Smyrna times., 1907-06-05
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
TUESDAY,. NAV %.

Edna Wilson, an actress, committed
suicide at Columbus, o., by drowning
herself in a bathtub.
William McKie, Kalamazoo, Mich,
druggist. while despondent from fina1-
cial difficulties. shot and killed his
mother and himself.
Lightning struck the postofiice at
Atlantic City, N. j., and shocked sew
eral men and women in the corridor.
Dallas Sanders, a well-known lawyer |
and member Of the Philadelphia board |
of civil service commissioners, died |
after a long illness.
The United States treasury pur-
chased 100. 900 ounces of silver for de |
livery at the Philadelphia mint, at
67.720 per fine ounce.
Wednesday, May 20.
Governor Cummins, OF Iowa, has an
nounCed his candidacy for the United
| States senate.
The Pennsylvania Retail Coal Deal
ers' Association held its third annual
| convention at Reading.
The Toledo Railway & Terminal
company. at Toledo. o., was sold to the
| DOnHHOlu6fS iOl 9S,OOu,UOV.
Frank A. Sperry, former corporation
tax commissioner of Brooklyn, com
mitted suicide by drowning while de-
sporaent.
Miss Philaner Swimmer, 80 years old,
of Chicago. while demented shot and
killed her mother and then set fire to
| her clothing and was burned to death.
Thursday, May 80.
Mrs. Sarah b. Flannery died at her
home in Philadelphia at the age of 1O5
years.
Albert Crowell, of Henderson, N. c.,
committed suicide in a New York
hotel by shooting himself.
Thomas Gallagher a track walker
on the New York elevated railroad,
struck by a train and instantly killed.
Buck High, a 15-year-old negro,
was hanged at McDonOugh, Ga, for a
criminal assault upon 4-year-old
white girl.
William A. Skinner. who served in
Stonewal Jacksons brigade during
the Civil War. committed suicide at
Washington by inhaling gas.
Friday, May 81.
The Gensral Synod of the Lutheran
Church of America will hold their next
meeting at Richmond, hu.
Thomas LAWN, IL years old' dled 10
NorristOwn. Pa, of injuries IScelVeo
while stealing a ride on a railroad.
William J. Bryan was the orator OF
the day at the celebration of Patrick
Henry Day at the jamestown Expo
sition on Thursday.
Paul Barringer, professor of materia
medica at the University of Virginia
was elected president of the Virginia
| Polytechnic Institute at Roanoke.
The Missouri supreme court has de
creed that Lord" Frederick S. Bar
rington shall be hanged in St Loui!
on July Is for the murder of ]. P. Nc
] Cam.
Saturday, June I.
Rear Admiral Joseph B. Coghlan, U
S. N, has been retired.
The Graduate Nurses Association o
Pennsylvania will meet next OctObe
in Pittsburg.
Two men were drowned by the over
d turning of a boat while fishing in tn
Miami river at Dayton, o.
The Doylestown and Easton trOlle
road was sold at DoylestOwn Pa, a
foreclosure sale, to J. Carroll Williams
of Philadelphia, for 100000.
Colonel Benjamin F. Winger, aged Z
years, editor of the Greencastle PA
Press, and one of the largest land owl
ers in southern Pennsylvania, died {
his home in Greencastle.
Monday June 8.
Thieves entered the post-office at Pi
sadena, Cal, blew open the safe and e.
capped with $4,000 worth of stamps.
Probably murdered, George Dittma
a dairyman, was found in a pool
blood in his home at North Collin
ny
Angered by his wife's threat to lea
him, Francis Aldape set fire to h
home in Mexico City and burned foI
persons to death.
High rents and increased cost of Ii
ing are declared responsible for t
demoralized condition of the buildil
trades in San Francisco.
A threatened famine in school teac
ers, owing to a June wedding craze,
worrying school directors in the tow
ships and smaller towns of Lehigh a
Northampton counties, Pa.
tn
A Fortunate Texan.