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The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-11-14
TeIeoraphers' strike Called OF.

Cincinnati, O.-The strike of the
commercial telegraph operators is a
thing of the past, and. although the
knights of the key had the warm SYM
pathy of many supporters, the strike
itself will go down into history as a
failure. A vote was taken by the Gin
cinnati local of the Commercial Teleg-
raphers of America, and the majority
ruling, the men will return to work as
soon as places can be made for them
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-11-14
EVERY MAN REFUSED TO RUN,
So Five Voters Wrote Their Choice
For Mayor on Ballots.

Columbus, 0.-Efforts 10 secure a
candidate for mayor in the town Of
billiards, in" this county, proved I'M
availing prior to the election. Every
citizen approached by the party lead
ers firmly declined to permit the use of
his name. AS a consequence when the
ballots were printed, the space assign
ed 10 mayoralty candidates was left va
cant. At the election five men wrote
in the name of D. K. Hamilton on
their ballots and he has been formally
declared elected. Now the burning
question is whether he will accept the
place and perform the duties apper-
tanning thereto, At the present writing
he is too angry to discuss the matter
CALMLY
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-11-14
Had No Use for Jockey Pants"

John Sharp Williams is extremely
careless about his dress and does not
care about fine clothes on anyone else.
In recent campaign he offered his
services to the Democratic speakers
bureau and was sent north to help
out a congressional nominee. When
he returned to headquarters and was
piled with questions he said: Don't
you know that fellow came down to
meet me in a pair Of fashionable rid
ing breeches and started to go around
with me with them on. just up and
told him that if he wanted TO go TO
congress he had better take off those
Jockey pants. After he left the blamed
things off we got along all right. -
Chicago Tribune.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-11-14
Five Killed in Boiler EXPLOSION.

Steubenville, O,-Through the ex.
plosion of boiler on a narrow gauge
engine at the Labelle Iron Works, five
men were killed The dead are: En-
gineer Harry Andrews, aged %; Engi
neer Charles Reed, aged %; Engineer
William Smith, aged 40; Dan O'Brien
aged 80, and William Scott, aged 35
TIponGollowing were fatally injured by
thSorrespondendbris: William Carnahan
III kSnfeJ oa.uels and james Edwards
p he explosion wrecked part of the
open hearth plant, and another engine
standing in front of it.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-11-14
Wheat Acreage Is. Small.

Columbus, O.-The state crop report
Of November, issued by the state board
of agriculture, indicates q short wheat
crop for the harvest of 1908 in Ohio,
even though the conditions for the
growth of the crop should be unusu-
ally good. The acreage sown is only
SO per cent. of that sown for the har-
vest Of 1907. This is the lowest wheat
area in years. Corn prospect, SO per
cent. Glover seed, AZ per cent. Rye
condition, IS per cent. Buckwheat, 81
per cent. Potatoes, total yield, $685.,
391 bushels.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-11-14
Will Run Wide Open.

Logan, O.-After the hottest fight
known in this county, Thurness, the
democratic saloon candidate, was elect
ed by 70 votes. Shively, dem, was
elected marshal. The county generally
is democratic. Circulars were issued
by each party making and denying
startling accusations of graft Thur.
ness is said to stand for wide-open
town
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-11-14
Praised Eduar Allan Poe,

When H. G.. Wells, the English nov
elist was in Boston he praised Poe
at a dinner. Il think hardly of your
New England writer's" he said, for
their contempt of Poe. | shall never
be able to forget that Emerson called
him that jingle man To-day thou
sand read Poe where one reads EN-
erson, and not to know Poe's work is
rather a disgrace. There is little
inn at home. 1t is rather poorly
conducted little inn. The landlady
gets every visitor to write something
about it in kind of autograph album
that she keeps on her drawing room
table. One visitor wrote in the al
bum many years ago: 'Quoth the
raven The landlady did not un-
derstand that quotation. She was not
well up in Poe. And ever since that
time she has shown the cryptic line
to every guest, entreating him to tell
her, il he can, it's meaning. But the
guests are always too polite to tell
her. They pretend they do not know
And hetee, wear after year, TO every
x1sE.oA toWnshi1, the poor 2andlady 2S,g5ll,s.,
Tape "
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-11-14
Gamblers Buy a Boat.

