The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-11-05

lenn., ana killed george COOK, nelQ
on the charge of numbering John
King, a ferryman at Southwest Point.
e. A. S. Blake, a contractor con-
victed of attempting to bribe John M.
Kelly to qualify on the jury to try
Abraham Ruef and vote for Ruef,s ac-
quittal, made a full confession in
court at San Francisco, duplicating
Ruef's counsel.
found in a sack at Lapham's Lane,
Mich.
Eight battleships comprising the
second squadron Of the American At
lantic fleet, under command of Rear
Admiral William H. Emory, arrived at
Annoy, China.
Fire broke out in the History Neave
building at Race and Fourth streets,
Cincinnati, and in the panic that en-
sued about twenty persons were in
jurcd.
Two squadrons of cavalry and a
band were ordered to Hawaii as an ad-
dition to the garrison there.
Rather than face the charge of hav-
ing stolen money from her employers,
Mary LAWN, 80 years old, domestic
employed in the home of Charles and
John Cusick of Chicago, saturated her
clothing with kerosene and burned her.
self to death.
Wreckage picked up in the North
sea confirms the fears that the steamer
Yarmouth foundered while crossing
from the Hook of Holland to Harwich.
Her crew of % men was lost.
The Farmers Society of Equity was
organized at Indianapolis, Ind, at a
convention of representatives from a
number of states.
The executive council of the Ma
tional Womans Christian Temperance
union decided to hold its 1909 session
at Omaha, Neb.
Reports from Tampico, Mexico, show
that over so lives have been lost in
the oil fields as a result of the poison
Gus gases emitting from the big hole
in the ground caused by the recent
fire.
A dispatch from Smyrna says that
the Young Turks, believing that the
sultan has a secret understanding with
Tewfik Pasha, the foreign minister,
have decided to dethrone him and re-
place him by his third son.
The Chicago-Duluth limited, north
bound, on the Northwestern road, left
the track at Kempton, Wis. A num-
Der of passengers and several train
men were injured.
The Barcelona municipality has Of
fered a prize Of $1,000 for the best
poster design for advertising Barcelona
as a winter resort, and the mayor of
the city has especially invited the
competition of American artists.
With Gov. Curtis Guild, Jr., making
an eloquent plea for religious tolera-
tion in Its broadest and kindest sense,
which brought thousands of Catholics
to their feet in wild applause, and
prominent Catholics delivering ad-
dresses, the opening day of the five
days observance of the centennial an
niversary of the founding of the dio-
cese of Boston came to a close. The
day opened with a pontifical mass in
the Holy Cross cathedral, celebrated
by the papal delegate to the United
States. Most Rev. Diolnede Falconio.
Tennessee militia were sent to the
vicinity of Obion with orders to shoot
on sight any masked men discovered.
At Camp Memo it was believed the
ringleaders and many members Of the
night riders were among those ar
rested. Confessions were obtained
from several prisoners.
Two suffragettes created scene in
the house of commons by claiming
themselves to the grille of the ladies'
gallery and shouting for votes.
Rev. DR.. NJ. w. Stryker, president of
Hamilton college, was dangerously in
jured in runaway accident.
Alfred H. Curtis, former president
of the National Bank of North Amer
lea, testified that Charles w. Morse
was to blame for the illegal banking
transactions of which they are both
accused.
Erick Els was decapitated at the
American Steel C Wire Company mills
at Cleveland, o., by a red-hot wire
which coiled about his neck.
Mrs. J. l. Petrie of New York was
robbed of $1,700 worth of jewelry on
Ero CT
Ted" Burton, under arrest at Reel
foot Lake, Tenn, confessed that infor-
nation he gave led to the murder of
Capt. Quentin Rankin and implicated
many persons in the night rider out
RACES there.
A. H. Curtis, co-defendant with
Charles W. Morse, the New York
financier accused of violating the ma
tional banking laws, took the stand
in his own defense, promising to re-
veal everything.
Edward Cook & Co., soap-makers,
obtained libel judgment Of $115,000
against certain English newspapers
owned by Lord Northcliffe, which
charged tnaL the company was at
tempting to form a trust.
]. Edward Swanson, mine owner
of Lafayette, Col, was instantly killed
in a coal mine at Buxton, by fall of
slate.
Denny Hazel, convicted of murder,
escaped from Jail at Eureka, Cal,
leaving his jailer locked in the cell.
The Fidelity Funding Company of
New York, which was organized in
1898 to lend money on the property
of Catholic institutions throughout the
United States, went into the hands of
a receiver with liabilities of $3,941, OPT
and assets of $3,579,315.
The supreme court of Illinois de-
clared the new loan shark law invalid.