Smyrna times., 1907-10-23
4 WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Tuesdav. octoher 15.

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Arthrr A. Murmod, son of a million
Rire, committed suicide in z hotel at
st. Louis.
While picking chestnuts on a tree
near Philadelphia, George Jones, aged
16 years, fell from the top and broke
both his legs.
Patrick M. Dunn, judge of the or
phans' court of Schuylkill county, Pa,
died suddenly at his home in Miners
vile, of acute indigestion.
While cunning near Millerstown,
Pa, Earl Patterson, II years old, acci-
dentally shot and killed Edgar Wy
land, his young companion.
Wednesday, October IS.
Mrs. W. T. Turner, a niece of the
late Samuel J. Tilden, commiSod sui.
eide at Detroit, Mich, by jumping into
the river.
Giuseppe Maggie was sentenced by
a New York judge to 20 years i'm
prisonment for numbering a fellow
countryman.
William N. Wilmer, an intimate
friend of President Roosevelt, and for
nearly 80 years a lawyer in New York,
is dead at his country place. Plain
Dealing, in Albermarle county, Va.
A handsome granite shaft COM
memorative Of their fallen comrades
was dedicated at Cedar Greek battle,
field, near Winchester Va, by the
survivors of the 12Sth New York vol
unteer regiment.
Thursday, October II.
The United States treasury depart.
ment purchased 100000 ounces OF sill
yer at 61.G26 per fine ounce.
Fire which started in a theatre at
Plant City, Fla, destroyed 20 business
houses, causing a loss of $125,OOO.
Between June 21 and September 21
of this year Al persons were killed
and 313 injured in automobile acci.
dents in Massachusetts.
The 22 shoe factories in st. Louis
which have been closed for five weeks
because of a strike, have resumed
operations.
David r. Proctor, 81 years old, a
cousin of United States Senator Red
field Proctor, of Vermont, was found
dead in a cheap lodging house in Chi
cago.
Friday, October 1s.
The armOry of Company l, N. G.
p, at Easton, Pa, has been formally
dedicated.
During a heavy fog a freight train
and shifting engine collided at Sheri
dan, Pa, and one trainman was killed
and three seriously injured.
Formmer President Grover Cleve
land attended the quarterly meeting
of the board of trustees of Princeton
University. at PRINCETON, N. ].
Miss Florence Lyman, who died re.
Gently in Boston, bequeathed $25O,0OC
to charity, $4,000 to go to Woodstock
college, Woodstock. Nd.
Harry Reese, the young man who
shot himself on the street in Philadel
phia after a telephone conversation
with woman, died in hospital.
Saturday, October 10.
Stephen w. Bolles, chief of division
of exploitation at Jamestown Exposi-
tiqn, resigned, effective November l.
flour men were drowned in the Illi-
nois river, six miles below Hardin, Ill,
by the overturning Of a gasoline
launch
Eleven buildings were destroyed by
fire at Carrollton, village near Mo-
nongahela City, Pa, entailing a loss of
| $75, 600.
The second death among the mem
bers of the naval academy fourth class
occurred when Midshipman Evan C.
Howe, whose home was in Mills
Mass, died from pneumonia at the
naval hospital at Annapolis, Md.
Monday, October 21.
To date there has been 43 deaths
from the bubonic plague in San Fran
cisco.
Oliver KeiseT, of Milford Square
Pa, found so pounds of honey in &
log near his home.
AS a result Of pouring oil on fire
in stove, Mrs. Phoebe Goldstein, o.
Brooklyn, and six of her II children
were severely burned.
In spite of what was supposed tt
have been a successful blood transfu
sion operation, Mrs. P. H. Welch il
dead from anaemia at Chicago.
An automobile owned and driven b!
M. E. Riggs, of Charleroi Pa, over
turned at Monessen and injured it
six occupants, one being perhaps ia
tally hurt.