Smyrna times., 1907-12-11
Va TIMES WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 1907.
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Tuesday, December 3.

MAJOR jacob OOWuiuS, QOL6Q In
dian fighter, died at his home here at
Denver, aged n years.
Lewis Guest climbed an electric
hight pole in Philadelphia, caught hold
Of live wire and was instantly killed.
Professor j. Augustus Rice, for
many years an instructor at Nazareth
hall, Bethlehem. Pa, died of apo
plexy, aged so years.
Chairman James H. Ferriss issued
q call for a Populist national conven-
ton to be held in st. Louis April 2,
1908, for the purpose of nominating
candidates for president and vice
president of the United States.
Wednesday, December 4.
Frank Wayland Palmer, former pub
lie printer, died of pneumonia in Chi
cago, aged 80 years.
The postoffice at Pelzer, S. c., was
entered by burglars and the safe was
blown open by dynamite and robbed
of $1,000 in cash and stamps.
One man was killed, another serious
ly injured and three firemen were over
come by back drafts in a fire which
caused a loss of $45,0OO to a building
in Bleecker street, New York.
More than a score of persons, mostly
women, were injured when a Dayton
& Xenia traction car got beyond con-
east of Dayton. o., and overturned at
a curve.
Thursday, December 5.
Andrew Carnegie has given Howard
University, at Washington, $4,000 for
a new library building.
A. D. Spencer, of the firm of A. D..
& F. NJ. Spencer, coal operators, of
Dunmore, Pa, was found dead in bed
from acute indigestion.
The comptroller of the currency is.
sued a call for a statement of the
condition of the national banks at the
close of business December 3.
TREY L. Ford, general counsel of
the United railroads of San Francisco,
was acquitted of the charge of hav.
ing bribed former Supervisor Jen1
nings Phillips to vote for an overhead
trolley franchise.
Friday, December 6.
John SPAWN, the oldest man in
Oneida county. and possibly the oldest
in New York, died at his home in Yer
non. in his 1O5th year.
William Elliott, Who was appointed
by President Roosevelt to take charge
of marking the Confederate graves,
died suddenly at Beaufort, 81 c., where
he was with a hunting party.
The librarian of congress in his an
uual report shows that the library has
1.433.S4S books and pamphlets and
100000 other articles, giving it third
place in size among the Libraries of
the world.
While at work on the Milwaukee
road bed, near Helena, Mont, work
men unearthed the teeth and bones of
a gigantic mastodon, which DIR. Charles
N. Reinig estimates has been dead for
more than 10000 years.
Saturday, December 7.
Rice Hail. at Washburn college, To
peka, Kan, was destroyed by fire
causing a loss of 100000.
DR.. John Fay, a prominent physi
Cldh anu INC OluCoI III AllOOudS L q.
died after a long illness, aged n
years
Z. w. Swensen killed his former
wife, shot her husband and then com
mitted suicide near Smithville, Tex.
The Keystone block at Scranton
Pa. occupied by several tenants. was
destroyed by fire, entailing a loss OF
S65 900.
Raffaele Gallacco, aged 10 years
was smothered to death by a cave-in
at the Wooddale quarries at Whining
ton, Del
Monday, December 9.
Mrs. William ]. Bryan and heI
youngest daughter sailed for Eprope
to spend the winter.
Mrs. Z. Parmelee Prentice. daugh
ter of John D. Rockefeller, gave birth
10 a daughter in New York.
A jewelry trunk of G. S. Voorhees,
a Pittsburg travelling salesman, was
stolen from hotel in Canton, O.. and
looted of $4,000 in gems.
Benjamin F. Lutz, of Lititz, Pa.
has patented an arrangement by
which the draft of the furnace may be
turned on and off by clockwOrk.
George Olley, aged 110 years, be
lieved to be the oldest person in New
York state, died at his home in Great
Bend. nine miles from Watertown
N. Y.