The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-05-04
BUCKEYE NOTES
news From All Sections Of
the State

paredness program and brought cheers
from his 1,500 hearers when he said
the gentlemen who says We could
raise 100000 men from sunrise to
sunrise is but yielding to the intoxi "a
tion of the rhetorical moment and
says what is untrue" Mr. Taft showed
that the Red Cross society is the great
medium for the help of men in the
field. He said it is just as essential
in war time as the coast artillery, the
infantry or the cavalry.
Logan-Ten thousands miners in the
Hooking Valley coal district have re-
sumed work, following the two-year
contract signed by miners and opera
tors here. The miners were
idle during wage parley. Under the
agreement clean coal is practically as
sured. The miners are to 'snub" or
block down" their coal as in eastern
Ohio. Miners consented not to strike
without taking up their alleged griev-
ances with mine officials.
Akron.-The citys area has been
doubled and the population increased
by 10000 by the annexation of eleven
square miles of territory. COun-
| ty commissioners unanimously ap-
proved the annexation ordinance
passed by Akron. Greater Akron has
an estimated population of $4,000 and
claims to be larger than Dayton.
steuberVile. - Jacob Zelt, thirty
six, Washington, Pa, brewer, was
badly injured in an auto accident a
mile from Steubenville. Zelt crashed
into a bridge and part of the rail
pierced his abdomen. Joseph Yeager,
who was with Zelt, received minor
injuries.
Warren The cranemen of the
Western Reserve Steel Company and
the Trumbull Steel Co. walked out on
a strike after submitting to their en-
ployers a demand for an increase in
wages of 81s cents per hour.
Cincinnat.-In the remedy, calcium
sulphite, given intravenously, grain
for grain of the poison taken. it
is believed that DR.. ]. H. Wins of this
city has found a sure antidote for BIZ
chloride poisoning.
Bridgeport.-Three thousand miners
in Belmont and Jefferson counties are
idle because of the refusal of the
miners to accept the division of a g.
cent increase between the leaders and
the operators.
Fostoria.-The Atlas Manufacturing
Company has announced a nine-hour
day, with time and a half for
the extra hour, effective at once. Fifty
machinists are affected.
Elyria.-The annual convention Of
the Lorain County Sunday School as
sociation will be conducted at the
Oberlin M. E. church Thursday and
Friday, May and 5.
Canton.-The Timken-Detroit Axlt
Company is preparing to begiI
work on a new plant which will even
tually give employment to 1900 mer
here.
Dayton.-The National theater wa!
destroyed here by fire with an esti
mated loss of between $4,000 ant
$25, 200.
BeIIefontaine. THE first break
in a triangular wedding, in which
Mr. and Mrs. Isaiah Kiser, Mr.
and Mrs. David Batdorf and Mr. and
Mrs ]. P. Northcutt, all of Bellefon
taine, were married 40 years ago, has
occurred with the death of Kiser.
ngstown.-PresidentJ julius Kahn
of the Trussed Concrete Steel Com
pany here has announced an addi
tional bonus for the 900 wage earning
employees of his company.
New Concord. - William Martin, a
junior in Muskingum college here
died of peritonitis on the day his
father was to sail from India, where
he has been a missionary for several
years.
West Salem. - Due to rapid devel
opment of three cases of scarlet fever
among school children, Mayor ]. w
Ferguson, by proclamation, quaran
tined the town.
Alliance. - Struck by freight trair
on the New York Central railroad
Samuel Davis, aged SO, was instant
ly killed. Both arms and both legi
were cut off.
Lima. The date of the pro
posed Jefferson day banquet for thu
Democracy of northwestern Ohio hal
been changed from April 25 to May 8
conditional upon the acceptance o
Senator Atlee Pomerene to be one o
the principal speakers.
Xenia.-While walking home through
railroad yards, Joseph Toohey, thirty
five, plumber, was struck b,
a switch engine, which cut his legs of
His brother-in-law found him. He die,
shortly after being found.
Cleveland. - William Leggett, sixty
three, was run down by an auto Of
Woodland-av. and died half an hou
later. The driver of the car was al
tackled by a crowd, but was rescue,
by police.
SteubenvilIe, - While en- rout
home from an Easter christening
celebration, Coleman Winton, aged SS
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interurban car on the Steubenville
Mingo railway, near Mingo, and fel
over an embankment 100 feet AM
broke his neck, dying instantly.
Bryan. - Fire destroyed a ha,
. barn owned by Poast & Dawson
grain merchants, causing 100000 loss
Hundreds of tons of hay stored in tn
barn were burned. Freight cars on
Cincinnati Northern sidetrack wer
burned, The cause of the fire is un
known.
SteubenviIle. - The body of Mis-
Florence de France, aged 21, wa
found in Short creek, where she hat
; drowned herself because of disappoint
: ment in love affair.
!, Newark.-Ray Hoskinson, aged 81
! prominent farmer, committed sui
cidn hV h1oWinp thn tOn Of his heal