Smyrna times., 1906-10-17
! mAGK's NEWS CONDENSED
Tuesday. October 9.

Tuesday. October 9.
While playing i'll the street, Bessie
Robinson, years old, OF Philadelphia,
was run over by a trolley car and
killed.
Charles Johnson, colored, was ar
rested in Wilmington, Del, for beat
ing his wife, and dropped dead when
locked in a cell.
Mrs. Roosevelt received more than
$50 members of the Womans Auxil-
lary of the Spanish war veterans at
the White House.
Ben Jones, colored, was shot to
death near Vicksburg, KY, by John
Scott for brutally assaulting the lat
ter's young daughter
Over 500 machinists in the South.
ern Railway shops at Spencer, N. c.,
are on strike for s295 for an eight
hour day, instead of SO for 10 hours.
Wednesday, October 10.
Nathaniel R. Hart, a prominent law
yer of Stamford, Conn, shot himself to
death in his office.
The Chamber of Commerce building
at Los Angeles. Cal, was damaged to
the extent of 100000 by fire.
The 34th annual convention of the
International Association of Fore
Chiefs wGs held at Dallas, Tex.
Joseph H. Glidden. the inventor of
the barbed wire fence, died at his
home in DeKalb. ILL.,, aged so years.
Despondent on account of ill health.
and after kissing her husband good
bye, Mrs. Joseph Siegfried, aged 10,
bride of few months. committed sui
eide by shooting at Akron. o.
Thursday, October II.
The first snow of the season fell at
Altoona, Pa, on Wednesday.
The 42d annual convention of the
| PENNSYLVANIA State Sabbath School AS
sociation was held at Gettysburg.
Miss Florence Mcdonald, a chorus
girl, was killed by falling from a
fourth-story window of a hotel in Chi
cago.
Two men were killed and five seri-
ously injured by an explosion of a
blast furnace of the Illinois Steel com.
pany in Chicago.
United States Senator Beveridge is
i'll at the home of George Baker, at
Boston, and all his campaign engage.
ments for 10 days have been cancelled
Friday, October IL.
The stockholders of the Norfolk &
Western railroad voted to issue $34,
100000 of additional stock.
Norman Luby, OF Newark, ~ j., said
to be wanted by the police of that city
was arrested at London. Ont
In head-on collision on the Union
Pacific railroad near Laramie, Wyo.
three men were killed and several in
Iured.
The Joe Jefferson farm, near Hack
ensack, N. j., was sold by the sheriff
for S17,16S, covering the mortgage. in
terest and costs.
Three men were killed and a dozer
injured by an explosion in the Penn
sylvania railroad tunnel under Ions
Island City.
Saturday, October 10.
Sibley College, Cornell University
at Ithaca, N. Y. was damaged by fir,
to the extent of $4,000.
Policeman r. Nj. Beach, of Roanoke
Va, was shot and killed by Johl
Hardy, a negro, while making a raj,
on building occupied by negroes
One student was burned to death Il
fire which destroyed the main build
ing of the lakewood Manual Trainin
School for Negroes at Huntsville, Ala
While playing truant from school,
Louis Cato, years old, was run owe
by freight train and killed in Phils
delphia-
Monday, October IS.
New York is trying to secure Pres
dent Roosevelt's attendance at tn
jamestown exposition for Robert Flu
ton and New York days.
A falling crowbar crushed the sku
Of Frank Dunkelberber, of Higgins, i
the shaft of Good Spring colliery, &
Pottsville, Pa. and he may die.
Finding some gunpowder, two chi
, dren of G.. X. Jones. of Carlisle, Pa
, threw it in stove and were severed
burned by the resulting explosion.
Southern Railway clerks between I
, Paso and New Orleans, belonging
) the Order of Railway Clerks, are @
strike for a 10 per cent. wage increas
+ Daughters of the American Revolt
! ton at Brunswick. Ca, will plant
liberty tree November 10, around whiC
, will be placed soil from the 40 stat,