Smyrna times., 1909-12-29
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Tuesday, pecember II.

judge Horace H. Lurton was con-
firmed by the senate as associate JUS
yice OF the supreme court.
Charles Brandt, chief of the mail
and record division Of the adiutant
generals Office of the war department.
died in Washington from diabetes.
Major Charles p Bolles, a Confeder-
ate veteran and the engineer who
built the first battery and laid out the
forts which withstood such terrific
bombardment by the Federal fleet dur
irg the Civil War. died at Wilmington,
N. G aged eighty-six years.
Accused by his daughter Lillian,
eight years old, of having given his
wife, Josephine NJ Ehrhardt, a powder
which caused her death by strychnine
poisoning, Theodore Ehrhardt. Jr.. the
father and husband, is in iail al Den
yer, Colo, pending investigation by
the police
Wednesday, December %.
After an exciting campaign Waua
Walla, Wash, has voted wet by ma
jority Of Coo
Governor Swanson granted a stay Of
execution for thirteen Gavs in the case
Of Howard Little convicted Of muir
cering six persons in Buchanan coun-
ty. Va.
Francis c. WhitehOuse, trea~urer
and general manager of the Pota~~co'
PAPER company. and widely known
throughout the paper making and the
lumber trade. died at Topsham Ne
Contracts for the building Of novel
hospitals at Chelsea, Mass: Newport
r. l.. and Portsmouth. n. II q 10
of $848.0O0, We're awar6c5 Z, t.. .
department to the Noel Co1aj.ret 81
company, of baltimore.
Reports from eighteen cities roa1 It
! the closing session of the Executiv-
Mission W kers' Conference Of th,
United States and Canada in New
York showed that an increase Of 81
100000 in 'fferings for foreign mis-
sions had r n pledged.
Thursday, December 23.
The Office building of the Jesuit col
lcge at Santa Clara. Cal, was destroy
ed by fire Loss, S15O,00O.
Joseph Dyas. of BayCnne, N. J.. a
travelling salesman. fell down a stair
way in dry goods store and fracture
his skull.
The three children of Mr.. and Mrs.
Jasper williamson were burned to
death at their home, near Delawa &c.
O.. while thei~ parents were absent.
Half of the Thomas s. Marvel ship
building plant at Newburg. N. Y. was
| burned. Vessels in the yard escaped
damage. Loss estimated at $1250O0.
President Taft has received amonQ
large number of invitations one tc
attend a Masonic celebration in Alex
andria. Va. on Washington's Birthday
when there will be launched a plan tC
build a great memorial to washington
as a Mascn.
FridaY, Decerb Der "a.
Robbers blew open the safe Of thj
State bank Of Centerville, near MounC
City Mo, end get $500.
The board of governors of the Now
Haven, Conn. hospital said that $500
900 had been given it to be used fo
building a tuberculosis hospital
Italians. Slavs and other foreigner
at LaneebOTo. Pa, are refusing to pa!
their taxes because, under a new Penn
sylvania low. they can't have guns
even for hunting.
Congressman James A. Tawney, o
Minnesota after repeating that tn,
Panama canal would be finished b,
Jan. 1, 1915 at a total cost of $4,000
900, said that the congressional com
nittee would allow $35.000000 for 1871
and 1911 and $4S0OO.000 more for tn
finishing Of the canal.
Monday, December 27.
H. B. PEARS, of Haskell institute
Lawrence, Kan, has been appointe
national supervisor of Indian educf
ton.
While threshing grain on his farr
several miles from Hallam. Pa
Charles Seitz had his right arm tor
of at the elbow.
Because his wife wanted to spen
Christfas with her parents, ]. I
Blakely, of Algiers, La, killed her an
himself leaving a four-year-old son.
c. Fl. Alexander, Ex-Governor Va
daman and Congressman Gambler az
candidates to succeed the late Unite
States Senator McLaurin, of Missi
sippi.