Smyrna times., 1907-11-27
WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
ruesdav. November 10.

Tuesday, November 10.
Rear Admiral A. S. Snow, Of the
navy retired from active service by
operation of the age limit
Marie Adams. years old, swallowed
a marble at her home in Philadelphia
and died while being taken to a hos
pital.
f. E. Wolfe is under arrest in Chi
cago, charged with having obtained
$4,000 worth of furs from eastern
manufacturers on false pretenses.
Levi c. Lincoln president of the
Woonsocket Electric Light & Power
company, Of Providence R. l., who had
confessed to the embezzlement of
funds was sentenced to four years
imprisonment.
Wednesday, November 20.
DR.. Alfred Whelen. of Philadelphia,
died in Naples of heart failure, caused
by nervous prostration.
The Ohio supreme court held the
Aiken law, imposing a tax of $1,000 on
saloons in the state, valid.
DR.. Fred J. Peck. an official of the
Honduran government, who is said to
have disappeared while in Chicago, No
Vember 5.
Judge Lanning in the United States
court, at Trenton, N. j., appointed J.
Kearney Rice, of New Brunswick, as
receiver for the Arizona Smelling COM
pany and the Consolidated Arizona
Smelling company.
Thursday, November q.
Fremont B. Chesbrough has offered
Bay City, Mich, 100000 to purchase
site for a park.
Roy Winters. who is wanted by the
authorities at Newell, w. Va. for the
alleged embezzlement of $500, was ar
rested at Boston.
Members of the national committee
Of the Prohibition party met in Chi
cago to select a city in which to hold
the national convention in June, 1908.
Four foreigners were killed and
three injured in an explosion at con-
struction camp on the Portland &
Seattle road, II miles south Of Cheney,
Wash, while. thawing dynamite for
blasting.
Friday, November %.
The National Grange voted to hold
its next annual session in Washing
ton, D. c.
Charles +. Caswell. associate JUS
tice of the Colorado supreme court
died in Denver of paralysis of the
| heart after a weeks illness.
Mrs. Evelyn ROmadka, wife of a Mil
waukee merchant, who was convicted
of burglary in Chicago, was taken tC
the penitentiary to begin her sentence
| OF from one to 30 years.
Walter Wellman. leader of the Chi
cago RecOrd-Herald polar expedition
who is returning from his first attempt
to reach the North Pole by balloon. ar
rived in New York from Cherbourg or
the steamer Majestic.
Saturday, November %.
Mrs. Anna MacLaren. widow of Gen
eral Robert n MacLaren. died at the
home of her daughter in st. Paul
MINI.
The 36th international convention o
the Young Mems Christian Association
of North America was held in Wash
ington.
Oceana, numbering village of 40
inhabitants near Huntington, w. Va
was almost entirely wiped out by fir
which started in the Kelly hotel an
caused a loss of 100000.
Foster Crowell a civil engineer, TO
many years identified with the eng
neering department of the Pennsylva
MIA railroad was appointed stree
cleaning commissioner of New YOr
by Mayor Mcclellan.
Monday November 25.
Walker P. Inman, one of the Oldes
most prominent and wealthy men i
Georgia, was found dead in bed in hi
home at Atlanta.
Louis Weidler, II years old, of LaI
caster, Pa, was nearly smothered b
a horse he was Kidding getting tn
blind staggers and falling on him.
For attending a football game
disobedience of orders. IA girls, con
prising the entire senior class of tn
Pontwater (Mich) high school. hav
been suspended.
Judge Fuller, at Wilkes-Barre, Pa
has ordered that all the $500 wort
of gambling paraphernalia captured
a big raid by the state police sever;
months ago to be burned.