NEWS EXCERPTS
|
Source: Norwich Courier (Norwich, CT) Vol. XI
Issue: 49 Page: 3
Dated: Oct. 21, 1807
From a gentlemen just from Ohio,
intelligence of considerable importance has been received:
That the Potawattomie, Winnapow, and other Indians, to the number of
nine hundred, have assembled at Greenville, on Mad river, Ohio.
The Colonel of the militia of that part went to them for the purpose
of ascertaining their object and numbers. The Indians refused
to give him any satisfaction on the subject. He then went to
the prophet, and told him if he did not, he should inform the
government of his country. He replied, "I care not a d___n for
you or the government of your country; I can blow you off the earth,
like sand from my hand." Six hundred of the Kentucky militia
had crossed the Ohio at Limestone commanded by General Scott;
and fifteen hundred Ohio militia were required to march for the
purpose of dispersing them.
It was reported at Chillicothe, that seven thousand
Indians had crossed the Lakes & that a number of British agents were
among them, and it was inpposed the former were waiting until
joined by these others, when it was expected they would attack the
whites. - Lexington Telegraphe |
|
Source: North American and United States
Gazette
Dated: July 27, 1864.
Simpson Albright, of Arcanum, Ohio, has seven sons in the army.
Some, having served three years, have re-enlisted
(Graciously contributed by Nancy Hannah) |
Source: St. Albans Daily
Messenger (St. Albans, Vt.) Page 2
Dated: Monday, June 19, 1871
There is to be a grand pioneer celebration at Greenville, Ohio,
on the 4th of July. The sensational feature of the celebration
will comprise the interesting ceremony of the reinterment of the
remains of two little girls who were tomahawked and scalped by the
Indians in the vicinity of the stockade at Greenville in the year
1812. The remains have just been exhumed, and are in a
remarkable state of preservation, the skulls and larger bones being
entire and comparatively solid. For this remarkable
reinterment a dozen little misses have been selected as pallbearers,
and other arrangements are being perfected to make this feature of
the occasion notable and memorable. |
|
Source: North American and United States
Gazette
Dated: July 27, 1864.
Simpson Albright, of Arcanum, Ohio, has seven sons in the army.
Some, having served three years, have re-enlisted.
(Graciously contributed by Nancy Hannah) |
|
Source: The Milwaukee Sentinel
Dated: January 16, 1873
An
extensive fire is now raging at Greenville. It commenced in the St.
Charles Hotel, located in the middle of the village. Several large
buildings and mills were destroyed at midnight. General alarm is
given. Meadville sends her fire companies by special train. The
fire is increasing. The loss cannot be estimated yet.
(Graciously contributed by Nancy Hannah) |
|
Source: The Globe
Dated: August 26, 1880
The most impudent murderer who has recently
gone to heaven by way of the gallows was Monroe Robertson, who was
hanged at Greenville, Ohio, last Friday, for the murder of his
father-in-law. He killed a man in Maryland, and another in Kansas.
During the war he was connected with a band of guerrillas, and
frequently boasted that he had killed seven colored men in one day.
Before going to execution he accused his 12-year-old child of having
sworn his life away. He cursed his neighbors on the scaffold, and
made a rambling speech, in which he told his auditors that he
expected to meet them in heaven.
(Graciously contributed by Nancy Hannah) |
Source: Cincinnati Daily Gazette
(Cincinnati, OH) Page 1
Dated: Thursday, Sept. 2, 1880
REVIVING WAR MEMORIES.
Reunion of the 94th Ohio Volunteers at Greenville - A Large
Attendance.
Special Dispatch to the Cincinnati Gazette
GREENVILLE, O., Sept. 1 - The ninth reunion of the 94th O. V.
I., which participated in the battles of Perryville, Stone River,
Chickamauga, the Atlantic campaign, the march to the sea, and the
battle of Bentonville, N. C., was held here to-day, with the largest
attendance the regiment has ever had a reunion.
