Smyrna times., 1889-09-18
News Items.

NEWS Items.
Philadelphia will have two new thea
tres this season.
Coney Island had many Sunday
visitors to see the storms work.
A stop will be put to Sunday base
ball playing in Queens county, N. Y.
The first snow of the season at Lar
annie, Wyoming, and Leadville, Colo
rado, fell on Saturday morning.
1t is thought Daniel Dougherty, tho
silver-tOngued orator, can secure Sun
set CoX's vacant chair if he wants it.
Mrs. Rachel Sillwaggon, who shook
hands with Lafayette, will celebrate
her 104th birthday in New York
Wednesday.
A postal official has just finished a
six weeks correspondence with the au-
thOrities at Washington over a discrep-
of 3 cents in his accounts.
Bishop Fowler, of the Methodist
church, who has just returned from
China, said in Chicago that he feared
war would yet result from the Chinese
Exclusion law.
During Sunday. school services in a
small frame church near Columbia
City, Indiana, on Sunday, lightning
struck the building, killing two girls.
each about II years of age.
A statue in honor of the memory of
General Grant was unveiled at Fort
Leavenworth, Kansas, Saturday. Brig
Gen. Merritt, U. S. A., and Senator
ingalls, were among the speakers.
One hundred delegates of the Order
OF Railway conductors from Philadel.
phia, Camden, Baltimore, Reading and
other cities met in Wilmington, Del.
Monday, to revise the rules of the
order.
Steve BrOdie jumped from the back
of tight rOpe-walker on a cable into
the artificial lake at Beyerle's Park
Cleveland, Sunday, distance of 100
feet. Five thousand spectators were
present.
A monument to the memory of
Major General Jesse L. Reno was on
Saturday unveiled on South Mountain
battlefield by the surviving members
of the Ninth Army Corps. The monu-
ment stands along the old Sharpburg
road.
1t is rumored in New York that
Mrs Langtry has at last succeeded in
obtaining her diverse, and that a cable
gram from Mr.. Gebhardtto an intimate
friend in that city announces the event.
A wedding between the two is said to
be the next step that will be taken.
The Pennsylvania flood relief com
mission Saturday completed its consid.
Grafton of the question of final distri-
button of the 1und still in its hands
and agreed to give JOhnstown $l.6OO,.
600. The commission received S2.6O5.-
114.22, and had on hand Saturday
1866, ,456.5O.
Deputy United States Marshal Nagle
who shot ex-Judge Terry, was dis.
charged by Judge Sawyer in the
United States District Court at San
Francisco on habeas corpus proceed
ings. Pending argument on excep
tions by the state, he was held in his
own recognizance of $1,000.
F. w. Gesswein, a wealthy tool man.
utacturer in Brooklyn, New York. was
shot and killed Friday by Christian
Deyhle. 1t appears that the men had
a law suit about a patent, and Cess
vein won the case. Deyhle demand
S5OO from Gesswein, and, upon being
refused shot him in the heart.
President Harrison, before his term
expires, will have to appoint eight
brigadier generals to fill vacancies
caused by retirements. He will also
have to appoint successors to twenty
three colonies, eight lieutenant colonies
seven majors, fourteen captains, sever
post chaplains and one professor at
West Point.
A mail agent named Textore, whC
runs on the Southwest Pennsvlvanis
Railroad between .Pittsburg and Faii
Chance, Pa, ,-has been arrested for rob
bing the mails. He was in the habit
of opening a pouch not in his charge
ana IN this manner managed to evadC
suspicion for long time. His steal
ing amounts, it is said, to severa
thousand dollars.
Ex-Congressman Warner went t.
Deer Park on Sunday evening, and
was closeted with the President for an
hour, explaining "why he could moi
! give up lucrative business to accent
the Pension COmmissionership in place
TANNER" 1t is known that Warner'l
decllnation is final. General George
Il. Merrill, of Massachusetts, is now
spoken of for the place.
The Secretary of Agriculture is goine
omake a personal investigation of the
sorghum sugar factories of Kansas
1t is an industry we are fostering" hS
says, land we are going to make it {
success. Last year Fort Scott mad,
100000 pounds at profit. The reason
we continue Governmental inspection O
this thing is that we want to find the
cheapest way of making the sugar."
Mrs. Robert Ray Hamilton. Mrs
Swinton and Joshua Mann were indie.
ted by the New York grand Jury on
two bills, charging them with conspir
acy to deiraud Robert Ray Hamilton
and another charging with grand lar
cency 10 the second degree. Mrs. Rob.
ert Ray Hamilton was indicted bv the
grand jury at Nays Landing, N. j., fol
an atrocious assault upon Mary Don.
nelly
Because a eolored mau was appoin.
ted postmaster at Luverne, Ala, the
chivalrous white citizens Of the place
rose IN their might and rebuked ths
Administration by burning the post.
oihce TO the ground. Whereupon Post