Smyrna times., 1906-10-03
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Tuesday, September 25.

October 10 has been designated as
autumn arbor day in Pennsylvania.
The United States battleship Geor.
gia. has been placed in commission at
the Charleston, Mass, navy yard.
The 18th annual convention of the
Medal of Honor Legion of the United
States was held at Winsted, Conn.
The national encampment of the
Spanish war veterans will be held in
Washington, D. c.. beginning Octo.
Der 8.
Eighteen prisoners convicted of
crimes ranging from misdemeanors to
murder escaped from the Jail at
Arlington, Va.
Wednesday, September &c.
Six people were injured, several
fatally, by the collapse of a building
at Memphis, Tenn.
\ The bank of Brady, Neb., was
wrecked by robbers and a large
amount of money was taken.
Colonel Isaac Hill. for S5 years an
employee of the national house of rep.
resentatives. died in Washington of
Tying bed-clothes around his neck
and swinging himself from a bedpost
so that he slowly strangled to death
John HOzier committed suicide at his
home at Mt. Holly, N. ].
Thursday September 27.
Edward c. drummer, business man.
ager of the Baltimore (Md.) Sun, died
suddenly Of heart failure
Rev. Thomas J. Leonard, of Brook
Ign, was elected president of the
Catholic Young Mems National Union
at the convention in New York.
Colonel j. L. Lusk, of the engineer
corps of the United States army, com
mirted suicide by cutting his throat
at the home of his daughter at Sandy
Hook, N. ].
Angered because his elder brother
refused to share a penny's worth OF
candy with him, Fred FAINTER, a 4
year-oid Chicago boy, hurled a stone
at the former and killed him.
Friday, September %.
Two carloads of cold storage chick
ems and over 10 carloads of meat were
condemned by Chicago food inspec.
tors.
An explosion of natural gas at Cher
ryyale. Kan, demolished a smeltel
plant. killed two workmen and injured
four others, two fatally
Jean de NemOurs, a Chicago con
tractor, committed suicide by taking
poison rather than face trial for hav
ing threatened to kill a man.
William Robinson, an advocate oil
the simple life" who lived in the
mountains near Wilkes-Barre. Pa, be
came so depressed he committed sui
eide by shooting.
Saturday, September 20.
Pope Plus received in the Vatican a
Rome so American sailors from tn
warships now at Naples.
Mayor Edward F. Dunne, of Chicago
was elected president of the League o.
the American Municipalities.
J. H. Loomis, for many years rea
estate agent of the Reading Railway
company, died at his home in Philadel
phia.
| The 10-story building of the Pittsburs
Plate Glass company in Cleveland, o.
was destroyed by fire, entailing a los
of 100000
John Maxwell, aged IS years, wa
sentenced to prison for 20 years TO
killing Policeman Slaymaker in Phila
delphia last May.
Monday, October I.
The United States army transpOr
Sherman has reached San Francisco
with some passengers of the wrecks
transport Sheridan.
Seven hundred ballots were take
by the congressional convention O
the First Georgia district before San
uel B. Adams, of Savannah, was finall
chosen.
A mass meeting of Democrats a
Quitman. Tex, has expressed its dis
approval OF Senator Bailey's course i
acting as counsel for a Standard o.
concern
Charles Hordatte and MichaC
Keiser. employees of the Pennsylvani
Steel company, at Harrisburg, Pa
were killed by a heavy girder fallin
nthem.
John Marriott, a popular amateu
ball player, was instantly killed by b.
ing squeezed between cars at Pen
. Haven Junction, Pa, where he Wa
employed as a brakeman on the l.
high Valley.