The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-05-16
STATE SIFTINGS

Cincinnati, Findlay and Fort Wayne
railroad will cease operation May lS
Retail price of milk was reduced al
Youngstown from II to IL cants a
quart.
George nlgen. Springfield, was
elected president Of the Luther league
Of Ohio.
United Hungarian societies at
Youngstown indorsed war aims OF
the Un'tei States.
At Fremont Harold Ze.rn, 4, got
possession OF his fathers recover
and shot and killed himself.
Bucyrus was granted funds for
vocational night school for workers
By the state board Of education.
Fire at Cleveland damaged the
plant Of the Great Western Oil conf
pany to the extent of S250,O0O.
Oscar Coe and Ralph Hostetter
were injured probably fatally when
their auto hit q telephone pole.
Sixty women students at Western
College FOR Women, oxford, have
planted a 20-acre field in potatoes.
DR.. Eugene Bishop was found dead
on the road near his home at Wells
gon. Heart disease is given as the
cause.
High school students at Columbus
| Grove carried all German books tn
The center OF the town and burned
them
George StI0mcr fell 100 feet In q
hydroaiTpiane at Salem and was seri.
ouEly hurt. He was making an eX'
perimental fight.
Fire near Cleveland destroyed the
Cloverdale dairy plant of the Telling
Belle Vernon Milk company, causing
damage estimated at 100000.
Gladys Penick, 2, Mt. Vernon. died
IN her mothers arms after having
been rIn ever by an automobile as
her father backed it from a garage.
State beard of control deferred ac-
tion on the request of Ohio State
university trustees for transfer Of
SS5,0OO to the women's building fund.
Worry over his so2, who is with
the Rainbow division in France, is
supposed to have caused the suicide
of Thomas NJ. Marshall at Coshocton.
Cincinnati police are probing the
death Of wolnan who registered ar
a hotel as Mrs. Gertrude Spranl, ST.,
and who died as the result of poison.
ing.
Max Roscnberger Of Youngstown
was sentenced to 10 years in the At.
lanta pen in the federal court. He
was convicted OF using mails to de-
fraud.
Cash deposited in the United States
treasury for April sales of war saw
ings and thrift stamps in Ohio was
$6477730, a gain of $2,012,697 over
March.
A jury has been secured at Tiffin
for the second trial of Walter D. Big
ham of Attica, on the charge of wife
murder. First trial ended in jury dis
agreement.
Body Of we'll dressed young WON
an, with eight knife wounds in the
head and face and dog chain around
the neck, was found in the Maumee
river at Toledo.
Amos L. Hitchcock, Socialist
school board member of Cleveland
was indicted on three counts by the
federal grand jury for violation of
The espionage act.
Former Mayor H. r. Williams OF
Vermillion, has announced his candl
dacy for the Democratic nomination
Tor representative in the general as
sembly from Erie county.
Frank MazzanO, Italian gangster, at
Akron, was sentenced to die in the
electric chair Sept. IS. Mazzano is
charged with being the actual mur.
derer of Patrolman Gethin Richards
Lieutenant George Sherman, 27
killed at Fort Sill in an airplane ac
cident, was a graduate of Ohio uni
versity, 1914, and crack football and
basketball player. He was an Athens
man and coal operator
The Ohio State Nurses association
held an indignation meeting at Cleve
lard to protest against the alleged
tendency to ''orcak down Ohio nurses
training schools through the i'm
proper use OF political influence"
Six Thousand copies of the Fin
;shed Mystery" by Pastor Russell, a
book banned by the government, ami
10000 copies of the third edition ol
Kingdom News, also under the ban
were confiscated by federal officers al
Columbus.
State beard of administration an
nounced that one of its Holsteir
heifers in the dairy herd at the Ath
ems state hospital now holds the rec
ord for Ohio. She is Irma johanna
Concordia. AZ years old, who has just
completed 4 seven-day official record
of 3S.05 pounds of butter from 658.0S
pounds of milk.
General Robert Patterson Kennedy
Of Bellefontaine, rs, lieutenant gov
ernor of Ohio under Foraker and for
mer member OF congress. died oi
uraemic poisoning at Columbus hos
ptal, where he had been a patient
for two weeks. General Kennedy
was active in Republican pclitics
many Years and was Familiarity known
as Fighting Bob
Cincinnati police have instituted g
campaign against loafers. Every
body works" is their slogan.
Twenty prisoners escaped from the
Toledo house Of correction by max
ing a chain from cid bed snrings.
Toledo stretcar men voted not tt
strike. They will accept the com
pany's offer to increase wages cents
n hour instead of 10 cents, as the
men demanded.
Norwalk municipal light plant, es
tablished year ago, has paid all OF
Grating expenses and made enough
money to enable it to expend S14,OOl
for new equipment