Smyrna times., 1906-09-26
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Tuesday. Sentemher "a

. W. Ildll, uISnJ Watclman of
the Air Line Manufacturing company
at Norfolk, Va, was murdered and
robbed.
Inc 216th anniversary of the found
ing OF Boston was celebrated Monday.
In jumping from a moving train at
Cairo, ILL.,, P. J. Thistlewood, wealthy
grain dealer, fell and broke his neck.
dying instantly.
A. H. Baker was murdered in his
ntore at Barbourville, w. Va, and the |
place robbed.
Wednesday, September 10.
The National Negro Baptist Con-
vention will meet next year in Wash
ington. d. c.
John Strothcamp died at Harrison.
N. Y, from knockout blow received
in boxing bout with Philip Ryan.
While sitting in the street before
his home in Philadelphia, BENJAMIN
Goldsmith, aged years, was run over
by trolley car and killed.
Two laborers were killed and nine
injured, two fatally. by the collapse of
steel superstructure at the Wood
worsted mills, Lawrence, Mass.
DespOndent because of i'll health
Walter Brooke, a farmer living near
Newtown Square, committed suicide
by shooting at the home of his brother
in Philadelphia.
Thursday, September 20.
General Adam E. King, former con-
sui general at Paris is critically i'll at
his home, in Baltimore, Md.
The American Red Cross Society
sent $4,000 to Chile in aid of the Val
paraisO earthquake sufferers.
The Religious Educational associa-
ticn will hold it's convention next year
in Rochester, N. Y, September to z.
Lehigh university, at South Bethle-
hem, Pa. began it's 41st scolastic year
with over $50 students, 200 being in
the freshman class.
In pistol fight between the Mullins
and Fleming faction. near Sergeant.
| KY, James Anderson was killed and
Hiram Mullins fatally injured
Friday, September 21.
John TOrrey Morse, the oldest grad
uate of Harvard University, died in
Boston, aged SO years.
William ]. BruehI, of Philadelphia,
dropped dead from paralysis of the
heart on board a yacht at Still Pond,
Nd
While standing on the porch of his
home at Berwick, Pa, Dominick Caulse.
an Italian was shot to death by un-
known men.
Eight masked men held the people
of White Cloud village near Grand
Rapids, Mich, at bay and robbed the
bank of over $4,000 in cash.
Howard Fillmore, colored was sen.
fenced to five years Imprisonment and
fined $500 for shooting and slightly in
juring Cornelia Jenkins, colored, in
Wilmington. Del.
Saturday, September %.
The Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd
Fellows will meet in St. Paul next
year.
T. Edward Hambleton, a retired
banker, of Baltimore, Md, died at his
country home, aged 7S years.
Application has been made in Tren-
ton. N. J., for a receiver for the Pater-
son Press; liabilities, $4,000; assets,
not given.
William Sheets, a well-known resi-
dent Of Bellaire, o., was killed by a
stray bullet during a fight between po-
licemen and tramps.
General James c. Hill, a distin-
guished Confederate officer and the
first railway commissioner of Virginia
died at his home in Scottsville, Va.
Monday, September "a.
Michael Kolin was blown to pieces
by mine blast at the Enterprise col.
liery, Shamokin, Pa.
Warfare between the Standard Oh
and the labor unions has been started
with a strike at Whiting. Ind, a wage
increase being demanded.
While working behind a vicious
horse in his stable at Wolfburg, Bed
ford county, Pa, Theodore Lehman
aged So. was kicked to death.
Despondent over loss of rank, actins
Drum Major T. NJ. Doherty, of th'
fourth United States infantry, killeC
himself. at Fort Thomas, Ohio.
The fire insurance companies o
J Hartford, Conn, have paid on Sal
Francisco losses to date $15,952 749, o