The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-05-30
STATE SIFTINGS

Ashtabula has women conductors
on streetcars.
Clarence Duffy, 10, fell into a pool
at Alliance and was drowned
Lieutenant Philip Robertson OF
Hamilton died nf accident in France
Lisbon schools closed for remainder
Of the year because Of smallpox epi.
demIc.
A charity ball win be held at Blu.
cyrus May rs for the benefit Of the
Red Cross.
One hundred and forty men and so
women were arrested in a raid on
blind tigers at Toledo.
Frank Flee, rs, widely known lum-
herman, died at Washington c. H. He
was a civil war veteran
Tc help relieve freight car short
age an auto truck left Mt. Vernon for
Chicago with several castings.
Harry Eagle was killed at Spring.
deld when a motor fire truck struck
the motorcycle he was riding.
A business building has been do
mated to the Red Cross by Mrs.
Frank Leidigh at Rushsylvania.
Great council Of Red Men Of Ohio,
in convention at Canton, decided to
hold the 1919 convention in Colum.
bus.
Seven men were burned, one seri.
ouSly, in a fire which destroyed a
block of barns and frame buildings at
Lorain.
Heart trouble caused the sudden
death Of Charles J. Mckee, an attor.
ney and building association official
at Dayton.
William Jacobs, 2S, and Fred Small,
ley, 80, were severely injured near
BCcyrus when their auto was struck
by train.
State administration board an
lounced it will not permit inmates
of state penal institutions to aid in
municipal work.
Graves of heroes Of six wars will
be decorated at Bucyrus Memorial
day. Five Revolutionary war veter-
ans are buried there.
One hundred and fifteen sheep
were drowned in. high water from
Mill creek on the pasture land of ].
r. Vile, near Marysville.
Dr. Leslie Pratt Of BelIefontaine,
who is now engaged in front line
work in France. has been promoted
to lieutenant commander.
Rev. Archdeacon H. ]. Cody Of To.
tonto, Can, will deliver the COM
mencement address at Ohio Wes-
leyan this year on June 19.
Miss Margaret Davis, SO, an inmate
of the Columbus state hospital, com
mitted suicide by hanging herself to
a shutter Of window in her room.
Belmont county officials have TAX
en- up with government agents at Co
lumbus the cases Of AZ Turks arrest,
ed at Holloway for pro-German activ-
tiles
Ray Showers, 26 married, former
resident of Marion, Is dead of gun
shot wounds at Butte, Mont. He was
glnsmith and was killed when ex-
amining a rife.
American Ship Building company
employees at Lorain will receive wage
Increases Of 20 per cent and upward
dating from April 1, under an agree
ment just reached.
Newark school boards elected o. ].
Barnes superintendent of the New
ark schools at salary of $4,000 a
year. to succeed Wilson Hawkins.
who goes to Canton.
While crossing the street leading
to church, where she expected to at
tend services, Miss Flora Downs, AZ,
Mansfield, was knocked down by an
automobile and killed.
Charles A. Otis, president of the
Cleveland chamber of commerce, has
been appointed by the war industries
board to make survey of industrial
resources of the country
Merger of the three organizations
Of the Evangelical Lutheran church
was approved by the northern confer
SAOC at LOlCuOs lhd2 dCIAOu WILL
be taken at the conference at Find
lay in June.
Copies of THE Heel of War" q
book written by George B. Mcclellan,
former mayor of New York, were con-
fiscated at Cleveland. Sale Of the
volume was ordered stopped on the
charge that the book is pro-German.
Ohio Homeopathic Medical society,
meeting in Cleveland, elected the fol-
lowing officers: DR.. James G. Wood,
Cleveland, president; DR.. H. c. Waite,
Columbus, secretary: DR.. P. T.
Church, Salem, treasurer, and DR.. H.
E. Beebe, Sidney, negrologist.
Representative Welty's bill, looking
toward the construction of a barge
canal connecting Lake Erie and the
Ohio river, via Cincinnati and Toledo,
with a branch extending from Def
ance through northern Indiana to
Lake Michigan at Chicago, has been
reported to the house.
Percy C. Melrose, 81, former circus
performer, and Mrs. Eva ToOtle, 27,
wife Of Owen A. Tootle, both of Co
lumbus, are dead as the result of
tangled love affair that terminated in
what seems to have been a suicide
pact. Their bodies were found in an
automobile with revolver lying be-
tween them. Each had been shot
through the head.
Rosie Pirozzi, 9, Youngstown, had
her right hand cut off in an electric
meat chopper in her fathers store.
At Warren Thomas Fellows, a
Greek, shot and killed his wife of six
months and then turned his revolver
on himself. He will recover, physi-
clans say. jealousy is attributed as