The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-05-21

the list of supposed victims Of Mrs.
Bella Guinness on her farm near La
porte, Ind.
Evidence was obtained by Laporte
officials that Mrs. Guinness had an ac'
complice who aided in Turing victims
to her farm.
A. X. Helgelein, last of the victims
Of Mrs. Guinness, was buried at La
porte. The fragments of jawbone
found in the ruins of the farmhouse
were identified by a dautist as from
Mrs. Guinness skull.
Two trainmen were killed and 10
passengers injured in a collision on
the Missouri, Kansas & Texas road
near Muskogee, Okla.
The old plant of the Omaha Packing
company in South Omaha was de-
stroyed by fire together with 100000
pounds of meat, involving a loss es-
timated at $5O0,OO0.
The right of President Roosevelt
summarily to dismiss a negro soldier
of the Twenty-fifth infantry for al
legged participation in the riot at
Brownsville, Tex, was sustained by
Judge Hough in the United States dis
trict court at New York.
A bonded warehouse at Oskaloosa
containing $500 barrels of whisky was
burned.
After it had been mislaid for rs
years, workmen found in the CUB
basement of the war department
building at Washington a wooden box
containing the personal relics of Lieut.,
Delong, who commanded the ill-fated
Jeanette Arctic expedition and who
perished in 1881.
Gen. Snarski, commander of the
Russian punitive expedition into
Persian territory, has been ordered to
resume his advance into Persia and
to punish the bandits with fire and
sword He will destroy villages, but
spare the women and children.
The Democrats of Minnesota in.
dorsed Gov. Johnson as a president al
candidate and at the same time, by d
vote of 772 to 166, refused to declare
in favor of Bryan as second choice.
Wyoming Democrats indorsed Bryan.
Bandits bound and gagged the sta
ton agent and a, guard in the depot
at French, N. NJ, and escaped with
$35,OOO.
The armored cruiser Maryland was
| the trophy winner in the recent target
practice at Magdalena bay.
The Wright brothers aeroplane was
wrecked at Kill Devil hill, North Caro-
lima, after flight Of eight miles.
Two men were shot and almost in
stantly killed and a woman wounded
at Coney Island, victims of the jeal
ousy of young Italian.
o. ]. Sturgis of Uniontown, Pa, a
well-known editor, committed suicide
An incendiary fire in a tenement at
Passaic, n. j., caused the death OF
three children.
James j. Hill and others addressed
the conference of governors in the
White House on the dangers of forest
and soil depletion.
A court in Paris granted the Hart
Mckee divorce, blaming both parties
and giving Mrs. Mckee custody of the
child except for one month yearly.
1t was announced in London that
Miss Jean Reid daughter Of the Amer
lean ambassador, and John Hubert
palace June 23
Eight hundred brewery workers o
Kansas City went, on stIike.s4 ...
The Reserve Trust company and the
American Savings bank Of Cleveland
O., closed their doors.
A tornado wrecked the hamlet o
Gillian, La, and damaged neighborins
towns, several persons being killed
and many injured. Much damage ant
some deaths were caused by tornadoe!
in Nebraska, Iowa and Kansas.
Farley B. Palmore and Miss Lois M
Palmore of Virginia were welded IL
the rotunda of the capitol at Wash
ington.
Numerous addresses were made ant
great enthusiasm exhibited at the ma
tional conference on conservation o
natural resources in the White House
1t was proposed to form permanen
organization.
Three former aldermen of Rockford
ILL.,, pleaded guilty of accepting bribe
and were fined $4,000 each.
The Wright brothers made two NOR
successful flights with their aeroplan
at Manteo, N. c.
Mail advices say the recent tida
bore in the Yangtse-Kiang resulted Il
nearly 10000 deaths at Hankow.
Miss Maud Fleming of Waterloo
Ia, shot and killed her father Will
defending her mother.
An attempt made by prisoners t
break out of the government Jail a
. Yekaterinoslav, Russia, after maxim
a breach in the wall OF the guar
, room with a bomb, resulted in tn
, deaths of 20 of the fugitives.
Four miners were killed and thre
injured by fall of rock in a collier
r at Midvale, Pa.
The national conference on the Coz
servation of Natural Resources opene
, at Washington with the governors c
nearly all the states of the union an
prominent men representing ever
line of thought and industry of tn
, nation in attendance.
Tornadoes in Mercer and Henr
> counties, Illinois, in the vicinity
Madison, Wis, and in Oklahoma an
Texas killed several persons and d.
stroyed a great amount of propert.
st. Louis and vicinity were swept by
: violent gale.
Roy Waller, aged 1S, was arreste
, at Lincoln, ILL.,, charged with threaten
!. ing Hiram L. Keays, wealthy res
dent of Elkhart with death unless b
r placed $500 in a designated place.
! The celebrated market and gener
h01nr In Madrid called locally 81 ,s