilion from taking any action
toward installation of a sewage dis
posal plant. The sale of $39,500
bond issue, authorized to provide nee
essary funds, was forbidden.
Marietta.-William Angle, %, quar-
ryman, was shot and Instantly killed
while hunting with William Fullerton,
%, driller, near Waterford. Fuller
ton was arrested. Both men appeared
as witnesses in a criminal case recent
ly, and it is believed they quarreled
over the case.
ToIedo.-Evidence that there was
extensive padding of the jury book
for the Lucas county courts was
given in the trial of John P. Kelly,
county clerk, and s. P. Peterson, his
former chief deputy, jointly on trial
on the charge of jury tampering.
Key.-Clarence Whitlath, aged 16,
after driving his guardian, Charles
Karrol, to the depot in a buggy,
was killed when the horse ran
away on his return home. The body
was found in the road with the skull
fractured.
Fremont.-One unidentified man
was instantly killed and four others
perhaps fatally injured when a con-
crete stack under construction for the
Ohio State Power Co. collapsed. The
men were hurled so feet and buried in
concrete.
Standardization of State Dona-
hey has appealed to the supreme
court from the decision of the
Franklin county court of appeals, or
dering him to pay the salaries of the
Professionally appointed state en-
ployes.
Upper Sandusky. - Mrs. w. H.
Scowles of Beaverdam was elected
president at the Findlay district meet
ing of the Woman's Home Missionary
society held here.
GAINESVILLE. - Cleveland was chosen
as the next convention city by the
Ohio Society of Mechanical Steam
and Electrical Engineers at their Fri
day session here.
Warren. - Work on the new Ra-
VIENNA trolley line between Warren
and Leavittsburg is being rushed and
will be completed before Christmas,
officials say.
Toledo. - Guilty, with recommends
tion of leniency, was the ver-
dict returned by jury Friday
against John P. Kelly, clerk of county
COURTS The charge was tampering
with the jury wheel. The maximum
penalty is one year in the workhouse
and fine of $1,000.
Toledo. - Sidney L. Fullerton, an
oil we'll promoter, was arrested
at his home in Norwalk, O., on
federal indictment charging him
with sending obscene literature
through the mails.
Lorain. - Several friends of H. P.
Nelson, defeated here for mayor,
are raising funds to finance a demand
for a recount, believing it would show
Nielsen elected. The returns show he
lost by 13 votes.
Cleveland. = John Conko, work
man at the plant of the Cleveland
Welding & Manufacturing Co., Berea.
rd, was electrocuted Friday while re.
pairing blown out fuse at the plant.
Fremont.-Mrs. ]. r. Kiser, aged
AZ, died after violent illness with
ptomaine poisoning resulting from
eating oysters. Her sister and daugh-
ter are very i'll, but will recover.
Bellefontaine.-When nine realtives
reached here to attend the funeral of
To- III
and fairly we'll
Grard.-George Shaffer and Thomas
Rounds are dying in hospital in
Youngstown as the result of a shoot
ing affray here.
xenia.-Donald Conklin, four-year-
old son of George Conklin, farmer
near Bowersville, was drowned in a
cistern. I
Springfield.-Mrs. Elizabeth Hutz,
who was terribly burned while boiling
lard is dead She was 80 years old.
Jefferson Scarlet fever has result
ed in closing the schools at Lenox
Center, near here.
Cleveland. The funeral services of
Anthony Howells, former United
States consul at Cardiff, Wales, who
died Wednesday at the residence of
J. F. Cockburn, 2612 Wellington-rd,
Shaker Heights, will be held in Mas
sillon Friday. Howells was state
treasurer from 1878 to 1880, and a
state senator from 1890 to 1892. He
held his consulship from 1893 to 1897.
Death followed paralytic stroke.
ZanesVilIe.-Sherman M. Granger
of this city will be the Ohio
member on the subcommittee to ap.
portion delegates for the 1916 Repub.
hcan national convention.
NiIes.-Gov. Willis delivered the
principal address at the laying of
the cornerstone of the Mckinley
birthplace memorial at Niles CAT.