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The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-30
OHIO STATE NEWS
Latest Happenings of Interest Prepared for Our
Readers
FINAL ADJOURNMENT
BY Both Branches of Legislature Set
For May 9.

Columbus, O.-It was definitely de-
cided when the general assembly
Ehould adjourn sine die. The first day
of MAY will mark the end of actual leg
islation. and the final adjournment will
he taken Oh May 9. This action was
taken unanimously Ey both branches
of the law-makips body and is fixed.
The senate adopted a resolution fix
ing the recess date at May 4. and the
final adjournment May II. After tins
action had been taken it was found
mat Gov. Harris was engaged to de-
part for Washington to attend the Ma
tional Conference of Governors with
President Theodore Roosevelt, and that
IT would be impossible for him to sign
bills and resolutions acted upon tnat
day The object of the recess period
is TO give the clerks an opportunity to
enroll the bills passed in the last week
and y correct any mistakes made in
the hurry.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-30
LANDSLIDE BURIED
CANADIAN HAMLET
PART OF MOUNTAIN RUsHEs TO
THE RIVER AND TEARS PATH
OF DESTRUCTION.
SOME ALIVE UNDER
ROCKS AND EARTH
Thirty-one Lives Known To Be Lost
Disaster the Result of the Spring
Rains, Which Have Beer Melting the
Snow and Ice.

Ottawa, Ont, April 27.-An appall-
ing catastrophe occurred at daybreak
Sunday morning by which the little
French village of Notre Dame de la
Salette. on the Lievre river. a tribu.
tary of the Ottawa river, about 50
miles northeast of this city, was partial
ly destroyed by landslide. According
10 the latest estimates, 81 lives were
lest.
The place is remote from railway
and telcgraphic facilities, and what de-
tails of the occurrence are known TO
the outside world were brought by men
who left the scene Sunday morning
before all the bodies were recovered.
The death list may be even more ap-
FALLING. The Lisvre is a narrow can
yon-like stream flowing between tow
nring walls of clay which lies on low
CT strata of rock. Spring rains perco-
lating through the earth caused the
soapy mass to slide from the rock bed,
polished smoothly by glacial action.
The slide occurred without warning, a
piece of territory half mile long and
extending back a hundred yards from
the river, and on which were two dwell
ings, suddenly gave way and crashed
right across the river, completely block
ing the channel and overwhelming a
row of six houses and other buildings
on the opposite bank, situated at 2
lower altitude.
The. ground which slid away formed
sort of hill, about 100 feet higher
than the surrounding territory. OF the
known dead II bodies had been recov-
! cred at latest reports. but 30 collins
and corps of doctors and undertal1ers
left for the scene Sunday evening. In
several cases entire families were
wiped out almost instantly while
asleep in their beds. AS in all French
villages, practically all the families
are intermarried, so that nearly every
resident of the place has lost some rel
ative. The scenes among the sur
vivors of the catastrophe were heart
rending in the extreme, but work was
begun at once, with assistance from
the surrounding districts, in digging
out the bodies, some of which, how
ever, may never be recovered. The
stream is completely blocked by the
great mass of earth and the water
damned up, which is causing an i'm
mense flood, threatening further de-
struction along the river.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-30
PERSONAL.

William D. Haywood was dropped
from the employ of the Western Fed
Grafton of Miners.
Secretary of War Taft is preparing
to go to the Isthmus of Panama in
May.
Rev. Russell J. Wilbur, who left the
Episcopal church for the Catholic, was
deposed from the former by Bishop
Grafton of Fond du Lac. Wis.
A writ of habeas corpus was granted
at White Plains, N. Y, by Justice
Morschauser on application of Harry
K. Thaw.
Rev. DIR. Russell J. Wilbur, former
dean of the Chicago cathedral, left the
Episcopal church and entered the
Catholic church.
Ferd Warner, member of the house
of delegates of St. Louis, was convict,
ed of bribery by jury and sentenced
to serve two years in the penitentiary
William Cooke, husband of Grace
MacGoWan Cooke, the well-known au-
thoress, filed suit for absolute divorce
charging desertion.
Preliminary steps were taken for
the release of Harry X. Thaw from
the insane asylum by habeas corpus.
Gov. Deneen granted reprieve to
June IL to Herman Billik of Chicago,
condemned poisoner.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-30
CRIMINALS MEN OF SCIENCE.
To outwit Them Detectives Must
Make Use Of Modern Methods.

