Smyrna times., 1907-04-17
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Tuesday. April 9.

Tuesday, April y.
Thomas H. Clay, a grandson OF
Henry Clay, died at his home at Lex
ington, KY, aged 65 years.
John and Bert Vaupel, Alfred Simon
and Irving Klaus were drowned at OF
tawa. ILL.,, by the capsizing of boat
President Roosevelt received at the
White House the delegates to the
MARYLAND conference of the Methodist
Protestant church.
Colonel Thomas Skies, city treasurer |
Of Huntington, w. Va, died on the
street of that city from a stroke OF
paralysis.
Thomas ]. Connors, of New Bruins.
wick. n. j., was killed and two others
injured by being struck by a Pennsyl |
vania railroad locomotive at Jersey |
City.
Wednesday, April 10.
President Roosevelt has appointed
Oscar R. Handley as United States dis.
trict Judge for Alabama.
The secretary of the navy granted
Commander Robert E. Peary a leave
of absence for three years, the time tc
be devoted to Arctic explorations.
Thrown into a state of nervous pros.
tration by reading an account in a
newspaper of her supposed death; Mrs.
Louisa Duley, of Evansville, Ind, died
in Mysteries.
The joiner shop at the League Island
navy yard, Philadelphia, containing
valuable patterns and furniture for the
battleship Kansas, was destroyed by
fire. Loss, 100000.
Thursday, April II.
John Davis, better known as Owen
Hall. author of "FlOlodora, died in
London of acute gastritis.
John Henry Clews, member of the
banking firm of Henry Clews, of New
| York died after long illness.
The Connecticut house of represen-
tatives adopted a resolution endorsing
| President Roosevelt's administration.
The fifth annual meeting of the
Newspapers and Publishers Associa.
| ton will be held at Richmond, Va
May Il and p.
Mrs. Sarah Miles Hanna, 50 years
old. the only woman upon whom the
degree of chivalry was ever conferred
by the |. o. o. F., died at Kansas
City, Mo.
Friday, April IL.
Mrs. Grace Redpath, who died re
Gently in london, left S150,O0O to Nc
Gill University, Montreal.
M. D. Clay was killed and R. A. Mat
thews seriously injured by a gas eX
plosion in their home at Atlanta, Ga.
Mrs. Ignatz Lowengart, wife of
wealthy merchant of Portland, Ore
committed suicide by jumping from
bridge 60 feet high.
Frank McCloskey a stone cutter
dropped dead in his boarding house a
Wilmington, Del, while he was eatin
his dinner.
Secretary Straus, of the department
of commerce and labor, has ordered
rigid inquiry into the operation of a
the immigration stations in the coul
try.
Saturday, April 49,.
Judge Beverly T. Crump has r
signed as chairman of the Virginl
corporation commission.
. Frederick Pabst, the millionail
, brewer, was seriously injured in a
automobile accident at Milwaukee
Wis.
John Herschberger, a prosperol
/ Lebanon county, Pa, farmer, commi
ted suicide by hanging himself in h
barn.
: A Brazilian squadron of warshil
left Rio de Janeiro for HamptC
Roads, Va, to take part in the jaime
town Exposition.
John A. Kebler, manager of the G,
orado Fuel company, died at Denvt
Colo, of ptomaine poisoning after e;
ing canned salmon.
Monday, April is.
Vice President Fairbanks will be o
of the speakers at the Information
Christian Endeavor convention
Seattle, Wash, in July.
George Duttrey, of Boiling Sprinl
Pa, was struck by Reading passt
ger train and cut to pieces while VOL
ing on the bridge at Mountz's.
James A. Quarles, d. D.. LII. D.,
21 years professor of moral philosop
at Washington and Lee Universi
died at Lexington. KY. aged 20 yea
while insane, Ed Stockton, II ye;
old, fatally shot his uncle, ]. F. Sto
ton, and beat his aunt insensible, af
which he set her on fire, at Bardw'
Ky.
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