The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-04-11
STATE SIFTINGS

| ton attorney. is dead.
Ansonia citizens burned all German
text books in a bonfire.
Five hundred carpenters struck at
Cleveland fer a wage increase.
]. q. Bass, former Ohio legislator
from Clermont county, is dead at
Milford.
F. II. King Of Delphos was appoint
ed to the state board Of pharmacy
for FIVE years.
Fire at Mattox Corset company's
factory, Toledo, destroyed stock val
ued at $4,000.
Annual Hancock county Sunday
school convention will be held at
Findlay April IS.
Mayor of Findlay decrees that
every loater in the town must go 20
work or 20 to 1ail
PostofTice at Orwell, Ashtabula
county. was broken into by thieves
who took IS in stamps.
Rev. Charles ]. Caller, Pittsburgh,
will become pastor of Second Pres
byterian church at Findlay.
Liberty bonds and jewels. valued
at $5.90l, were stolen from the home
Of DR.. n. r Steurer. Cleveland.
Captain James Ritty 81, Dayton
civil war veteran and known as the
inventor of the cash register, is dead.
Mrs. Katherine Besenyody, Co.
Akron, was seriously injured at Ra.
VIENNA when her auto rolled over
twice.
Governor Cox, in a proclamation.
called on Ohio officials to round up
tramps and vagrants and put them 20
work.
y lone bandit, pointing revolver
held up and robbed the First National
bank at Madiscnvillc. near Cincin-
natl, of $4,000.
Harry Beatty, 26, railrcader whose
home was in Gilbert, was instantly
killed at GAINESVILLE when he fell from
railway bridge.
Cracksmen blew open the safe If
the Hanover Shoe company store, on
The public square, Cleveland, and Sc
cured $500 in cash.
Several residents of Fremont, in.
cluding a tailor, a minister and an
editor, were visited and made to
lvow loyalty to the flag.
Refusal of the Lorain Employers
association to sign a new wage scale
caused 1900 members of the building
.rades union to go on strike.
Massillon has started a war chest
campaign for which money will be
raised to take care of all war needs
of the ommunitv during the year.
Federal government wants Ohio to
help enlist 1000 men for military rail
way transport service. Men between
20 and 20 are needed for such service.
Blanchester Building and Loan
company has been placed in the
hands Of a receiver. One officer is
alleged to be $500 short in his &C.
counts.
Ashland county has sold more war
savings and thrift stamps per capita
than any other county in the United
States. Tie per capita distribution
is $15.76.
Fairfield county went over the top
in its war chest campaign. Subscrip-
tons reported tota!ed more than-
100000. The campaign started with
a goal of 100000.
Springfield and Clark county decid-
ed to stage a war chest campaign to
provide funds for all war activities
outside the government. A million
dollar fund may be raised.
John P. Haggerty, brought back
from Kansas City to face charge oI
numbering DR.. Lorenzo Chaplin on
Nov. last, in Cleveland hotel, de-
-nied all knowledge of the crime.
All motcrmen and conductors em-
ployed by the Cincinnati! Traction
company will be given an increase in
wages beginning April Is. Two cents
an hour will be added to their pres.
ent wages.
Three hundred people in GO auto
mobiles visited 80 homes of alleged
pro-Germans at Coshocton and en-
forced demonstrations of American
loyalty The fire department Was
called 10 the aid of one family.
A dry plank in the state platform
a dry state and ratification OF the fed
eral prohibition amendment are three
sims of the Republican Dry Fedora
ton, as announced a. the meeting oI
the executive committee ct Columbus
L. H. Gibson, head of the OLic
Home Rule association. fled VIII
Secretary OF State Fulton q petition
backed by Ohio vets, for the subniS
sion ut the November election of &;
proposed amendment 10 the state con
Gtitution giving the voters the righ
Of referendum on action of fedora
; constitutional amendments.
That the lire at the American Cnail
compauy's plant at Columbus was in
E cendiary and Fart Of a pro.Germai
plot, instead of accidental, and ths
Edward Lescollett, who caused tn
fire and lost his life in it, was muI
Gered by fellow plutter. instead o
having been sufIocated, as thought a
: the time, is the opinion expressed b.
State Fire Marshal Fleming after al
; investigation of several months. Fl
.. forts TO locate the alleged murdore
I. have failed.
At Toledo Norman L. Nominee, 81
killed his brother-in-law, ROber
Munding. 26. Nominee says he she
. IN self-defense.
. John T. Hoban, president of tn
:. Hoban brass foundry at Dayton an
: for many years active in DemocI att
politics, is dead.
Stark Electric railroad asked All
ance council TO raise city fares froI
6 to cents, cutting tickets from 81
- to five for quarter.
= Caroline Sheipline. 81, living nea
= Wapakoneta, was thrown from a ha
wagon ard killed when the team sh
was driving became unmanageable.