Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1907-11-13
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Tuesday. Novenhsr 8

Henry Bishop, known as the "co,d
Flsh King" is dead at his home IN
Baltimore, Md.
James R. Boyd, cashier of the Hunts.
Vllle' Ala Bank & Trust company.
committed suicide.
Five persons were killed and a sooro
more injured in a head-on collision
between a passenger train and
freight near Little Rock, Ark.
Max Reinholdt, former Milwaukee
WIS, supervisor, charged with accent.
ing bride of $50 in connection with
hospital contract several years ago
pleaded guilty and was fined 5000.
wednesday, November 6.
Arthur Rogers, wealthy farmer,
living near Bancroft, Mich. cut his
Wl1e's throat with a razor and then
committed suicide with the same
weapon.
During September there were
brought to the Isthmus of Panama for
work on canal construction, 1888 labor.
ers, of whom 664 were Europeans and
119 West Indians.
-Four army officers who failed to
take the test ride directed by Presi
dent Roosevelt to determ ne their fit.
ness for army service have been or.
dered before a retiring board to meet
In Washington, November II, for ex.
animation.
Thursday, November 7,
Gray Gables, formerly the summer
home of Grover Cleveland, at Buzzards
Bay, Mass, has been sold to George D.
Flynn, brewer.
Thomas Haugh and Charles B.
Knutson were electrocuted in Chicago
while operating a derrick, the steel
cable of which came in contact with a
trolley wire.
John c. Dueber. owner of the
Dueber-Hampden Watch works, at
Canton, o., said to be the largest
watch factory in the world, died after
a short illness.
Friday November 8.
Philip Farley, 60 years old, and his
wife, Mary, So years old, were found
dead from gas in their home in New
York.
Robbers dynamited the safe of the
Farmers National bank at Marshall,
Okla, and secured all the money and
valuables in the vault.
The ninth annual meeting of the
Pennsylvania State Congress of Moth
ers was held at Harrisburg, with near
ly 100 delegates present
Alfred G. Vanderbilt has offered the
Newport r. l., Young Mems Christian
Association, a new building, to be
erected as a memorial to his father.
the late Cornelius Vanderbilt, at a cost
of 100000.
Saturday, November g.
Rear Admiral Henry Lyon retired
from the navy on account of having
reached the age limit of service.
Walter Lawton, 10 years old, while
at work in a lumber mill in Philadel
| phia was caught in the shafting and
crushed to death.
A fCur-story brick building occupied
by Joseph Goddard, a wholesale gro
Ger, at Muncie, Ind, burned, and the
loss is estimated at 100000
The Bath annual convention of the
National Womans Christian Temper
ance Union was held at Nashville
Tenn, with over 500 delegates in at
tendance.
Rev. T. J. Leila, rs years old, a well
known minister of the Methods
Episcopal church, died at his home IL
Pittsburg. following a protracted i'll
ness.
Monday, November II.
Robbers visited two residences ca
Briar Cliff Manor; at Ossining, N. Y.
and made off with $4,000 in gems.
There have been 80 cases of verified
bubonic plague, with 81 deaths, in Sal
Francisco since the present epidemic
began.
Mrs. John Shilling, of Lewistowl
Junction, Pa, has preserved in gooC
shape for Is years an apple stuck full
of cloves.
A landslide near Redwood, w. Va.
covered the tracks of the Baltimore {
Ohio to depth of five feet for dis
lance of half a mile.
Farmer Josiah Reese hailed JOSEPH
Liebfried into the Lancaster, Pa, cour
for stealing half a dozen potatoes from
a field, and the court considered tn
offense so trihing as to suspend sen
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