Marietta, 0.-Gamblers here pur-
chased a large houseboat, which they
will anchor out in the Ohio river with
the intention of defying Mayor-eIect
Mckinney, who declares he will stop
all public gambling. They purchased
the boat before o'clock in the morn
ing, routing the owner out of bed 10
get ahead of competitors.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-11-14
WIN ReoinIif. Are,.,

Sandusky, O.-Dr. John S. McLeIand,
Erie county coroner at the time of his
disappearance last April. returned to
his home In this city. He says he was
discouraged and decided to begin life
anew in the west. He will now begin
life all over again in Sandusky.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-11-14

In the opinion OF Lyman E. Cooley,
Of Chicago, one of the greatest en-
gineering authorities of the country,
the practicability of carrying the big
inland water highway to successful
completion depends upon the mastery
Of the middle Mississippi between st.
Louis and Cairo. The total distance of
the projected continuous navigable
channel from Lake Michigan, at Chi
cago, to the Eads jetties, in the Gulf
of Mexico, is 1925 miles, and the fall
is 579 feet from the lake level to the
Gulf level.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-11-14
AGED Counle Killed.

Ashtabula, O.-Charles Frary and
his wife, an aged couple, OF SaybrOok,
O., were killed by Lake Shore pas
senger train near here. They were
driving home and were struck when
crossing the track. Both FTary and
his wife were over 80 years Of age.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-11-14
Eiqht Weeks Auonv,

Marion, O.-After eight weeks of IN
told suffering, during which time the
flesh fell from her bones. Mrs. George
GARNER, S5, died at her home, near
Richwood. September 13. while try
ing to start fire with kerosene. Mrs.
Carmer's clothing caught fire.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-11-14
SON Killed Rv \ Train

Youngstown, O.-As the election re-
turns were coming in showing that j..
c. Maloney had been elected on the
board of public service, his son, Clay
ton Maloney. &c, was run down by d
train and fatally injured. He was driv-
ing across the tracks when caught. No
hope for his recovery.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-11-14
Bond Issue Annroved.

Columbus, O.--It is apparent that
the proposition for the issuance of ST..
100000 in bonds for the abolition OF
grade crossings has carried by safo
margin. This is only the city's shara
for the immense undertaking, and be.
fore the work is completed it is 5e,
lieved that another large amount will
be used in the improvements.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-11-14
For comuanv.

Strolling into grocer's shop the
other day, a little boy asked for half a
pound of margarine. He was being
served, and>the shopman was about to
wrap the margarine up in paper when
the lad exclaimed: Please, sir, my
muver wants to know if yerl stamp
Q COW on It, COS we'rc having cum,
p'ny."-London Farm and Home.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-11-14
Orchards Insneetor Quits.

Columbus, O.-Charles W. M. w.
Mally, who for the last year has been
chief state inspector of orchards and
nurseries under the state board of ag,
liculture, has rendered his resignation
and will return to South Africa, where
he was formerly engaged in similar
work under the British government.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-11-14
Crushed BY the Wheel.

Gallipolis, O.-Charles Coleman, q
fireman on the passenger steamer Ia
coma, was crushed and killed whila
oiling the wheel shaft, near Millers-
port. The body fell into the river and
has not been recovered. Coleman's
home was in Cincinnati
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-11-14

