The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-09-10
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS.
Germany's policy in the Morocco af.
fair has annoyed British officials ex-
cessively and they feel that the kaiser
is trying to secure an advantage over
the other powers. Great Britain in
tends to recognize Mulai Hatid after
he has pledged himself to accept all
the obligations of the former sultan.
Col. Henry M. Nevius of Red Bank,
N. j., was elected commander-in-chief
Of the Grand Army of the Republic,
and Mrs. w. l.. Gilman of Roxbury,
Mass, was chosen president Of the
Womans' Relief Corps.
The forest fire which threatened the
famous Calaveras big tree grove was
brought under control and the great
trees were saved.
Chester Jordan, an actor, killed his
wife Honorah, an actress, during
quarrel in their home in Somerville,
a suburb of Boston, and then dismem-
bered her body and tried to take 1t
away in a trunk
The special grand jury at Spring
field, ILL.,, returned 1T indictments in
connection with the race riots, and
made final report in which it COM
mended certain officials and severely
condemned some of the police for
their cowardice.
Late returns from the Michigan
primaries put Gov. Fred Warner in the
lead for denomination.
More than $4,0O0,000 was left to
charitable institutions, the Metropoli-
tan Museum of Art and Yale univer-
sity by the will of Frederick Cooper
Hewitt who died at his home in
Owego, N. Y.
Orville Wright made a fairly sue
cessful test of his aeroplane built for
the army at Fort Myer. Near Ithaca,
N. Y, two Cornell students made a
good flight of several miles in an
aeroplane Of their own construction.
Spanish war veterans voted to hold
hext encampment at Tacoma. Wash.
The territorial supreme court at
Manila decided that the sultan of
Dunaharra must hang for the part he
took as leader of the raid on Par
ang, island o. Mindanao, in January,
1906, wherein ]. w. Mcdonald of that
place was killed by the raiders
Judge Vandeventer in the United
States circuit court at st. Paul en-
Joined the Arkansas railway commits.
sion from enforcing the two-cent-fare
law.
Chief of Detectives Gill of East st.
Louis and Patrolman Ransome Paine
were shot while trying to trap bur-
glars in the home of Philip Wolff,
treasurer of St. Clair county.
The condition of the natives of the
Aleutian Indian village in Akutan har-
bor Bering sea is most deplorable,
according to the report of Dr. Robert
Olsen, assistant surgeon on the rev.
enue cutter McCulloch.
The First National bank OF Niles,
O.. failed and a receiver was ap-
pointed.
The United Spanish war veterans
drew the color line by declaring the
Charles NJ. Thomas camp of Washing
ton unattached"
Daniel Walser, a Detroit confec-
toner, was shot and killed by burg
lars at his store.
The Nevada Democratic state con-
vention nominated Francis G. New
lands for United States senator and
George A. Bartlett for congressman.
A new comet was discovered at the |
Yerke's observatory at Lake Geneva,
Wis, by Prof. D. w. Morehouse of
Drake university.
Seven summer visitors out of a
party Of ten were drowned by the
capsizing Of 35-foot sloop in Penob-
scot bay, off Deer Isle.
The cruisers of the Pacific fleet,
each towing a torpedo boat destroyer,
reached Honolulu without any acci- |
dent worth mention.
In the Michigan primaries Auditor
General ]. B. Bradley was nominated
for governor by the Republicans.
Dispatches from Peking said the
Chinese government was likely to re.
call Minister WI Ting Fang from
because of dissatisfaction
with his doings and public speeches.
A crowd of men and boys in Chi. |
cago tried to lynch negro who had
attacked white girl in the hallway
Of building In which she worked.
The British bark Amazon, for Iuui.
que from Port Talbot, has been
wrecked near the latter port. Only
five out of her crew of 80 were saved.
Fire destroyed the tannery of Davis,
Medary & Platz, in La Crosse. Wis,
the loss being about $4,000.
Becoming financially involved, two
brothers, Ben S. Woolaver, aged SO,
and Elmer, aged 80, committed suicide |
In the Sangamon river not far from
their homes near Edinharg III.