The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-07-16

goods Incorporated, and his secretary,
Ralph L. Kilby, were discharged in
New York for lack of evidence in the
case in which they were arrested
charged with obtaining stock sub
scriptions to the Hapgoods Sales com
pany through Misrepresentation.
An uprising of Navajos was reported
TO have occurred in New Mexico.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. r. Hutchings OF
Brooklyn were killed when a train
struck their automobile at Center'
MOriches, L. /.
The Petoskey Fiber Paper company,
indicted at New York for violating the
Sherman antitrust law, PLEADED
guilty and was fined $4,000.
Two children were killed and a.
woman fatally burned in fire near
Nevada, Mo.
The national Prohibition convention
will be held July Is and 16 in Column
bus, o.
Seven trainmen were killed and
four injured in a collision on the
Canadian Pacific near Medicine Hat.
Three little girls tried to wreck the
Pennsylvania flyer near Hazleton, Pa
by piling stones on the track.
Mrs. Grace Goodsell of New YORK
declared her six-year-old son was the
Messiah and branded him on the fore
head and throat.
Diplomatic relations between Amer
lea and Venezuela have been COM
pletely severed, Senor VelOz-Goiticoa,
the Venezuelan charge d'affaires, hav-
ing presented to Acting Secretary
Bacon notice from his government
that he was to quit his post here. clos
ing up the Venezuelan legation in
Washington, and repair forthwith to
Venezuela.
During the fighting in Paraguay the
American minister E. c. OBrien, was
fired on three times by government
troops by mistake, and narrowly es-
capped death.
Charles Taylor, a Missouri Pacific
operator at Lamonte, Mo, was arrest
ed on charge of manslaughter OF &C.
count of the wreck near Knobnoster.
A Russian torpedo boat was wrecked
in the Gulf of Finland by running on
the rocks off Reval. The crew were
saved.
The members of the Brooklyn Arion
Choral society met with an enthusias-
tic reception in Philharmonic hall,
Berlin, where they gave their first con-
cert, rendering American and German
folk songs.
The jurymen in the Humbert libel
case against the Paris Matin are suing
that journal for $4,000 damages on ac-
count of the article printed the day
after the trial, in which their verdict
was criticised.
In gun and knife fight at a pro-
tracted meeting near Backusburg, KY
Wayne Lawrence shot and killed
Annie Bannister and was himself per.
haps fatally stabbed.
Forest fires in Maine burned over
large areas and threatened several
towns with destruction.
A new bridge under construction
over the Rhine at Cologne fell in ami
20 or more workmen lost their lives.
Two persons were killed and
dozen injured by gas explosion and
| fire in a Boston tenement house.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edmund Smith, who
lived on farm two miles east of
North Rose, N. Y, were burned to
death in a fire which destroyed their
residence.
Having thrown a $500 bank certi1-
cate of deposit into stove, Joe Wal
insky, thinking he could not get the
money on it, committed suicide by
| drowning in 18 inches of water at Mo.
line, Ill.,
The Republican national committee,
in session at Hot Springs, Va, elected
Frank H. Hitchcock of Massachusetts
its chairman and made him manager
of the presidential campaign. George
R. Sheldon of New York was chosen
treasurer and Arthur l. Vorys was
given charge of the Ohio Republican
headquarters at Cincinnati.
Fire on the harbor front of East
| Boston destroyed piers and ware
| houses and an elevator the property
loss being about $1,500,000. A watch
man was reported missing.
A loss estimated at nearly 100000
was suffered at College Point, L. l., by
fire which destroyed Zehden's hotel
and casino, Dondera's casino and
number of small buildings.
Armed revolutionists from Salvador,
after capturing the town of Gracias in
Honduras, attacked Choluteca. The
residents strongly resisted, holding
back the revolutionists for three days.
Richard Alexander, treasurer and a
member of the board of governors of
the real estate board of brokers of
New York, shot himself twice at Dex-
ter, Me-, and probably will die
Reports that Frank ]. Gould and his
wife have become reconcied were cir.
culated following the striking from the
court calendar of an action entitled
Gould versus Gould"
William M. Ingraham, Jr., of Wav.
erly, N. Y, has begun contest of the
will of his father, lawyer of Brook
lyn. who died June 7, leaving an es-
tate of more than 100000.
Albert McVay, wealthy cattle
dealer, was shot while sitting with
his wife at a window of their home
near Pine Bluff, Ark.
The two-masted schooner Acacia.
owned and captained by William Sim
mons Of Kingston, went ashore ON
Bull Rock point, near Sacketts Har-
Dor, and the crew of eight was rescued
by S. Gibble.
President Roosevelt and party, un-
der the guidance of Commander Peo,v.
| In ha