The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-05-02
STATE SIFTINGS

Anthony BarleOn, Is. former news.
paper publisher, is dead at Macarthur.
n. A. Hiles, Newark. brakeman
lost both legs when he fell under hls
train.
Total sales OF war savings and
thrift stamps in Union county
amount to s75,2OO.
Bucyrus BARRIERS have advanced
hair cuts to 20 cents and shaves to
20 cents effective May l.
Grain elevator at Watson, near Til.
fin, was destroyed by fire of un.
known origin. Loss $4,000.
Caledonia. Marion county, remain.
ed in the dry column by a vote of Sc
TO IL. The village has 175 votes
A car on the Cleveland, Southwest.
ern and Columbus overturned near
Wooster. One passenger was injured
DR.. X. NJ. Schwartz was elected
health officer at Salem to succeed DR..
f. J. Schwartz, now state epidemi.
ologist.
Governor Cox will deliver the COM
mencemeht address at the graduation
exercises of the Columbus schools
this year
Leonard Oatney, IA, son OF John
Oatney, near Pleasantville, Fairfield
county. received a fractured skull
when a tree fell on him.
After beating his wife into uncon.
sciousness, L. D. Wright, so. Jeffer-
son. Ashtabula county, hanged him
self to bed post in his room.
A Cleveland shipbuilding company
was awarded a contract to build Sc
steamers for salt water service for
the emergency fleet corporation.
Nelson Cram, Cleveland, was
crushed to death while riding in a
railroad car loaded with steel. The
body was discovered at Marion.
John Immel, 81, president Of the
John Immel & Sons Company. was
crushed 20 death in the elevator shaft
at his carriage factory at Columbus
Everett Koon, 16, of Danville, is
held in Jail at Athens. Police say he
confessed to the murder OF John Rob
inette, 6S, and robbing him of $1.6S
Peter Snapp. Pemberton, near Sid
ney, received word that his son. ST.
mon Snapp, 35. who was wounded in
action April 9 in France. had died.
William Anker, 43, New Straits.
vile, an employe OF brick company.
was run down and killed by a cut Of
cars. He leaves a wife and five chill
dren.
Fire at Marion damaged the Blick-
son Manufacturing company's plant
which is engaged in government war
contract work. hundreds of patterns
being destroyed
At Akron Frank Mazzano was
found guilty of first degree murder
in connection with the killing of Pa.
trolman Gethin Richards March T.
MaZZano faces the electric chair.
A 10-minute demonstration greeted
the announcement at liberty loan
rally at Lima that Allen county had
more than doubled its quota. Sub
scriptions have totaled $2.35O,0OO.
Sixteen men we're arrested in a fed.
eral raid on Socialist meeting at
Lorain on charges of evading the
draft failure to register under the
alien enemy act and with circulating
sedirious literature.
At Van Vert Fire Chief Wade and
Fireman Harry Walls have been dis
missed. following an alleged alterca.
ton, during which Chief Wade Is
said to have been struck over the
head with a wrench.
At Hamilton, Judge M. S. Harlan
sentenced Mrs. Belle Wardlow. con.
Victed of killing her husband. Yerrell
l.. WarGlow, by poisoning a year ago
last February, to life Imprisonment
In the Marysville reformatory.
Edward Karl Fischer, former edi-
tor of The Waechter and Anzeiger,
Cleveland German language daily,
was arrested on presidential war.
rant, charging him with being dan.
gerous to the peace and safety OF the
United States
Three young men were arrested at
Portsmouth, charged with the murder
OF A. HUFFMAN, Sc, a grocer who was
shot and killed when his store was
robbed Of $3.50. The suspects ale
Roy Hughes. IT; Washington Baker.
21, and Pauline Pannattoni. %.
AS 4 sequel TO a Black Hand threat
two years ago that unless she gave
money her fuce would be slashed,
Mrs. Michael Moreno, So. is at the
hospital in Salem cut deeply from
throat to scalp across the right side
of her face. Her assailant escaped.
Village of Carthage, Hamilton coun-
ty, has oversubscribed to the third
liberty loan to The extent of A times
its minimum quota. Three hundred
and twenty-eight subscribers in Car
thage have taken bonds to the
Of $1,0S9,7OO, while the min.
lmum quota was S24.05O.
Trailed to Youngstown by federal
agents, James Halwin, 25, and C. e.
Myers, 20, were arrested, charged
with impersCnating United States of.
dcers. The men, it is charged, con-
lined their alleged operations to for
eigners, and representing themselves
Is food inspectors. secured sums
.anging from S12 to $25 as protection
against arrest.
Edward Brooks, principal of the
Milton Center schools, was killed by
train at Mt. Grab while en- route to |
Lebanon to answer summons Of q
lraft board.
Wayne County School Superintend- |
mt Baumgardner favors six-day |
ichool weeks for next year following
he successful try-out given in the
'ural districts.
Harry Wagenknecht was sentenced
It Cleveland to serve one year in the
Narrensville workhouse for violation
u the draft law. He has a brother
erving sentence for a similar Of
ense