The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1918-03-28
a. Canton threr men held as slack.


twenty-five autos were destroyed
by fire in Auto Laundry company's
plant at Elyria.
Henry r. Calkins, &C, patient a.
Ohio Epileptic hospital at Galllpolis,
was killed ty a train
George Reed, Findlay, was named
Seneca county agricultural agent at
a salary Of $500 4 year.
Seventeen hundred Fremont school
children during the past month have
bought 1889 thrift stamps.
John Bell, wealthy farmer, was
found dead in bed at his home Ave
miles west Of New Lexington.
w. a. Hunt. civil war veteran and
former publisher Of the Belmont
Chronicle, died in Youngstown.
Rev. E. G. B. Booth, 50, OF Dela.
ware, was killed in an elevator acc'-
dent at the Methodist Home fer Aged
Under the new zone system Of Goa!
distribution Ohio mines will supply
the states OF Ohio, Indiana and Mich.
igan.
Oscar Black, 20, arrested at Day
ton as suspected counterfeiter, es
capped from police auto on the wa,
to jail
Rev. John Williamson. rector Of the
Episcopal church, Bellefontaine, an
nounced the acceptance of a call t.
Lancaster.
Fay Baldwin, president OF the Ohio
Private Bankers association and
whose home was In Greenfield, died
at Cleveland
Three-year.old CHILD OF George
Karg of Carey fell into q dishpan c.
scalding water and was SO badly
burned it died.
Police Chief w. E. Randall, sus
pended by the mayor CT Corneaut ar
charges preferred by council. resign
ed from the department.
Mrs. Frank Perrine, 30, was killed
by a train at Mt. Vernon when =
horse she was driving became fright
ened and ran on the track.
Professor c. F. Hill will resign as
school superintendent at Osborn to
become superintendent OF the Logan
County Chlldren's home.
Indefinite suspension Of the Toledo
branch of the German-American ALI
ance was voted unanimously at a
meeting of the organization.
r. H. Lamphere, mayor of Bryan.
IS cited to appear before the dis
trict attorney on the charge that h6
tore down liberty loan sign.
Mrs. Amanda E. Fisher died a;
Findlay alter she had taken quan
tty CT drugs. She left q note sayin?
that che had worried for 30 years.
Adju5ant General Wood announced
that the state will give service med
ais TO the :.nnC Ohio national guards
men who served at the Mexican boz
| der.
DR.. D. J. jenkins, 45, was killed a,
his home in Broadway, Union county
when his acetylene lighting plant
which he was cleaning in his DaCE
yard, exploded
Thous2 Ids OF men were thrown out
Of employment by the closing Of u
| Of the 33 mills OF :he Trumbull Steel
company near Warren, owing to the
shortaT3 of freight cars.
w. w. Durbin of Kenton lCunche>
his boom fer the Democratic nomina
tion fer congress in Marion, I'll
home town of Congressman John 4
| Key, who is now serving his thir
term.
F. Forest Atha, a brakeman, sueI
the Big Four Railroad company TO-
| 5000, alleging that his neck wa,
broken four mCnths ago in the CON
panys yards at KentCn. Atha claim.
ne can net move his head.
NJ. c. Barber, Y, is dead of ape
plexv. He was one of Cantons best
known business men. He was !
brother-in-law of President William
Mckinley, his wife having been tht
sister Of Mrs. Mckinley.
At Columbus Mrs. Cecella Alberry
"a, is near death from two bulIe'
wounds above her right ear SUSTAINED
when her husband, Ivan Alberry, q
an express messenger, shot her in !
fit Of rage. it is said Alberry is Ut
der arrest.
Former President Taft visited Cam,
Sherman and presented a stand C.
colors to the Three Hundred ant
Thirt;eth infantry, composed of Cir
cinnati and southern Ohio selects, Oh
behalf of the Ohio Society of Ma
flower Descendants.
Firemen carried Two women ant
five moN down ladders from a burn
ing room!n2 house at Toledo. Twent!
others, almost trapped by the flame;
rushed through the fire. Scvera
wore injured slightly. A gas explc
sion in the basement started the Ire
Peter Mckinney, Is, escaped dealt
after having been for 20 minutes i!
contact with II 900 volts Of electric
lty. He was shining a pole at Clevc
land to win q bet when the accideE
occurred. His escape was due to HI:
hanging clear Of ground connection;
Arrest Of Harry Hcnne, leweler c
Troy, on the charge of ass ault, wa,
caused by G. r. Thomas, attornes
HeEne Is charged with striking tt
plaintiff when he went into Henne
lace Of business TO collect a note
II counter claim Thomas is accuse;
Of threats to stab and shoot the de
fendant.
Bucyrcs industrial plants will ~
converted into night schools for re.
istered men who wish to fit them
selves for special work in the arm,
Rev. Julian Mayer CT near Port
land. Ind, has been appointed paste
Of st. Joseph's Catholic church il
Wapakoreta, succeeding Rev. w!
liam Ross, deceased.
Citizens of Vaughnsvllle and CT
lumbus Grove visited the grain elev,
Tor Of D. r. Risscr at Vaughrsyill
and tackled flag to the bui!G'I,
Riser, who is alleged to have ma .