Smyrna times., 1908-01-08
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Tuesday, DecAmber a.

Tuesday, December 81.
James Allen Bloch, of Chicago. ap-
pled to the police station at Jean
nette, Pa, for lodging, and was found
In his cell with his throat cut.
Joseph B. Ford, of Williamsburg.
Brooklyn, left a children's Christmas
party at the house of a friend M6ndav
night, walked oYt on the veranda ard
shot himself to death.
Robert Perry, negro, was arrested
by the police of Scranton Pa. on sus-
picion of being the assailant of the
three younF women who have been |
knocked down and left for dead by
bome- apparently crazy or degenerate |
Gend.
Wednesday, January 1.
Albert Zein, thirty years old. of Phil
adelphia, committed suicide in the
basement of the Pennsylvania railroad
station at Pittsburg by drinking car
bolic acid
Director Frank Ridgway, prominent
ly known in connection with the
United States weather bureau, died in
hospital at Pittsburg of typhoid
pneumonia.
Two foreign miners were probably
fatally injured and two dwelling houses
partly wrecked at Wilcox, near Pitts
burg, when a keg of blasting powder
became ignited from an open lamp
which one of the men was fastening
to his cap.
Thursday, January 2.
The report of Coroner Stein, of
Lackawanna county, Pa, for 1907
shows 1O1 deaths in and about the
mines.
The 131st annual session of the New
York state legislature began at noon
Wednesday. James w. Wadsworth, Jr.,
was reelected speaker of the assem-
bly,.
! Two firemen were seriously injured
and damage estimated at 100000 re.
suited from a fire which completely
destroyed the Excelsior building at
Pittsburg.
While alighting from the rear end
of trolley car on which he was steal
ing ride Francis Gallagher, fifteen
years old, of Philadelphia. was crushed
to death by another trolley car
Friday, January 8.
Two men were run down and killed
by Pittsburg & Lake Erie passenger
train in Pittsburg.
DR.. Nicholas Sem, one of the most
widely known surgeons in the United
States, died in Chicago.
Robbers blew open the vault of the
McCurtain, Okla, State bank, secured
$4,000 in gold and silver and escaped,
leaving no clue.
The Cumberland Presbyterian church
and three store buildings at Coal Cen
tire, Pa, were destroyed by attire which
threatened the destruction of the en-
tire mining town, fifty miles south OF
Pittsburg.
Saturday, January 4.
The Erie shops at Susquehanna
near Binghamton, N. Y, have again
been put on full time.
Sarah Burton and her son Arch
negroes, were shot and killed a
Blackville, Ark, by Deputy Sheriff
Barnes and City Marshal Britt Jones
while resisting arrest.
Rev. Father Denis ]. Stafford D. D.
pastor of ST. Patrick's Catholic
church. in Washington, and one of thu
most noted divines in the country
died at the Providence Or. I.) hospital
following an operation.
After suffering for ten days will
:. facial neuralgia, which had settled il
: ali liberated tooth, Mrs. Anna Rel
mann, of Philadelphia, died in her hus
bands arms in a dentists Office,
y Monday January 8.
A reduction of ten per cent in tn
). wages of all it's employees was poste
J. at the Crane Iron works, Catasauqua
h Pa.
;. Thomas L. Pierson, acting Judge @
I. the second criminal court at Newark
:. N. j., dropped dead at his home fror
n apoplexy.
!. Martin Wezlarz. of Philadelphi;
n while walking on the railroad, wa
. struck by a train at Redington, Pa
d and perhaps fatally hurt.
n The worlds record for quantity an
o average price of loose leaf tobacc
o. has been broken at Lexington. Ky
2. where 100000 pounds were sold fC
it 5000 per hundred.
IS Thirty-two deer, comprising th
n herd in William G. Rockefeller's pr
vate park. at Greenwich, Conn, haV
been rounded up and shipped to
Pennsylvania purchaser.
s. HaARHCE nINTATIONc