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The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-02-06
BEGINSSIMPLELIFE
IN INSANE ASYLUM
THAW DECLARES THAT HIS STAY
IN MATTEAWAN WILL NOT
BE LONG.
LAWYERS WILL SUE OUT
WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS
No Arrangements for specially Pre-
pared Meals Having Been Made For
Him, He Shared the Hospital Fare
With All the Others.

Matteawan, n. Y, Feb. 3.-Harry
K. Thaw began the routine of a sim
pie life which the authorities in the
state hospital for the criminal insane
say will make his long stay in the
Toombs prison in New York city seem
like the height of gayety in compari-
son.
The new patient in the observation
ward slept soundly, the presence uf
the fifty other men in the dormitory
not giving him the slightest concern.
1t was after the usual retiring hour
when Thaw reached the hospital and
he Immediately went to bed. He had
enjoyed the trip from New York with
his counsel as well as the dinner in
the hotel in kishkill Landing with
his counsel and one or two newspaper
friends. Although the two deputies
VINO accompanied him were guest at
the dinner, there was no suggestion
OF prison or asylum restriction during
the repast, and 1haw found the oc-
caslon much to his liking. He arose
In the morning at G he ate q hearIv
breakfast at the knife and fork
table"
About 500 men were in the main din
Ing hall when Thaw reached the
breakfast table Sunday, and he was
the center of attention. The novelty OF
the noted patients presence had not
worn off by dinner time and he was
compelled again to eat under the scru-
tiny of many eyes.
NO arrangements for specially pre-
pared meals having yet been made for
hlm. Thaw shared the hospital tare
with all the others. His dinner in
Guided roast pork, potatoes. sauar
kraut, bread aud butter and soffee.
AT p. m. Thaw attended divine
services in the auditorium or theater
by the Rev. Harry Sheldon.
pastor of the Fishkill Landing Me,h-
odist Episcopal church.
During the day Thaw declared to one
or the attendants that he probably |
would not be in the hospital more
Than one week. He said his LAWYERS
would sue out a writ of habeas corpus
N his behalf and was sure he would |
De allowed his liberty as the result of
hearing in court or an inquiry before
4 commission.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-02-06
MARRIAGE Lawn.

There could hardly be a more prof
1table undertaking for young man
and young woman who contemplate
matrimony than a study Of marriage
as a historic institution. 1t would
show them better than almost any
thing else could do their relations to
society and to the state, and would
give them a personal understanding
of what the minister means when, in
the beginning of the ceremony, he
says, mot by any to be entered into
unadvisedly or lightly" The laws of
marriage in all Christian countries,
says the Youths Companion, are de-
law established by the Christian
church in the middle ages. This law
was based upon the Roman civil law,
influenced to a considerable degree
by Teutonic ideas. Marriage laws are
also influenced, and in some countries
controlled, in respect of marriage
within certain degrees of relationship
or affinity, by the laws of Moses, con-
tained in the book of Leviticus. Grad
ually some of these prohibitions have
been relaxed. In the recent case of
the deceased wife's sister act of Eng
fand it was a matter of controversy
whether the Mosaic law forbids such
marriages. The purpose Of all statute
law, as applied to marriage, is now
and has always been primarily the
protection of the state, and secondar-
lily the safeguarding of the rights of
the contracting parties. The Roman
Catholic church regards marriage as
sacrament. The Protestant churches
of western Europe reject this theory,
and in order to lessen or prevent
secret marriages demand that the
consent of parents be obtained. Even
in Roman Catholic countries to-day
marriage is governed by civil legisla.
tion. The civil marriage has been
said, indeed, to be the great innova-
tion of the nineteenth century. In
most Catholic countries two services
are performed. The religious cere-
mony complies with the theory that |
marriage is a sacrament, the civil |
ceremony with the theory that it is a
contract. In these countries the civil |
ceremony alone makes the marriage |
valid The church ceremony alone
does not.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-02-06
FLEET ENTERS THE STRAIT.
sattleships Anchor for the Night in
Possession Bay.

