Smyrna times., 1907-02-13
q WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
TUESDAY. February 5.

Mrs. A. Haskell. wealthy widow,
was burned to death in fire which
destroyed her home in Chicago.
President Roosevelt has appointed
Ruch J. Bruce to be assistant ap-
praiser of merchandise at Baltimore,
Md.
Rev Seymour A. Baker, one of the
founders of the Republican party, died
Of pneumonia at Kansas City. Mo-.
aged 81 years.
While pouring molten steel into an
ingot mould at the Carnegie plant at
Homestead, Pa, an explosion occurred
and three wOrkmen were seriously
burned.
Wednesday, February s.
Street thermometers in St Paul,
Mimi, ON Tuesday registered from %
to 80 degrees below zero.
The fourth annual convention of the
Road Makers Association will be held
at Pittsburg, Pa, March II. 1S and IA.
Fearing he would be robbed OF $500,
an Italian jumped from a Wabash
train near Adrian, Mich, and was Sc
riousIy injured.
One trainman was killed and two in
jured in a collision near Uniontown.
Pa, between a Monongahela railroad
passenger train and freight
United States District Court Judge
Charles Parlange, one of the leaders
of the anti-lottery movement in Louis
lana, died suddenly of apoplexy at New
| Orleans.
Thursday, February 2.
President Roosevelt expects to visit
| Alaska on a hunting trip after his
presidential term expires
Sam Wah, proprietor of laundry in
| Philadelphia, was found seated in a
chair in his house frozen to death.
James Bryce, British ambassador to
the United States, will sail for New
York from Liverpool on February 13.
Raymond Meyer, school boy, OF
Brooklyn, N. Y, who was bitten Jan
uary II by a mad dog, died of hydro
phobia.
DIR. William c. Pickett, professor Of
nervous diseases. at the Medico-Chir
urgical College, Philadelphia, one o.
the best known neurologists in the
United States, died of heart disease.
Friday, February 8.
President and Mrs. Roosevelt gav'
reception at the White House il
honor of the army and navy.
Preston H. Leslie, former governo
of Kentucky and Montana, died a
Helena. Mont. aged SO years.
i A bill has been introduced in con
gress to appropriate 100000 for tn
erection of bronze statue to Genera
Robert e. Lee in Washington.
Eight employees of the Insuranc
Stove and Foundry company in Coy
ington, KY, were terribly burned b
an explosion and two Of them may die
Number breaker of the Delawar
& Hudson Coal company at Parsons
near Wilkes-Barre, Pa, was destroye
by fire, causing loss of 100000 an
rendering 1900 men and boys idle.
Saturday, February 9.
Keziah Jackson, negress, "a year
4 old, and once nurse for James
Blaine died at Uniontown, Pa.
= Captain Samuel F. Bossard, aged 8
a prominent citizen of Wilkes-Barr
Pa. died after a weeks illness.
Congressman George K. Favrot we
indicted at Baton Rouge, La, on
charge of murder for shooting D
Harry Aldrich.
Warren p Halsey, of Brooklyn,
with consumption and desponden
committed suicide by shooting in
New York hotel.
: J. H. Hodge, white, convicted of wi
murder, and Freeman Jones, colore
found guilty of burglary, were hangC
at Durham, N. c.
IS Monday, February II.
Sir William H. Russell, the famol
war correspondent, died in Londo
aged Sc years.
June 5 to IL has been fixed for Il
encampment of the West Point cade
at the jamestown Exposition.
Twelve men are under arrest
New York for obtaining $4,000 fro
the Degnon Contracting company
false pay checks.
A South Dakota legislative comm
tee charges former Governor HERE
with drawing large sums of mon
without lawful authority.
A number of coal region constabl
instructed counsel to sue the Northu
berland (Pa.) county commissions
alleging the latter were unlawful