Smyrna times., 1907-12-25
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Tuesday, December II.

the tracks of the Reading railway at
Valley Forge. Pa.
Meyer B. Gallinger, aged SO years,
, wholesale liquor dealer, of Pitts
burg, Pa, committed suicide by shoot
ing while despondent over financial
matters.
jacob Wescoe, Sc years old. was
stricken with heart disease while at
tending the service in Bethany United
Evangelical church, at Easton, Pa,
and died before he could be removed
from he edifice.
Wednesday, December 1s.
The Smelter City bank, of Durango
Colo, a state institution, capital $780,,
900. failed to open.
Professor John w. Lindley, founder
of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, died
at Mount Vernon, o., aged eighty-one
years.
Mrs. Pauline Aloff, trained nurse,
shot and killed Robert J. Schramm at
Fl Paso, Tex, because he refused to
marry her
The president sent to the senate the
nomination Of James NJ. Yeager, of
Lewistown. to be T. S. marshal for the
middle district of Pennsylvania.
A rough count of the census Of Cuba
was cabled to the war department by
Governor Magoon, showing the total
population Of the island to be 2.O2S, ,2S2.
Thursday, December 1e.
Miss Mary Farley, a trained nurse
was killed by an express train at Dix
mont station. near Pittsburg.
Five-year-Old Dollie Ricardo fell into
tub of hot water at her home in
Philadelphia and received burns from
whish she died.
Five young men were seriously in
jured at North Braddock, Pa, when a
bobsled descending a steep grade
crashed into a street car.
More than 100 all-steel passenger
cars will be in use on the Pennsylva.
MIA railroad between Pittsburg and
New York shortly after Jan. l.
Friday, December 20.
Fire totally destroyed the plant of
the Parkersburg (W. Va) Mill com
pany, manufacturers of interior wood
work, entailed loss of over 100000
During a heavy snOwstorm William
Wurtz. a section hand and Ray Burke,
walked in front of a switching engiDe
near Carbondale, Pa, and were killed.
Albert NJ. Staples, who, until his
retirement six months ago, was the
oldest Pullman car conductor in the
service, died at his home in Evanston,
ILL.,, aged seventy years.
Bishop Ryan had twenty-five priests
slide down a new chute fire-escape at
the Catholic Orphanage, at Alton, Ill ,
while he stood at the bottom and
watched them come out.
Saturday. December Fl.
Edward Clifford twenty-five years
old, was hanged at Peoria, ILL.,, for the
murder of his father year ago.
Whitelaw Reid, the American am.
bassador to Great Britain, arrived in
New York to spend the holidays.
A check swindler made the rounds
Of several stores in Chester, Pa, and
obtained about $50 on bogus paper.
Mrs Mary E. Farrell celebrated her
104th birthday at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. John Sharp, at Clinton,
N. ].
One workman was instantly killed
and another fatally injured by the ex-
plosion OF twenty-five pounds of dy-
Mantle at Torrington, Conn.
Monday, December %.
The governor of Oklahoma has sign.
ed the bill to prevent the piping OF
gas out of the state.
Injuries received when his clothing
caught in a shafting caused the death
of Jacob Keeny, of Tolna, York coun-
ty, Pa.
William Garland, author of num-
Ter Of books and a son of former
United States Attorney General Gar.
land, committed suicide in a hotel at
Little Rock, Ark.
The first trolley car ever to enter
Bath, Pa, passed through that town
Saturday from Nazareth over the
newly-built Bath-Nazareth trolley
road.
AS result of the recent advance in
the price of milk at Chicago,-the grand
jury has returned indictments against
fifteen members of the Illinois Milk
Dealers association for conspiracy.