Smyrna times., 1908-02-26
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Tuesday, February 19.

TWO men were burned to death in a
fire which destroyed a dwelling house
at Limestone, N. Y, near Bradford, Pa.
William Sells, the last of the three
brothers who organized the famous
Sells Brothers Circus combination,
died suddenly in New York.
DR.. John G. Shaub, a veterinary sur
geOn, who was we'll known all over
Pennsylvania, was found dead in bed
at Lancaster from uraemic poisoning.
Five persons were injured, one prob
ably fatally, when a Michigan Central
passenger train running twenty-five
miles an hour crashed into and tele-
scOped a New York Central yard en-
gine at Buffalo, N. Y.
Wednesday, February 10.
Winfield S. Riblet, one of the Oldest
and well known business men of Erie.
Pa, hanged himself in a barn near his
home.
Thomas B. Carl and his three year
old grandson were crematcd in a fire
which destroyed their home at Brad
ford, Pa.
At Ludlow, near Warren, Pa, John
Olson, a Swedish miner, crazed by sick
ness, attempted to murder his family
and fatally injured his son before he
was OverpOwered.
President Roosevelt has pardoned
Allen Parker, who was convicted in the
federal court in Nashville, Tenn, two
years ago and sentenced to serve five
years in the federal prison charged
with misuse of funds of a bank at
TullahOma. Tenn.
Thursday, February 20.
Mrs. Oscar Anderson and baby were
drowned while trying to ford the dry
Glaze river near Decaturville, Camden
county, Mo-
Because his wife threatened to secure
divorce from him, L. Asbury shot
and killed her and then committed sui
eide at Seattle, Wash.
Mrs. StinsOn, ninety-six years of age,
was burned to death in a fire which de-
strOyed the home of her sOn-in-iaw,
Roe Deeter, at Winterset, Ia.
Governor Stuart re-appointed Thos.
W. Marshall, of West Chester, and
Frank L. Smith. of Norristown, tIus-
tees of the Norristown State Insane
hospital.
Friday, February 21.
William H. Johnson. a negro, who
murdered his wife, Rebecca Johnson
on Oct 20, 1906, was hanged in Phila-
delphia.
Mrs. Elizabeth Barnum, one of the
few surviving widows of the War of
1872 died at East Orange, N. j., at
the age of ninety-siX years.
BY the explosion of a can of gasO-
line, Mrs. E. L. DOdder and her sister,
Mrs. Hamilton, of Glade, Pa, were ia.
tally burned at Omaha, Neb.
Ward Hanahan, twenty years old, an
invalid, was burned to death in the
home of his mother in Kansas City.
Kan. when his clothing caught fire
from an overheated stove.
Saturday, February %.
Fourteen miners lost their lives by
an explosion in the Glebs pit near
New Castle Upon Tyne, Eng.
The plant of the Dayton (O) Motor
Car company with its contents was
destroyed by fire. entailing a loss esti.
mated at 100000.
The comptroller of the currency is
sued a call for a statement of the con
dition of all national banks at the
close of business on Feb. IA last.
Kansas Democrats in state conven-
tion at Hutchinson Kan, instructed
all delegates to the Denver convention
to vote for William J. Bryan for presi
dent.
Monday, February "a.
Conscience stricken, Stewart B
Mills has surrendered himself to the
police at Middletown, N. Y, confessing
to several burglaries.
Eighty-two delegates, representing
the Death Benefit association of the
Sons of Veterans of the United States
held their fifteenth annual convention
in Bethlehem, Pa.
Pleading guilty to embezzling $32.
900 from the First National bank. ot
Hattiesburg. Miss, w. T. Smith ant
J. W. Harper have been sentenced t.
six years in prison.
For a second time within two years
Miss Myra Silverdale. of Norfolk
Conn, is in a New York hospital, suf
fering from a disease Of the tongue
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