Punta Arenas, Strait of Magellan
"A wireless message was received
here Friday evening that the Ameri.
can battleship fleet which passed
Point Dungeness and entered the
Strait of Magellan at two o'clock in
the afternoon, would anchor for the
night in Possession bay and arrive at
Punta Arenas at noon Saturday.
Possession bay is some 20 miles
westward of Point Dungeness and
about five miles from the entrance to
the first narrows, and affords good
anchorage.
Rear Admiral Evans feet now en-.
terS upon one of the most difficult
parts Of its trip to the Pacific, the
navigation of the eastern part of the
Strait of Magellan.
The first hundred miles of the strait
are comparatively uninteresting. The
land on either side is low and covered
with grass, with scarcely q tree to
be seen for the entire distance to
Cape Negro. Throughout this stretch
the depth of the water rarely exceeds
200 feet, there are many banks and
shoals and the tidal streams are rapid.
the tide rising from So to a feet.
Through the first and second mar
rows the tidal stream runs straight
but at each entrance to these narrows
the volume Of water, which has been
pent up between such narrow walls,
naturally seeks to spread itself out
and consequently causes a strong set
towards the banks of either side of
The end towards which the stream is
and corresponding in.
lraught at the other end.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-02-06
LOOTED BY SAVAGE NEGROES
Was Sinking Liner While Crew Hid in
Small Craft.

Hamburg, Feb. 3.-A thrilling ac.
count of the shipwreck of the Woer.
mann liner, Ascam Woermann. which
recently went on the rocks off Liberia
and became total wreck, is given by
me sailors of the steamer who have
arrived here.
The night the steamer struck was a
lark one and she seemed to be going
20 pieces rapidly. The crew took to
The boats, and Immediately thousands
ot piratical negroes in canoes, who hal
not replied to the signals of distress
from the steamer, surrounded the YES
sci, swarmcd aboard and plundered
her
when the Seamen attempted to re-
urn in order to obtain provisions and
arms, the attitude Of the negroes bn-
came so threatening that ii was impOs-
sibe to do so. They feared to land
On the hostile coast in the darkness
and were compelled TO stay in the
small boats throughout the night.
when morning came the crew land
ed and camped in the brush for several
lays, always fearing an attack. Mean
while they watched the negroes going
10 the ship and returning from her
laden with booty. Finally the vessel
disappeared. AS soon as the negroes
departed and the crew hastened 10
heir boats again they rowed for II
1ours to the northwestward and were
picked up completely exhausted by a
passing steamer off Monrovia.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-02-06

When science through the medium
of Darwin and his colaborers made
monkeys of us in retrospect we were
startled. That discovery, however,
revolutionary though it was, cannot
be classified as any more wonderful
than are other discoveries now being
made or announced in a low tone of
voice by the discoverer at some meet
ing of scientists. Usually he mentions
what he has found out in a casual
way as If he didn't think much of it
but wanted to get it off his mind so
that he might return to his laboratory
and put in eight hours or so day
making more discoveries. If this sort
of thing keeps on we shall soon know
as much about our internal machinery
and the workings thereof as we now
Know about the stars. In fact, we
shall be as familiar with the alimen-
tary canal as with the canals of Mars.
When a man gets sick he will drag
himself to the repair shop and the
machinist and the electrician will
make him over as if he were an old
boiler 1t will be a great day about
January l next when the inventors
all get together and relate the results
OF their experiments for the year.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-02-06
Rapid Rise.

Pa said Mrs. Hardapple, as she
opened the letter, the man who ran
over our old crippled COW with his
automobile wants to know how much
she was worth"
Tell him about six dollars"
drawled Hiram Hardapple. "Let me
see, it was that poor village doctor,
wasn't it?"
mo, Hiram; it was a city feller."
WAS, eh? Well, by heck, tell him
she was first-class critter and worth
every cent of $50."
"And come to think of it, Hiram.
his automobile was almost as long as
steamboat, with glass windows, six
lights and horn that you could hear
five miles,
What? Then write and tell him
the. COW he killed was a genuine i'm.
ported prize-winning Holstein and
worth $500, and if he doesn't settle up
every cent in cash I'll put the law on
him."
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-02-06
Massachusetts, Speaker Indicted.

