Smyrna times., 1909-10-06
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Tuesday, septemher %.

ball in a game being played at Chicago. |
Four persons were instantly killed |
and three others injured in a collision
between a freight train and hand car
near Milwaukee. Wis.
William Davis twenty years old,
killed his father. Eli Davis. six miles
south of Coshocton. o.. during a quar-
rel between the boys parents.
DR. John Ianvier Black a leading
physician Of Delaware and known
throughout the country for his writ
tngs on medical and other subjects,
died at his home in New Castle, Del.
after a brief illness. aged seventy
three years.
Wednesday, September 20.
The National Guard Association Of
the United States selected st. Louis as
the place for it's convention in 1910.
Rolla B. Noodle. formerly president
IF the National Association of Master
Plumbers, died at his home at Dayton,
O., from heart trouble.
After running amuck and attacking
the officers and hospital stewards of
the United States hospital ship Relief
at Manila, John Ransom, fireman OF
the ship, was shot and killed by Civil
ian Mate Heinke
A mountain feud was revived ~ the
circuit courtroom at Hot Springs, Ark,
when Will MacDaniels shot E. L.
Walker in the presence of Judge
Evans, while the latter was instructing
the newly empanelled grand jury.
Thursday, September 80.
Miles B. McSweeney former gov
error of South Carolina, died in a pri-
vate sanitarium in Baltimore.
AS the outcome of a quarrel Ben
Tingle was shot and killed by his
brother-in-law, LOnnie Rushing, on the
road near Wingate, N. c.
While demented from brooding over
the death of his wife, John Champion,
a pearl hunter, fred his shanty boat
in the Ohio river at Paducah. KY. af-
ter Staying his eldest son.
Joe YAK thirteen years old. and his
brother Scott, aged eleven. grandsOns
of Jie BedOre, a St. Clair Flats resort
| keeper, near Detroit, Mich. chased a
floating bundle of clothing with their
rowboat, and towed to shore the body
of their dead mother who died of
heart disease before falling into the
river.
Friday, October I.
AS the result Of a hazing by four
schoolmates. Albert Whitticker. OF
River Park. east Of South Bend. Ind
IS in a serious condition.
Lucius H. Bigelow, head Of the mu
sic publishing firm of Bigelow e Main
New York city, died at his summer
home at Ridgefeld, Conn. in his sew
enty-second year.
Three passengers were injured and
a dozen others badly shaken up wher
the Niagara Falls train on the New
York Central collided with an east
bound through freight at Wilson, N. Y
DR.. Alfred NJ. Webster, general sec
retary of the New Era association, s
life insurance organization. was founC
lying dead on the floor in the offices
of the association at Grand Rapids
Mich, with a bullet hole in his head
Saturday, October 2.
George Washington Moore. founde
of Moore and Burgess Minstrels, AM
known in sporting circles as Pony
Moore, died in London.
Jewelry valued at $4,000 and 800
in coin was stolen by a robber VIII
shot and killed Con Ying. wife of Al
Luis, a rich Chinese merchant Of Sa
Luis Obispo. Cal.
Presumably struck 0y a rock Will
leaning out of the cab window, Eng
neer T. Conley of an Iron Mountai
freight train, was killed while passin
through a tunnel near Cricket, Ark.
The state of Oregon will collect froI
the estate of the late E. H. Hartman
as soon as the appraisement Of hi
railroad property is made, approx
mately $500 300 as an inheritance ia,
Monday, October q.
Run over by fire engine respon
ing to an alarm in Altoona, Pa, A. D.
Blonde, aged nine years died.
Mausdale and Danville junk dealer
confessed stealing a hot-air furnaC
from C. c. Barger in Bloomsbury, P
Charged with dynamiting the hon
of steel trust official at YOungstow
o., John Bailey has been arrested
Muncie. Ind.
Alarm is caused among white neig
bors by the restlessness of 5000 Che
enne Indians on the Sheridan reserv
tion. Wyoming.
Because she refused to marry hil
.erfv. hNse,1
into the room of Miss Phoebe Arr
strong at Chicago, murdered her al
then killed himself.