Smyrna times., 1909-09-22
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Tuesday, September Il.

MOuudy Will every cent Oh lJS nOaJ-
ing indebtedness paid.
Fifteen-year-old Ade de Pratt tried
to kill herself at Nevada, Mo-. when
she learned th?t two prisoners at the
county Jail had told the sheriff that
she had given them a saw with which
to cut through the prison bars.
Judge Martin F. Morris, formerly
chief justice of the court of appeals Of
the District of Columbia and one OF
the oldest and most prominent mem
bers fthe bar in Washington, died
at his home, aged seventy-four years.
Wednesday, September IS.
Secretary of the Interior Ballinger
declares that he has no intention of
resigning as a result of the Pinchot
controversy.
Five women and a baby were seri
Ously injured when taXicab in which
they were riding was wrecqed by
street car in Pittsburg.
With 22-caliber bullet imbedded in
the center of his brain. fired there with
suicidal intent more than two week
ago. Frank Blaine left the Casually
hospital in Washington, discharged a
cured.
Members of the American Bankers
association oppose postal SAVINGS
banks and will urge congress to amenL
the law so as to permit national banks
to conduct a savings department and
thus meet demand for savings in small
communities.
Thursday, September IS.
John J. Swanger's -four mill at Ny
erstown, Pa, was destroyed by fire,
entailing a loss of $4,000.
Lister Philips, twenty-five years OLD.
was crushed to death at New Holland,
Pa, when six tons of rock fell from
the side of a quarry in which he was
working.
Pay Director James A. Ring senior
officer of the pay corps of the navy
and for many years in charge of the
pay Office at Portsmouth, N. H., retired
on account of age.
Because Mrs. Jessie Gabel. a widow.
refused to marry him, Charles Eason
shot and killed the woman at Fort
Worth. Tex. and after drinking tAa
contents OF a twO-ounce bottle of car
bolic acid sent a bullet through his
brain.
Frid,y, September II.
Fire destroyed the flour mills and
elevators OF Iglehart Brothers, al
Evansville. Ind, entailing a loss OF
100000.
Burglars broke into the Neenah,
Wis. postofice, blew open two vaults
and obtained about $1,000 in stamps
ard money.
DR.. John ". Coffin, a major in the
Tenth Penn -vlvania Volunteers during
the Spanish-American war in the PHI
ippines. dieG at FL Paso Tex.
National Negro Baptists at their an
nual convention at Columbus. o., unan
imously reelected Rev. Dr. E. C. Nor
ris, of Helena, Ark. to serve as presi
dent for his sixteenth year.
satr day, September 1a.
Bishop McCloskey, of the Catholic
diocese of Kentucky. died at Louis
vile, Ky.
The convention of the Fraternal Or
der of Eagles at Omaha, Neb., decide(
to hold its next grand aerie at st
Louis.
Chang Yin Tang, the newly appoint
ed Chinese minister to the Unite;
States. in succession to WI Ting Fang
has left Peking for Washington.
Harrisburg, Pa. grocers, who wer
prosecuted by Dairy and Food Com
missioner Foust for selling ketchu
containing excessive quantities of beI
zoate of soda, pleaded guilty and pa'
fines of $50 each.
Monday, September 20.
The union label will be restored 4
all the hat factories of Danbury, Bethe
and New Milford, Conn.
For killing a fellow-soldier, John T
Gibson has been given a life sentenc
in the federal prison at Leavenwortl
Kan.
A shipment of 1913 high-bred cattl
from the Isle of Jersey, estimated t
be worth $4,000, has arrived at Cool
ersburg, Pa.
Police cf Nashville, Tenn, hav
averaged six arrests a day for drunl
enness since July l, when prohibitio
went into effect.
Governor Harmon, of Ohio, invite
the governors of all the states and te
ritories of United States to atten
with delegations the National Coo
Roads Congress, to be held in ColuI
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