The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-04-04

dry goods sitre at Fmd'ay to the ex.
tent uf 10000.
J. u. S.nsabaugh IS. contractor
-was buried alive at Columbus when
16-fooS sewer cayed in.
Andrew Pcisler. ar engineer. is un
der arrest at PaInesvile, charged with |
making uppatriotic remarks.
Charles IT, Pierce rs. banker and |
veteran of the civil war. died sud.
denly at his home in Springfield.
Isaac Barclay Miller, 6S, attorney |
and former mayor OF Youngstown, Is
dead, following a months illness OF
grippe.
Mere than 100 prisoners are in the |
renitent:ary hospital with intestinal
trouble. attributed to Jelly served al
a meal.
Private Edward Swart1 OF Buoy:
rus, while swimming In the Tallai
uooss river at Montgomery. Ala, was
drowned
Accused Of making unpatriotic re-
marks, three members Of an orches.
ira in a To,Cdo theater are detained
by federal authorities.
Body Of Oliver Gatten, farmer. was
found in shallow water in Nest creek
near Woodsfield 1t Is thought he
tainted and fell into the creek.
An injunction was obtained at To-
ledo bv SCrialist Poles restraining
their officers from afiliating with the
pro-German Socialists Of Chicago.
Rev. F. B. Ruf, four years pastor Of
First Reformed church. Gallon. has
resigned to engage in the army y
N. c. A. service at Camp Sherman
Private Harry Schraud, Cincinnati,
was dishcno-ably discharged at Camp
Sherman and sentenced to three years
n prison for alleged pro-Gorman re-
marks
Wheat crop prospects for next sum.
mer Simply are wonderful" 1t was
aid by Secretary of Agriculture
Shaw, after trips into various parts
Of the state
Major Horace c. Keifer, son Of Cen
eral ]. Warren Keifer, died at Spring
field, aged so years. He served
year on his fathers staff in the Span
ish-American war.
Hamilton county was the first In
Ohio to cross the $1,O00.0O0 mark In
war savings stamps sales, according
TO letter received from State Direc
tor H. P. Wolfe.
Grand tax duplicate of Ohio for
1917 is $S,547, ,O16,66O, compared with
| $7,697, ,630,232 in 1916, a gain for 1917
of SS40.4l6.428, a growth Of almosI
double that Of 1916.
Court refused to grant new trial
to Mrs Belle Wardlow, convicted at
Hamilton of first degree murder, in
poisoning her husband, Loden L
WardloW, a year ago.
Mrs. Frances Mc;ihee Gould. widow
Of Orin B. Gould, former warden of
the Ohio reIltentiary. married Harry
b. Carraci, former merchant and now
| coal operator at Wel!ston.
At Columbus, Policeman Howard
Bennett sho+ and killed Lincoln Price.
negro, 45. The suspect was armed
/
20 open fire when he was shot down
A pet bull dog. owned by George
Snow, attacked two small children Of
F. H. Marshman and the daughter
Of George Bender, at Marion. The
log is suspected of suffering from
rabies.
| Fire at RCssford, a suburb of To-
ledo, destroyed two large apartment.
houses and damaged eight cottages,
rendering II families homeless. Sew
en- men an1 one woman were injured
slightly.
Charles Davis, At, a restaurant op-
orator at Milford Center, is under ar
rest, charged with attempting to kill
his wife. Domestic troubles are sup
posed TO be the cause. The woman
was shot in The head and hand.
Ohio now has home guard organ
ization aggregating more than 5000
men, equaling the strength of the
Ohio national guard at the time of
the 1913 food. Thirty cities have
such guards or ere forming them.
Maple syrup buyers at Chardon.
Geauga county. increased the price Of
bulk syrup from $1.30 to S1.40 per
gallon, The highest price on record III
Geauga county. Only 60 per cent Of
normal yield is reported this sea-
son
From the effects of bichloridc of
mercury poison, taken with suicidal
intent, Mrs. Elsie Moreland, 20, Pa
taskala, died at Columbus hospital.
She had quarreled with a man after
he had purchased the poison for her
at her request.
Harrison Coates OF Bradford was
killed and four others were injured
when an automobile in which they
were riding ran into a tree eighI
miles east Of Greenville. The injured
were Harrison Hile, Earl CoppociI
Harry Zimmerman and Omer Miller
Charles H. Klahre, machinist S
mate, Akron, and William Harrison
Miller, bo;lermaker, Portsmouth
were. among the II persons who per.
ished when a British warship collide1
with the American destroyer Manley
Two other Ohioans, Ward Elias
Brewer, gunner's mate, Lynchburg
and Martin Roseanslii, seaman, To
ledo, are among II men listed as
missing.
Dr.. Ewing Brandon, vice presidcn
of Miami university and professor o
French, has been called to France fo
duty with the Y. M. c. A.
State public utilities commission
authorized the Cambridge Telephone
company to purchase the property c
the Central Union company in tba
city for consideration of S63 200.
August Hickman, 81, and Jacol
Kofn, 40, shipbuilders, were ARRESTED
by federal officials, charged with dis
tributing German printed propaganda;