The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-04-06
BUCKEYE NOTES
News From All Sections Of
the state

lied the preparation of plans for q
city light plant Davey has been urg-
ing municipal ownership for three
years and says the time is ripe now
for action.
Port Clnton.-Pool rooms, bill
lard parlOrs, bowling alleys and
public dance halls here must pay
an annual license, according to the
action of the city council. which has
fixed fee of $12 year for dance
halls and 81 table or alley for the
other places of amusement.
Warren. - The unusually cold
weather of March has delayed
the maple syrup season several weeks.
! Though sugar makers usually tap
their trees in the present month, and
sometimes in February, they have so
far been unable to do so on account of
the frost.
CIeveIand-A man who registered
as Carly Hole, Rochester, Pa,
was found dead in a room in the
New Erie hotel, this city, with bullet
wound through his right temple. A
revolver containing one exploded
chamber was found beside him.
Newark.-Henry Fleming, ninety
two, one of the last two survivors
of the Mexican war living in Licking
county, died at the home of his daugh-
ter. Fleming served in Co. B, I'd Ohio
infantry. His death was due to a
stroke of paralysis.
CoIumbus.-"I think am going
crazy and would rather die than
face insanity and the asylum" read a
note found in the room of Isaac
Creamer, AZ, laborer. You will find
my body in the cellar" 1t was found
there, hanging to a beam.
Toledo.-As the result of an over
dose of lime in highly cured
water at the city filtration plant re-
Gently, more than $4,000 fancy goldfish
have died, following a changing of
their water, reports from dealers in
dicate.
Sandusky.-One hundred laborers
from Chicago took. the places of sew
enty workers who struck, and
| trouble is feared in the outskirts of
East Sandusky where the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Co. is making fill.
Youngstown. The indictment
against five Youngstown district
steel corporations charging an al
legged combination to fix wages of COM
mon labor and the price of steel, was
quashed in common pleas court here
by Judge w. s. Anderson. The indict-
ment against E. H. Gary still stands,
because of lack of service. No motion
to quash had been filed in his behalf
EIyria.-Dr ]. NJ Carver, who took
his son, a sophomore at Oberlin
college, to their home at Mans
field on an electric car when the boy
was i'll with scarlet fever and under
quarantine, was fined SIS in Justice
Sommers' court at Oberlin. Protests
from residents of the college town re-
suited in Garvers arrest and his plead
ing guilty to the charge.
EIyria.-M. NJ. Suppes, general man.
ager of the National Tube Co.,
of Lorain, died at his home here
from heart trouble. Suppes became
manager at the plant when it first
opened. The plant now employs more
than 1000 men.
Fremont-C. Shade & Son, grocers,
have filed petition in bankruptcy. In
the flood of 1913 the firms store was
completely wiped out and all accounts
lost. The concern never recovered.
Youngstown.-Rev. J. T. Lloyd, age
sixty, for many years a minister
of the Welsh Baptist church here, is
dead. Illness compelled him to resign
his pastorate about two years ago.
EIyria.-William Pomeroy, aged
fifty, of Wellington, slashed his
throat with a razor. He probably will
recover. He was respondent through
illness.
Sandusky.-Lake Erie is full of
icebergs more than a mile long,
from a quarter to half mile
wide and 80 feet high, according to
Charles ]. Gibeaut, general manager
of the Kelley Island Dock & Steam
boat Co., and Albert Hauser of Kelley
island, who reached here after climb
ing from one berg to another on
their way from the island.
ToIedo.-Forgeries Of postofice
money orders that amount to
hundreds of dollars are charged
against James M. Hayward, 27, who
was arrested here for New Orleans
police. The offenses are alleged to
have been committed three years ago
United States deputy marshals assert
Hayward was indicted in New Orleans
last Feb. 18.
SaIem.-Two youths arrested by
Sheriff S. w. Crawford, after twenty
mile cross-country chase, were held
on charge of horse steal
ing pending the arrival of authorities
from Altoona, Pa, VINO will question
the prisoners in connection with the
murder of officer mckinley last Oc-
| tober.
ToIedo-Toledo was entirely without
| street car service. The tieup of the
lines became complete at 4:30 Tues.
day, when the last of the 900 men EN-,
L
ployed by the Toledo Railways &
Light Co. ran their cars into the
| barns.
unastown.-Contract has been
awarded by the Struthers Furnace
Co., Struthers, for the enlargement of
it's 5OO-ton furnace. The capacity Of
the stack is to be increased to 600
tons daily.
FindIay.-Perry Hunsberger, twenty
Barkeyville, Pennsylvania, graduate
of Findlay college. was instantly killed
nine miles north of here by Toledo
Bowling Green & Southern traction
car.
East LiVerpooI.-Petitions will be
circulated here next week for Beal
law wet and dry election. The city