Smyrna times., 1907-05-22
WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Tuesday May "a.

Tuesday, May IA.
The warehouses Of Moore & Wright,
at Milway, near Lancaster, Pa, were
DESTROYED by fire, entailing a loss OF
100000.
Miss Phelena Wiltshire. aged AZ
years, dropped dead from heart disease
Just after she stepped from a trolley
car at Glenolden, near Chester, Pa
T C. Decehenault, Sr., one of the
best-known American exporters of cat
tie and one of the wealthiest men in |
Kentucky, died at Lexington, aged 70 !
years.
David S. Barry, of the Providence |
Journal. has been appointed a memb 7 |
of the Official board OF visitors OF tho |
United States naval academy It An
napolis, Nd.
Wednesday, May IS.
w. A. Rittenhouse, a wel.-krCWn
Philadelphia grocer, was struck by
Reading railway train and instantly
killed.
James Bryce, the British ambassa-
dor. will deliver the commencement
address at the University Of Illinois
on June II.
St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Cathe-
dral at Harrisburg, Pa, was dedicated
by Archbishop Ryan, override bishops
and priests attending.
Philip n. Schuyler, who was dele
gate to the Republican national con
vcntion in Chicago in 1860 and who
voted to nominate Lincoln, died at
Bellevue, O., aged 81 years.
Thursday, May 16.
Snow fell at St. Paul. Mimi, We'd
nesday, establishing a new late snow
| fall record.
Clarence Chandler a negro, was SEN
fenced to 20 years in prison at Will
mington. Del. for attempting to Grim
inally assault Mrs. Mary Alcorn.
The body of David Richards, who
shot and seriously wounded his wife
two months ago, was found in a cave
hole at Plymouth, near Wilkes-Barre,
Pa.
Robert T. Cottingham died sud
denly at Wilmington Del, as a result
of shock following his wife's death a
week ago. when she was suffOcated
by gas.
Friday, May II.
Cincinnati has begun efforts to Sc
cure the next Democratic national con
vention.
Governor Stokes has signed the bill
creating a state railroad commission
in New Jersey.
NJ w. Morris, a prominent busines:
man of Wilkes-Barre, Pa. died from 1
stroke of paralysis, aged 81 years.
John Taylor. who disappeared from
Chester, Pa, two months ago, hal
written to his sister that he is in Scot
land
John s. Ringwalt, president of tn
New Knox National bank, at Mt. Vel
non, o.. was found dead in bed fron
heart disease.
Saturday, May 1s.
George Reckhart was sentenced
! 10 years in prison at Philadelphia fo
assaulting a 1O-year-old girl.
Governor Charles Hughes, of Me-
York. was elected president of the Me-
Northern Baptist Convention at Wasl
ington.
Three men were injured. AZ patient
badly frightened and $4,000 damag
d done by a gas explosion in the Obi
: Valley hospital at Pittsburg.
Samuel B. Baker, adjutant generi
. of West Virginia, and one of the be-
known newspaper men of the stat
died at his home at Clarksburg.
Mrs Elizabeth Wonderle, an inma
of the Methodist Home for the Aged
Philadelphia, celebrated the 104th a
niversary of her birth on Friday.
Monday, May 20.
The Duke D'Abruzzi visited Il
Naval Academy at Annapolis.
E. H. Conger. former minister
China, died at his home at Pasaden
Cal.
Charged with dynamiting a neg
preachers home at Ruston. La, Ma
Reisinger, a railroad man, has been ;
rested.
Probably struck by a train, Albt
V. Taylor was found dead at BedfOl
O., tightly wedged between the stati
platform and the tracks.
George Clinton, a veteran of
Civil War. was struck by a freig
engine at Marietta, Pa, and died of
injuries in a few minutes
Mrs. E. E. Roberts wandered aw
from her home in Sunbury, Pa, a
was found after two days near d.
vile, with reason dethroned and in
IN pitiable plight.