While the argument is made by the
champions of the inland waterway
PROJECT that river regulation is rats
regulation and that the improvement
Of the great waterways of the coun-
try will do more to regulate freight
charges than all the interstate COM
merce laws that can be enacted, prac-
tical railroad men declare that fur
ther lowering of railroad freight rates
is really impracticable. They point
out that with the great rail systems of
the country operating to their fullest
capacity they are earning only fair
return on the capital invested. Fur
ther reduction in railroad charges they
maintain, cannot be made while the
outlay for maintenance and operation
remains at the present figure.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-11-14

est outlay for artificial improvement
of the Mississippi would be neces-
sary. The distance between those two
points Is 764 miles. All of the big en-
gineering feats will have to be ac-
complished within that territory. If
a stable channel of IA feet can be
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-11-14
Three DWELLINGS Robbed

st. Mary's, O.-Three dwellings, were
broken into during the night and Walu,
ables to the amount of $1,000 were
taken. The houses are but one block
apart. D. F. Mooney, an attorney. lost
a diamond studded watch; Albert Hers
ing, $500, and Albert Durbin, $500.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-11-14
Nenk Rroken nn the nrlIrn.

Toledo, O.-Albert Traut "a, of
Sandusky, was caught under a cable
when it was being wound over a drum
at the Toledo Salvage Co.'S plant ami
instantly killed. His neck was broken.
His body was being wound around the
drum
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-11-14
Yenarnen chIoroformed AGENT.

Upper Sandusiy, Own. Ropp,
agent Of the Ft. w. & H. V. road here,
WAS chloroformed by yeggmen while
asleep in his office. The safe was ran.
sacked and 800 in cash and 500 rail,
raod tickets were taken by the
thieves, who escaped.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-11-14
EiIed in smnrenne cnnrt

Columbus. O.-The petition in error
in the case of Elizabeth Day and
others against Anna c. Cosgrove, in
volvtng the title to certain lands in
Columbus. Hamilton county, was filed
In the supreme court.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-11-14
Bv Twelve Votes.

Lima, O.-The official count showed
the election of Fred c. Becker, dem., as
mayor. over MoComb. rep, by IL votes.
The democrats also retained control
of the board Of public service by elect
ing two of the three members.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-11-14
Railroads Reach Limit.

During the last decade the internal
commerce of the United States has in
creased more than 100 per cent, while
the railroad transportation facilities
have increased only 25 per cent, and
are now practically at standstill.
All of the railroad transportation ex-
perts admit that the big transconti-
mental lines are being worked to their
fullest capacity. Millions of bushels
of grain could not be moved last year
because of the railway congestion, and
the west suffered coal famine be-
cause cars were not available and the
limit of transportation had been
reached in other ways.
James J. Hill has pointed out that
not only has the limit been reached in
the movement of freight, but even
should cars, locomotives and tracks
be supplied, there is now and is bound
to be for years to come dearth OF
terminal facilities. Mr.. Hill has esti-
mated that the cost of constructing
sufficient railway lines to meet the i'm.
luCuldIS u6llduuS lOI IlONlu5 IhO NOAA
merce of the country would require an
outlay of $5,O0O,OOO,000. This esti-
mate, he declares, gives little or no
consideration to the future. Mr.. Har-
riman a short time since announced
that in order to meet transportation
requirements the gauge of the railways
of the country and the rolling stock
would have to be doubled.
Some time ago." Mr.. Hill said, Il
asked a real estate man what 1t would
cost to get tier of blocks, one of the
narrowest, from the Harlem river to
Thirty-third street, New York. He
came back in a week and said that
$3.50, 100000 would not buy it. That
means that for terminals alone 1T
would cost $165,OOO a mile for every
mile from Chicago to New York be-
fore the line was built. The railroads
can't pay rent on such high-priced
terminal property.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-11-14
Demand Mclosedn Town

Marietta. o.-Benj. Mckinney, ind,
defeated Theo. F. Davis, for mayor by
upward of 500. Remainder of ticket in
doubt, but majority of Independents
probably elected. The lid and public
gambling werc independents issue.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-11-14

