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

Mrs. Ioserh swIsher. 81, mother tt
DR.. Argus Swisher Of Marysville. is
dead.
Price Cf one-poUnd loaves OF breai
increased a; Toledo from to 10
cents.
At Gallon Joseph Riester, 20. died
Of pneumonia "a hours after the death
Ct his wife.
Fire at Cleveland destroyed the big
warehouse OF the Adams Express
company. Loss. $780, 900
Carl Hiretus OF Cleveland. student
in officers training camp at Augusta,
"a. shdt and killed himself
John Il. Albertson, 62. for many
years marshal oil Millersburg and
sheriff Of Hslmes county. is dead.
Judge II. G. Smith of GAINESVILLE has
announced his candidacy for the Re.
publican nomination Tor secretary of
state.
Automobile bandits stole A00,0Od
cigarets, valued at $4,000, from the
]. B. Moos tobacco storerooms nj
I.orain.
Ground glass vas found in a loaf
Of rye bread purchased by Mrs. John
j. DeMu:h at Fiadlay. II was finely
lowdcrrd
George Osler. 40, was probably ia,
tally wounded at Geneva when he
was accidentally shot by William
Thomas, II.
Mrs. Mary E. Ashburn, 81. widow
of T. =. Ashburn, former Ohio SIT
IRENE court Judge, and cousin Of Gen
eral Grant, died at Cincinnati
Marion police trailed to Chillicoth"
Hazel Harper and Ruth Clark, ID
yearold high school girls, who ilsar'
2oared from their hCmes at Marion
Accused Of talking against the l,b
prty loan and spreading German
Propaganda, William S Bosley, -
vas arrested at Steubenvllle by fed.
rral agents.
Captain Abe Newlove. formerly Of
the Rain0ow division arrived at hi.
homo in Ma:ysvllle from France He
ecently was discharged because Oi
defective hearing.
A powerful wireless outfit, capable
" sending $50 miles. was found by
secret service agents on an apart
ment building IN Lima. 1t was screen
ed from the street
-Four rOhhoro u-ornou opI .,
man. made a daylight, raid on the C.
fee of a Cleveland theater. strucl
down Palmer Slocum, the manager
and escaped with $1,000.
Chester Holt, Marion nationa
guardsman, reported killed yeal
ago by Mexican sniper and mourn
ed as dead, is alive and we'll at cht
army barracks at Houston, Tex.
Katie Thompson, Is, charity warI
is in Columbus hospital with bGi
let in her abdomen. self-inflicted al
the home Of c. S. Cord, where she is
alleged to have attempted to kill CCrt
and wife.
Sixty prisoners from the peniten
tiary have been sert to Guernse,
county 10 work on the National high
way. The Mansfield refcrmatory will
"cnd 90 men to aid the prisoner
from Columbus.
John H. Patterson, a manufacturer
presented the city Of Dayton with 20
acres in the choicest portion OF hi
1,000-acre park, known as Hills an
Dales. The property has been al
praised at $SS2,O00.
Lives Of many school children wer
endangered when fire of unknown
origin partly destroyed the Wea
school building at Kenton. The pr
rils maintained perfect order whit
marching from the building.
Five business men of Delphos, Al
len county, accused OF pro-Germar
ism, were hunted out by voluntea
vigilance committee of 400 men ali
so women and forced to publicly sa
lutte and kiss the American flag.
When a 1itney bus running between
Conneaut and Corneaut HarbOr wa
struck by a train, Louis Raynor, 81
of Conneaut, was instantly killed
Harris Reagan of Conneaut had twt
legs cut off ard five other men wert
seriously injured.
Because she refused to consult
physician about her condition. he
escort is said to nave forced pOlsOl
down the thIo oat of Anna Stein. 27, q
Cincinnati. The rair was riding i
an automobile when the assault i
said to have occurred.
Corporal Charles F. Ford, "a, De
troit, was Instantly killed near Cam
Sherman, when the automobile i
which he had driven General Perkin
to Columbus overturned. Privat
Arthur Hale, who accompanied Fort
escaped without scratch.
H. C.. Willing, 80, moto1man, wa
shot in the abdomen by negro pa
senger, who made his escape by di'
lug head first through window OF
street car Willing probably will di'
The negro had refused to pay hi
fare and attacked the conductor.
Distribution of flour and sugar /
Ohio will he put on card syster
basis. The object is to protect di
tributors, retailers and large consun
ers by working out for each a fair a
lotment o. Two commodities of whic
there is a shortage. The plan wa
agreed upon at meeting in G.
lumbus.
A. F.. Dorsey, Ffndlay banker an
oil man, declined to make race fo
the nomination to congress from til
Eighth Congressional district.
Upon the discovery of ground glas
and suspected poison in can of tt
matoes at Lorain, officials confsca
ed the rest of the stock and sent it
federal authorities in Cleveland.
John f. Hagerty, accused of the a
legged mucde; of DR.. Harry L. Chapil
prominent Cleveland physician,
under arrest in Kansas City. DR.. CHI
-, 30 hoS