The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-11-19
GENERAL NEWS.

Francis J. Heney, a leading figure
in the prosecution of municipal corrup-
tiOn in San Francisco, was shot and
seriously injured Friday by Morris
Haas, saloon-keeper who had been
accepted as juror in previous trial
and afterwards removed it having
been shown by the prosecution that
he was an eX-conviCt.
Evidence was introduced by the
prosecution in the Lamphere trial at
Laporte, Ind, tending to prove that
bodies found in the ruins of the Gun
ness farmhouse were those of Mrs.
Guinness and her three children, of
whose murder Ray Lamphere is ac-
cused.
1t was reported in Peking that the
emperor Of China was dead and the
dOwager empress dying. Two imperial
edicts were issued in quick success
sion. The first makes Prince Chun re-
gent of the empire and the second ap-
points his son, Pu Wei, heir presump-
tive.
In a boiler explosion at the Miller
Lumber Company'5 plant at Pound,
near Pound Gap, Ky, four men were
killed and four more severely injured.
Three men were killed outright. two
were fatally injured and two others
were seriously hurt in an explosion at
a sawmill plant in Wise county, Virgi
MIA.
The new divorce law, increasing the
period of residence from six months
to one year was carried on November
3 in South Dakota by vote of two
to one.
Francisco l.. de la Barra, at present
Mexican minister to the Netherlands,
has been appointed to succeed En-
rique C. Creel as Mexican ambassa-
dor at Washington.
University of Michigan alumni in
New York have subscribed funds for
the erection of a 100000 dormitory
with an immense commons" or eating
room in Ann ArboT.
The appointment of Col. George H.
Torney as surgeon general of the
army to succeed Surg. Gen. r. NJ.
OReilly was announced by the secre-
tary of war.
Fire in the business district of Ben.
ton Harbor, Mich, destroyed property
valued at S125,000.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
by band of rs Russians to rob q
railroad train that was carrying $12,-
100000 to St. Petersburg.
Ex-senator Carmack of Tennessee,
who was killed in street duel in
Nashville by Robin Cooper, was buried
at Columbia, large delegations from
all over the state being present.
Nine men were killed in collision
of two Union Pacific freight trains at
Borie, Wyo.
Goaded by the fear that his name
was to be used in connection with an
attempt to blackmail his father fer
$4,000, ]. Edwin Stein of Chicago, %
years old, son of David Stein, head of
the firm of Ederheimer, Stein & Co.,
clothiers, committed suicide in the
Lexington hotel.
B. Frank Hall, a wealthy resident of
st. Marys, Pa, shot and killed himself
on railway train.
A report that the body of Prof. An.
dree, who tried to reach the pole in
a balloon in 1897, had been found on
the Labrador coast was discredited
by authorities on Arctic exploration.
The petition by the United States
government for a rehearing of the ap
peal of the Standard Oil Company of
Indiana from the $29,240,OOO fine of
Judge Lands was overruled by Judges
Groscup, Baker and Seaman in the
United States circuit court OF appeal
at Chicago.
The woman who tried to compeI
Mrs. Phipps of Denver to give he,
$4,000 and threatened her with dyna
mite was found to be the wife of AL
'an Reed, a Denver druggist. and the
heiress of a Massachusetts, million.
aire. She was thought to be mental,
dcranged