Smyrna times., 1906-09-05
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
tuesday, August %.


While suffering from cramps Will.
liam Shirley of Philadelphia, drank
brandy and fishberries and died in
great agony.
Miss Florence Mullen and Lucy Hill
were drowned by the overturning of a
buggy while crossing a small stream
near Loveland. o.
The Japanese government has noti
fed the state department that it will
open the port of Dalny. Manchuria, to
The commerce of all nations
Governor Folk. of Missouri, has re.
prieved until October 26 Mrs. Agnes
Myers. now in Jail at Liberty awaiting
execution for the murder of her hus
band.
Wednesday, August 90.
The 10th annual convention of the
International Leageu of Press Clubs
was held at Denver, Col.
The annual Industrial Exposition at
Cincinnati, Ohio, was opened by Mrs.
Nicholas Longworth. who pressed a
gold button in Music Hall.
Mrs. Margaret Schaeffer. of Phila.
delphia. was given carbolic acid in
mistake for medicine by her nurse and
there is little hope for her recovery.
William and Theodore Holiday, col.
ored. were sentenced to nine years in
the penitentiary for assault and bat.
terry on a policeman at West Chester.
Pa.
Thursday, August 80.
One man was killed and several 9TH
ers seriously injured in freight wreck
in the New York Central yards in
New York.
Mrs. Mary Harris, of Millville, N. J.,
ate potato salad and complained OF
distress before retiring, and was found
dead in bed
Fred Bea3ley and Norman South.
worth were drowned in the Hudson
river at New York when their motor
baot was run down by a ferryboat.
While at work along the railroad
four laborers were killed and another
fatally injured by Baltimore & Ohio
Southwestern train near Loveland, o.
Friday, August 81.
Lady ampbell-Bannerman, wife OF
the British premier, died after a long
illness at Marienbad, Bohemia.
Dora Morowitz, 4 years old, fell into
a tub of water at her home in Phila.
delphia and was drowned.
| George J. Gould and Judge D. Cady
Herrick resigned as members of the
board of directors of the Equitable
| Life Assurance society.
The Pennsylvania railroad flyer
struck a switch engine at Ebenezer
near Buffalo, N. Y. and both engineers
we're seriously injured.
Homer S. Castle, Prohibition candi.
late for governor of Pennsylvania,
was notified of his nomination at his
home in Pittsburg.
Saturday, September 1.
Fifteen buildings were burned al
Fryeburg, Me-, including IL residences
causing a loss of $4,000
Edward Rosewater, proprietor and
editor of the Omaha Neb., Bee, was
| found dead in the newspaper building
| Helen Keer, aged 6 years, fell from
a secondstory window at South Bend
Ind, was impaled on a picket fence
and fatally injured.
A B. & o. passenger train collided
with a freight at Wheeling, w. Va.
and Engineer Lee McMann and Fire.
man William Moran were killed.
Masked robbers, who travel in an
automobile, blew open the safe in the
postoffice at Highland, N. Y, and Sc.
cured $500 in money and $500 in stamps
Monday, September 8.
The Marquette Club, of Chicago, will
give a banquet on October in honol
of Speaker Cannon.
Jacob Suydam, of Pennington, N
J.. was instantly killed by stepping il
front of a fast-moving train
Three hundred butchers in Balti
more have gone on strike for a nine
hour day. without pay reduction.
Miss Dottie Glover, of New York
saved Walter Stinson from drownin,
after his canoe upset on lake at New
Egypt, N. ].
James c. Abernathy, managing edi
tor of the Charlotte. N. c., Observer
died at Asheville, where he had gon
for his health.
Struck by lightning while at worl
at Troy, Ala, Newton Graves, a car
penter, and his two sons, John an,
Pacoouo uera kiIIed