The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-09-24

ened by forest fires.
Dispatches from Tabriz said thu
bombardment Of that city by th'
shah's forces was imminent.
Tilted by an 1S-year-old girl. JOIN
Smith of Calhoun, Wis. shot and fatal
ly wounded the mother of the girl
Mrs. Agusta Grabow, wounded the CIR
herself, and then wounded the sheriff
who came to arrest him.
The explosion of 25O gallons Of
gasoline on board a barge at the Mare
Island navy yard resulted in the death
OF Chief Machinist Teddy May and
injuries to three other men.
The American Atlantic fleet, under
the command of Rear Admiral Sperry,
left Albany, Western Australia, for
Manila, $500 miles away, where it is
due TO arrive October or g.
Heavy rainfall in northern Michigan
and Ontario checked the forest fires
and insured the safety of the threat
ened towns.
Maj. Gen. Charles Edward Luard,
'NAhNNt "hOoC WIG " do my
murdered near London August "a,
committed suicide by throwing him
self in front of railroad train. He
had received letters accusing him of
killing his wife.
Forty men were overcome by smoke
in a fire which threatened the destruc-
tion of Swift & Company's packing
plant in South ST. Joseph. Mo The
loss is about 100000.
The Oklahoma election board re-
fused to put the Prohibition electoral
ticket on the ballot.
The home of Mark Twain at Red
ding, Conn.,, WAS entered by two bur-
glars. Later the men were captured
and in making the arrests Deputy
Sheriff Bangs was shot in the leg.
Three hundred and five cases and
115 deaths from the Asiatic cholera
were reported for one day in st.
Petersburg. The municipal admins
tratiOns are under fire from all sides
for their criminal inctticiency in han
ding the epidemic.
Minority stockholders filed Deti-
ton in the circuit court asking that a
receiver be appointed for the State
Trust Company, st. Louis real es-
tate firm capitalized at $1,OOO,OOO.
Edward Quick, penitentiary guard
at Michigan City, Ind, was murdered
in his home by a burglar.
Five pe'son were killed and 16 in
iured by a boiler explosion in a mine
near AiX-laChapelle.
Joseph James, the negro murderer
whose crime helped start the race
lots in Springfield, ILL.,, was convicted
md sentenced to death.
When Judge Gerard in the supreme
curt granted Miss Helen Maloney,
laughter Of Martin Maloney, a Phila-
'eiphia millionaire and papaI marquis,
decree annulling the marriage cere. |
nony which she went through with |
Arthur Herbert Osborne, young |
roker, on the afternoon of December
D, 1905, it came to light that the |
0uns woman was influenced into tax
ng the step by the fear that she was
D be forced into a marriage with one
f two titled foreigners known TO her
areItS.
The Bay Shore hotel, at Green
nrings, la, one of the largest hotels
II the vest coast, was totally de-
trcycu ny fire, 40 guests having mar
Nv escapes.
Fire in the library of Johns Hopkins
niversity, Baltimore, did inestimable
amage to ancient papyri and parch-
ents.
John Cook, aged IS years, a farmer
iinG near Philo ILL.,, shot and killed
rs. Edna McClelland and attempted
icide.
Dense fog in Chicago caused ac-
dents on steam and street railways
at resulted in the death of two
en- and the injury of many others.
The Intcrparliamentary union met
Berlin to discuss anew the peace
the world and how to maintain it
rough arbitration.
A powder magazine near McAlester,
la, was struck by lightning, the eX-
)sion killing one miner and seriously
uring eight others. &
Police Commissioner Bingham of Iy
w York publicly retracted his re- ::
1T statement in a magazine article a
1t half the criminals in New York
re Jews. b.
Che New York stock exchange house d
F. r. Chapman & Co. was victim
d to the extent of 100000 by means
fraudulent checks.
Che American battleships Maine and
abama, the vanguard of the Ameri-
! fleet on its round-the.world voy-
:, arrived at Naples.
Suit for the recovery of $780, 600
nages, alleged to have been sus-
ned because of boycott, has been
gun against the United Hatters of
lerica by D. f. Loewe & Co, of Dan
y, Conn.
ohm and Wilbur Patterson, charged
h holding up street car near BoS-
, Pa, last May and robbing IL pas
gers and the conductor, were con-
ed in the criminal court at
tsburg. y.
he Republican state convention of ~
III nominated a ticket headed by w. ~,
Spry for governor. "e ,ne
he average wages per hour in the
lcipal manufacturing and mechani.
industries of the country were 81
cent. higher in 1907 than in 1906, n.
lie retail prices of food were AZ M,
cent. higher, according to the July pre
Ort of the bureau of labor. "
he United States circuit court of ~,
eals at Richmond, Va, sustained tbe
opinion of Judge J. C. Pritchard ar
he famous case of the Flieschmann :
npany and others against the South ,.,t