The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-08-20

Of the New Orleans police force, was
cut to death by a negro cook, who
was afterwards killed by the police.
By the capsizing of a pleasure
launch at Kilbourn, Wis, Mrs w. G.
Heath, Miss Mabel Ward and K. G.
Pfeiffer and son, all of Chicago, were
drowned.
Martin Phillips was arraigned in
New York court on a charge of lar
ceny and held for trial and the case
brought out an interesting story of a
high rollers " faro game in a private
house in the fashionable upper west
side district. Neville r. Moxley, for
merly of Pittsburg, Pa, was the COM
plainant, alleging that he lost 5000 in
a faro game dealt by Phillips, with
whom he had agreed to swindle the
house.
At Los Angeles. Cal, II. ]. Duffy,
60 years old, went violently insane
over religion and killed his son and
daughter with an AK. He then slashed
his own throat with a razor, but prob
ably will recover.
Stuart Huntley, Is years old, en-
route from California to his home in
Decatur, H., committed suicide at
Parsons, Kan, by taking poison. He
was recently robbed of money, was di-
vorced from his wife and estranged
from other relatives.
Vivian Burden, II years old, commit
ted suicide in Kansas City, Mo-, by
swallowing carbolic acid.
George Vail, Jr., charged with the
murder of his father, who disappeared
suddenly on June 10, 1907, from Ba-
tavia, o., confessed to having commit
ted the crime.
Because his wife would not talk to
him as frequently as he desired her to,
William Lush. wealthy German citizen
of Lincoln, Neb., fired four times at
her with a revolver, and then vainly
attempted suicide.
The supreme grand lodge of Orange
men elected Henry Stewart of New
York grand master and decided to
meet in Cleveland, o., in 1910
Night riders warned Ohio farmers
there would be trouble if they didn't
pool their tobacco this season.
Miss Frances Sholes, a society girl
of Evanston, ILL.,, was found dead in a
gas-filled room and is believed to
have committed suicide.
Pietro Brilla, hotel keeper of
Woodhaven, Long Island, was am
pushed and murdered by number of
men.
Fire in San Francisco destroyed the
Coney Island Amusement pavilion and
damaged other buildings, the loss be-
ing 100000.
Harry Jarrel and his sister of Balti-
more, Md, were poisoned by toad
stools and died at Rochester, n. Y.
Charles Foresman and Henry Rose.
young boys, were drowned near Mar
quette, Mich.
The isthmian canal zone has
plague of dogs and a ukase has gone
forth that all dogs at large must be
muzzled.
The Methodist Episcopal church has
begun an active crusade for the elec-
ton of a speaker who will allow con-
gress to vote on the interstate liquor
shipment bill"
Six persons were killed and is in
jured in a gun explosion aboard the
French gunnery school ship Couronne
off Les Salins d'Hyeres.
Charles E. Higbee, aged So years,
of Denver, one of the worlds most
noted tunnel builders, was almost in
stantly killed by an accident at Shos-
hone, u miles east of GlenWoOd
Springs Col.
The American Federation of Catho-
lie societies finished its seventh an
nual convention in Boston by re-
electing Edward Feeney of Brooklyn
president and selecting Pittsburg for
next years meeting.
Six men were severely injured when
a Grand Trunk passenger train struck
street car in Detroit in a binding
rain storm.
The Colorado Federation of Labor,
in convention at Denver, by viva
voce vote indorsed the Democratic
With her feet tightly bound to-
gether and a stocking stuffed down
her throat, Mrs. Adeline NJ. Miller of
St. Louis was found dead by her hus-
band, mail clerk.
One thousand Chinese soldiers sta
toned at Konghau, near Wuchow,
mutinied, murdered their commander,
his clerk and secretary and then at
tackled camp of soldiers at Onyung.
Wilbur Wright made a splendid
flight with his aeroplane at LIE Mans,
France, circling the field five times
and remaining in the air 6 minutes
Sc 2-5 seconds.
E. J. Lewis, treasurer of the Savings
Life Insurance company of Peoria,
committed suicide by taking poison.
He was thirty-second degree Mason.
A messengers pouch containing
United States government pay checks
for nearly $4,000 was stolen from in
front of the building occupied by the
department of commerce and labor in
Washington.
Miss May Williams of Kansas City,
Mo, who won a prize last spring as
the most beautiful girl in Missouri,
committed suicide because her prof.
ected marriage was about to be pre-
vented by her removal to an industrial
school.
Fire destroyed the mining camp of
RipetOwn, New, the loss being $780,
900.
Fifteen workmen were held up and
robbed in relays of their months pay
near Stirling City, Cal.
Eight men were killed, nearly a
score of others more or less seriously