Smyrna times., 1908-01-01
a WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Tuesday, December "a.

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ny railing downstairs at her home
III burlington, N. j., Mrs. Hope Mev
ers' elghty-ive years old. sustained
Injuries that caused her death.
John Fl. Paley. editor of the Jewish
Daily News, was found dead in his
home in Brooklyn, asphyxiated bv Gas
which was escaping from an omen
burner in the parlor.
benjamin Northway. a fireman on
the United States battleship Missouri
who was landed at San Juan Porto
Rico, on Saturday suffering from peri-
tonitis, died in a hospital.
Captain Henry Scrihner, of rbe.
barge New Haven, and his wife we're
drowned off the coast of Connecticut
when seven barges in tow of the ting
James McWilliams foundered.
Thursday, December 26.
-Four masked and armed men held
up Chicago saloon, escaped with
S4OO in cash, eight gold watches and
four revolvers.
Calling loudly for a doctor. c. B.
Woods, Philadelphia travelling sales
man for brick firm, expired of heart
disease in a hotel at Wilkes-Barre.
Pa.
Two people were burned to death
and third was fatally hurt in a fire
which destroyed the general store and
apartment house of ]. B. Currier, at
North Dover, o.
Fl. H. Moore, of Lancaster, Pa. has
fifty acres of tobacco ready for buy
ers'. inspection and expects to realize
$4,000 for the tobacco, or 5000 an
acre-about the price of the land.
The two children of Mrs. Anna
Bradley, who killed Senator Brown
of Utah. have begun suit at Salt Lake
City to break Browns will on the
ground that he was their father and
they are entitled to share in his $5O.-
] 900 estate.
Friday, December 27.
Paul Meyer was killed in New York
while watching men hoist a piano
when the rope broke and the piano
crushed him.
John l.. Sullivan, switchman EN-
plOyed on the Erie at Susquehanna.
Pa, was murdered by an unknown
strike-breaker.
Leopold Vilsack. siXty-eight years
old, millionaire banker. brewer and
property owner of Pittsburg, dropped
dead of heart failure at his home.
Henry Meiser and Antonio Obert
were burned to death and two other
men were seriously injured in a fire
which destroyed the home of Andrew
BaltOw. at Bradford, Pa.
Saturday, December %.
Former Governor of Maryland Elihu
E. Jackson died at his city home in
Baltimore at the age of seventy years
Kinsa Belt, one of the captors OF
Jefferson Davis, the president of the
Confederate States, died at Thornville
o.. aged sixty-three years.
President Roosevelt has sent a let
ter and a $40 bill to Jacob Kriesfeld
a fourteen-year-old boy of Worcester
Mass, in return for a Christmas gift
which the boy sent to the president.
Kate, Mary and George Clark, al
under ten years of age, were drowned
and six others barely escaped the
same fate because of the breaking oi
thin ice on a skating pond at Castle
ton, n. H.
Monday, December 80.
Frank Mitz, aged seven years, while
sliding on a pond at Yatesville, Pa.
fell through the ice and was drowned
A fractions mule rolled over upor
Isaac Hollenbach, a driver employed il
a mine at Tamaqpa, Pa, killing hin
instantly.
Mrs. Boyer and one child were
burned to death and another child was
severely burned in fire that destroy
ed their home near Hamden, Vintor
county, o.
Two men attempted to hold up ;
party of seven Italians at Snohomish
Wash, with revolvers, but the Ital
ians gave fight, killing one robber ant
seriously wounding the other.