Smyrna times., 1906-09-12
a WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Tuesday, September q.

ueSudyy september q.
The fourth annual convention of the
Interstate Amateur Press Association
was held at Boston.
Twelve men were injured, two Sc
riously, by an exploding bomb during
the labor parade at St. Louis.
Fifteen car loads of strike breakers
have reached San Francisco to operate
the street car lines with non-union
men.
While despondent over financial mat
ters, w. F. Hansberger, a city council
man of Sedalia, Mo, committed suicide
by shooting.
Henry Dunter shot and killed Grace
Reed and severely wounded Sam Moore,
successful rival, and then killed him
self at Davenport. Ia.
Wednesday, September 5.
Lawson Addison, colored, murdered
two negro women at Lowryville, S. c.,
and escaped.
The monthly statement of the ma
tional debt shows that on September 1
it amounted to 1910, 6S,3S9.
Estel N. Kirk a Pennsylvania rail-
road car inspector, was crushed to death
between cars at Camden, N. ].
A man supposed to be w. ]. Jones,
of Richmond, Va, committed suicide
by shooting in a hotel at Halifax, N. 5.
Robert Cotton, colored, who mur-
dered his wife by literally cutting her
| body into pieces, was hanged at Vim
| ita, l. T.
Thursday, September 6.
The fourth annual convention of the
American Institute of Bank Clerks was
held at Atlantic City, N. ].
Judge David Torrance, chief justice
of the Connecticut supreme court, died
at Derby from heart trouble.
United States Senator P. c. Knox, OF
| Pennsylvania, arrived in New York
from Europe on the steamer Oceanic.
While cunning for reed birds, John
]. Steyer, of Philadelphia, dropped dead
from heart disease near Chester, Pa.
The director of the mint rejected al
bids for silver because they were toe
high, the lowest being 67A cents ar
ounce.
Friday, September z.
Mrs. Eliza F. Wheeler, mother o.
Professor A. w. Wheeler, of Yale, dice
at Easton. Conn, aged 1O1 years.
George K. Johnson has been elected
president of the Penn Mutual Life In
surance company, of Philadelphia.
The convention of the Chapter Gen
eral of America, Knights of st. Johl
and Malta, will be held at Philadelphi
next year.
Paul Pietjan, machinist, and Loui
Zoebel, his helper fell five stories i
an elevator shaft in building in NeV
York and were instantly killed.
The comptroller of the currency ha
issued a call for a statement of tn
condition of national banks at the clos
of business Tuesday, September f.
Saturday, September 8.
Iowa's corn crop is estimated a
3S1, 100000 bushels.
President Roosevelt has reappoin
ed Brigadier General r. NJ O'Reill
surgeon general of the army.
The National Association of Spal
ish-American War Nurses will hol
their next convention at Norfolk, Va
While fighting a fire in a grocer
store at st. Louis, IL firemen wei
seriously injured by the explosion I
gasoline.
Blamed by a coroner's jury for
6 fatal accident, John o. Backus, supe
e intendent of an Illinois traction cor
pany, committed suicide by shootir
G at Mattoon, Ill.
Monday, September 10.
An explosion at the Dupont powd
works at Nimours, Va, killed one m;
and fatally injured four.
: The Master Steam Boiler Maker
Association has elected ]. H. Smytf
of Paterson, N. j., as president.
y Cutting his throat with knife b
cause he was tired of continued illnei
" William Booth. of Shamokin, Pa, 81
= dier of the Civil War, will likely die
:, Rolling a hoop over the Readi
p" railway at Shamokin, Pa, Jotl Bic
ert, a boy, was run down by a ira
his legs were crushed and he may