The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-06-03
BUCKEYE NOTES
News From All Sections OF
the State


front of his rooming house by Detect
i've Hackett while seeking to escape
from arrest on the charge Of attempt
ing to assault Miss Anna Case. his
landlady. Following an investigation,
Chief of Police w. S. Rowe stated he
had exonerated Detective Hackett from
all blame in the matter.
"Koepp was a fugitive from JUS
tice," said Chief Rowe. "He had bad
record and when officers attempted to
take him into custody Koepp faced
them and thrust his hand into his hip
pocket as though about to draw a re-
volver. Detective Hackett acted en-
tirely within his rights"
Cincinnati. - Judge Alexander Of
municipal court held, in the case
of Charles Scheingold, that the new
Ohio honest advertising" law was
constitutional and that Scheingold will
have to stand trial on the merits of the
case. Attorneys for Scheingold, main
tanning the law was unconstitutional,
had entered a demurrer and made
motion to quash the affidavit, but
Judge Alexander overruled both.
The statute makes it a misdemeanor
for anyone to advertise any assertion.
representation or statement which is
untrue or deceptive" A fine of SIG
to 800 or Imprisonment for 20 days,
or both, is provided. In the Schein-
gold case attorneys for the Retail Mer-
chants association charged Scheingold
advertised all-wool serge trousers FOR
1896, but that they were not all wool.
Cincinnati. - Soul saving, moth
ers' clubs, cabaret shows and the
like and feminine dress were the chief
topics discussed in addresses before
the International Association Of Police
Chiefs in annual convention here.
James Penney, chief Of police of Mans
field, O., made an appeal for the up
lifting of men who are down.
Lets raise them up, not beat them
down." he exclaimed. IF we make
good, the glory is ours. At the end OF
a career there is nothing better po-
lice chief can have than good name
and the tears of gratitude of one man
he has saved"
Bucyrus. - Mrs. Harriet Taylor
Upton, president of the Ohio Wom-
an Suffrage association, was the
principal speaker at an organization
conference of suffragists of the Eighth
congressional district in the Y. M. G.
A. hall here. This district comprises
Hancock, Hardin, WyandOt, Marion,
Crawford and Morrow counties. The
whole state is being organized by con-
gressional districts.
Toledo. - Frank Westfohl, Demo
cratic member of the board OF
county commissioners, and T. }.
MATHS, whisky salesman of Pittsburgh,
we're drowned and Charles Tofelski,
former councilman, narrowly escaped
death when an automobile in which
the men were riding dashed through
the open draw into the Maumee river.
East Liverpool. - Official announce.
ment was made at headquarters
here that these officers had been
elected by the National Brotherhood
of Operative Potters by referendum
vote: President, Edward Menge, East
Liverpool; secretary-treasurer. John T.
Wood, East Liverpool; vice presidents,
Frank Hutchinson, John Randolph,
Sheldon Moore and George Martin,
Trenton, N j.; John Stingler, East
Liverpool; Thomas Woods, Sebring. o.
East Liverpool, - Mrs. julius P.
| Dodge, one of a party of Wash
Ington, D. c., autoists travelling to
San Francisco, was instantly killed
north of here when the automobile
overturned on a steep hill. Her hus-
band and Mr.. and Mrs. A. M Snapp
were thrown from the machine but
were not injured
Sandusky. - Congressman A. W.
Overmyer has recommended to the
postoffice department at Washing
ton the appointment of Daniel l..
Kilbride as postmaster at Berlin
Heights, succeeding Mrs. Mary L. Hill.
whose resignation becomes effective
June 1. Kilbride is farmer.
Lima.-Edward ]. Bowers, aged 81
years, was caught by the weights Of
an elevator he was greasing in the F.
e. Harman furniture store and fell to
his death. His skull was crushed and
nearly every bone in his body broken
as he struck the concrete floor He
had been employed as janitor in the
store for five years.
Conneaut - Peter Steinback, aged
40 years, Scranton, Pa, is dead and
eight other tramps are seriously ill as
the result of an all-night orgie at the
plant of the United Brick Co. here.
The police found all the men intoxi-
Gated and Steinback dead. They had
been drinking wood alcohol.
Youngstown. The northeastern
part of Ohio and western Penn
sylvania were visited by a heavy
frost Reports from many districts in
dicate that the damage done to fruit
and growing vegetables will amount
to thousands of dollars,
RlpIey.-In a Beal Election Ripley
was voted wet by majority of 73.
The vote was, vets 276, drys 2O2.
Columbus. = Besides urging that
sacred and patriotic exercises be
held Monday in honor Of dead soldiers
Gov. Frank B. Willis in his Memorial
day proclamation, just issued, suggests
that bells be tolled for five minutes, be.
ginning at noon, as "a solemn sum
mons to our people to put aside all
cares and labors and give this brief
period to contemplation of the glories
of our country"
PainesViIle. - Bert Sewers, Geneva
employe of the Cleveland, Painesville
& Eastern light department, was cleo
) trocuted at Mentor while replacing q
lamp.
RaVenna. - An attempt was made
to burn to death Rev. Father
Charles H. Gardner of the Roman
Catholic church in the parsonage