The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-04-18

horse.
Bellaire bartenders, bottle packers
and electricians struck for higher
wages.
John Zimmerman. "a, farmland
hear Marion. was killed when train
hit his automobile
Homer =. Johnson n Cleveland has
rendered his resignation as fuel al
ministrator fer Ohio
Max Bu1gheim, ~, publisher OF the
Cincinnati Freie Prosse and the Gin,
clnnati Abend Presse. is dead.
Lott Solomon, 30, living near Co
lumbus Grove. died when his automo-
bile ran into a telephone pole.
Union county Y. NJ. c. A. employed
Paul NJ. Borror, Circleville, as secre.
tary at salary of $1,000 year.
Rev. ]. A. Snodgrass, 81, Marys-
vile, was found dead in bed. He re.
tired as Baptist minister year age.
Burglars cracked the safe In the
Morgan Fl. Roberts grain elevator al
Thornville, Perry county. and got SO
in money.
Myron T. Herrick, former ambas.
sador to France, has been elected
president of the Cleveland chamber
of commerce.
Charles A. Miller, plumber, Marion
was held to the grand jury under
$1,000 bond on charge Of making
un-American utterances.
Herbert D. Campbell, so, one Of the
first owners and editors of the Lima
Republlcan-Gazette, is dead after al
illness OF several months.
Thelma, 1S-months-old daughter OF
Okey Morris, East Liverpool, was re-
sucitated after having been apparent
ly drowned in a tub of water.
Yes Nichol committed suicide by
hanging. His body was found in his
barn at Bellefontaine by neighborS
Nichol had been i'll for some time.
Miss Helen Winks, daughter @:
Frank A. Winks, was seriously IN
jured in flag rush at Port Clinton
between the high school seniors and
juniors.
Ohio is third in marine recruitIng
since the war started, figures just is
sued show. OF 28,741 men enlisted
throughout the country 2,405 were
Ohioans.
Ohio's quota in the April call of the
second draft will be 10,202 men. Ap-
proximately 100000 will be sent to
the training camps this month, begin
ming April 26.
Donald Kramen, 36, Toledo, shot
and killed his 5-year-old sen Samuel
Then he fired a bullet into his own
brain and doctors say he will die
Kramen had been Idle.
Athens city council passed an ordi
nance seizing all vacant lots for way
gardens when complaints were made
against high rents demanded by prop
erty owners for this purpose.
Frank Swans. IS, Gallipolis, was
instantly killed when he grasped an
electrically charged clothes line which
he and a companion had arranged tc
play a trick on a housemaid.
In a pistol battle at Toledo Kenneth
Young, II. alleged auto bandit, was
killed, his companion, Wesley WCr.
don, 20, wounded, and Patrolman
christopher Derach fatally shot.
Alleging libel, Paul Schaaf, presi-
dent Of 4 cutlery company at Find.
lay, filed suit for 100000 damages
against Mrs. Angeline Zimmerman, a
large etocllhclder in the company
Thieves broke into the store 6t CO..
lister & Sayle, Cleveland, wrecked
the safe with nitroslycerin and got
away with $500 in cash, $500 in lib.
crty bonds and a $4,000 promissory
note.
Proceeds of the Red Cross auction
sale at Redwood netted about $4,000
Maud, mule purchased by the com
mittee for SO, proved the best draw
ing card, bringing the society n
$1.310.
Private Wilbur NJ. Buyers, Yourgs
town, attempted suicide at Camp
Sherman by hanging. He is expect
ed to die. Byers had been in a guard
house for a month pending trial oil a
charge of desertion.
Mike Ryan, held sor investigation
of alleged pro-Gernan utterances
was attacked and beaten by fellow
prisoners IN Marion Jail.
No liberty loan campaign will be
conducted among the 10000 selects
at Camp Sherman. Officers will be
designated in each regiment and
other separate organizations to re,
ceive voluntary subscriptions
While hundreds cheered and bands
played, hundreds of German text.
books from Findlay high school and
Findlay college, and German books
from libraries of citizens were burned
in bonfire in the center of town.
An explosion in the core room CT
the plant Of the Grabler Manufactu1.
ing company, Cleveland, caused a fire
which resulted in damage estimated
at 100000. The company has been
manufacturing hand grenades for the
government.
Accused of completely in robberies
of freight cars, five men were lodged
in Jail at Toledo by federal authori-
ties. They are: Frank Weller, gro
GER; George Leighton, bicycle dealer:
Gus Staiger, poolroom proprietor;
John Church, switchman, and Russell
Pizza, an Italian.
Molten Stag exploded at the Crorn
well steel plant, Lorain fatally burn.
ing Eben Edwards, As, and Joseph
Scianni, Al, and seriously injuring
three others.
Carey Evans, q, son ,Of David
Evans Of Columbus, was killed in &C.
tiOn at the French front. Evans was
an ambulance driver and an Onio
State university student.