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

The ASneWHart anti-racetrack gam
bling bills were passed by the New
York senate by the constitutional ma,
jority of 26 to 25 and were at once
signed by Gov. Hughes.
A jury in Pontiac, Mich, decided
that Henry Clay Ward of that city, a
millionaire whose eccentric actions
led to his family's applying to have
| a guardian appointed for him, was
competent to manage his own affairs.
Mulai Hatd, the usurping sultan of
Morocco, entered Fez at the head of a
large army.
Ten robbers, heavily armed, invaded
the customs office at Tihis and killed
the official in charge and his four as
sistants, decamping with $4,000. The
police pursued the robbers, killing
| three.
After a campaign of extraordinary
bitterness the voters of Sedalia, Mo-,
rolled up a majority of S4S against
local option.
Patrick O'Hare of Pittsburg, Pa.
fatally shot his wife and child and cut
his own throat.
Flood conditions in Missouri and
Kansas were much improved though
there We're three drownings at Kan
sas City.
Two children of Fall River, Kan,
were found suffOcated in trunk in
which they had hidden.
Before the brewers convention ad-
lourned at Milwaukee it was decided
to raise 100000 to wage war against
the spread Of prohibition.
The Republican national committee
completed the hearings of contests in
volving 2l9 seats in the convention.
OF these PIG were given to Taft and
three to Foraker.
Explosions and fire in the Morris
packing plant at Kansas City, Kan,
resulted in two deaths and the de-
stIuction of about $3.50 1000 worth of
property.
The Allison Glass works of Cen
talia, Ill.,, employing 900 men, filed a
petition in bankruptcy with the fed
eral court.
Nine booknakers were arrested at
the Graycsend racetrack for violating
the new anti-racetrack gambling laws
of New York.
John McGreer, a landscape artist, 60 |
years of age, who recently lived in
Chicago was drowned in the Hudson
river near New York.
York Society for the Suppression of
Vice says his society will fight the
sheath gown, whether worn BY chorus
girls or members of the 400.
The receding of the Mississ;Dpi
river flood in the vicinity of La Crosse,
Wis, revealed thousands of dollars
worth of pearls cast up by the high
waters.
Sam T. Stevenson, former secre-
.ary Of New Orleans Local No. II.
Typographical union, was arrested in
hat city with $4,000 of the unions
,unds
Twelve people were injured, two
probably fatally, in o street car col
ision in Chicago
Nine persons were killed and 65 in
m'ed by a rrar-end collision of a
reigit with a passenger train at Roc
'apetla, Italy.
ftoy n. Gormley, Detroit grain
Eroker. ended a weeks debauch by
committing suicide in his apartment
t the Auditorium Annex Chicago.
On claims aggregating $S,791 .047 :,
ue the National Car Wheel company
4 New York, the Wheeling & Lake
1rie railroad was thrown into the :
ands of receiver at Toledo, o.
The Hotel Gramatan at Bronxville,
I. Y, and the new Cliff hotel at New |
ort. r. l., We're destroyed by flames.
Nine hotel keepers and business
len of Galesburg, ILL.,, we're arrested
'r violating the local option law.
For kindness shown his wife In her u
ckness, Giles Gilbert, Duluth pi- 5
neer who died few weeks ago. left II
$4,000 TO Miss Edith Balm, a music
acher Of Chicago. X
George W. Arndt. secretary of the a
OF Angeles Chamber of Mines, COM
lttsd suicide by shooting.
The sci ooner yacht Dervish, owned y
Commo, ore Henry Morss Of the "
orinthiaA YACHT club. won the oc aan ~
ce from at,Ni9head to Hamilton IN - =
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