Smyrna times., 1907-06-26
: WEEKS NEWS coNDENsEl
tuesday, June 1e.

Tuesday, June 1S.
Charlestown Mass, celebrated the
1920 anniversary Of the battle of
Bunker HILL
Governor Conner, of Alabama. has
appointed John H. Bankhead United
Sttaes senator to succeed John T. Nor
gan, deceased.
Dr. Henry E. Muhlenberg, one of
the best known physicians in Lancas-
ter county, died at Lancaster, Pa,
aged 81 years.
Darwin P. Kingsley was elected
president of the New York Life In
surance company to succeed Alexan-
der f. Orr, resigned
Governor Stuart reappointed Will
lam e. Meehan, of Philadelphia, Penn
sylvania state fish commissioner for
the full term of four years.
Wednesday, June 10.
Miss Edith McGorray and Professor
Edward H. Schwab, brother of Charles
NJ. 1Schwab, were married at Cleve
land. o.
Eugene Risbing, of West Chester
Pa, has been appointed clerk to the
DOdIu VI llGl NeA4illlC app VI L llAl-
adelphia.
Lieutenant William Stewart, of the
11th Pennsylvania infantry in the civil
war, was killed by sunstroke at the
Soldiers Home at LeavenwOrth. Kas.
Thomas Johnson. a negro, a clerk
in the department of agriculture at
Washington, shot and fatally wounded
Jennie Washington, 17-year-old negro
girl, and then committed suicide
Thursday, June 20.
Mrs. Alice Spooner is dead and four
others are in serious conditions as re-
suit of heat prostrations at Cleve-
land, o.
The body of a woman, who commit
ted suicide, weighted down with iron
tied about the waist. was found in the
lake at Cleveland, o.
st. Johns College, at Annapolis. Md,
conferred the honorary degree of doc
tor of laws upon John Hays Hammond,
the mining engineer.
An engine on the Reading railway
ran through an open switch at Perkio-
men Junction, Pa, and Charles A.
Dim, the engineer, was crushed to
death.
Friday, June 21.
George H. Felix, or Reading, Pa,
was elected president of the American
Water Works Association.
Fire at brakes Branch, a village
near Richmond, Va. destroyed half a
dozen stores, entailing a loss of $37,-
600.
Colonel Henry Harrison Hall, a
great-grandson of President William
Henry Harrison, died at Aiken, S. c.,
aged SO years.
The home of Walter Lippincott, in
Philadelphia, was looted by thieves,
who carried off thousands of dollars
worth of valuable silverware and
paintings.
Saturday, June p.
The first bale of new cotton, weigh
ing $40 pounds, was sold at Houston,
Texas. for 1925
Warren Summers, of Mantua, n. j.,
was killed by falling down an eleva-
tor shaft in store in Philadelphia.
William H. Bishop committed sui
eide at Pitman Grove, N. j., by shoot
ing himself, in the presence of his
wife
Driven desperate by prolonged head
aches, Mrs. Mary s. Sternberg COM
mltted suicide by inhaling gas in her
home in Philadelphia
The steamer Crystal Steam was
burned to the waters edge at St. John,
| N. b., and four members of the crew
were burned to death.
Monday, June "a.
Thomas Hertkorn, of Easton, Pa, a
Lehigh Valley brakeman, was squeezed
to death, being caught between two
/ cars.
William CIendinne, former member
of the Canadian parliament and once
mayor of Montreal, was cut in two by
train GEAR Depew, N. Y.
William Yolasik, of Coplay. was
committed to Easton Jail, charged with
having blown up the house of Andrew
Kuish, near Weaversville, Pa
At the expense of the Live Stock Ex.
change and the packers inspectors will
be established at the cattle scales at
the South St. Joseph stock yards
Stopping to avoid a freight train,
Herman Bell. a signalman, was killed
by an engine on an adjoining track in
the Pennsylvania yard at Altoona. Pa
A Fortunate Texan