The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-09-09
NEWS CULLED
IN THE CAPITAL
ACTIVITIES OF STATE DEPART
MENTS-OTHER HAPPENINGS
Town Plans Celebration.


glory that has departed is scheduled
to be held at Dublin on the 10th inst,
the celebration of the establishment
of that little village, 10 miles north Of
Columbus on the Scioto river, and a
reunion of the descendants of the
founder of the village-Ludwig Sells,
Sells came to Ohio from Pennsylvania
in 1890 and in 1903 laid out the vii
lage with a view to having it become
the capital of the new state. The
question of selecting a permanent cap.
ital had even then become an acute
one. When five years later the legis.
lature seriously took up the matter
and appointed a committee to select a
site for new capital, the proprietor
of Dublin succeeded in winning over
the committee in favor of his site and
report recommending Dublin as the
site was made. In this the Dublinites
won victory over the other two sites
Observation-Disclosures, five miles
east of Dublin, and West Columbus
then called Franklinton But the
Franklinton advocates were strong
enough in the legislature to prevent
the adoption of the report of the com
mittee, and pending further action de
veloped a plan which met the objec
tions of the committee to the Frank
linton site, which were based on the
fact that the land was low and subject
to overflow by the Scioto river. They
brought forth a new proposition EN-
bracing land on the east high banks oi
the Scioto river, opposite Franklinton
which was accepted, and became the
beginning of Columbus, to which both
Dublin and Worthington are now
suburbs. OF the two villages, either
of which might have become the
Buckeye capital, Dublin has proved
the most backward. Neither steam
nor electric cars have ever broken the
Sleepy Hollow quiet of Dublin, while
! Worthington has both and is quite g
bustling little village, though it has
never let go its New England town
character. 1t boasts of a thousand
population, while Dublin is still under
the 250 mark. One feature of the
Dublin celebration will be the dedica
| tion of monument in the Dublin Gem
etery to Ludwig Sells, the founder
and his wife. The Sells family proved
most prolific and there are few fam
lilies in the surrounding townships
now that are not related by either
blood or marriage to it.
Prison Demon to Be Transferred.
Ira Marlatt, Is years ago known as
the prison Demon" with a batch of
other prisoners at the penitentiary
within a few days will be transferred
to the Lima state hospital for criminal
insane. Marlatt is one of the most
noted prisoners ever received at the
big penitentiary. He killed a Quaker
named Barak Ashton in Columbiana
| county in a controversy over the pay.
ment of money which the former owed
the latter. John Wyman, chief of po.
lice of East Liverpool now, was sheriff
then and when he entered a barri.
caded house to capture Marlatt the lat.
ter opened fire on him with a revolver.
bullet which struck him in the
breast had its progress impeded by
the heavy contents of a pocket and
this saved the sheriffs life. For a
number of years Marlatt was kept in
special steel cell at the penitentiary
to prevent him from killing guards
and officers. He almost dubbed the
| late Warden E. G. Coffin to death
when the latter entered his cell tc
punish him one day Is years ago last
January. The late Warden William
Darby subdued Marlatt and made him
tractable by releasing him from his
steel cage and treating him with kind
ness.
Rulings of Attorney General.
The regular meetings of the state
board of health must be held i~ Co
lumbus, although special me ngs
may be held elsewhere if the beard
deems this necessary in making inves
legations, so Attorney General Turner
holds in a ruling. Conferences of the
state board and health officers may be
held at such time and places as the
board may direct. Drs. G. H. Williams
| B. B. Barber and G. A. Rowland of the
Columbus state hospital cannot collect
bill of $3.50 for acting as witnesses
in lunacy inquests held on Is inmates
from the Mansfield reformatory, who
were transferred to this hospital. The
attorney general says they are not lie,
gally entitled to the money because OF
! being hospital employees. In a ruling
to the board of state charities, the at.
/ torney general advises that delinquent
children under the jurisdiction of the
juvenile court should not be kept even
temporarily at childrens homes. In
some homes detention departments
have been maintained for such chill
dren. This is Illegal. In another rul-
ing it is held that propositions for the
establishment of county experimental
farms may only be submitted to the
voters for approval at November cleo.
tions in regular numbered years.
Picks Chief Food Inspector.
The state board of agriculture has
elected Thomas L. Calvert of Selma,
O., chief inspector Of the dairy and
food department, which is a bureau
under the board now. The duties of
this Office are substantially those of
the old elective state dairy and food
commissioner. Mr.. Calvert succeeds
former Representative Bert S. Barlow
of Hamilton. The change in the office
will take place at once. The selec-
tion of Mr. Calvert for this position
has been generally discounted. Early
in the year he had George f. Scott of
Mt. Pleasant, O., for a competitor.
Movie Referendum Fails.
The Motion Picture Referendum
league, composed of film manufactur.
orc and pYphanpa mon foiIad uttorIy