Upon arrival of the train from the East
they formed in procession and marched to Music Hall, where they were
welcomed in a well timed speech by C. M. Anderson, which was
replied to by Capt. G. W. Wilson, of London, O. After
several short speeches and a general hand shaking, the line was
formed and marched to City Hall, where an elegant and substantial
dinner had been prepared for the ex-soldiers. After doing full
justice to the v___d_, and upon returning to Music Hall, the
organization was called to order by Maj. W. H. Snider, of
Logansport, Ind., President, who stated the first business was to
fix the time and place of next reunion, whereupon Cincinnati was
made the place, and time to be the same time that the State reunion
should be held. Capt. Kyle, of Company H, now of
Cincinnati, was elected President; Capt. Stewart, of Clark
County, J. G. McPherson, of Greene County, H. N. Arnold,
of Darke, and Alex Haywood, of Miami, were elected Vice
Presidents; J. E. Shellenberger, Corresponding Secretary;
G. W. Perry, Recording Secretary, and J. A. Hivling,
Treasurer. Upon motion of Capt. Wilson, C. H.
and R. S. Frizell, sons of the late J. W. Frizell,
first Colonel of the regiment, were made honorary members of the
society. The young gentlemen, in a few remarks, returned their
thanks for the honor. After adjournment a procession was
formed and marched to the cemetery, where the graves of their
comrades of the 94th were decorated. The vets were well
pleased with the reception Greenville gave them, and gave a vote of
thanks for their kind treatment. |
|
Source: Bangor Daily Whig & Courier
Dated: September 10, 1881
Dr. George W. Bookwalter, of Ansonia,
Ohio, was arrested yesterday, with about $550 in counterfeit $2.50
and #500. gold pieces in his possession.
(Graciously contributed by Nancy Hannah) |
Source: Critic-Record
(Washington, (DC), (DC) Issue: 4316 Page 1
Dated: Dec. 23, 1882
COLONEL FITZGERALD ARRIVES
In Greenville, Ohio, to Testify Against Prichard That Worthy
Ships the Town, Forfeiting His Bail - The Colonel Goes on to
Kentucky.
Special Dispatch to The Evening Critic.
GREENVILLE, OHIO - Dec. 23 - Arrived here this morning
in answer to a summons to attend the trial of the State of Ohio vs.
Benjamin F. Pritchard, for forgery and obtaining money on
false pretenses. Pritchard was here yesterday, saying
he would be on hand, trying to raise some of the funds he had put up
as bail. Last night he jumped the town and has escaped,
Yesterday
His Bail Was Forfeited in Court, where several
indictments await him. Officers are in hot pursuit, and a
reward is offered for his capture. More than a dozen of the
victims of his forgeries are here from this county to testify
against him.
I leave here this afternoon for Kentucky to confront
that misguided victim of one of Pritchard's forgeries, when
he (Pritchard) caused to make the affidavit against me.
Pritchard did it to.
Prevent My Being Here to Testify, and when he
learned last night that I was expected, he skipped, and officers are
in hot pursuit.
N. W. FITZGERALD. |
|
Source: Fayetteville Observer (Fayetteville,
NC
Dated: July 18, 1895
The forgeries of Banker Z. T. Lewis, of
Ansonia, Ohio, will amount to at least $200,000. The commissioners
of every county in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, and West Virginia, are
busy examining bonds, on which they loaned money to Lewis, and in
the majority of cases the paper has been found to be worthless.
Lewis played no favorites. A year ago he forged his brother’s name
to a mortgage for $3,000 and made a pauper of him. He drained his
mother’s purse and made victims of all his relatives who had ready
money or property.
(Graciously contributed by Nancy Hannah) |
|
Source: The Daily Inter Ocean
Dated: Dec. 7, 1888
The
most sensational developments are made at Greenville in connection
with the trial of the Darke County Treasury. Testimony today is
that Ex-Treasurer Simon, who is now serving a term in the
penitentiary, at one time previous to the last robbery of the vaults
had gone to Toronto, taking $107,000, all the funds there were, but
that he weakened within four days, and returned with all the money,
and that his friends, or pals, prevented an exposure.
(Graciously contributed by Nancy Hannah) |
|
Source: The Evening Post
Dated: June 17, 1895
Fire broke out at 10:30 last night in the rear
of Mozart’s store. The flames quickly spread to adjoining buildings
and soon the heart of the business center was ablaze. The fire was
the work of incendiaries and in the excitement thieves looted the
town. Two persons were injured they are:
Charles Dalrymple, of the Mozart store, and Dell
Daugherty, a member of the city fire department. The latter’s
injuries are on the head.
