The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-04-25

After killing his s;epmOther. M1
Elma Dorton. with a knife. Thurman
Dorton. 25, miner Of Macarthur. sint
and killed himself
Whilc crossing the street on roller
skates Elida Stubbs, 8. AShtabdla,
was killed by an automobile.
Painesyille council granted the
Painesville Gas company a temporary
rate Of $3.50 a thousand, an Increase
of so cents.
COME ,sion that he robbed the FIRST
National bank OF Madisonville. near
Cincinnati. Of SS.S6s. was made to
New York rolice by Edwin Van Wal.
den, formerly Of Ayondale.
Ground has been broken at Marion
for a nine-story hotel building to cost
$500 800.
Work of dredging the Little Ty.
mochtee has started. and land that
will ne reclaimed for cultivation as
a result will increase war food lrod
uction in Marion and WyandOt coun-
ties at least 100000.
Fire which destroyed four buildings
threatened the entire business sec.
ton Of Olmstead Falls. Cuyahoga
county Loss $4,000.
City Solicitor johnson f. West Of
Bellefontaine resigned to join tre
war trade beard for overseas duty.
Clay workers at Robinson Clay
Products company, New Philadelphia
went on strike. Oficials say they
have received no demands from the
men.
At Youngstown federal agents,
searching for pro-German and I. w.
w. literature, seized $500 copies OF
| Pastor Russell's book, The Finished
Mystery" Five persons were held.
The right of the legislature to bar
insurance companies from indemnify
ing employers under the workmens 3
compensation act was sustained in a
decision handed down by Judge
Evans Of the Franklin county com
mon pleas court.
Every boy or girl who graduates
in June into the eighth grade Of the
ChiIlicothe schools will receive from
Colonel r. Enderlin of that city a
present of $50 in war savings stamps
John H. Arnold, former lieutenant
governor, formally announced him
self a candidate for the Republican
nomination for governor OF Ohio.
According to AdJutart General
Wood, Ohio will be nit hard in the
May draft. Wood returned from
Washington, where he was in cor
sultation with Provost Marshal Ger.
eral Crowder
Ohio food administrator wants all
citizens Of the state to Join in po'
tato consumption to stretch the short
wheat supply.
Food Administrator Bishop order,
ed three groceries and one bakery at
Cleveland closed for one week for
violating the $3.50 order.
Combined bond for four Jenera
Hancock county, citizens, arrested
for alleged unpatriotic activity, was
fixed at 100000. The men held are
Christian Heyn, saloonkeeper; the
Rev. John Gauss. Mayor Dan Hall and
DR.. ] R. Highble.
Rev. Reinhold Rice has been ousted
as pastor of German Evangelical
church at Stone Creek. Rev. Mr. Rice
lives at Coshocton, where vigilantS
are reported to have made HIM kiss
the lag.
Five prisoners In the Jefferso!
county Jail, at Steubenville, escaped
after opening their cell and tier doors
At Toledo Edward McNaulty, %
said by police to have been a New
York gambler, was shot and killed BY
a companion, who escaped.
Guiditta Perna, 3-ycar-old daughter
of Biaggio Perla, was instantly kiliet
at Columbus when she was struck b,
an automobile.
S. H. Croffin, New Philadelphia
contractor, was roughly handled by s
mob at Maturn for distributing pam
phlets explaining why The Finished
Mystery" of Pastor Russell was sup
pressed by the government. Crolll
was made to kiss the flag. He /!
held in Jail.
William Koepke, 40. was electro
. cuted and three workmen were stun
ned when they threw guy wire owe
high tension wire at Toledo.
| Six int:r!Tbap cars, valued at $12
600, were destroyed in fire in thu
Lake Shore Electric railway barns a
Beach Park, near Lorain.
Rev. J. H. Bomberger, editor of th'
Christian World, Cleveland, died a
| Sanford, Fla.
Ohio confectionerS will manufac
, ture more chocolates and candle
: containing more nuts and fruits il
} substitution for pure sugar candies t.
conserve the production of sugar.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Slagle an
, adopted son, Gaylord, aged u, wer
killed when a train struck their auto
z mobile at Van Vert.
, At Toledo the grand jury wa
charged to investigate "tar" part
I. at Holland village. The victims ar
: ]. J. Beattie, railroad station agent
William Wagner, truck driver, an
Perry Hall, the town marshal.
: Deutscher Bund, organized at M;
rion 40 years ago. was disbanded b
+ a unanimous vote. 1t was decided t
D buy liberty bonds with the money lei
= in the treasury.
y Fourteenth summer session c
D Ohio State university, with rs men
0 hers of the instrumental force, wi
n ooon Tupa "a o1d nonki00a .;uk