The methods employed by criminals
have improved" They have be.
come scientific. The criminal of to-
day handles chloroform, opium,
morphia, with all the eleverness of a
physician.
Again, the tools used by the modern
Jail bird are unrivaled masterpieces.
One amazing proof of the scientific
knowledge of the modern criminal and
his keenness in keeping abreast of
modern discoveries lies in the follow.
ing fact: Recently in Marseilles the
huge safe of a bank was rapidly
opened by means of a complicated ap-
paratus which had only been invented
by a prominent engineer ten months
previously!
But the detective also avails him
self of scientific discovery. Former
ly in cases of forgery, for instance a
drop Of water was placed on the
forged words. If the paper had been
scratched and its size removed the
water was Immediately sucked III; if
the paper had nor been scratched the
drop remained for awhile on the top.
This process was primitive and spoiled
the document.
Nowadays the suspicious paper is
photographed and on the proof the
marks of scratching are easily detect
ed by clear differences =, the color.
Photography is used also in the case
of forgeries made by means of chem
icals.
When heap of burned documents
is found in the fireplace thin sheets of
glass are inserted between the burned
papers. AS soon as one sheet is on the
glass it is rendered less brittle by
means of special liquid and it is
unfolded and photographed. The
process is repeated with every shees,
and after a few hours all the docu-
ments are easily read
A process formerly used for the
classification of blood stains consist.
ed in examining them under the mi.
croscope and from the appearance of
the red globules the investigators
would draw their conclusions as to the
nature of the blood. Unfortunately
this examination gave no result when
the blood stains were not recent.
To-day a more scientific method is
used. The stain is washed; a few
drops of the water used are poured
into tube containing some specific
serum from a rabbit inoculated with
human blood. When the addition OF
water produces in the serum a fine de,
posit and gives misty appearance
to the liquid one can be perfectly GER
tain that the blood stains were human
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-30
SIZE.
Huntino in Luxury.

Prince Demidoff, who has been stay.
ing at Khartum, has left for the south
on a long hunting expedition.
The prince, who is only 23, is &C.
companied by doctor, a chef and a
gentleman who is to operate a fully
equipped cinematograph apparatus,
which is to record the princes move
ments, especially when lion shooting.
A private steamer has been hired
at a cost of about G25 daily. The
hunters expect to be absent about six
months and intend to make their way
into the French Kongo and thence to
the Atlantic coast-Rhodesia Herald.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-30
Empress Taking the "Cure."

Under the name of Princess Strech
noff, the empress of Russia is staying
in a hotel at Rapallo trying to regain
her health, which has been shattered
by many anxieties, not to mention the
attempt to reduce her avoirdupois.
The omnipresent press correspondent
does not seem to have discovered the
poor lady's whereabouts, or, with I'M
common consideration, has refrained
from calling attention to this scene OF
her cure" But, though travelling in.
cognito, and an invalid at that, with a
numerous suite, 1t has been impossible
for Rapallo to keep the secret. Prob
ably since it has become known that
The lovely Czarina is on Italian soil q
sympathetic, If not inquisitive, throng
will be moving on the hotel where she
is in retreat. At least, Rapallo is now
quite fashionable, and there are great
days in store for the Modern hotel
when her majesty departs.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-30
NewsboYs Gave the Alarm.

Joliet, ILL.,, April 27.-Another mystic
rious fire even more serious in it's re-
suits than that Of three weeks ago
swept through a part Of the business
section of Joliet Sunday morning. re-
sulting in losses of over 100000 and
the complete destruction of Joilet's
largest department store, known as the
Boston store. Shortly after o'clock
Sunday morning three newsboys no
ticed smoke coming from the windows
on the fourth floor Of the Wiener
block, in which the Boston store is To-
Gated. The firemen on their arrival
found that the entire inside of the
building was a mass Of flames. The
blaze had apparently started near the
elevator shaft in the basement.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-30

Prince Demidoff, who has been stay.
ing at Khartum, has left for the south
on a long hunting expedition.
The prince, who is only %, is &C
companied by a doctor, a chef and a
gentleman who is to operate fully
equipped cinematograph apparatus,
which is to record the princes move
ments, especially when lion shooting.
A private steamer has been hired
at a cost of about G25 daily. The
hunters expect to be absent about six
months and intend to make their way
into the French Kongo and thence to
the Atlantic coast.-Rhodesia Herald
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-30
DEsPoNDENT MOTHER
browns Herself, But Fails to Take Her
Sons Life.

