Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1907-12-04
"-zK's NEWS CONDENSED
Tuesday, November &c.


While playing about the range in
his home in Philadelphia, 4-year-Old
Gendessa Tonitanelli was burned to
death.
Steven Adams, the jury in whose
trial for the murder of Fred Tyler at
Rathdrum, Idaho, reported a disagree
ment, was admitted to bail.
Henry Potter, aged 10, shot and kill
ID himself at Aberdeen, Wash, be
cause of unrequited affection for Mar
guerite Mccarthy, aged 16, a hospital
nurse.
Former Alderman William G. Oker-
shauser, of Milwaukee, Wis, was
found guilty of having solicited a
Tribe in connection with a city ordi-
nance, and was sentenced to one year
in the house of correction.
Wednesday, November 27.
Fire in the Whitehall-Tatem glass
factory at Millville, N. j., caused
loss of $4,000.
The Pennsylvania Democratic state
committee expended $15.2s5 in the re-
cent campaign for state treasurer.
At the age OF SO yeSs. Charles w.
Chase, a well-tO-dO farmer near Fall
River, Mass, decided that life was not
worth living and committed suicide by
taking poison.
In a speak-easy in Carter county.
KY, Sunday night, Samuel Rose and
JaeI; Conn were killed during a pistol
battle. making IL tragedies in the
same place within the past year.
Friday, November 2e.
Mrs. Vannelia Meeker Hull, aged 100
years and months, died at her home
in Pittsburg.
Hugh Murray, grand secretary Of the
Masonic Grand Lodge Of Canada, died
suddenly at his home at Hamilton,
Ont, from apoplexy.
Dependent, it is said, when she
learned she had been made a party to
"a mock marriage, Miss Oslo Pierce
committed suicide at Powhatan, o.
At Hurts, near Richmond, Va, on
the Southern railway, south of Lynch
burg, a passenger train struck and
killed three unknown negroes who
were walking on the track.
SATURDAY november OOs
John Gillison, colored, was hanged
! at Madison Court House, Va, for the
murder of Pearl Thomas, colored.
John Mason, formerly vice-consu
of Portugal, died at his home in Phil
adelphia, from heart disease, aged
70 years.
George F. Porter, millionaire attOr
ney and theatre man, of Minneapolis
was found dead in his room at the
Paxton hotel, Omaha, Neb.
Two firemen of the steamer Mau
retania, on their way back to the
steamer. after a night of shore leave
in New York, fell off the pier anC
were drowned.
A fire which started from the over
turning of lamp in a barber shop
| destroyed three-fourths of the towI
of Granite, Cal, a small mining sta
ton, 20 miles east of Leadville.
Monday, December 2.
Peter Wilkinson won the wheat
threshing championship of Northum.
berland county, Pa, threshing 800
bushels in eight hours.
! Overcome by gas, the bodies of Mrs
Catherine Logan, a widow, and hel
young daughter, Nina were found il
their home at Boston.
Ellis Taylor. of East Altoona, d;
brakeman of the Pennsylvania rail
road, lost his balance, fell under tn,
wheels on the Granville branch anC
was ground to pieces.
Dragging bales of hay from a near
by store into the bank to deaden thu
sound of the explosion, robbers dyna
mited the vault of a bank at New
Franklin, Mo-, and escaped with $4,000
in cash.
Upon being knocked down by ;
brick, which fell 60 feet, Ben Newman
aged 1S. a negro, in Altoona, Pa.
crawled up and asked his fellow labor
ers, who expected to find him dead
who hit him.