Smyrna times., 1907-03-13
{ WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Tuesday, March 5.

frank fuTlOuS was "leClIOCuISu III
Sing Sing IN. W prison for killing
his aunt in New York in 1904.
The Central labor bodies of Nor
folk, Portsmouth and Newport News.
Va, will erect a labor hall at the
Jamestown exposition.
Burglars forced an entrance into the
store of the Geller, Ward & Hasner
Hardware Company, at st. Louis. and
secured over $4,000 worth of plunder.
Frank X. Fitzpatrick, a prominent
resident of Cambridge, Mass, was ar
rested by government detectives on a
complaint that he conspired to vio-
late the Interstate Commerce regula
tions by sending lottery matter from
one state to another
"Wednesday, March 6.
Jesse White was killed and another
man fatally wounded in a saloon fight
at Nashville. Tenn.
Thomas McCamant, formerly audi
tor general of Pennsylvania, died of
a complication of disease, aged 67
years.
Despondent over the death of his
adopted daughter, Frank Shoal drown
ed himself in the bathtub at his home
in Philadelphia.
Richard o. Hoops, a student at Lake
| Forest University, Chicago. is under
| arrest charged with robbery, over
$4,000 worth of jewelry having been
| recovered.
Thursday, March 7.
The IOnia county, Mich, poorhouse
was destroyed by fire, the 60 inmates
escaping uninjured
While at work in a sand tunnel in
| Philadelphia John Anthony was caught
in a cave-in and smothered to death.
Logan E. Bleckley, formerly chief
justice of the Georgia supreme court,
died of Bright's disease, aged 70 years
The trainmen's strike on the Lehigh
e. New England railroad is off, the
company acceding to the strikers de-
| mands.:
AS a result of a dust explosion in
the Ethel coal mine on Dungers Run,
near Logan, w. Va, Ed Grover, a
miner, was killed and several others
were injured.
| Friday, March 8.
The safe in the Farmers bank at
Masonville, Iowa. was blown by rob-
bers, who secured $4,000
The Minnesota legislature passed
bill appropriating $4,000 to purchase
a silver service for the battleship
Minnesota.
Bud" McCourt, who was injured in
hockey game at Cornwall, Ont, died
of his injuries and his assailant has
been arrested.
Handling a revolver which she
didn't know was loaded, Mamie Coop
er, of Chester, Pa, shot her brother in
the lip, knocking out several teeth.
The Delaware & Hudson Railroad
company paid a fine of $3314 to the
United Sttaes court at Utica, N. Y,
for violating the law requiring the use
of airbrakes on trains.
Saturday, March g.
Arthur Davis, a negro, was hanged
at Richmond, Va. for the murder of
Syrian peddler.
Within 48 hours Bertram T. Dix and
Ernest ]. Dix. brothers. died of heart
disease in Philadelphia
Professor Henry D. Todd, lieutenant
commander U. S ~, retired the last
of the class of 1857, died at Annapolis,
Md.
]. r. Ferguson, of Wheeling, w.
Va, was arrested at Washington, Pa,
charged with writing insurance with
out a license.
Miss Sarah Merritt, of Pleasantville.
N. j.. died in a New York hospital
from injuries received in the train
wreck on February 16.
Monday, March II.
, Mrs. Elizabeth Lavelle died at Shen-
andoah, Pa, at the age of 104 years.
The Independent Order of Foresters
has chosen E. G. Stevenson, of Detroit,
as supreme chief ranger, and he will
move to Toronto.
Charged with getting $4,000 under
false pretenses, F. Karanoga, one of
the richest Japanese in California, was
arrested at San Francisco.
John Carr, a pensioner, aged 81
years, of Paterson, N. j., was struck
by a train On the Cumberland Valley
Railroad, near Carlisle, Pa, and died
shortly afterward.
Convicted of the illegal use of labels
of the International Cigar Makers
Union, Charles F. Krichten was SEN
fenced in the Adams county, Pa, court
to six months term in prison.