Smyrna times., 1907-05-01
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Tuesday, April %.

Tuesday, April %.
President Roosevelt will leave
Washington for his sumner home at
Oyster Bay on June IL.
Tom Osadasia, an Italian, was stab
bed and killed in Cleveland, o., while
attending a christening and his assas-
Bin escaped.
A legislative investigating CO unit
Tee has estimated the value oR rail-
road property in st. Paul, Mimi, at
t215. 100000.
William T. Davidge, an actor, who
| lried to kill Miss Rosalie Wilbert be-
cause she refused to marry him. was
sentenced in New York to serve one
| year in jail.
Wednesday, April "a.
! William Burge, negro, was hanged |
In Washington for the murder of his
wife in 1905.
DR.. John Carver, who is said to have
II wives, whom he defrauded out of
s15O.OOO, was arrested at Fort Smith,
| Ark.
Winthrop Bishop, former governor
Of Porto Rico, has taken the oath OF
office as assistant secretary of the
treasury.
The big repair shops of the New
York Central railroad, in New York,
we're destroyed by fire, entailing loss
of 100000.
Four men were burned to death, 250
horses killed and II firemen injured
in a fire which destroyed big livery
stable in New York.
Thursday, April 25..
Lafayette College. at Easton, Pa,
will celebrate it's diamond jubilee COM
mencement June 16 to 20.
The Baptist church at Parsons, near
Wilkes-Barre, Pa, was destroyed by
fire. entailing a loss of $4,000.
Herman Lagercrantz, the new Swed-
ish minister was presented to Presi-
dent Roosevelt at the White House.
: Margaret Blattenberger, "a 13-year-
old school girl of Camden, N. j., died
of brain fever, the result OF over
study
Frank Thompson, a civil engineer,
of Philadelphia, while temporarily de-
ranged, hanged himself in police sta
ton at Columbus. o., where he had
= | been placed lot SAFE heeplnS'
Friday, April 26.
Buck High, a negro, was convicted
of assaulting a white girl at McDon-
ough. Ga. and sentenced to be hanged
y May 20.
Nine-year-old Kate Hildebrand died
in her home in Philadelphia from
burns received by her clothing catch
ing fire from a match.
About 100 cottages and summer
hotel at Lake Pleasant, near Millers
Falls. Mass. were destroyed by fire
entailing a loss of $4,000.
General Henry r. Guss. who com
manded the 9th Pennsylvania regi
ment during the Civil War, died IL
West Chester, Pa, aged 50 years.
Saturday, April 27.
Having reached the age of GA years
! Brigadier General John w. Bubb wa
placed on the retired list.
The director of the mint purchase
100000 ounces of silver for delivery a
Philadelphia at 66.144 cents an ounce
!. Frederick Allan, commissioner c
\ patents. has rendered his resignatio
to President Roosevelt to take effeC
III June l.
r Owing to the illness of job
Mitchell the conference. of officials {
the Mine Workers Union at Wilke
IL Barre. Pa, has been postponed.
Percy Fonville, charged with col
spiracy in connection with the embe
element of $6S,O00 from a bank ;
Charlotte, N. c., was arrested at L
verne, Ala.
Monday, April 29.
Cleaning a stove with a petroleum
soaked rag, Mrs. Lizzie Bauder was
tally burned at Allentown, Pa.
James R. Foraker brother of Unite
States Senator Foraker, died in CT
cinnati of cancer after a long Illness.
The New York district attorney
office is investigating the recent elt
\ ton of the New York Life Insuran
company's board of trustees.
Binger Hermann, former congre'
man from Oregon, and former comm
sioner of the general land Office, W
acquitted in Washington of the char
of destroying public records.
Finding a bottle of oxalic acid, whi
her father had been experiment.
with to burn ashes, Esther Bowd
drank 1t in mistake for cough syr
and is In dying condition at Shan
kin, Pa
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