The drainage canal is approximately
36 miles in length, and as completed is
available from end to end as a navi-
gable waterway, capable of accommo-
dating vessels drawing 20 feet of wa
ter. The cost of the canal has been
approximately S5O,OOO,0OO. All the out
lay has been borne by Chicago as a
municipality, but it is understood that
for commercial purposes the city is
willing to give the national govern
ment navigation control of it.
For six miles the canal follows the
Chicago river to it's head. Beyond that
point it runs for % miles through
earth and rock excavation to the Des-
PLANES river. 1t continues along the
waterway for eight miles. In order to
make the drainage canal a CONNER
cial waterway capable of floating ves-
sells of large tonnage the engineers
Of the project expended $1S,000,000
more than would have been necessary
for sanitary purposes only. The canal
would have met all Of the drainage
and natural watershed necessities at a
considerably less depth than the %
feet at which it was carried out The
objective of the creators of the canal
was not only to dispose of Chicago's
sewage by diverting it from Lake
Michigan, where it threatened con-
tamination of the city water supply,
but the establishment of a navigable
waterway from the lake to the Mis-
sissippi via the Illinois river.
1t is from Lake Joliet that the next
step in the great lake to Gulf high
way is expected to be taken. The ter
ritory between Joliet and Grafton,
above st. Louis, has been closely sur
veyed and series of pools or artificial
lakes has been mapped out to mark
the levels along what is projected as
the beginning of the great Fourteen
feet through the valley water course.
The first level will be the section be-
tween Joliet and Utica, a distance of
81 miles, with fall of &C feet In this
defiance it is estimated that three
pools, dams or locks will be necessary
and that a 14-foot waterway easily
can be maintained with a width of
300 feet.
Between Utica and the mouth of the
Illinois river, where it empties into the
Mississippi river, at Grafton, is 227
miles. The bed of the Illinois
river along this distance is
between six hundred and nine hundred
feet wide. Along the route the federal
government has already completed
several locks and dams. To secure a
14-foot depth here hydraulic dredging
averaging seven feet will be neces-
sary. This will necessitate the exca.
vation of 1O0,0O0,OO0 cubic yards of
soft earth, the estimated cost of which
has been fixed by engineers at ST.
100000.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-11-14
Saved Matron's Life.

Columbus. O-Bertha Howard. col,
ored inmate of the pen1tentiary,, as
Saulted Matron Wells with a pair OF
scissors, making an ugly cut. The
negress was overpowered by other in
mates, saving the matron's life.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-11-14
Aearse Crushed Him.

Cleveland, O.-William Robinson.
aged IS, driver of hearse, was killed
IN front of st. Catherfne's church
when his horses ran away and upset
the hearse, which fell ON him.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-11-14
rmo Lives cruahed out.

Ironton, O.-Arthur Bailey, 26. ana
John Keiser, "a, were killed by a fail
of slate in coal mine at the Law,
renee furnace. ten miles from this
city. They were crushed by 20 tons
OF debris,
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-11-14

merous counselors who so freely offer
their gratuitous recommendations
form a guarantee Of safety is another
question. It is possible that confusion,
rather than knowledge, is the most
prominent result of their Efforts
London Hospital
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-11-14

The power of fortune Is confessed
only by the. miserable, for the happy
impute all their success to prudence or
merit. Dean Swift.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-11-14
Outlay Of $4,000, 600.

Already start on this lakes to the
Gulf waterway has begun. The Chi
gcago drainage canal, extending from
the shore of Lake Michigan at the Chi
cago river to point between Lock
port and Joliet, ILL.,, is regarded as the
initial stretch of the great highway
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-11-14
Medical Advice.

The public nowadays has no need
to complain of lack of advice on med
ical problems. But whether the MI
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-11-14

