The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-12-17


Edgewater, N. ]. He appeared sud
denly Oh the main street, waving big
revolver, held up the proprietors Of
several stores, exchanged many shots
with a hastily formed posse and at
last was wounded when the police and
a mob of citizens ran him down.
The lumber interests represented by
the Weyerhaeusers, O'Brien & Cook of
ST Paul and Duluth and Edward Hines
of Chicago are in Duluth working on
the formation of lumber trust which
will control practically all the pine in
North America.
A woman leaped with her little son
from the window of a burning garage
In Chicago and both were so badly
hurt they died in a few minutes.
A force of 200 men, which landed
from the Haytian gunboat, took with
out resistance the town of Gonaives,
Hayti, and established authority there
in the name of Gen. Simon.
Frank Cassini of st. Louis fatally
shot his wife and himself.
The Springport (Mich.) State Saw
ings bank, with deposits of about $780,
900, was closed by Banking Commis-
sioner Zimmerman while an examina-
ton is made of its affairs.
Eleven buildings in the village Of
Patton, Ia, were destroyed by fire.
The Peninsular G. Oriental Steamship
n i'm.
port hogs from China into Great
Britain.
John R. Hegeman, president of the
Metropolitan Life Insurance Com
pany, was freed by the New York ap-
pellate court in a decision that, If it
stands, will serve to quash all indict-
ments now outstanding against insur-
ance officials.
Louis Pratt, the religious fanatic,
and Officer Mullane, wounded in the
street battle in Kansas City, died.
James Sharp, the leader of the band
of fanatics, was arrested.
Iaboring under the delusion that he
had been marked as a victim of the
"Rlack Hand" Thomas Fitzpatrick,
aged Sc, shot and killed himself near
Gaines, Mich.
After a brief argument with a
crowd of negroes in a saloon in Mem
nhis, William Latura, a white saloon
keeper, shot and killed three Of the
negroes and wounded others, one
mortally.
DR.. A. S. Pitts, prominent phys1-
clan of Hazlehurst, Miss, was shot
and killed by DIR. Thomas Birdsong, a
lentist.
Three men held up an east-bound
Great Northern train near Hillyard,
Wash, and robbed the mail car. They
missed $4,000 in the express car.
]. P. Garroty, accused of attacking
two little girls near Willow River,
Minn., was saved from a mob by be-
ing spirited out of town.
DR.. G. e. Barnes, veterinary sur
seon, was burned to death in fire
hat destroyed his house at Wood
Vile, o.
The various copper properties of
Phelps, Dodge & Co., the output of
which has been as high as 1OO,O0o,OOO
pounds a year, are to be merged into
a new corporation, capitalized at
50,OOO,0OO.
Representative George L. Lilley,
governor-elect of Connecticut, has
been served with a subpoena to an
swer the complaint that in the recent
campaign he, himself or through
financial agent, violated the corrupt
practices act.
Two bunco men worked the time
honored satchel substitution game at
Minneapolis and got $7,105 from R. F.
Cargell, an aged cattle dealer from
Clyde, N. d.
The board of regents of the Univer.
sity of Minnesota decided that men,
bers of the faculty must retire on
reaching the age of 65 years.
More than a score of persons were
injured, five of them seriously, and
100 more were thrown into a panic
when bomb was hurled into the air
shaft of a tenement house at 800 East
SiXty-third street, New York.
w. II. Crowninshield, aged 40 years,
OF Boston, Mass, said to be a nephew
of Rear Admiral Crowninshield, was
run down and killed by a railway
train in Cleveland, o.
The police of Kansas City and a
band of religious fanatics headed by
John Sharp, who styles himself
Adam God" engaged in fierce re-
volver street battle. Over 100 shots
were exchanged, one patrolman and
little girl being killed, Sharp and two
officers fatally wounded and two
other officers slightly hurt
F. D. Hirschberg of st. Louis, a mil
lionaire merchant and prominent
Catholic, was shot and killed in his
house. 1t was not known whether it
was a case of suicide, murder or ac-
cident.
Probably fatal injuries were sus-
tanned in an automobile accident near
Washington by Senor Don Juan Bar
rios, minister of foreign affairs Of
Guatemala, who is here on special
mission. His companions, DR.. Luis
Herrarte, Guatemalan minister to the
United States. and Gen. John Drum
mond. wealthy planter in South
America, were painfully hurt.
Miss Helen Chaffee, daughter Of
Lieut.. Gen. and Mrs. Adna r. Chaffee,
was welded at Los Angeles to Lieut.,
John Hastings Howard, U. S. A.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier, premier of Can
ada, was shaken up by the ditching of
his train on the Great Northern at ST.
Vincent. MINI.
Charles W. Blow of ST. Louis, man.
ager of the American Linseed Com.
pany, shot and killed himself.