The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-02-17
Put Them Out of Business.

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after receiving reports from his rep
resentatives in each of the II cities Of
the state in which such places we're
raided and closed by the local author
tiles at the request of the state bank
ing department and after warrants
had been sworn out for the arrest of
the men in charge of the shops by
Mr.. Hall. So quietly and effectively
had the shops been operating that not
a word of complaint regarding them
had reached the department. How
ever, the department has had exact
knowledge of the situation from the
day that the first bucket shop started
in Ohio some weeks ago, after the
stock market became bearish. THE
bucket shop is an unbeatable game
with a thimblerig attachment" said
Supt. Hall. $50 long as l am bank
superintendent it will not be played
in Ohio" The cities in which the
raids were made are Canton, Akron,
Youngstown, East Liverpool, Dayton,
Steubenville, Norwalk, Fremont, Pi'
qua, Marion and Toledo.
Many Candidates.
Word has been received in Colum.
bus that Peter w. Durr auditor Of
Hamilton county and for many years
member Of the Republican state CEN
trail committee, is thinking seriously
of being a candidate for the Republi-
can nomination for secretary of state.
This Office is attracting more candi-
dates among the Republicans than
any other. The other candidates for
the nomination are E. NJ. Fullington,
state budget commissioner; Senator
]. ]. Wise of Massillon; c. D. Conover
Of Urbana, speaker of the house of
representatives, and S. A. Stillwell of
Columbus, former auditor Of Warren
county The Democratic candidate
will be Auditor of State Vic Donahey,
who will be renominated without oppO-
sition. Democrats are expected to an.
nounce themselves soon for places on
the state ticket of their party. w. D.
Fulton, former member of the house
from Licking county, wants the nomi-
nation for secretary of state. Chester
Bryan of London, Madison county, a
newspaper man, wants the nomination
for treasurer.
An important Conviction.
The state fire marshals office re-
CARDS as one of it's most important
convictions that of Everett e. Cald-
well of Belle Valley, Noble county,
found guilty of burning down build
ing in which he conducted a general
store to get insurance on the mer-
chandise. He partially confessed to
the crime, saying he wanted money to
enable himself and his wife to go to
her former home in the south. The
store was in the first story Of the
building. People living in the upper
story narrowly escaped with their
lives. They were awakened by the
explosion of a keg of gunpowder, set
off by the flames. The building and
another adjoining 1t were totally de-
stroyed. The fire marshars office OBJ
tanned tip that Caldwell had been
| shipping his merchandise to another
town, and this furnished the clue
which resulted in the discovery of evi
| dence duplicating Caldwell. Some
dozen insurance companies had insur
ance on the buildings and merchan
disc.
Not Under Civil Service.
Mrs. Maude Murray Miller will con
! ti1To a of fho rtn 70 ~
of motion picture censors, Attorney
General Turner having held that the
members of this board do not come
under civil service, and so her pay
cannot be held up by the state civi
service commission, which would have
been the case had the ruling been 9th
erwiSe. Mrs. Carlotta Price-Shea o.
Bellefontaine was slated for Mrs. Mill
er's place, but two of the three mem
bers of the state industrial commits
sion, which appoints the censors, ia
vor the retention of Mrs. Miller, ant
unless they change their position
there will be no change in the mem
bership of the board. The ruling o
Liz dllOIHCy SChSId al IudI IhO CSuSOIi
are not under civil service follows al
opinion given by former Attorney Gen
eral Hogan.
Medicine May Be Dangerous.
Owing to the general prevalence o
grip and colds and the public demand
for home cold remedies, T. L. Calvert
head of the dairy and food depart
ment, has caused analyses to be made
of all the cold cure proprietary medi
cines, with the result that no less thai
!, eight have been found to contain ace
tanilid in dangerous amounts. No sin
gle dose would be dangerous, but tn
, cumulative effect of number of then
taken without intelligent direction
would be decidedly so. Mr.. Calver
, will take up with the attorney ger
. eral the question of what can be don
/ to prevent the indiscriminate sale o
such dangerous medicines.
Dying From Hiccoughs.
) James Nolan, alias James Hard, VIII
is serving his eighth term in the pen
J tentiary for horse stealing COMMITTEE
) in Scioto county, is dying with hic
coughs. The trouble has continue
for several days and the patient /
) now nearly exhausted. The priso
: medical staff has exhausted all tn
= known remedies without relief, an
: the death of the prisoner is expected
Most of his offenses have been tn
t stealing Of horses. He has been har
J drinker, and this is believed to hav
/ caused a cancerous affection of tn
liver.
Offers to Send Samples.
5 The state utilities commission ha
: received a proposition that is out 9
? the ordinary from N. A. Clay of Obei
) lin. In his letter Mr. Clay complain
= to the commission that the nature
gas served to the people of that vi
r lage contains an excess of both mois