Smyrna times., 1907-02-20
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Tuesday, February IL.

Joseph Snyder and wife. AID then kill
ed himself
Winfred Golf, a noted bar'~ne sing
er in grand operas. died sLIdenly in
Washington of pneumonia.
William Alden Smith was sworn in
as United States senator to fill the
unexpired term of former Senator AL
ger, of Michigan.
The annual convention of the Penn
sylvania branch of the National AS
sociation of Hardware Dealers was
held at Pittsburg.
Hobart Reeder and Henry HarlIins.
former attendants at the Ohio state
hospital. at Athens. are charged with
killing w j. Baines.' an inmate.
Wednesday, February 13.
President Alfred Walter of the Sea-
board Air Line railroad. died in New
York. after being i'll two weeks.
Governor Stuart, of Pennsylvania.
appointed Samuel B. Rambo. of Harris
burg. superintendent of public grounds
and buildings.
Two men we're killed and three in
iured in a collision between freight
trains on the Southern railway near
| Johnstown. S. c.
John L. Crowley, a student in the
Hartford. Conn., nigh school. died of
injuries received in a football game
over year ago.
Beulah Francis. 9 months old. was
| burned to death in her cradle in her
home in Philadelphia by fire started
| by her 4-year-old brother while playing
with matches.
Thursday February IA.
Vice Chancellor Henry c.. Pitney, of
| the New Jersey court of chancery, has
resigned.
The 39th annual convention of the
| National American Woman Suffrage
| Association convened in Chicago.
The ST. Albert Hotel, one of the
oldest in Charleston w. Va, was de-
stroyed by fire. entailing loss of $780,.
| 900.
| Charles w. Morse, of New York. pur-
| chased a controlling interest in the
New York & Cuba Mail Steamship
company, known as the Ward line.
The Western Union Telegraph com.
pany granted operators in the princi-
pal offices throughout the country an
increase of 10 per cent. in salaries.
Friday, February is.
The North Carolina house of repre-
sentatives passed a two-cent passen
ger railroad rate bill.
Daniel B: KoontZ, a horse dealer oi
Stoyestown, Pa, was killed in a rail
road collision at Pearl City, Ill.
The American National Red Cross
sent an additional $4,000 to Shangha
for the Chinese famine sufferers.
Bradford H. Cox, an evangelist dieC
of ptomaine poisoning due to eatin.
oysters in a restaurant at Kansas City
Mo.
Harrow Hall, one of the building
of the Lincoln Memorial Universit,
at Cincinnati, o., was destroyed b.
fire.
Saturday, February 16.
The directors of the Standard Oi
company declared a quarterly dividen,
of SIS share.
Guy Lyon and Polk Fletcher, white
were hanged at Russellville, KY, TO
assault upon Mary Glades. :.
The next quadrennial conference c
the Methodist Episcopal church wi
be held at Baltimore, Md. in May.
Because of physical disability, Brig;
der General Theodore Wint, in con
mand of the army in Cuba, has bee
granted three months leave of absenc,
David Mackenzie, a Millionaire min
owner, of Butte, Mont, was sentence
to five months Imprisonment in Ch
cago for failure to pay his divorce
wife alimony.
Monday, February 18.
South Carolina dispensaries passe
out of existence officially on Saturda
Ralph Ruby, of New Cumberlan
Pa, while skating on the Susquehanr
river, was drowned.
Gerhardt Caesar, a well-known mi
ing engineer of Philadelphia. died su
denly in Detroit, Mich, of pneumoni
The National Woman's Suffrage A
sociation has voted to start a na:ion
campaign to compel congress to e
tend the voting privilege to women.
Through an explosion at the fu'
and cap magazine of the Kier FL
Brick company's works at Salina, P;
aged Simon Nixon was blown to piect
and four men were injured.
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