Smyrna times., 1907-01-02
. WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Wednesday, December 26.


A life pension of $1,000 a year from
.he Carnegie fund has been settled on
Dr. A. w. Cowles at Elmira, N. Y.
Rev. T. X. Crowley while putting on
his vestments to celebrate high mass
in a church at Denison, Tex, dropped
dead.
Upsetting a tank of boiling water,
O. little daughter of Henry Warfel, OF
Colemanville, Lancaster county, Pa,
was fatally scalded.
The wife and \child of Samuel Poy-
ner and wife and the child of William
-Grimsted were cremated in a fire that
destroyed their home at Morris Neck,
Va.
When his affectionate advances were
spurned. Thomas Ciares. a Cubar
cigarmaker, killed his boarding mis-
tress. Mrs. Clara Wells, and then
hurled himself to death from a third
story window at New York.
Thursday, December 2I
DR.. ]. L. Ziegler aged "a years, the
oldest practicing physician in Lancas-
ter county, Pa, died at Mount Joy.
Three persons were killed and IL
hurt in a collision between passenger
train and work train at Tacoma, Wash.
Fire originating from a defective
gas lighting system destroyed three
business blocks at Perry, Ia, causing
a loss of 100000.
Gustav Hahn, prominent lawyer,
veteran of the Civil War and United
States commissioner, died at Wilkes
| Barre, Pa. aged rs years.
Friday, December %.
Charles B. Fink, editor of the La
| trobe (Pa.) Advance, dropped dead at
his home in that city of apopleXy.
Three children of Stanley Singleton
were burned to death in a fire which
destroyed their home near Weston
w. Va.
| Edward H. Thomson, Sr., president
of the Maryland National bank, died
suddenly at his home in Baltimore oi
| acute Indigestion.
| While roasting turkey in a gas
stove in her home at Atlantic City
N. j., Mrs. Kate Walton was overcome
by gas and was dead when found.
William C. Anderson, former assis
tant paying teller of the First Ma
tional bank of Kansas City, Mo-, wal
sentenced to four years Imprisonment
for embezzling $4,000.
Saturday, December 20.
Lawrence Iceberg was lynched b.
masked men at Las Animas, Colo, fo
the murder of Henry Lavenmeyer.
Rev. D. L. Holder, a Presbyterian
minister, YVES assassinated by uI
known parties at Union City, Tenn.
The director of the mint has pul
chased 100000 ounces of silver for dc
livery at Philadelphia at 70.15S cent
an ounce.
James Kelly, a wealthy oil we'll COZ
tractor, was electrocuted in the celia
of his home at Findlay, o., by comm
in contact with a light wire.
David o. Luckenbach, aged 73 year.
wealthy -four merchant and ban
director, of Bethlehem, Pa, died frol
exhaustion following a delicate surg
cal operation.
Monday, December 81.
Charged with Staying his fathe
Lee Molder, Is years old, has been a
rested at Union City, Tenn.
Two persons were killed and sewers
seriously injured in a wreck on th
Southern railway near Danville, Va.
The Slatington (Pa) Rolling Mi
company has advanced it's puddlel
from 81 to $3.50 per ton and other |
Dor in proportion.
e Because his sister-in-law, Margar
. Taylor had just welded Henry Morr
against his wishes, at Hopkinsvill
KY, Lewis Wilson killed both of thel
The mystery in the death of MI
e Sarah Ayres at st. Helen, Ore, WI
cleared by the confession of Bert Ht
man, 1S years old, that he had kill,
the woman.