Norwalk, O.-Mrs. George lapel
aged 81, ended her life and attempted
to destroy her seven-year-old son, Har-
old, by drowning. She aroused the
child from his bed and told him to ac-
company her for a walk. Together
they went to the barnyard. in which iS
located we'll used for watering stock.
where she tied the lads arms with an
apron, and, grasping mis- hand tightly.
jumped, headlong into the well. The
water was only three feet deep, and
the boy freed himself and climbed out.
He aroused his father, who, with the
assistance of neighbors, took Mrs
lapel from the well, dead, DesponR
cncy due to i'll health was the motive.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-30
Irish Girls Excited.

The Irish debutantes this year are
having hard time, as King Edward
has decided that no Irish girl shall be
presented at court unless she has first
attended the balls at Dublin castle. As
the earl of Aberdeen is very unpopular
in Ireland and the Irish aristocracy
are boycotting the balls, the young
girls are to suffer if they cannot per
suade their parents to be friendly just
for their sakes to the lord lieutenant
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-30
Old Ex-Stave Dead,

Piuua, O.-Johnson Crowder, the
oldest of the original Randolph slaves,
is dead here, aged 100 years. Crowder
came to Ohio in 1916 with the rest Of
the Randolph contingent, and he was
cne of the few survivors who sued for
vast tracts cf land in Mercer and sur
rounding counties, which was said TO
have been given to the Randolph
slaves by their master. who set them
tree.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-30
PAINE MEASURE PASSES SENATE
Il Will Be a Law Save For the sigma
ture of Gov Harris.

Columbus, O.-The Paine bill, which
abolishes boards of public service and
boards of public safety placing the
entire matter covered by these two
boards directly in the hands Of the
mayer by giving him power to appoint
a public service director and one safe
ty director, passed the senate.
1t will now go to the house for con.
currence. 1t is believed the house will
concur.
This step in the direction of return.
Ing to the federal plan of government
has been fought by some of the poll.
ticians in the state. But it has won
and the governor will doubtless sign
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-30
HEALTH CONFERENCE CALLED.
Northern Ohio Township and Village
Boards to Meet in Cleveland.

Columbus, O.-The state board Of
health has arranged for a conference
between the board and the boards OF
health of townships and villages be-
low 5000 inhabitants in Northern Ohio
at Cleveland, June %.
President Palmer and DR.. PrObst,
secretary, were elected delegates to
the conference of state boards Of
health in Washington.
Petitions to allow sewage at New
Philadelphia to flow into the Tusca-
rawas river, and another for a similar
privilege with reference to the San
dusky river, were dismissed. pending
the establishment of sewage purifica-
ton plants.
Plans for a water supply with filtra'
tion plant for Jefferson, Ashtabula
county, were approved.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-30
kalser Travels in M-Iuhe y

Emperor William of Germany has
had his first experience in tube" To-
comotion. Accompanied by a numer.
GUS suite, he made the journey along
the entire length of the Berlin under.
ground railway for the purpose of in.
specting the newly opened suburban
extension and terminals At the last
station the kaiser had the pleasure of
admiring the interior decorations
made of majolica tiling from his own
factory at Cadinen Among the
orders which he distributed in honor
of the trip was one for the motorman
of the train in which he travelled.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-30

