The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-11-26

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York. The East Buffalo stock yards
were closed.
Several children at Danville, Pa,
were reported to have contracted the
foot and mouth disease, an outbreak
of which among cattle caused the
states of New York and Pennsylvania
to be quarantined
Fire in a mine at Red Lodge, Mont,
caused the death of nine miners.
Scores of others were rescued with
great difficulty.
The state having rested its case in
the trial of Ray Lamphere at Laporte,
Ind, the defense opened with state
ment to the jury by Attorney Worden
and the hearing of several witnesses
whose evidence tended to disprove the
sIpposition that the body of an adult
found in the ruins of the farmhouse
was that of Mrs. Guinness.
Juniors in the Grand Rapids, Mich,
Veterinary college struck because two
colored students were admitted in ac-
cordance with a court ruling
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citizens at bay, blew open the safe of
a store and escaped with $4,000.
Following a two days run, receiv-
er was appointed for the First Nation
al bank of Fort Scott, Kan.
Lewis Fletcher was hanged at Char
lotte, N. c., for the murder Of George
Boyd. Both were negroes.
One man was killed and five were
| fatally injured by a dynamite eXplo-
sion in the Simpson coal mine near
Brownsville, Pa.
The Cairo (Ill) city council granted
50-year interurban franchise and a
20year street railway franchise to the
Mckinley syndicate. An interurban
line will be built to connect Cairo
with Mounds, Mound City and Villa
Ridge.
Hugh Thompson, wealthy young
farmer living near Danville KY, be-
came suddenly insane and shot and
killed his nephew, Frederick Garrison,
aged Is years. The boy after being
shot seriously wounded his uncle
Eileen Orme, a musical comedy ac-
tress, was married in London to Hon.
Morris Hood, heir of Viscount Brid-
port.
The greatest transaction in leaf to-
baCcO ever made in America was
closed at Louisville, Ky, when the
Burley Tobacco. society sold to the
American Tobacco Company the crop
OF 1906 and part of that of 1907. The
American company pays an average !
OF 2O12 cents pound for the former
and II cents for the latter the total |
being about $14,00O,OOO
Malcolm Stewart, who was wanted |
in Duluth on charge of being short |
$l,7OO in his accounts with the Uni |
versal Milling Company, leaped head |
foremost through lavatory window
on the Omaha's Twilight limited and |
escaped.
Mrs. Mary Harbour, accused of the
murder of Miss Rose Adams, her
foster daughter, was found guilty of
murder in the second degree at Sioux
City la.
John Krauss, said to have been con-
nected with the Pacific State and Sun
set Telegraph Company of San Fran
cisco, committed suicide on the steam
er Adriatic as it was entering Queens.
town harbor
The balloon Yankee, which sailed
from st. Louis in an effort to win the
Lahm cup, failed to do so, landing
near Tiger Ga, after travelling 375
miles.
j. B. Walton, representing the Corn
Products Company, known as the
starch trust" had most uncomfort-
able time trying to answer the ques-
uons of the house ways and means
at the tariff revision hear.
ing and to explain why his company
sold its products much cheaper in
England than here.
Herbert Grigg, alleged accomplice
of Cline Wheeler and Walter Zeller
in the murder of William Read at
Vineland, N. j., was arrested in Phila.
delphia.
The supreme court of South Dakota
granted a new trial to Mrs. Emma
Kaufman, wife of the Sioux Falls
brewer who was found guilty in the
circuit court of manslaughter on
charge of causing the death of ser.
want through beating.
Mrs. Alpha M. Shevalier convicted
'f perjury in connection with the Horn :
will case, was sentenced to five years |
n prison by Judge Lincoln Frost at t
Lincoln, Neb. t
In view of the fact that an interest q
ng event is expected next spring I
queen Wilhelmina of Holland has S
)een forbidden by her physicians to /
loId her customary private audiences. r
The body of Brent Woodall. secre- P
ary of the University of Cincinnati, t
Ind former newspaper man of that il
'lty, was found in the Ohio river at t.
louisville, Ky. p
FIFTY state convicts employed in the
mines at Pratt City, Ala, formed a
conspiracy to set No. mine afire and
Scape during the confusion, and as a S
esult eight of them were burned to II
eath, one is missing and the other il
l were safely locked in the stockade. IL
At an interview between Emperor b
William and Chancellor Won Buelow 7
he emperor made formal promise to I
lis people that in the future he would D
ot act except through the chancellor q
nd his associate ministers. a
Two warehouses of the Tom Moore
)istilling Company of Bardstown, KY,
which were stored $4,000 barrels
I whisky, were burned, entailing a Il
oss to the firm of about $40O, 900 and u
the government of $75O,OOO. II
Mrs. Howard Gould was allowed -
25.OOO year alimonv hv Instinn Bis. N