Smyrna times., 1906-08-08
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED


who has been ill at Lenox, Mass. has
returned to Washington and resumed
his duties.
The Commercial Law League of
America met in convention at Ashe-
Vile, N. C. Nearly 800 delegates are
in attendance.
Harry Mitchell, aged 20, an old SOL
dier and one of Buffalo Bills" scouts
when fighting for the government, was
found dead in bed at his home near
Berrien Centre, Mich.
The cruiser Marblehead, which re-
tently furnished neutral territory upon
which peace was negotiated between
| Salvador and Guatemala, has arrived
at Corinto, Nicaragua, on her way to
San Francisco.
Wednesday, August I.
A new telegraph cable was opened
between Japan and the United States,
via Bonin.
The National Prison Association will
| hold its annual convention at Albany,
N. Y, September 1921.
Fred M. Warner was nominated for
governor of Michigan by the Republi-
cen state convention at Detroit.
In a lovers quarrel at Jacksonville,
Fla. Paul Daniel Aly shot BERTHE
Toomer and then killed himself
The Syrian leper. George Marun
Rashid, has been returned to West
Virginia by the Maryland authorities.
The I'D annual convention of the
Christian Missionary Society of East
ern Pennsylvania opened in Wilkes
Barre, with 100 delegates present.
Thursday, August 2.
Over 1000 machinists ON the Mexican
Central railroad have gone on strike.
Medical Inspector William E. Tay-
lor, u S. N. retired, died at Honolulu.
The American Federation of CathO-
tic Societies. in session at Buffalo,
y. Y, decided to meet at Indianapolis
next year.
In the tennis tournament of North
| lmberland, at Newcastle, Eng Miss
May Sutton. of Pasadena, Cal, won
over Miss AtchisOn.'
Edward Uhl. president of the New
Yorker Staats zeitung corporation
died at his home in New York after
a long illness. He was born in New
York in 1S43.
Friday, August 3.
A general strike of the car workers
ON the Central Railroad of Georgia has
been ordered by the Brotherhood O
Railway Carmen.
The National Association of COttOr
Manufacturers will hold its S1st an
nual meeting at Lake Champlain, n. Y.
September II and 13.
The Democratic state convention q
Detroit. Michigan. nominted Charles
H. Kimmerle. of CassapOlis, for gov
ernor on the first ballot.
Rohn McHenry, aged n years, die,
at his home in Benton, Columbia coun
ty. He was the senior member of tn
McHenry Distilling company.
Saturday, August 4.
The American Association of Retail
jewelers. opened their convention a
Rochester, N. Y.
Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas LOngwOrt
sailed from Cherbourg on the St. Pau
for the United States.
The postoffice at Lestershire, n. Y
was entered by burglars and robbie
! of $1,000 in stamps and $75 in cash.
The British Association for the Az
vancement of Science, in session q
York, Eng, will meet in Winnipel
: Can, in 1909.
Fire destroyed the Mountain Cit
|. -four mill at Frederick, Md. owned b
James R. Locker, of Lancaster, p
I Loss, $4,000; partly insured.
Monday, August 6.
Edward Coles, a wealthy lawyer
Philadelphia, was killed in a runawa
% accident at Bar Harbor, Me.
The new Pennsylvania state boar
of trade says it will vigorously ket
- up its fight for fiat 2-cent railroad far,
and other advantages.
A number of employees at the Rea
ing Coal & Iron company's shops
Pottsville,, Pa, over so years of ag
have been reduced 81 a week in wage
The Illinois state food commissit
has issued a formal notice that hot
restaurant and lunch room keepe
who serve watered, skinned or adj
terated milk will be prosecuted.
DR.. Bothman Jackson was shot al
killed at Altamont, Mo-, by ].
Woodwork, a hotelkeeper. in a d
pute over the management of the
tel, which was owned by Jackson.