Paris Pattern No. 1850, All Seams
Allowed.-This jaunty shirt waist de-
veloped in heavy white linen, is made
on strictly tailor-made lines Four
small tucks on either shoulder stitched
nearly to the bust line, and the long
tuck either side of the center-closing
gives ample fullness to the front. The
back has box plat formed by two
outWard-turning tucks and the three
quarter length sleeves are the new
est shape. A neck and front band in
one, through which is slipped a small
tie of embroidery edging, completes
the front, and a removable chemisette
of the same or contrasting material
completes the model. The pattern is
in seven siZes-32 to Al inches, bust
measure. For 36 bust the waist re-
quires 37s yards of material 2L inches
wide, three yards 27 inches wide, two
yards SO inches wide, or 1B yard AZ
inches wide; one-half yard 20 or Il
inches wide, or three-eighths yard %
or AZ inches wide, extra. for chemts-
ette, and three-eighths yard of edging
31s inches wide to trim.
To procure this pattern send 10 cents
to Pattern Department" of this paper.
Write name and address plainly, and be
sure to give size and number Of pattern.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-30
NOOSSSNOSSOOSO
NEWSNOTES|
FOR THE
BUSY MAN
Most Important Happen
ings of the World
Told in Brief.
IN CONGRESS-.

Senators Piles and Beveridge
argued earnestly for four new battle
ships, the former urging that a fleet
be kept in the Pacific.
The house passed more than thou
sand pension bills.
Representative Lilley admitted to
the special house committee that his
charges against the Electric Boat com
pany were based on rumors.
Senator Piles of Washington pro.
posed an amendment to the naval bill
increasing from two to four the mum.
Der of new battleships to be author
lied An amendment to the bill was
adopted appropriating $7,OOO,OOO to be-
gin construction on the two battle,
ships authorized by the bill as it was
passed by the house.
The house adopted the senate joint
resolution authorizing the attorney
general to file suits against the Ore,
gon & California Railroad company
for the forfeiture of all or part OF
2,S00,000 acres of land grants in the
western part of Oregon.
President Roosevelt announced that
he would veto the naval appropriation
bill should the senate, as did the
house, fail to make any appropriation
for the two battleships which are au-
thorized in the measure. Consequent
ly Senator Hale gave notice that he
would propose an amendment appro-
priating $7,00O,O0O towards the con-
st:uction of those ships.
Speaker Cannon's resolution provid'
ing for an investigation of the paper
trust was adopted by the house by a
strict party vote. The speaker then
announced the committee of six to
conduct the inquiry, as follows: Mann
Nll.), Stafford (Wis.), Ryan IN. ",
Miller (Kan), Bannon (O), and Sims
(Tenn.).
President Roosevelt signed the en-
ployers' liability bill after Attorney
General Bonaparte had declared it
constitutional.
The house committee on banking
and currency voted to lay on the table
the financial bill offered by Represent
ative Vreeland of New York as subs
titue for the Aldrich bill. and decided
to report favorably the bill introduced
by Chairman Fowler, providing for a
currency commission.
The house by party vote upheld
Speaker Cannon's summary action In
SQuelching the filibusters.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-30

Columbus, O.-Attorney General FL
lis rendered an opinion to w. l.. David,
prosecutor of Hancock county, III
which he held that the new blind PEN
sion law was unconstitutional for the
same reason that its predecessor was.
Attorney General Ellis further says
that it would be a simple matter to
enact for the blind valid pension Law
containing the necessary provisions
that all those who benefit thereby
must be without means.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-30
Accounted For.

Naturally she turned to her husband
for information.
why are so many of the police
mentioned as plain clothes men?" she
asked.
II suppose" he answered, that
they're like the rest of US. 1t takes
all their pay to keep their wives from
being plain clothes women. n."-Phila
dolphia Ledger.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-30
GENERAL NEWS.

About 225 persons, mostly negroes,
we're killed and nearly 800 were in
Iured in a tornado that swept over
parts of Louisiana, Mississippi and
Alabama. Dozens of small towns
were wrecked.
The battleship feet sailed from Los
Angeles to Santa Barbara for a five
days stay.
Capt. F. 3. Hart, a Minneapolis at.
.orney who severely criticised the Min
nesota supreme court, was disbarred
for six months.
Mercy hospital in Big Rapids, Mich,
was destroyed by fire. All the pa
tients In the institution and the 40
sisters Of mercy were rescued unin-
jured.
Three vagrants expelled from Shaw
nee, Okla, fell of raft ana were
drowned in the. Indian river.
The business section Of Vergennes,
ILL.,, was wiped out by fire.
The Alberta government has issued
a warrant for the arrest of Capt. Sar-
bottle, who disappeared recently and
is said to be $1,000 short in his ac-
counts as collector of inland revenue
for that province.
Turkey conceded Italy's rights to es-
tablish post Offices in Turkish ter
ritory and the Italian squadron did not
sail for Asia Minor.
The grand jury in Kansas City re.
turned indictments against 142 actors,
managers and employees, of local play.
houses for violating the Sunday laws.
Striking high school students at
Maysville, KY, struck Superintendent
Clurgir with missiles while he was
trying to induce them to return to
their desks.
In town elections in Illinois the sa
looms won in sc places and the "drys'
In A. EG5It s-
Gold, silver and lead, valued al
$4,000, were found in an abandoned
pile of brick where stood an old
smelter at Argentine, Mo.
The board of aldermen Of Rockford
ILL.,, adopted a resolution providing for
an investigation into graft charges
against several members of their body
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-30

