The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-09-17

The commodities clause OF the hep
burn railroad act was declared uncon-
stitutional by the United States cir
cult court for the eastern district OF
Pennsylvania.
Judge Kenesaw Landis, who fined
he Standard Oil Company of Indiana
i29,000,000, is charged with having
permitted outside influences to govern
his decision by the attorneys for the
ompany in their answer TO the appli-
alton for a rehearing filed in the
Tnited States court of appeals.
County Attorney English at Omaha,
Ieb., filed a complaint against Charles
:. Davis, charging him with murder
n the first degree in connection with
he shooting of DR.. frederick Rustin.
In fight requiring great skill on
.ccount of a ten-mile wind, O-ville
Wright in his aeroplane circled around
he drill ground at Fort Myer So times
n 65 minutes and So seconds, break
ng his own worlds record.
The American battleship feet ar
1ved at Albany, the capital of Western
australia.
Jacob Hernesniemi, with his two
sons, respectively 12 and IA years old,
net death while trying to fight OF the
crest fires that swept their homestead
N Otter river near Calumet, Mich.
Falling a victim to its policy Of over
extension and poor management the
Eellknown fish, oyster and sea food
house of A. Booth & Co. Of Chicago,
The largest in this country, was forced
nto the hands of receiver.
The supreme court of Oklahoma up
held the validity of the depositors'
guaranty law, denying the injunction
prayed by the Noble State bank to re-
strain the state from levying one per
cent. assessment upon the deposits OF
the bank.
Miss Patricia Egan, daughter Of
Maurice f. Egan, the American minis
ter to Denmark, was married in Copen-
hagen to Jerome Elmer p. Murphy of
Los Angeles, Cal.
The body of Mrs. Ashton Harvey,
dressed in white and literally covered
with jewels worth fortune, was found
in the private pleasure lake on the
state of Stewart Hartshorn, at Short
Hills, n. J., by blood hounds which had
been brought from New York to seek
ler. Mrs. Harvey was the wife of
ashton Harvey, a millionaire corpuya-
ion lawyer.
The St. Vincent, the largest an:
heaviest battle ship ever built for ths
British navy, was launched successful.
at Port smOuth.
Queen Wilhelmina's hopes of pro-
vding an heir to the throne of Hol
land were frustrated once more by a
miscarriage.
Robert Wiltse, a veteran of the
civil war, shot himself in the ante
room of the G. A. r. post at Oswego,
n. Y, while post meeting was in
progress.
Battling Nelson clinched his claim 10
the lightweight pugilistic champion
ship by defeating Joe Cans for the
second time at San Francisco. The
fight ended in the twenty-tirst rouno
when Cans, beaten down by a success
sion Of blows from his sturdy conquer
or, failed to get upon his feet within
the count of ten.
A severe gale caused many casual
ties among smaller craft along the
coast of Great Britain. The schooner
Phyllis Gray, laden with coal, went
aground and turned turtle and the
crew of six men were lost.
Philip Lilienthal manager Of the
Anglo California bank, San Francisco,
was killed in an automobile accident.
The Republican squabble in West
Virginia was ended by the recognition
of the Swisher convention as regular.
In view of 1000 persons at the Rich
mond county fair, held at Dongan
Hills, Staten Island, William CODY, a
youthful balloonst of Milwaukee,
fell from an exploded balloon
AMI was probably mortally injured.
d. X. Anderson, former cashier of
the First National bank of Mason
town, Pa, died at the penitentiary
from paralysis. He was serving five
year sentence for embezzlement.
Factions of the unitl and non-union
stogie makers of Gai'ipolis, o., met
on the street and fought a desperate
battle which resulted in serious injury
to John White and Clarence Bayes.
Hibbing, the largest town On the
Mesaba Range, was threatened with
destruction by forest fires and a des-
perate fight was made to save it..
Grand Marais also vas reported in
great danger.
Mrs. Abbie Rice testified at the in
quest over DR.. F. H. Rustin of Omaha
that he had planned for her to shoot
him and kill herself and that when
she weakened he told her he had
made the same arrangement with C.
E. Davis, bank clerk. Mr.. Davis ad.
mitted DR.. Rustin gave him drugs
with which to commit suicide but de.
MED any knowledge of the physician s
death.
Republican standpatters in the Iowa
legislature blocked the election of
Gov. Cummins to the United States
senate.
Kansas City is in fear of race war,
the negroes having purchased fire.
arms.
Carroll Hall, aged IA, of Danville,
N. H., accidentally shot and killed his
16-year-old sister.
An attempt was made to turn a
meeting of unemployed workingmen
of New York into an anarchistic dem
onstration, and for half an hour the
big meeting held in Cooper Union was
the scene of wild excitement, during
which red flags were raised. the police
denounced and incendiary speeches
made. Alexander Berkman and a