Smyrna times., 1908-01-29
WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Tuesday. January 21.

Tuesday, January Fl.
Fire destroyed the Sunfiower Glass
company's plant at Coffayville, Kan,
causing damage of 100000.
Max ROsenbaum, one ST Pittsburg's
most prominent business sen, dropped
dead on the street of LIT disease.
Betsy BOnnett, ninef~ five years Of
age, daughter of Obeju, chief of the
tribe of Ottawa Indians, died at San
dusky, o.
DonatiO Fabrazio, young Italian,
was sentenced, at Reading. Pa, to
twenty years in the eastern peniten-
tiary for the murder of a fellOw-cOun-
tryman at MonOcacy during drunken
bout.
Wednesday, January %.
Rhode Island has a population of
480 ,0S0, according to a state census
just completed
Thomas King, who is wanted in
New York for the murder of James
Cuff, on Nov. II, 1907, was arrested in
Chicago.
A band of 90 might riders" burned
the large tobacco barn on the farm of
James A. Coleman, near Hopkins
vile, Ky.
Orange S. Brown. postmaster of
Williamsport Pa, and publisher of
the Gazette and Bulletin, died, aged
sixty-seven years.
Thursday January %.
John B. Larllin, controller of Pitts
burg, and formerly postmaster, was
in, OF u ic
asthma.
Morris X. Jesup. retired banker, and
long prominent in civic affairs, died at
his home in New York from heart
disease.
Two men were injured and consid-
| cradle damage done when the Pitts
burg Fulmite Powder company's build
ing at FOmbell. near Pittsburg, blew
up.
Fooled in her attempt to end her
life by inhaIing gas Mrs Caroline Fer
guson succeeded in eluding her watch
ers and hanged herself 10 rafter in
the cellar Of her home in Philadel,
phia.
Friday, January "a.
Saverio Curcio was hanged at Scran-
ton, Pa, for the murder Of Nicholas
Ferrias on Dec. "a, 1905.
Prof. Ernest Darling, occupying the
chair of physiology in the University
of London, England, was received by
President Roosevelt in the White
House
A bill was introduced in the Virginia
senate to appropriate $4,000 for a
copy of HOudOn's statue of Washington
in marble, to be placed in the Hall OF
Fame in Washington.
While attempting to start fire with
kerosene oil Mrs. Sarah Horvitz was
fatally burned and the members of six
families occupying a tenement house
in Pittsburg had to be carried to safety
by ftremen.
Saturday, January 25.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers will hold it's annual convention
at San Antonio, Tex, on Jan 30, 81
and 81.
DR.. Charles B. Eager, one of Har
risburg's (Pa) leading physicians
died of heart failure after an illness
of one week
While burning brush in their farm
near Bartlettsville, Okla, Mrs. George
Meyer, aged sixty-five. was burned tC
death, and her husband, aged sixty
eight was fatally burned.
In an effort to give work to the I'm
employed. the Pittsburg Railway com
pany adopted a new rule. providing
that all regular motOrmen and cOnduc
tors shall lay eff two days a week il
order to help the hundreds of idle
men.
Monday, January 27.
An unknown man stabbed to deatf
H. w. Reed, a saloOnkeeper, at Wash
ington, D.. c., and escaped.
Pennsylvania railroad train a
Plain City, o., killed Section Foreman
Patrick Conley and Assistant Foreman
John Hagan.
While cOnvalescing from the effect!
of a fractured ankle, Griffith Jones. o
Slatington, Pa. suffered a stroke O
apoplexy and died.
While on a street car at Racine
Wis. F. j. Cameron. a lumber deale
of Milwaukee, was robbed of $4,000 il
cash and securities.
Mrs. Antonio Lubinski, of Maltby
Luzerne county. Pa, got lost at nigh
on her way home from Wyoming am
was run over and killed by trOlle!
car