The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1915-12-16
BUCKEYE NOTES
News From All Sections St
the State

1AC ISuCueS III bel6tulu' 4hSg A'O
an interest in what occurs in those
trenches because .wo of their sons
are there. The parents eagerly wait
for mail. Hugh Ross, 4109 Bailey-aV
S. W., is the father. His sons VINO
are in the Belgian trenches are Wal
ter and Hugh d. They are with sec
ton 10, company A, 18th battalion OF
Canadians, now fighting in Belgium.
The brothers originally joined the 33rd
battalion, but were transferred 10 get
to the front earlier. The 33rd bat
talon has not left Canada. Walter
Ross served three years with the I'd
United States cavalry, two Of these
years being in the Philippines. Their
father served in the British navy and
was in the United States navy during
the Spanish-American war.
CoIumbus.-With splinters in theE
fingers and bruised thumbs many of
the local preachers worked here
with a builder to superintend them
on the construction of the taber-
| nacle in which Rev. Anderson, the
evangelist, is to begin a months
revival here in January. All the
churches on the north side of the
city will join in the revival The tab
ernacle will seat $500 people and will
be almost as large as that built here
for Billy Sundays use.
CleveIand.-An attack in court to
determine the constitutionality of the
ett-Whittemore tax law is to be
made soon, according to rumors that
persisted about the court house. It
was reported interested parties had
consulted lawyers with a view to
bringing suit. Under this law Dep
uty State Tax Commissioners Charles
p. Salen and James B. Ruhl with their
department, consisting of 20 assist
ants, will go out of office Jan. l, and
the county auditor becomes the head
of the taxing machinery If the law
should be declared unconstitutional,
Commissioners Ruhl and Salen would
continue in Office unless relieved by
the governor.
AlIiance.-Announce was made
by Colonel w. H. Morgan, president
of the Morgan Engineering company,
that the local plant had received a
S1,500,000 order from the Japanese
| government for big iron and steel
works the Tokyo government is erect
! ing. Large contracts for cranes and
mill machinery also were signed with
Argentina. The company will double
its plant at once, adding 1000 more
hands to it's force.
Cincinnati.-The effort of the treas
urer of Cuyahoga county, P. c.
O'Brien, to collect taxes on more than
$300000,000 of property said to belong
to John D. Rockefeller has just been
transferred to this city. Judge Clarke
several months ago, sitting in Cleve-
land, granted an injunction against
the treasurer, restraining him from at
tempting to collect the taxes on the
ground of non-residence.
Columbus. - Despondent because of
his inability to hear from his rel
atives in Germany since the war
began, Henry Kempke, 78, wealthy
eide. He fired three bullets from a
revolver into his brain. Kempke was
one of the wealthiest German-Ameri-
cans in this city.
Observation-Disclosures of the Lake
Erie and Ohio river canal board of
Pennsylvania assembled here and
later proceeded to Ashtabula to exam
inc the local docks at that place and
look over the site Of the proposed
canal harbor at Indian creek.
East Liverpool. - Raymond Cook,
the sixteen-year-old son of ]. W.
Cook, prominent citizen of this city,
is dying in a Pittsburgh hospital,
where he was taken for a rabies treat
ment two months after he had been
bitten by mad dog.
Cincinnati. - An agreement be-
tween telegraphers of the Big Four
and the management of the road for
an increase in wages and a better
ment of working conditions was
reached here.
MarysViIIe. - Six skeletons we're
unearthed at a depth of from ten
to twelve feet while workmen were
getting gravel out of a pit on the farm
of Elisha Cowgirl. The bodies are
supposed to be those of Indians
Port CIinton.-Ottawa county Sun
day schools in convention here elected
]. Gregg, Genoa, president; E. F. Cole
man, Elmore, vice president; Mrs. A.
B. Orth, Port Clinton, secretary; Rus
sell Bordeaux, Oak Harbor, treasurer.
Toledo. - Brand Whitlock, minister
to Belgium, was the guest of honor at
dinner rendered him by E. D. Lib
bey, chairman of the Ohio commission
for the relief of European war suf-
ferers.
New Lexington. - Clifford Downs,
aged 1S years, was probably fatally
wounded when a revolver in the hands
OF his three-year-old sister was acci-
dentally discharged.
GalIlpoIis.- Mayor Eugene D. Long
of Pomeroy, aged Sc years, special
friend of the coal miners, died here.
Mayor Long was a Democrat and was
the oldest mayor in point of service
in this section of Ohio.
CieVeland.-PoIson which she took
by mistake week ago, just after she
had returned from Eddy Road hospi-
tai, caused the death of Mrs. John ].
Brown.
Fremont.-Henry H. Tucker, aged
IS, Fremont pioneer, was killed and
his wife seriously injured when their
horse ran away, throwing them from
the buggy.
Massillon.-After an automobile had
run over the eight-year-old son of FL
ton Eckeroste, in Fast Greenyille