The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-10-01

2 laDrlz the NatiOnalistS we're worSted
Horace ]. Ray, aged Is years, com.
mitted suicide by shooting himself at
Philadelphia In the presence of Is
year-old Florence Marshall, his .3hool
girl sweetheart, because he had been
forbidden to pay attention to her to
the neglect of his studies.
At West Union, Ia, Walter Whit.
beck was convicted of murder in the
hrst degree for the killing of his ia.
ther, Arlow Whitbeck.
jeremiah Lynch, SO years old, night
foreman for the Wisconsin Bridge
q iron Company, was mysteriously
murdered near new bridge which
the company is erecting in Chicago
The police lay the crime to labor trou-
bles.
Five members of the failed broker.
age firm Of A. o. Brown C Co. were
arrested In New York on a larceny
charge
The International Fishery congress
neclded to meet in Rome, Italy, in
1911.
A large portion of the town of Pasig,
near Manila, was destroyed by fire.
Fire in Cairo, Ill.,, destroyed a lum-
Der yard, several houses and other
property, the loss being $125,OOO.
An order of Judge R. w. Archibald
OF Scranton, Pa, adjudging Harry X.
IhaW in contempt of court, was filed
In the United States district court at
Pittsburg.
The control of the Washington Life
Insurance Company passed from the
hands of Levi P. Morton, Thomas F.
Ryan and Harry Payne Whitney, to a
Plttsburg syndicate headed by Will
liam c. Baldwin, president of the
Plttsburg Life and Trust Company.
Raymond w. Pullman of the forest
service, who is in Minnesota investi-
gazing forest fire conditions for the
government. estimates the loss in that |
state at $5,000,OOO TO $40 200, 900.
The supreme court of Washington |
upheld the state law prohibiting the
sale of cigarettes and cigarette pa
pers
Declaring her disgust with modern
fashions, Mrs. Lulu Kreitzer, aged 40,
widow, returned to nature and ap-
peared In the street at Dayton, O.,
nude. When the police were summoned
the woman entered her home and ia
tally shot herself.
Forest fires were reported raging in
northern Wisconsin and Upper Michl-
gan which threatened to wipe out sew
erai towns. Residents had to flee for
heir lives. Foster City, Mich, a lum.
Der town across the Wisconsin line of
Marinette county, was said to have
oeen destroyed with the loss of six
lives though this was not confirmed.
Forest fires were reported to have
destroyed some small settlements In
northern Wisconsin and Michigan and
70 be spreading rapidly in the Adiron-
lacks.
Heavy rains checked the forest fires
n northern Michigan and Wisconsin. !
Justice Gerard in the supreme court
If New York signed the final decree
II absolute divorce in favor of Elsie I
'rench Vanderbilt from Alfred Gwynne
The French police have arrested sew
raj dangerous anarchists who with @,
'thers were engaged in celebrating a
not to assassinate King Alfonso of
'pain when he passed through Biar- Il
itz on his way to Paris. II
Two persons were killed and four
thers injured when passenger train +
II the Southern railway ran into an i,
pen switch near Duncan, S. C. !
Two heavy earthquake shocks were :,
cit on the Port Of Acapulco, Mexico,
"a the steamer Radmes was so tossed
Ooul that four persons were killed. ;
A tyl hoon of terrific velocity swept :,
trough the central portion of the Phil =
y Inc group, sweeping part of the e..
ahd OF Samar, northern Leyte, !,
lmzon, northern Panay, n
aSbate and part of Rombem. Hun
reds were reported dead -
st. Louis & San Francisco mas. -
niger train was derailed near Car. -
age, Mo-, and rolled into the ditch, -;
e engineer and fireman being killed -
Id 40 passengers injured.
The Denver Coliseum, one of the -.
tvs landmarks, was DESTROYED bv ~
C. u
PRESIDENT Roosevelt, in reply TO Mr. -,
yans defense of Gov. Haskell, Wig. ~
Ously upheld the charges against the =
ter, declaring him unfit to asst ciate -. -.
Tn reputable citizens. Gov. Haskell ~,
ued statement defending The
ticised actions and hotly attacking
? president
The United States cruiser Yankee u"
uck on Spindle Rock. near the VI
stern entrance to Buzzards BAY dur IN
fog, breaking several holes in u
hull on the port side. lii
Delegates to the international Fish.
congress were given souvenir ne
ntings of the Roosevelt golden ~"
ut, named after the president be- a"'
lso he prevented its determination III
'uoIication was begun in the e,r :
orld's Work" of series of reminis- '0,
ces by John D! Rockefeller, in
Ich he defends the tactics and - -
1e methods of the Standard Oil ~
npany.
he Asiatic cholera in st. Peters. INV NV
g is spreading among the upper ,ha
'ses of society. Deaths are SO ~
nerous the bodies lie unburied. 49,,
he government Of Paraguay un.
thed plot against it organized by
nbers of the negro party. All the r.
spirators were taken into custody r
state of siege was proclaimed, ~"
Irs. Katherine Clemmons Gould,