Salem, Mass.-Speaker John N.
Cole of the Massachusetts house of
representatives, whose home is at
Andover, and who represented the
Eighth Essex district for seven years,
was indicted Friday by the Essex
county grand jury on a charge of vic.
lat1ng the public statutes in requesting
reduced rate Of fare on the Boston
& Maine railroad for large number
of persons. The indictment is in 123
counts, and the statute provides
penalty in each case of a fine of not
less than $l00 nor more than $1,000
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-02-06
ANOTHER MORSE BANK SHUT
VIEW AMSTERDAM NATIONAL is
CLOSED BY COMPTROLLER.
President kinsman Says Depesltors
Will Lose Nothing and Stockhold-
ers Will Get Dividend.

New York.-The New Amsterdam
National bank, capitalized at S1,0OO,-
300 and situated at Broadway and
Thirty-ninth street, was closed by the
order of the comptroller of the cur
.ency Wednesday night and National
Bank Examiner Charles A. Hanna was
placed in charge.
The institutions liabilities are
placed at $4,4S2,O of which $2,065,-
272.49 are due depositors. The banks
officers assert that not only will every
1epositor be paid in full, but the stock
holders will receive a substantial divi-
dend.
The New Amsterdam National was
formerly one of the chief links in the
chain of banks established by Charles
w. Morse. President Frank w. Kins.
man, Jr., declared, in a statement is.
sued Wednesday night, that "the clos
ing of the National Bank of North
America, attracting renewed attention
to the interests which had previously
dominated both institutions in their
past administrations, started fresh re-
ports Of an exaggerated and sensa.
tional nature which necessitated the
liquidation of the bank" The instt'
tuition occupied quarters in the Met
ropolitan Opera house, in the heart
of the uptown theatrical district and
numbered among its clientele many of
those prominent on the stage.
About year ago the New Amster-
dam underwent a reorganization be-
cause of a falling off in it's business
and Frank w. Kinsman, Jr., was
elected president Every effort was
made to rehabilitate the institution.
The recent panic was not without its
effect, though the bank weathered tho
storm and succeeded in reducing it's
clearing house certificates from $1,7O5,.
900 to 100000.
President D. A. Sullivan of the Me-
chanics' and Traders bank announced
shortly after midnight Wednesday
night that the institution would not
open its doors Thursday. This de.
cision was reached at meeting of the
board of directors lasting four hours.
In a statement issued after the meet
ing the directors declared the bank
solvent, but the state of the cash re-
sources made it appear inadvisable
for the bank to continue business.
New York. - The Oriental bank,
on which a run of depositors was
started Thursday, did not open
for business Friday. A notice was
posted on it's doors announcing that
the institution was closed by order of
the state superintendent of banks. The
Oriental is state bank having a cap.
ital stock of $75O,OOO.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-02-06
LOOT OF OLD ROBBERY FOUND.
Stolen Bricks of Bullion Recovered
When Saloon Burns.

Omaha, Neb.-Superintendent Pat
terson of the Pacific Express company
returned to Omaha from Sidney, Neb
Thursday, bringing with him two large
bricks of bullion, believed to represent
part Of the loot of a robbery of the
company's office N Sidney, Neb, in
March, 1880.
The metal was found buried in the
debris of saloon which burned tive
weeks ago. The robbery was the
boldest Of its kind ever pulled off in
the west and the bullion, which had
been received that day by stage from
the Black Hills, was valued at $127, 900.
One of the bricks was sold to the
Denver mint a year after the robbery
Sheriff Mccarthy, who then owned
the saloon which burned recently. was
believed to be the leader of the robbeI
band, but the express company was
unable to secure his Indictment. His
brother was hanged later by vigilantes
Mccarthy has been dead Several years
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-02-06
FATHER SLAYs CHILDREN,
Paret Fatally Shoots Three-Grudus
Against His Wife.

Chicago.-William Meutsch, a car.
rlage maker, All Armitage ave-
nue., shot and killed his tive-year-oI1
daughter, Gertrude, fatally wounded
Jennie, aged four, so that she died
Friday, and probably fatally shot Wiz
liam, Jr., aged two, in the shop be-
neatn his home. The crime, coolly e1-
ecuted by the man, according to thu
police, startled the veteran officers
who responded to the call and found
the bodies of the dead and dying chill.
dren in the house. Mcutsch calmly
told the police he had killed the chill
dren so his wife would be placed in
the position Of woman whose hus-
band will be hanged. He told Cant
Harding of the AttrilI street station
Friday that he was a deeply wronged
man and that his wife was guilty of
offenses warranted to secure him a
divorce.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-02-06
A Remedy for Neuralgia or Pain in
the Nerves,

