Smyrna times., 1907-03-27
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Tuesday, March 10.

was 70 years old on Monday.
The Reading Railway company rails
ed the age limit for employees from 80
TO As years.
President Roosevelt has declined an
invitation to attend the National Pack
ers Exposition in Chicago in May.
The Evergreen hospital at Leaven-
worth, Kas., was destroyed by fire and
Is patients narrowly escaped death.
Loss, $4,000.
President Roosevelt has appointed
John E. Eater, of Columbus, O., United
States district judge for the southern
district of Ohio.
Wednesday, March 20.
Mrs. Mary A. Cooper died at her
home in Philadelphia, aged 1O4 years.
Jacok Balynn and Louis Elenoff
were killed and Louis Balynn injured
by the collapse of wall of house in
Baltimore.
The gas franchise of the Helena,
Mont, Light and Railway company
was revoked because of the poor quail
ity of the gas served.
AS the result of a collision between
a passenger train and a freight train
near Harbin, Manchuria, II persons
were killed and 80 injured.
Mrs. Annie Hoyt was burned to
death and her son Thomas severely
burned by the explosion of lamp in
their home at Jersey City, N. j.
Thursday, March Fl.
The New Hampshire senate passed
a bill forbidding state officials from
using free passes on the railroads.
Mrs. Russell Sage has donated $780,
900 to the American Seaman's Friend
Society in New York for a sailors
home.
Mrs. Catherine Russell, 20 years old
died in Philadelphia of burns received
by her dress taking fire from the
kitchen range.
Edward Howell, one of the most in
fluential negroes in Southern Missis
sippi, and president of a bank at Hat
tiesburg, was shot and killed by ar
unknown person.
Rev. Henry w. Cleveland, who serv
ed in President Davis secret service
and a relative of former Presiden
Grover Cleveland, died in Louisville
KY, aged II years.
Friday, March %.
Miss Ida A. Cooper, a society leade
OF Norwalk, o., committed suicide
while despondent.
The New Mexico legislature passed
a bill prohibiting gambling in the ter
ritory after January 1. 1908
w. H. Martin, a prominent busines
man of Detroit, was drowned at Sal
Diego, Cal, while surf bathing.
Antenatta Vincello. years old. die
in Philadelphia from scalds receives
by falling into bath tub of hot waite
in her home.
Charles G. Irwin, former clerk o
the court of Columbus, c., was coz
victed of embezzlement and fined $45
and sent to Jail for one year.
Saturday, March %.
Peter Goode, after making a full
confession, was hanged at Luray, Va
for the murder of his sweetheart.
Four men were blown to atoms b
an explosion of powder in the NORTH
ern Pacific railroad tunnel near Lon
bar, Mont.
Arthur Bean killed his wife with a
axe at North Baltimore. o., and the
committed suicide by shooting himsel
with a rife:
l.. D. Harrington was found guilty q
Delhi, N. j.. of attempting to wreck
train and was sentenced to six year
in state prison.
A total of 1919 lives and "a ship
were sacrificed to the storms and tn
treacherous coasts of New Englan
during the winter just ended.
Monday, March 25.
Captain ]. p. Merrell, of the nav,
admiral.
Frightened, she said, by the gho!
of her niece, Mrs. Daniel Clauer dro
ped dead at Springfield. o.
The Salvation Army Anti-Suicid
Bureau in Chicago claims to hay
saved 81 persons in three weeks.
A Norfolk & Western freight wei
into a creek near Lucasville, o.. IL
trestle having been undermined
floods, and two trainmen were crushe
to death.
Clayton Farmer, of Lancaster cou
ty, Pa, sold his crop of five acres
tobacco for S1779.92, realizing $685.!
per acre, or more than twice the vall
of the land. ~
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