Smyrna times., 1906-08-22
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Tuesdav. AUGUST. TE

Tuesday, August 81
DR.. James B. McCaw, one of the old
est physicians in Virginia. died at
Richmond, aged "a years.
Ten mills of the South Sharon (Pa)
Tin company resumed operations after
a long idleness,. giving employment to
600 men.
E. E. Drake. treasurer of Elkhart
county, Ind, committed suicide follow
ing the loss of $4,000 county funds in a 3
bank failure, which he had to replace.
A Jewel case containing $4,000 worth
Of jewels belonging to Mrs. NJ E. Ely,
of Buffalo, was stolen from a suitcase
IN a hotel at Battle Creek, Mich, and
there is no clue to the thief.
Wednesday, August ia.
William J. Bryan announces that he
will visit Australia Immediately after
the November elections.
Walter Franks. years old, was
drowned O. lake in Fairmount Park,
Philadelphia, while swimming,
While returning home in an intoxi-
Gated condition George Whitney, a
brick yard worker at Brandt Pa. was
struck by train and killed.
Admiral George Dewey has been
elected governor of the Founders and
Patriots of America to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Roberto. Roose-
Welt.
Thursday, August rs.
William Lucas. a wholesale butter
dealer, of Camden, N. j., was fined
$3.50 and costs for selling short.
weight butter.
Owing to domestic troubles, E Fred
erick Ford, Pennsylvania railroad
brakeman, committed suicide by shoot
ing at Enola, near Harrisburg. Pa.
Louis Nye, a night Waterman at
bridge at Legionville, near Pittsburg
was hot through the abdomen by three
men who were being chased by de
tectives.
In a fit OF insanity, Emil Berner OF
Batavia, Ills. murdered his brother-in-
law by cutting his throat with a razor
slashed Mrs. Berner so severely that
she will die, and then cut his own
throat.
Friday, August II.
The International Typographical I'm
ion will meet next year at Hot Springs
Ark.
Four persons were injured, two ia
tally, in a collision on the Seaboard
Air line at Portsmouth. Va.
Attorney General Moody conferred
with President Roosevelt at Oyster
Bay on filling several vacancies on the
federal bench.
Rev. DIR. Richard Eddy, one of the
| most prominent Universalist clergy
men in New England, dropped dead OF
heart disease at Gloucester, Mass.
In a personal alteration, M. E
James. superintendent of the Birming.
ham, Ala, gas works, was shot and ia
tally wounded by w. H. Rogers, q
wealthy manufacturer.
Saturday, August 13.
The G. A. r. will hold their next ma.
tiOnal encampment in Saratoga, N. Y.
in 1907.
The armored cruiser North Carolina
will be launched at the Newport News
Va, shipyards on October 6.
Rebecca S. Clark, better known a.
"Siphia May" writer of many books
for children, died at Norridgewock Me
One man was killed and three in
jured by premature explosion of dy
Mantle at the Deering Harvester plan
in Chicago.
State Senator F. O. Butt of Perry
vile, Ark, was sentenced to two year
in the penitentiary for offering a brib
to another state senator.
Monday, August 20.
Scott Howington was stabbed t
death by Muncy Talley during a quar-
rel at Bristol, Va.
Coe d. Barnard, convicted of perjur
in the land fraud trials at Portland
Ore, was sentenced to prison for tw
years and fined $4,000.
Isaac S. Case, prominent in bushes
and political circles and Monroe coun
tvs (Pa) wealthiest citizen, died a
Stroudsburg, aged rs years.
The widow of James O'Donnen,
NorristOwn, Pa, railroader who wa
kelled three weeks ago, gave birth {
twins, and now has II children to SUI
port.
While returning from Atlantic Cit!
Mrs. Mary Denny, of Smyrna, Del, die
| of heart disease in the Broad street SITS