For neuralgia and sciatica Sloan's
Liniment has no equal. 1t has pow
erfully sedative effect on the nerves
-penetrates without rubbing and
gives immediate relief from pain
quickens the circulation of the blood
and gives pleasant sensation of com
fort and warmth.
For three years I suffered with
neuralgia in the head and jaws"
writes ]. P. Hubbard, of Marietta. s.
c., "and had almost decided to have
three of my teeth pulled, when
friend recommended me to buy a %
cent bottle of Sloan's Liniment. | did
so and experienced immediate relief,
and kept on using it until the neu-
ralgia was entirely cured. will never
be without a bottle of Sloan's Lin-
ment in my house again. I use it alse
for insect bites and sore throat, and I
can cheerfully recommend it TO any
one who suffers from any Of the ills
have mentioned"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-02-06
500 Reward, SfOO

The readers of this paper will be pleased tO learn
that there is at least dreaded disease that ecence
has been able to cure in all It's stages and that 10
Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure Is the only positive
cure now known to the medical fraternity. CatarTh
being constitutional disease, requires constitu-
tiOna treatment. Halls CaUarrh Cure is taken In
ternaly acting directly upon the blood and mucous
surfaces Of the system, thereby destroying the
foundation OF the disease, and giving the paticut
strength by building up the constitution and assist
ing nature +. doing Its work. The prOpretOrs have
so much faith in its curative powers that they offer
One Hundred Dollars for any case that It fails to
cure Send for list of testimonials.
Address F. J. CHENEY g. CO., Toledo. o.
Sold by all Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-02-06
shipwrecked Crew Rescued.

Nantucket, Mass-After a struggle
Of five hours against intense cold and
a turbulent sea, the life savers Of the
Coslata station rescued the crew OF
the Newport brigantine Fredericka
Schepp, which was wrecked Thursday
on the north side of Coatue beach.
Mrs. Charles Oversen, wife of the cap.
tain, and her year-old baby, who were
on board, were also taken off the
stranded vessel.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-02-06
UnapprecIated Prowess.

The athletic son wrote home from
college as follows:
Dear Pop: Watch the papers.
Next week l distinguish myself by
throwing the hammer"
And the irate old gentleman stamped
his gouty foot and replied:
Il don't care to read any such dis
graceful antics in the paper. II You
break any windows you'll have to pay
for them yourself"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-02-06

Street names spelled out in bright
colors or figures and imbedded in ce-
ment walks are one of the most re-
cent innovations in American CITY
architecture. The plan has been tried
in Kansas City on all the large boule-
wards, the main idea being not to dis.
figure the street and houses by the
usual printed signs that are placed on
the walls of corner houses or fastened
to the lamp posts at the intersections
of the streets. The name of each
boulevard is spelled out in letters
from six to eight inches high, formed
with stones about One-kalf inch
square laid in the cement sidewalk,
similar to the tile or ceramic mosaic
work which is now so frequently seen
in the vestibules of buildings.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-02-06
Ran Into Open Switch.

Chattanooga, Tenn, Feb. 3.-Passon-
ger Train No. 35, known as the New
YORK Limited, wa wrecked one mile
east OF SWeetwater, Tenn. The train
"hlIe gong at rate of 35 miles an
hour ran into an open switch and
crashed into loaded coal car. A mum.
per OF passengers were seriously in.
lured. The most seriously hurt are.
Engineer Copeland, Knoxville. Mail
clerk |. NJ. Thomas, Cleveland Tenn:
Robert Ashton, express messenger:
Mall Clerk j. c. Matthews, Johnson
city The passengers were all badly
shaken up and the track was blocked
for some hours.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-02-06
PANTRY CLEANED
A Way Some People Have.
A doctor sajd:-

A doctor sajd:--
Before marriage my wife observed
in summer and country homes, coming
in touch with families of varied means.
culture, tastes and discriminating ten
dencies, that the families using Pos
tum seemed to average better than
those using coffee.
When we were married two years
ago, Postum was among our first order
OF groceries. We also put in some cof-
fee and tea for guests, but after both
had stood around the pantry about a
year untouched. they we're thrown
away, and Postum used only.
up to the age Of 2S I had been ac-
customed to drink coffee as a routine
habit and suffered constantly from in
digestion and all it's relative disorders.
Since using Postum all the old COM
plants have completely left me and /
sometimes wonder If ever had them
Name given by Postum CO., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read, THE Road to
Wellyille. in pkgs. There's a Reason. +
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-02-06
DIES IN FRAT HOUSE FIRE.
Minneapolis Boy Burned to Death at
Cornell University.

