Smyrna times., 1908-01-22
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Tuesday. Ian,,arv Il

rOur DOyS were fatally injured at |
Greenville, Pa, in a coasting accident. |
The Union railroad station annex
at Kansas City. Mo, was ,Sstroved |
by fire, entailing a loss of s25U.0OO
Louis Mcfarland, a locomotive en-. |
gineer, of Pittsburg, has invented
combination railroad tie and rail Of
steel for preventing the spreading CT
rails.
]. w. Carpenter. of Scranton. Pa.
was appointed additional law Judge of
Lackawanna county by Governor
Stuart to serve until the first Monday
Of January, 1909, vice Judge John P.
Kelley, resigned.
Wednesday,, January is.
VIII Crogers, white man, was SEN
fenced at Savannah, Ca. for the third
time to be hanged for the killing o&his
wife last September.
The soda building of the Dupont
Powder company, at W"~wallot, near
Wilkes Barre, Pa, wa. q stroyed by
fire entailing a loss of
Henry A. Schuler, editor of the Penn
sylvania German Magazine, and long
editor of the Allentown Welt BOte and
Friedens BOte, died at Allentown, Pa.
from pneumonia, aged fifty-seven
years.
Thursday, January 16.
John H. Chapman was appointed re-
ceiver for R. NJ. Smith & Company.
wholesale lumber dealers, of Parkers-
burg, w. Va. Assets, $5OO,000; liabili-
ties, $350,000.
Samuel Fisler, seventy-two years of
age, for over a quarter of a century
treasurer of Lafayette college. was
found dead in bed at his home on Col.
lege hill, EastOn. Pa.
The bodies of two men, who were
identified by papers in their pockets
as Ira B. Stetson. of Liverpool, O..
and Albert Z. DonOvon, of New RO-
chelle, N. Y were found beside the
tracks of the Pennsylvania al Oad at
New Brunswick, N. J.
Friday, January II.
Hepburn hall the girls dormitory at
Miami university, at Oxford. o. was
destroyed by fire, entailing loss OF
$4,000.
Mrs Lydia X Bradley. one of the
richest women in Illinois. and well
known for her philanthropy. died al
Peoria. ILL.,, aged ninety-twO years.
The J. G. Brill Company. car build
ers. of Philadelphia have been invited
to bid on a contract to supply cars fol
the St Petersburg municipal stree
railway.
Arthur Chapman, of DoylestOwn
was appointed a member of the Penn
sylvania state board of game commits
sioners by Governor Stuart to succeed
former State Treasurer Frank G
Harris.
Saturday, January 19.
The Masonic Temple in Baltimore
was Quilted by fire, causing a loss o
$25O,OOO.
Notice was posted at the shops o
the Lehigh Valley railroad at castor
Pa. reducing the working time t
, forty hours a week
George Kenney. a negro. was hange
at Charlotte. S. c.. for the murder G
H. G. StellO, a white guard, at tn
, convict camp in this county.
While miners were drilling in
- | missed nOl6 CudISeu Will uy udAlll l
at the Winona mine, at Hancocl
Mich. an explosion occurred. Instant
: killing Henry Luckonen and fatal
injuring John KOski.
Gilbert Maddox, convicted of th
murder of James E. Camm, a watcl
man at the South Jersey basket fa
: tory at BridgetOn on Oct. 5, was sci
fenced to die in the electric cha
during the week beginning on Feb.
uext.
Monday, January 20.
All of the mills of the America
Writing Paper company, at HOlyOk
Mass, resumed operations.
u Frank Carlucci, aged five year
: playing in a West Scranton, Pa
|. street was killed by an electric car
y Interrupted while blowing open Il
safe in the postoffice at New Canaa
u Conn, burglars wounded a pOlicema
and escaped with S16.
/ More than one-half of the $74.00l
: 600 New York clearing house certi
le Gates issued during the bank pan
Is have been withdrawn from circulatio
After helping milk the cows, MI
le BENJAMIN Leibert went to the bal
= on their farm near South Bethlehel
lg Pa. and crawled into the hay 10
2 where she hanged herself and died.
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