Smyrna times., 1909-04-14
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
tuesday, April 6.

stabbed to death while resisting ar
rest.
Fire supposed to have been of in.
cenciary origin destroyed the flour
mill of j. a. Kinds G Co., at Rochester.
~ Y, together with $4,000 bushels of
wheat, entailing loss of 100000.
Christopher Holland, arrested in
philadelphia and extradited to Toron.
to, Ont, on a charge of ATTEMPTED
fraud on nine banks of Canada. was
found guilty and sentenced to five
years in the Kingston penitentiarv
Wednesday, April 7.
Adjutant General Thomas w. Scott
died of heart failure at his home at
Fairfield. III.
Leaving notes telling of a suicide
pact, Herman Bartlett and Relva Pugb
joined hands and jumped into the Mis-
slssippi river at Alexandria. Mo.
Upwards of 600 saloons and ton
breweries viii be forced out of busi-
Dess in the nineteen counties of Mjchi.
San which voted dry" at Mondays
election.
Two persons were killed. many 9th
ers hurt and considerable propertv
damaged by a tornado which struck
Marion. I'll.
Two boys were killed and six others
injured, several seriously, when a car
on the st. Clair incline. in Pittsburg
broke away about the center of the in.
cline and plunged to the bottom.
Thursday, April 8.
John Flood, eighteen years old. in
dicted for forgery at Des Moines. la.
was sentenced to enlist in the navy or
tc serve term in the reformatory.
Mrs. David Coat. aged twenty-eig1t
years, of Evansville, Ind, has been ar. !
rested here, charged with stabbing her
husband with a case knife because he
came home drunk.
President Taft accepted an invitation
to attend a celebration of the 120tb
anniversary of the first Inauguration |
of George Washington. to be held at |
Alexandria, Va, on the afternoon of |
April 80.
William Heysham Sayre, second vice |
president Of the Lehigh Valley Coal |
company. died at Bethlehem. Pa. from
the effects of an operation performed
at st. Luke's hospital on Monday. aged
seventy-eight years.
Friday, April 9.
Eris LOeFcr, a cello PLAYER in tho
Boston Symphony orchestra, commit
tea suicide n Boston
John Neyin Hazlett dean of tho
newspaper profession in Pitt-hurg.
died after a long illness Of stomach
trouble
President TAFT sent to the senate
the nomination Of Charles d. Hireg.
of New Yor' to be assistant secretary
of the treasury.
Two men. injured by fving debris
during the terrific wind storm at Pitts.
burg On Wednesday. died at hosp'ta!s
and number Of others are in a seri
Gus condition.
Saturday, April 10.
Joel Payne, negro. was hanged in
Bedford City, Va for the murder az
Reed Swaine, his fatherin-law. wear
ago.
During the last ten years the United
States exported $16.0O0.OO0 worth of
milk. according to reports
made by customs officers to the bureau
Of statistics.
Glove workers from 1GS factories in
Johnstown and Gloversville, N. Y.
have sent sixty-nine separate petitions
-o the finance committee of the United
States senate praying for the same
protective rates on wOmen's gloves as
On mems, so that the manufacture of
gloves may be established in
his country.
Monday, April II.
The city of Chicago's So per cent OF
he net earnings of local street rail. !
ways for the current year amounts to
'1.3S6.7S7
BENJAMIN F. Holland, for forty years a
New York letter carrier. was caught t
stealing from letters and acknowledg, d