Smyrna times., 1907-05-15
4 WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Tuesday, May 7.

Tuesday, May 7.
David d. Courtney, travelling pas
.senger agent of the B. & o. railroad,
died in Reading. Pa.
John R. Sherwood. of Baltimore, was
elected president of SHe Baltimore
Steam Packet company.
Miss Emily o. Gibbs, the wealthy |
recluse who died at Newport, r. l., |
left S75O,000 to Barnard College, N. Y.
The treasury department purchased |
100000 ounces of silver for delivery |
st the Philadelphia mint, at 65.7Sl |
rents an ounce.
Henry Trapper was dashed to death
against a trolley pole in Buffalo. N.
Y, wnen his automobile collided with
the pole.
Wednesday, May 8.
NJ. J. WeGcek, Of Erie, Pa, commit
ted suicide in a New York hotel by
drinking carbolic acid
A 3. & 0. express cOllided with a
freight train at Wheeling, w Va,
| killing four trainmen and seriously In
! juring three others.
While crossing the Pennsylvania
railroad tracks in Philadelphia. Henry
| Schneider. aged IS years, was struck
by a train and killed.
| Alexander r. Chisholm, formerly
paying teller of the First National
bank of Birmingham, Ala, was con-
| victed of embezzlement and sent to
prison for six years.
Thursday, May g.
The Order of United Americans will
hold their next convention at Read
ing, Pa.
Mrs. Mary Deemer, a widow, was
struck by train at Lebanon, Pa, and
instantly killed.
Andrew Carnegie. accompanied by
his wife and daughter, sailed for Eu-
rope on the steamship Baltic.
Captain George Curry, governor Of
Samar, Philippine Islands, has been
appointed governor Of New Mexico.
Edmund c. Ross. formerly United
States senator from Kansas, whose
vote saved Andrew Johnson from i'm
peachment, died at Albuquerque,
N. NJ.
Friday, May 10.
President Roosevelt has consented
to become honorary president of the
American School Hygiene Association.
President Roosevelt has pardOned
Albert NJ. Green, colored, who was
serving a life sentence in Washington
tor murder.
Miss Aileen Clemow, aged 26, a so
ciety belle of Ottawa, Ont, while de
spondent from i'll health, committed
suicide by shooting.
Sheriff w b. Crowley and Deputy
Ward were both shot and seriously
wounded at Williamsburg, KY, by
John Shotwell, who they were tryine
to arrest
Former Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral William NJ. Johnson. of Trenton
who was mentioned as the Republican
candidate for governor of New Jersey
has withdrawn from the contest.
: Saturday. May II.
Frisby Gibbs. colOred, was hangeC
at Baltimore, Md, for the murder o
Ida Cuff, colored, on October last.
William Teal shot and killed Jane
Sherman at Findlay o., in a quarre
over money.
N. j., was awarded $4,000 damages b.
a Philadelphia jury against the Rapi
Transit company for injuries sustaine
4 in a street car accident.
Captain A. Krech, of the Hambur
American line steamer Graf Walderse'
died on board his ship and his bod
- was brought to New York.
Oxford University will confer tn
degree Bachelor of Letters on Mar
Twain who viii sail for England o
June to receive the honor.
Monday, May 13.
Two children of Mrs. Neil Lair
were burned to death at East Live
pool. o., when her home was destro
ed by fire
A fugitive for some months, Fran
H. Jones. defaulting teller of the N
tional Bank at Charlotte, N. c., gay
himself up.
A memorial to DR.. Horace Hem
Hayden. founder of the American S
ciety of Dental Surgeons, is to
erected at Hartford, Conn.
Falling rock in the Jermyn mine
the Delaware G. Hudson company,
Jermyn, Pa, killed Stephen Seno al
Charles LascOwsky, iaborers.
Fred Fellman, employed as a tunn
driver at No. l shaft, near LansfoI
Pa, fell down an areaway 1876 feet al
ru only sustained badly bruised arm.