Ithaca, N. Y.-From the ruins of
the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house
at Cornell university, which burned
Friday, were taken the charred re,
mains of j. s. Kiehle, a junior in me-
chanical engineering.
1t is supposed that Kiehle was on
his way to an upper floor to save
Ted" Seelye of the Cornell Cross
Country team, who was known to be
an occupant of room there. Seelye,
scantily clothed, escaped to balcony
porch and down ladder. Kiehle was
from Minneapolis.
The loss through the burning of the
fraternity house is $4,000.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-02-06
Marshal HaIstead Is Dead.

Cincinnati.-Marshal Halstead, for.
mer United States consul at Birming-
ham, England, died at nine o'clock
Wednesday night at the German Dea.
coness hospital here, following an op.
Grafton for appendicitis. The de.
ceased was son of Murat Halstead,
the well-known journalist and author
He was 45 years of age.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-02-06
Laugh and Grow Fat: No

There is nothing in the maxim
Laugh and grow fat" or else the joke.
smiths fail to grow mirthful ever their
own merrymaking.
Great humorists seldom are fat. f.
P. Dunno is the heaviest, weighing
about 16O pounds. The weight Of
others living is: Mark Twain, $50
pounds; George Ade, 147; Jerome X.
Jerome, 143, and w. w. Jacobs, 1872.
o. Henry is really a great humorist,
but he is in the 1S0-pound class
Home Magazine.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-02-06

Anna Gould will yet be obliged to
hire special secretary to deny mar.
riage rumors about her. She might
arrange with the newspapers to have
the rumor of her union with the
prince issued on Tuesdays and Fri
days, with her stereotyped denial, and
on Thursdays and Saturdays the ru-
NOR of Cancellation with h& former
husband. That would leave her three
days to herself, which is little enough
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-02-06
Nine Miners Are Killed.

Charleston. w. Va.-Nine miners
met sudden death in the New River
colliery, As miles from here, near
Hawks Nest, Thursday afternoon in
an explosion that partly wrecked the
mine. twenty-five men were in the
mine at the time of the explosion, and
eight of the nine dead were instantly
killed. The others escaped with only
slight injuries. John Bowles, who was
blown down the incline, was the only
man not instantly killed.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-02-06
Minnesota Town Wiped Out.

Albert Lea, Minn.-Fire early
Thursday destroyed Twin Lakes, a
village situated on the Minneapolis
& st. Louis road, nine miles southwest
of here. Not structure was left
standing and almost the entire popu-
lation, numbering over 200, are home
less as result. The village has no
fire fighting apparatus.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-02-06
Famine in North LapIand.

Stockholm.-Serious famine is prev.
alent in the iron district of northern
Lapland. According to a dispatch to
Dagens Nyhester, from Kiruna, the
inhabitants in the parish of Velhel-
nina have gone to the extreme of
slaughtering dogs and cats for food
to prevent starving to death.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-02-06
Brothers In Suicide Pact

Litchfeld, Undetermined to d.
together, two brothers, James ana
Charles Lipsy, aged "a and 40 years
respectively, formed a suicide COM
pact Friday at Raymond, this county,
and James Lipsy is dead and his
brother is dying al his home.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-02-06

viii the doctors who are working
on the problem of prolonging life
issue guarantees that mental and
physical strength will continue to the
end? Longevity when it means that
one is a dependent and burden to
others is not the most desirable thing
in the human economy.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-02-06
Americans Buy Valued Relies.

London.-The flag of the American
man-of-war Chesapeake and the "Bala.
clava bugle," two of the most valuable
war relics of collection of antiquities
that belonged to the late T. G. Middle
brook, were secured Thursday at the
auction sale of the collection for
American buyers.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-02-06
Doctor Dies of Blood POISONING,

Omaha, Neb.-Dr. Andrew w. Riley,
professor of practice of medicine of
Creighton Medical college, died Fri
day of blood poisoning caused by in.
lection received from an erysipelas
patient. He was 40 years old.