The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-10-29


IN Presque Isle county.
Forest fires driven by high winds
were reported to be raging fercely in
the Adirondacks.
Sugar Island, Mich, was reported on
hre from end to end. Near Detour
several towns were surrounded by for
est fires.
Fires in Vincennes, Ind, destroyed
the grain elevators Of Bartlett, Kuhn
& Co. and the plant of the Empire Pa
per Company.
Two sisters, aged 12 and six years,
are accused of a long series Of rob
beIfes at Beverly, Mass.
Two men were killed and five in
iured, one fatally, in wreck OF a
gasoline speeder on the Newton &
Northwestern road near Gowrie, la.
Emperor Williams fourth son,
Prince August William of Prussia, and
Princess Alexandra Victoria of Schles.
wig-Holstein were welded in the
chapel of the imperial palace at
Berlin.
Many thousands of citizens of
Tokyo marched in a lantern parade in
honor of the officers of the American
fleet the demonstration being one of
the most remarkable ever witnessed
in any country.
The Italian cruiser Fieramosca has
been ordered to await the duke of the
Abruzzi at New York, whittier the
cruiser Etruria also will be dispatched
1t is understood that the two warships
will escort the duke and his bride to
Italy. Mr.. Elllins is to be given the
title of chevalier of Annunciade.
Maurice Tannenholz, a New York
jeweler, was robbed of two diamond
earrings and fatally shot by the
thief.
Mayor Tom Johnson and the three
cent street car fare suffered a crush
ing blow, when the franchise under
which the Municipal Traction Com
pany is operating the local street rail
way lines on the low-fare basis, was
defeated by majority of $40 in the
referendum.
Train service and business in the
northwest were demoralized by Sc
we're Snowstorm and blizzard.
The supreme court Of Nebraska sus-
tanned the legality of the Nebraska
blue laws forbidding all Sunday bust
ness transactions.
Seventeen of the women suffragists
who were arrested in London during
the "storming" of the house of COM
mons were sentenced to terms Of i'm
prisonment varying from three weeks
to three months.
Benjamin F. Gilbert, aged IS years,
was found guilty at Norfolk, Va, of
murder in the first degree for killing
his sweetheart, Miss Amanda Morse.
Miss Lucille Mulhall, known as ok
lahomas Cowgirl" and Martin Van
Burgan, a vaudeville singer. were Sc
Cretly married in Brooklyn, N. Y, Sep
tembe" IA, 1907, according to an
nouncements made in Topeka, Kan,
by the couple.
DR.. Irving J. Cook O. New York, ac-
cused of causing the death of a, young
woman, committed suicide in the Wal
dorf-AstOria hotel.
Torrental rains caused serious
foods in San Salvador, Guatemala and
Honduras.
The officers of the American battle.
ships were entertained at 4 fine dinner
and ball by Premier Katsura at his
residence in Tokyo.
Col. Zachary Taylor escaped from
The mob that murdered Capt. Quentin
Rankin at Reelfoot lake, Tenn, by
bold dash in a rain of bullets. He was
unhurt
The Carnegie Hero Fund Commis-
sion awarded medals to As persons for
acts of bravery and gave about $4,000
cash to some of them.
Belated reports at Manila indicate
that the storm Of October 12 in the
Cagayan valley was the worst and
most destructive within the memory
Of living inhabitants of the valley. 1t
IS believed 800 lives were lost.
AS a result Of ptomaine poisoning
hree children Of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
iackert Of Schenectady, N. Y, are
lead, the father is critically ill., one
son and three daughters are less seri-
ously affected.
A grand jury at Coalgate, Okla,
aXonerated the officials of the Bank of |
Coalgate and recommended the remov-
II Of H. II. Smock, the examiner who |
lad closed the bank.
Frank c. Marin, formerly we'll
lnown Brooklyn lawyer who was con.
'icted of swindling Mrs. Caroline
Barry, widow, out of $4,000, was
entenced to from Is to 20 years in
tate's prison.
Three burglars blew the safe of the |
,ost office at Mayville, Mich, but were
lriVen away empty-handed by citi-
ems.
Mrs. Nels Ingvarhorn and her two
hildren were killed by the explosion
If gasoline stove at Sisseton, S. D.
William P. Dillingham; and Carroll
}. Page were formally elected to rep
esent Vermont in the United States
epate, at joint session of the gener.
! assembly.
An incendiary fire destroyed the ele-
ator of the Hungarian Mills Com
any at Denver. the loss being $780,
20.
The timely intervention of a physi.
ian who was not satisfied with the
of the body prevented the
urial alive of Mrs. Thomas Chapman,
wife of one of the best-known citizens
# Ellis, Kan.
John w. Kern, Democratic vice.
residential candidate, was called
ONE from his campaign tour by the
erious illness of his little son in Indi.
napolis.
BY the terms of the will of Gregory
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