The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-08-06
GENERAL NEWS.

by a cave-in in a coal mine at Crows
Nest Pass, B. C. Twenty-one Of them
were rescued, having been kept alive
by leaking compressed air pipes.
Grand Army men in Ohio started a
movement to raise money by popular
subscription to build a big United
States battleship.
Fire at Philadelphia destroyed the
Hamburg-America line pier and a
great quantity of merchandise, the
loss being about 100000.
Mrs. Ralph Harris of Kansas City,
Mo, and her five-year-old son were
drowned at Walloon lake, Michigan.
David Lamasuey, dealer in fine
horses, who Travelled extensively but
had no permanent home, committed
suicide by the hari-kiri method at
Burlington, la. lie was temporarily
deranged by the heat
w. b. Whitwell, who kept a country
store in Ripley county Missouri, was
shot and killed while resisting arrest
as a deserter.
Bolivar, said to be the biggest ele-
phant ever in captivity, died in his
prison house at the geological gardens
in Philadelphia.
The Hotel Roberval on Lake St.
John, Canada, was destroyed by fire,
all the guests escaping.
A demurrer by the New York, New
Haven & Hartford Railroad company
as defendant in the action brought
against it by the United States gov
ernmcnt, was filed in the United States
district court at Boston.
The mining town of Stafford, w.
Va. was wrecked by the explosion of
100 kegs of powder.
Carl Burton, % years old. a recent
graduate of the University of Chi
cago. and heir to property worth
$500, 900 il Aurora, was fatally in
iureG in an automobile crash in Chi
caGo.
Three masked men held up and
robbed an elevated ticket agent in
Chicago.
Leonard Hendricks of Cranston, R.
! l., hIlISu lliIlIStI anu MS l~o lllNlC
daughters by means of gas.
Tie Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
freight house at Chillicothe, Mo-, was
| wrecked by robbers, who blew open
the safe and escaped with 500.
After an all.day conference of the
| leading government prosecuting off
GERS and Frank B. Kellogg of Minneso,
ta tt was announced by Attorney Gen
erai Bonaparte at Lenox, Mass, that
every effort would be made to secure
a revision of the recent decision and
opinion of the United States circuit
court of appeals in the case of the
Standard Oil Company of Indiana.
William Oliver a young aeronaut of
Mason Mich, was killed while making
"a parachute drop at Hague park, near
Jackson, Mich.
James S. Sherman, Republican vice
presidential candidate, announced that
he would be succeeded as chairman of
the congressional campaign commit
tee by Representative William r. Nc
Kinley of Illinois.
Peter Sendak Of Cleveland, O., shot
and killed his wife and himself.
In the presence of the Sheik VI Is.
lam. the head of the hierarchy in Tur.
key, the sultan of Turkey took the
oath of allegiance to the constitution
on the Koran
Tad" Smith. a negro boy accused OF
| ircr white ri ri Wac oJ IN
death by mob at Greenville, Tex.
Andrew Haag prominent resident
of Cullom. ILL.,, was shot and killed by
his 2i-year-old son, Albert Haag, fol
| lowing a family quarrel.
A band Of men attacked the Office
of the CASH r at the railroad station
in Tiraspol, Pussia. and got away with
$4,000.
A gasoline launch was sunk at Pitts
burg. Pa, by waves from a coal boat
and three steel workers were drowned
The packet steamer Eeva, owned by
the Green Packet company of Ciucin
matt. burned tc the waters edge al
Buffalo, w. Va. The crew swan
ashore.
4 The Dutch cruiser Gelderland was
ordered from Curacao to Venezuela to
protect Dutch interests there. The
Venezuelan consul at Willemstad. who
was mobbed. left the island.
An Italian girl perished In quick
sands in the back yard Of her home
In New York.