The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-07-09

across the Pacific.
Francis G. Bailey, the president oi
the Export Shipping company of New
Jersey, who, together with his brother
Albert w. Bailey, Charles H. H. My
ers and Capt. Albert Oxley was placed
aboard the Norwegian steamer Ut
stein at Puerto CorteZ, Honduras, in
custody of Lieut., P. w. Beery of the
New York police department, made
his escape in small boat.
The Minnesota Republican conven.
tion nominated Jacob F. jacobson of
Madison for governor and adopted a
platform indorsing the work of the
Chicago convention and pledging the
party in Minnesota to continue the
work of railway regulation.
Count Zeppelin outdistanced all
world records for steerage balloons.
He remained in the air for IL hours
and traversed the greater part of
northern Switzerland, attaining an
average speed throughout of "a miles
an hour
4Ai D. oISCS WIG VI u
Fargo, n. D., school teacher, was
found strangled to death, gagged and
bound hand and foot with a clothes
line, in her apartments in a rooming
house in Chicago.
August Beltzner, aged 65, one of the
most prominent business men of
Joliet, ILL.,, was killed while resisting
two holdup men in his grocery store.
Wilbur F. Parker, a well-known real
estate man of st. Louis, committed
suicide.
The Idaho board of pardons COM
muted the sentence of Harry Orchard,
who was under sentence to hang for
the murder of former Gov. Frank
Stuenenberg, to Imprisonment for life.
One man was killed, three were seri-
ously injured and a half-dozen were
hurt in railway collision at
Des Moines, la.
Thomas Hill, a well-known land
scape artist, committed suicide at his
home at the entrance of Yosemite
valley.
Lorenzo Dow Harvey, Phi. D., SUI
Derintendent of public schools and SUI
perintendent of the Stout Training
school OF Menomonie, Wis, was
elected president of the National Ed
lcation association at Cleveland.
twenty-five starving French sea-
men cast away on Antipodes island !
we're rescued by the British warship |
Pegasus.
Oliver P, Ensley of Indianapolis,
ormer county treasurer was indicted
N charge of embezzling $22,5OO.
Walter j. Bartnett of San Francisco
vas sentenced to ten years in the pen
tentiary for having hypothecated
onds and securities to the amount of
2O5,OOO belonging to the estate of
lllen M. Cotton, of which he was spe-
ial administrator.
Mae c. Wood, the Omaha woman
Tho sued Uniteu States Senator
homas c. Platt for divorce. was in
icted by a grand jury in New York
: charges of perjury and forgery.
The ESQ employees of the Remington
'pewriter works az Ilion, N. Y, re-
71ved $4,000 as the semi-annual
onus distributed by the company to
S employees.
Annie Wilson, nine years old, told
New York police court of sue
essfully committing more than so
lrglaries.
AffnPknH hNy hord Of Sn fxr
'vernment troops at Palomas, Mex.
o, small town in Chihuahua, killed
le rebel and wounded several 9TH
S. The revolutionists fled to the
pursued by the soldiers.
Mrs. Louisiana Hobbs Douglass, one
the numerous wives of the alleged
gus Lord" Oswald Reginald Doug.
SIS, was granted an absolute divorce
1m Lord" Douglass at Norfolk,
Two men were killed, and three
dly injured in the collapse of a liv- S
Y stable in Minneapolis. t
AT Friedrichshafen Count Zeppelin's Q
rship stood brilliantly the longest ?
d most searching test it has yet un-
rgone. 1t remained in the air for
hours and three-quarters, attaining G
average speed of 341s miles an hour +,
roughout y
In order to escape trial on, charge s.
being implicated in the robbery and u
ling of Frank Frorer, millionaire ii
nker of Lincoln, ILL.,, William Web. T
OF Springfield entered a plea of ri
Ilty to another charge of robbery n
was sentenced to the penitentiary. W
ieorge B. Mcclellan was declared 81
have been duly elected mayor of al
w York over w. R. Hearst, in 1905,
Justice Lambert, and by the JUS fc
rs orders the jury returned a yer. n,
t to that effect a
Judges Sanborn, Hook and Adams. 81
the United States circuit court at til
Paul, made an interlocutory de- 81
e whereby they temporarily sus- oV
I'd and enjoin the enforcement of T.
order of the interstate commerce Ell
omission which reduced the charge
certain railroad companies for the
1sfer of live stock from the termini ~,
heir roads in Chicago to the Union - -.
ok Yards from So to 81 per car. ~, W
he Swiss Aero clubs balloon Cog. 9.
has succeedei in crossing the ho
S. This fea. has often been at ~
ipted, but never before accom-.
he'd.
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