The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-06-18

d | erC n. Lee, collapsed.
q Federal Judge Landis granted a
B appeal to the United States suprem
& court to Herman Billik. convicted O
3 the murder of Mary Vrzal, Just a
Z preparations for his execution wer
being made in Chicago.
( Wisconsin Prohibitionists nominate,
a ticket headed by w. D. Cox of Nil
waukee for governor.
President ]. c. Wallace of tn,
( American Shipbuilding company an
J nounced the permanent closing of tn,
Bay City CMich) yard of the com
! pany, which began operations nearly
( half century ago.
A silver service from a design by
Paul Revere, the American revolution
airy war hero, is to be presented to the
} United States cruiser Colorado by the
state of Colorado at San Francisco
prior to the sailing of the cruiser to
the orient in August.
The Lusitania beat the Mauretania's s
record on the western passage by
seven minutes
For the third time in as mauy davs
an entire square of dwelling houses
was burned in New Orleans.
Thieves smashed a window in the
jewelry store of Hyman, Berg & Co..
State and Washington streets, Chi
cago, and escaped with 60 gold
watches and jewelry valued at $4,000.
AS the result of the local option
elections held in Oregon, county pro-
hibition will prevail in 21 of the 90
counties after July.
David b. Hill Of New York, on sail
ing for Europe, scored William ].
Bryan, declared there was no longer
a Democratic party, and commended
the candidacy of Gov. Johnson of Min
! nesota
AS the result of political quarrel
at Stanberry, Mo-, R. II. Duncan,
lawyer and candidate for prosecuting
attorney, shot and killed Charles E.
Butler, city marshal.
A pouch of registered mail from
| Los Angeles for New York, containing
| upwards of $4,000, was stolen after
! reaching Kansas City.
The United States Brewers asso-
citation at its closing session in Mil
waukee adopted a platform of prin-
ciples in which it pledges itself to the
abolition of the immoral saloon and
TO the cause of temperance in the use
OF intoXicants in the broadest sense.
The great elevator of the Tri-State
Grain company at Hammond, Ind. and
100000 bushels of corn were DESTROYED
by fire
Settlement of further contests bv
the Republican national committee
gave William II. Taft 504 votes. or
more than enough to nominate on first
ballot.
The United Confederate Veterans
elected Gen. Clement A. Evans of
Georgia commander-in-chief and de-
clded to meet next year in Memphis.
w. f. Burns of Jackson county, S.
G., while on bridal trip across
Panther mountain, in Greenville coun-
ty, was robbed of his aretty young |
wife by a gang of six men, aftew he |
had been bound beaten and robbed.
According to the school census, Chi
cago now has population of about
214O,0O0.
Joseph Letter of Chicago and Wash
1n%ton and Miss Julette Williams of
Washington were married at the home
Of the brides parents.
Miss Margaret Sargent Of Sioux
City, Ia, found her mother and man
named Joe Ford dead with bullet holes
in their heads.
Archbishop Nixon, eXarch of Geor-
gia was assassinated in Tiflis by rev.
monument to the Russian dead at
Port Arthur, erected by Japan, was
unveiled
An 1l-year-old boy at st. joseph.
Mo-, wrecked a freight train TO obtain
coal.
The Montclair On. j. council adopt-
ed an ordinance providing five dol
ar fine for the owner of every dog
hat barks after p. m.
The Republican national committee
seated both the lilly white" and black !
IND tan delegates from Louisiana ;
With half vote each. The latter !
'greed to vote for Taft. Six contests
n Mississippi and one in Missouri
we're decided in favor of Taft.
Edward VII, king of England, and {
emperor Nicholas exchanged royal |
lists on the waters of the Bay of t
teVal in the Gulf of Finland 1t was 7
notable meeting and one which may I
ave a far-reaching effect in the world I
olicies of the futue. /
Property damage to the extent of I
10000 was done in Guthrie Okla, by i
violent wind and rain storm. +
Representatives Of the large steel I
lterests agreed on general reduc- |
ion in prices of finished steel prod
cts.
Three hundred persons, including
larquis de Dion, were poisoned by j
tomaines at banquet of the Auto T.
lobile club of Paris. One person is n
cad and many others are in serious tt
Ondition. q
Fire in the business district of En- ft
Is, Tex, did $15O,OOO damage. G
Mrs Thomas Murrill of Breathitt h.
'unty, Kentucky, killed Miss Mary n
errS, for whom Murrill had deserted n
sr. y
OBITUARY.. c,
John Vines Wright, who was the
deSt eX-member of congress and had ;r