(Graciously contributed by Nancy Hannah) |
|
Source: The Daily Inter Ocean
Dated: June 23, 1896
A man giving the name of William
Willard was arrested Sunday night by Officer Hiott
of the East Chicago avenue police station. He was found sleeping in
a car at the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul yards, near Chicago
avenue. Yesterday morning Justice Kersten imported a
fine of $10 upon the man for disorderly conduct, and as he had no
money he was sent to the Bridewell. During the afternoon he said he
was from Greenville, Ohio, where he was wanted on the charge of
assault with intent to kill.
About a month ago, he said, while attempting to board a
train at Greenville, he became involved in a quarrel with the
conductor, during which he stabbed him with a large pocketknife. He
was arrested, given a hearing before the justice of the peace, and
held to the Criminal Court. Two weeks ago last Friday, he says, he
and another prisoner broke jail by filing the iron bars which were
across a window and escaped. He did not divulge the name of the
other man, but said he left him in St. Louis.
(Graciously contributed by Nancy Hannah) |
|
Source: The Indiana State Journal,
Dated: Wednesday, September 28, 1898.
Sept. 24. E. C. Murphy, of Sidney, was
lodged in jail today in default of $1,000. bonds for forging a note
for $171 on Eli Heeler of near Ansonia, Ohio. The
forger was detected by spelling the name Ely.
(Graciously contributed by Nancy Hannah) |
Source: Plain Dealer (Cleveland,
OH) Page 1
Dated: July 22, 1902
SUICIDE AN OHIO WOMAN.
Body of a Greenville Nurse Idenfied After More than a Year.
NIAGARA FALLS, Ont., July 21. - On June 23, 1901,
the body of a young woman was found in a room at the Parkside inn on
the Canadian side of the river. A bottle which had contained
morphine was found on the bureau. The remains, which were
carefully embalmed, remained unidentified until today, when they
were recognized by relatives is those of Lucille Charter, a
nurse of Greenville, O. The body was buried at Drummondville
today. |
Source: Plain Dealer (Cleveland,
OH) Issue: 214 Page: 1
Dated: Aug. 1, 1904
Greenville Resident Gets a Cecil Rhodes Scholarship
SPECIAL TO THE PLAIN DEALER
RICHMOND, Ind., July 31. - George E. Hamilton of
Earlham college, this city, and a resident of Greenville, O., has
been chosen by the committee of Indiana college presidents as the
Indiana man to whom is to be awarded. Hamilton will be allowed
to go to Oxford for three years, beginning September next. The
scholarship is worth $1,500 annually.
Hamilton is a junior in Earlham and is working
his way through school. He made his showing on good
scholaristic knowledge combined with training in athletics and love
for outdoor live. |
Source: Times-Picayune (New
Orleans, LA) Page 2
Dated: Mar. 29, 1920
Dayton, O., March 28 - Several persons
were reported killed and a dozen or more badly injured in a storm
which struck near Greenville, O., shortly after 8 o'clock tonight.
The storm centered about four miles west of Greenville. Wires
are down and traction service has been cut off. |
Source: Lima News
Dated: Oct. 16, 1968DARKE COUNTY COMMUNITY BUILDINGS RAZED
BY FIRE
Arsonia . . . . A multiple fire early today destroyed a plastics
plant, bank, flower shop and Junior Chamber of Commerce Hall in this
Darke County community of 1000. The fire raged through a three
story building and a two story annex, that housed the C. and M.
Molding Co., Citizens Bank Co., the flower shop and the J. C. Offices
causing damages estimated at $800,000. The records and money in the
bank were protected by a steel vault. The fire was believed to
have started in a storage room of the plastics plant , although the
cause was not immediately determined. Fire departments from Ansonia,
Greenville, Versailles ,Union City, Rossburg and Arcanum fought the
blaze. There were no injuries. " Its a real bad fire and you can spell
that with capitol letters. ", said W. O. Burns, a dispatcher at
the Ansonia Fire Dept "There's an army of men out there fighting the
fire'" " The only thing left is the four walls of the building " Burns
said " It was one of those built a hundred years or so ago. Smoke was
a big problem and also not knowing where the fire would creep to." The
fire temporarily interrupted telephone service to the community |
|
