The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-04-23
Operators and miners of the central


stroyed three of their villages.
Algerian tribesmen attacked a
French column but were repulsed with
considerable loss after a desperate
fight.
Two little daughters of William NJ.
Watts were cremated near Worthing
ton, Ind, in a barn by a blaze they
| started while playing
Two negroes assaulted a 19-year-old
girl in Indianapolis and were pursued
by armed posses
State police protected the street
cars from the mobs at Chester Pa.
One officer was shot.
The supreme court of Wisconsin
handed down a decision which in eff
feet makes impossible the forming of
a drainage system out of $4,000 acres
of land known as the Horizon Marsh.
Rev. George w. TOmson, pastor of
the Presbyterian church of Woodbury.,
n. j., shot and killed himself because
OF scandal following the announce
ment of his engagement TO a wealthy
widow.
Five persons were injured in a
! street car collision in st. Louis.
Grover and John Spurgeon. school
boys, were drowned near Lawrence
burg, Ind
Fire destroyed the plant of the In
ternational Salt company at Ludlow
vile, N. Y, the loss being $150,OOO.
A national spelling contest is to be
held at Cleveland in connection with
the meeting Of the National Education
al association.
Miss Grace Meigs won first place in
competitive examination of medical
students for internes in the county
hospital at Chicago
New York firemen formed a human
chain and rescued a man from a burn
ing building.
The Danish steamer United States
and the Ward liner Monterey collided
in the lower New York bay and were
badly damaged, but no one was killed
or injured.
Prompt measures were taken in
Boston for the relief of the Chelsea
fire sufferers. The loss was estimated
at $5,575,00O, with $3,5OO.OOO insur-
ance.
Many persons We're hurt at Chester,
Pa, when striking street car men at
tackled the state police.
A herd of circus elephants was
stampeded by fire at Riverside, Cal,
and one of them killed Miss Ella Gibbs
and injured several men.
Four delegates-at-large instructed to
work and vote for William H. Taft in
the Chicago convention until he is
nominated for the presidency, were
elected by the Minnesota Republican
state convention.
Louis Orian, wife and five children.
whose farm buildings were destroyed
by a prairie fire near Forman, n. d.,
are believed to have perished in the
flames.
A jury found verdict of guilty in
the case of the United States against
Herbert f. Robinson, j. l.. Layne and
f. e. Holiday, tried before Judge Nor.
ris, in the federal district court at Min
neapolis, on an Indictment charging
conspiracy.
Enraged because American and
negro wOrllmen were being given the
preference when the American Alum
mum works at East st. Louis, ILL.,,
were reopened, more than $50 Ar
menians, Turks and Greeks started a
desperate riot.
Five thousand men from the battle.
ship fleet paraded in San Diego and
gold key and a sword for Admiral
Evans were presented to Admiral
Thomas.
Robert n. Harper, president of the
Washington chamber of commerce,
drug manufacturer, and one of the
best-known business men in Washing
ton, was sentenced by Judge Kimball
in the police court to pay fine of $700
for violating the pure food law.
The ministers of the 1000 Presby-
terian churches throughout the
United States were requested by the
department of church and labor to OBJ
serve labor Sunday, May 10.
President Roosevelt will again
nominate John w. Jackson to be post
master at Columbia, Tenn. the post
master general having recommended
that the nomination, which was with
drawn from the senate on March 80,
be again sent to that body.
Hauser lake dam across the Mis-.
souri, river, Is miles below Helena,
gave way with a great crash and pre-.
cipitated from 25 to 80 feet of water
over the dismembered structure.
The Delaware state Democratic con.
vention instructed its delegates to the
national convention for George Gray,
despite his refusal to have his name
presented
Jean Rull and three of his accom-.
pliCes have been found guilty of at
tempts to assassinate King Alfonso.
Rull was sentenced to death and the
others to Imprisonment.
Led by Chief Officer Borch the en-
tire crew of the fruit steamer Banes
deserted at New York when the
steamer arrived from Port Antonio,
jamaica
Clifford Vernon, the ten.year-oId son
of Thompson Vernon, hanged himself
self in his fathers barn near Mount
) ernOn, 0.
Windows were smashed and houses
for a distance of ten miles were
shaken when 400 pounds of nitro
glycerin exploded and scattered the
splinters Of a separator mill of the
Aetna Powder company at Aetna, Ind,
over quarter of mile.
Mrs. Kate Pelter was found strangled
to death and Vito Debello with his
throat cut, in a New York fat Charles