On the plea
of self-defence
merchants and
of the Middle
West have CIV
en- impetus to
a movement
for a great in
land waterway
system that
promises TO re-
main in the
forefront of
national af-
fairs for years
to come. Prac-
tically every
section of the
country not ac-
tually within
the seaboard
zone has TAX
en- up the agi-
tation for a
great inland
waterway and
is likely to
continue the
noO1naiUn I,ntil
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-11-14


the national government is commit
FED to policy that will place any
Inavigable stream of considerable di-
tmensions in touch with ocean COM
Snerce.
President Roosevelt is expected to
make a strong recommendation in his
coming annual message on the sub
bect of a lakes to the Gulf system"
HOf water routes. Such an undertaking
las at present mapped out would equal
n magnitude the construction of the
Panama canal. The cost of the two
projects, it is estimated, would be
11bout the same. Advocates of the in
Eand waterways assert that they would
Ibe of infinitely greater benefit to the
United States than the canal, and that
Without comprehensive system of
internal marine highways this nation
would be reaping only fragment of
Ehe great commercial prestige to
which the completion of the Panama
canal entities it.
Residents, officials and leaders Of
: thought in 18 states of the union are
yready nightly interested in the in
End waterways agitation. A national
commission to measure the benefits
bof the project is likely to be appointed
Awithin short time. The recent trip
zof the president through the Missis-
Rsippi valley, eliminating in his ad-
Hdress before the Lakes to the Gull
deep Waterways convention, is re-
sgarded through the central section of
tine country as committing the present
administration to the 14-foot channel
project. The annual national Rivers
and Harbors congress that is held in
Washington just before the regular
fail session of congress begins is re-
ded upon to keep public interest arous-
Ted as to the necessity of the under
taking.
lChicaco Canal Start.
Fourteen feet through the valley"
VIII be the slogan with which the ad-
fvocates of the inland waterways i'm
proVement projects will press their
claims before congress. They main,
tain that all Of the statistics and argu-
'ments are on their side and that the
present condition of affairs in the COM
merciai world is an unerring indica-
ton that the country's future develop.
ment depends not alone upon the ex-
Dansion of railroad mileage, but upon
the improvement of the great water
highways of the country.
WHAT'S being urged by the business
dnterests of the great central country
as a settled policy of the Improvement
that Wilt begin at Lake Michigan and
terminate at the delta of the Missis-
sippi. It was for the Inauguration of
this settled national policy that the
recent convention was held in Mem
phis. This two days convention wound
up the presidents tour of the Missis-
sippi valley.
Outlay Of"$5o, 100000.
Already a start on thia Iakea IN tho
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-08-30

In CAN hardly be called business
when the banks Ia New
York are refusing 70 lend even at
high rate of interest what their bust
ness customers require, and the COM
mercial newspapers report "Com-
mercial paper dead " With Wall
Street in a panic and other signs Of
Republican trust prosperity falling,
perhaps some voters who have been
blinded to the real cause Of the in
creased cost of living will want the
tariffreyised that protects the trusts.
You can build up any sort OF Indus
try by means of protective tariff
which gives to those engaged in it q
monopoly, if you are willing to make
the public pay the cost of it. But
such industries ere burdens and
nuisances. Whenever tariff
schedule gives rise to monopoly il
should be reduced or repealed, be.
cause 1t is an outrage upon con,
sumers.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-08-30
0NANCOCK NEGROES SURRENDER.

Ozzie and Burton, the negroes who
figured so conspicuously recently in the
race disturbances, were in hiding in
Richmond within "a hours after the
whites had begun their search for them.
They made their way there as fast as
they could travel from the Eastern
Shore and were given shelter by friends.
Burton and Conquest have since sur
rendered to the troops at Onancock, and.
with Uzzle, are in Norfolk's Jail.
Among the flood of comments in the
press the following from the Richmond
Evening Journal expresses the tenor of
the general public:
The Journal commends as beyond
praise the prompt action of Governor
swanson. He seems to sit in a con-
ming tower, looking all around the
States horizon Tor the weak spot, and
reaches it without delay. He goes In
person. He sees with his own ewes.
hears with his own ears He acts upon
the scene of trouble with all available
facts IN possession. His speech was
calm, dignified, reassuring. He was
master of the situation. Uuder his
wise guidance, seconded by the innate
sense of right which characterizes the
white people of the perturbed section.
peace will come, the guilty be punished,
and all will be well-until the war
amendments and the equality lie break
out in some fresh place.