Smyrna times., 1909-09-29
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Tuesday, September Fl.

board of tariff commissioners.
James King, charged with having as.
sassinated Charles Scribner from am.
bush near Beattyville, Ky. has been
captured by a posse of officers with
bloodhounds after chase of five days
Heart-brOken because a scornful
laugh from the belle of the Italian
quarter greeted his pleas for her hand
in marriage. Luigi Bracaleone leaped
to death from the high bridge over
Panther Hollow in Schenley park at
Pittsburg
Wednesday, September 22.
There was an aggregate increase of
S1,190,037 in internal revenue receipts
fer August as compared with the cor
responding period of 1908.
Three men were killed when the
Montreal express, bound from Mon
tTeal for Boston, crashed into the rear
of the disabled Quebec express from
Quebec for Boston about a mile and
half from Pattee, ~ H.
In the superior court at Greensboro.
~ c. Gather Holt. a negro youth,
pleaded guilty to the charge of at
tempted rape on Maggie Powers. a girl
of his own color, and was sentenced to
fifteen years in the state penitentiary
Thursday, September %.
Engineer S. PER-. Of Spencer, N. c.,
was fatally hurt six miles below Lynch
burf. Va, by jumping from his engine.
which had left the rails.
NJ. F. Ryan, of Kansas City, was
elected grand chief of the Brotherhood
of Railway Carmen of America at the
convention at Atlanta, Ga.
Robert Hoe. aged seventy years
head of R. Hoe & Co., printing press
manufacturers of New York, died in
London after a short Illness.
G. McHenry Jones. president of the
West Virginia Institute for Colored
Persons, one of the most prominent
! negro educators in the country. died al
Charleston. w. Va.
Friday, September "a.
Fire destroyed the Otto Kuhne pre-
serving and picking works at Topeka
Kan. causing a loss OF S125,000.
men and a woman seriously injured
when an automobile containing eigh
| persons jumped off a trestle at Seat
tie, Wash.
After attempting to kill his father a
La Crosse, Wis. William SchaefeI
while insane, turned the revolver o,
himself and fired one shot, fallin
dead on the floor
John NJ. Grice, an American minin
contractor, and five Mexican miner
were instantly killed by an explosion
of dynamite in the Petgrina mine, i
the Guanajuato district at GuanajuatC
Mexico.
Saturday, September 25.
Frederick L. Kinds, of Ausabl
Forks. near Plattsburg, n. Y. a we
known Adirondack hotel man. commi
ted suicide.
One person was burned to death, a.
other instantly killed and third Sc,
ously burned, when an autOmObi
driven by John McLendon ran off a
eightfoot embankment at Americus,G G
Robbers broke into a number of II
watch houses along the Norfolk
Western railroad between Glasgo
and Buena Vista, Va, and stole nuT
Der of Winchester rifles kept for IL
use of the watchmen.
Charles w. Blodgett, of Chicago,
travelling salesman, was killed, Abe
Westerberg was fatally injured al
| 81 ge
and Fred Dangston were hurt when {
automobile in which they were ridil
turned turtle at Rockford, Ill.
Monday, September 81.
Stepping out of the way of one trai
three boys at Cleveland were run dov
by another express and killed.
The death sentence has been i
posed at Sudbury. Ont, on Mrs. Anr
Robenson for killing infants of her t'
daughters.
One man was killed and several O.
ers were seriously hurt when the BuC
eye powder mill at Edwards static
ILL.,, blew up.
Having failed to kill himself vi
chloroform. Rev. f. J. WoOlard.
Tuckerman. Ark, shot himself to des
at Hot Sprinks, Ark.
Bottle manufacturers, in confab
Pittsburg. reported that the wave
local option and prohibition had ba'
crippled their business.
Charles J. Bell. former governor
Vermont, died suddenly of heart f
ure on a train in the Grand Cent
station in New York as he was abb
to leave for Boston.