Smyrna times., 1886-09-01
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ware river at EaSJOn, IA,
Inc Italian frontier district has been
olncis .Iy declared free Of cholera.
Tne Howard Oil mills, at Houston,
1 yxas, were burned on Sunday, loss
'y275, 900, insurance $15OOOO.
Miss Dolan, beautiful Chicago girl,
will jump from the Brooklyn bridge
for $1,000. Why not? Ex pede Her.
cullen.
The Rev. John Hall, Of New York is
TO have a $4,000 parsonage on Fifth
avenue. And the Son Of Man had not
where to lay his head
The volcano Of Vesuvius has been in
state Of violent eruption, many of the
people Of the city of Naples have fed
to the country Of refuge
A number of men who were engaged
IN the recent riots in Belfast have been
sentenced to terms of imprisonment
ranging from two to nineteen months.
a father and son named Roesk, Of
Baltimore, were lost while bathing at
Cape May, and man named Murphey,
of the same place at Atlantic City, on
August 29th.
Miss Clara Louise Kellogg, arrived
in New York on the steamer Anrqnin
from England last saturday. Miss
Kellogg has been travelling in Europe
for pleasure since last May.
4 large area Of territory was disturb
ed in Greece by earthquake shocks on
| August 28th and 18th. Six towns were
! destroyed and in the islands several
] hundred persons were killed and in
jured.
Hobart Wood & Co., wholesale boot
! and shoe manufacturers Of San Fran
! cisco are reported TO have made an as
/ signment. Liabilities, $4,000; assets,
! 100000. Half the Indebtedness IS in
Boston.
Rath Pratt, employed at the Chestnut
| street Office Of the Adams Express Com
pany. Philadelphia. has been arrested
on the charge Of the larceny of S29, COS
in United States notes, from a safe
while in his charge
BENJAMIN L.~en, a veil-to-do farmer
near beiieyiiIe, Michigan, was robbed
Of $3.50 in gold and $3.50 in valuable pa
pers by masked burglars on Sunday
night. The thieves bound and gagged
EIwell and his wife
The switchmen on the Lake Shore
and Michigan Southern Railroad are
paid $50 a month aud 81 a dav for extra
meals. The latter perquisite the com
pauy proposes TO abolish. The men say
they will strike on September 1st.
Thirty-four persons were arrested in
Newport, Il. L.. on Saturday night.
charged with the illegal sale Of liquor
and maintaining nuisances. All plead
ed not guilty at the hearing, and the
cases We're continued. the accused being
placed under bail.
The steamer Daniel Dre,r, one of the
boats of the Albany line caught fire
while lying at her wharf at Kingston.
on the Hudson and was entirely des-
trOyed. 2ne was a fine vessel valued
at about $200,001 aqd was Insured for
only one third Of her value.
Rev Jas. C. Beecher, brother OF
Henry Ward Beecher. committed sui.
eide at Elmira, y. Y, on Wednesday
has been suffering under severe mental
troubles for some years, and lat:erly he
had lived on a farm in Ulster county
The steamer -I}aska. Of the Guion
[ Line, which sailed for Liverpool yester.
! | day afternoon went aground on the
. south side of Gedney's Channel in the
: Lower Bay in the heavy rain storm
r that began about o'clock. At a late
5 hour last night she had not beer
! hoated.
VOW that a scientist has declared
: THAI the rock Of Niagara Falls is wear
J | ing away, a Western railroad announce.
an excursion to the falls. in order TO civ,
1 every one chance to see them befOr,
they are worn away. 1t neglects t
= say, however, that the falls will las
; 2,200 years yet.
, On Sunday Latin 4 Rand's powder
/. magazine, on the outskirts of Chicag,
) was exploded by bolt of lightning
e killing one person and injuring fatal,
r four others, while a large number wer
r more or less seriously hurt The hous
j. contained 10000 pounds of powde
1 and dynamite, and the conclusion wa
, terrible.
: Work was begun Monday morning
{ after two years of legal contest and de
i lay, on the Electrical Subway in Ney
c York city. The composition throug
t which the wires are to run contains
y cOnduits ]! inches in diameter. Their
/ are to be two lines of these, side b
Z side, and the surface will be about tw
e feet wide.
: Fifty thousand Socialists, workme
: and idlers, met in Trafalgar Suuar
n saturday, afternoon, and adopted reso
It lutions denouncing the tyranny of tn
il police and the action of the authoritie
d in imprisOning the Socialist William.
!. The proceedings were orderly. Ever
y precaution against a disturbance ha
:. been taken by the police.
$ Jacob Duncan of Bedford, Pa, wi
Is stand no fOoling with time. Hi
$ brother-in-law, Jeremiah Pleckel
Is turned forward the hands of the cloc
$ two hours, whereupOn Jacob resente
r the foolish joke by shooting Jeremia
rs dead. The murderer will probably /
Id wishing for someone to turn the hand
y of prison clock backward on the da
n fixed for his execution.
IN Daniel Magone, the new customs co
=. !ector at New York, took possession
le ms office Monday. He said to the r
" porters: l can't tell for few da,
at what changes will have to be made
t. the administration of the custom hous
1t would be very rash to make who'll
sale changes without an investigation
believe, with the President, publ
office is public trust"
- y. T. Robertson, of Washincto,
e, saturday rode bicycle across cab
or John Bridge on the coping. The col
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