Cleveland, O.-The Mckinley home
in Canton has been donated to Bishop
Ignatius f. Horstmann, of the Cleve-
land Catholic diocese, to be used as
a non-sectarian hospital. 1T will be
open to everyone" Cleveland Catholic
authorities said. The home was
bought by Mrs. Rose Klorer, Of Can
ton, for $4,000. 1t will be known as
Mercy hospital.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-30
Two Men Commit Suicide.

Mansfield, O-Despondent on ao-
count of locomotor ataXia, with which
ne had been afflicted for IA years, Pc
ter G. Rissman, aged Al, shot himself
III the left temple, dying instantly at
the home of his sister, Mrs. John Mil
Tor. John Pershing, aged IS. we'll
known farmer, living four miles south
OF the city, in i'll health and despond.
ent on account of the death of his wife,
hanged himself in his barn.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-30

Marietta, ON a shotgun and re-
voIver duel a burglar who had en-
tered the home Of Mrs. Harriet Wyatt,
a wealthy widow at Amesville, and
was carrying off a sack of silverware
and jewelry, was wounded by Clar-
ence Slick, an 1S-year-old employe on
the farm. However, the burglar es-
capped, but bloodhounds are on his
trail,
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-30
Iudne Puah At Rest.

Columbus, O.-Judge John Murphy
Pugh, probably the oldest practicinS
lawyer in Ohio, died of paralysis at
his home in this city. He was born
in Truro township, this county Novem-
Der Z, 1923. For Is years he served
as judge of the probate court. where
he gained his title. Judge Pugh had
been actively engaged in the practice
Of law in this city and throughout the
state since 1851.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-30
Fall Nav Prove Fatal.

incinnati.-Richard H. Stone, 80.
oldest attorney of the Hamilton cour-
ty bar, having been admitted to prac-
tice sixty years ago, tripped and fell
down the steps leading to the cellar
in Herschede's jewelry store, fractur~
ing his skull. He was removed to the
hospital. 1t is feared his injuries will
DrOVe fatal
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-30
Andv Mada Good

Akron, O.-Andrew Carnegie fulfilled
his offer to Buchtel college made three
years ago to give $4,000 for science
hail on condition that an equal amount
should be raised by the college. The
college will build three-story chen-
istry laboratory at once.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-30
OBITUARY.

The duke Of Chaulnes, who married
Miss Theodore Shonts in February,
died suddenly in Paris of embolism of
the heart.
Jacob Kohlhaus, who founded the
first sash and door factory in west
ern Wisconsin in 1854, died in La
Crosse.
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, for.
mer British premier, died at his Off.
cial residence, 10 Downing street.
A. L. Wilmington. president of the
Society for Savings of Cleveland, the
argest savings bank in Ohio, is dead
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-30
Released From Prison.

Columbus, O.-John X. Brown, sent
up for seven years for having wrecked
the New Holland bank in Pickaway
released from the penitentiary, his
term having expired. He was met at
the gate by his wife and children.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-30
Died Suddenly.

Alliance, O.-John Leanmonth, 40.
general freight agent of the Lake Eria,
Alliance & Wheeling railroad, dropped
dead from heart disease here. He was
we'll known in railroad circles, having
been connected with the Pennsylvania
and Lake Erie roads all his life.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-30
Ohio Banker suecumhs.

Cleveland, GA. L. Wilmington. S7
president of the Society for Savings Ot
this city, the largest savings banks IN
Ohio, died suddenly following an opera
ton for stomach trouble. He Wa
widely known in banking circles.