Smyrna times., 1909-05-19
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Tuesday, Nav IL

~ NSSudyI May II.
rresldent Taft sent to the sano+o
ene nomination of Henry Groves Con.
noI' Democrat, to be United states
Juuge Tor the eastern district of North
Carolina. u Nortn
Emmert Schoolcraft. a Civil wor
veteran, eighty years old and bia
wlle Emily, seventy-seven years old
were burned to death at Detroit. Mich
when their home was DESTROYED bv
fire. gu Wy
charged with having embezzIed
91zOO from a local insurance comnanv
D. b. Mccormick, one of it's agents
VINO was arrested on the Pimlico race
track, baltimore, was taken to Read
Ing, Pa, when a warrant was served
on him.
Wednesday, May IL.
}. Pope Brown has been appointed
state treasurer of Georgia by Governor
Hoke Smith to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of Robert E. Park.
John Borefnac was killed and three
other foreigners were seriously injured
at Heilwood, near Indiana, Pa, in
riot which was participated in by fully
hundred men.
Charles Bright, an eleven-year-old
Camden, N. j., boy. confessed that he
and a companion of the same age had
broken into many unoccupied houses
to rob slot-meters.
Thursday, May 13.
procidoDE
the nomination of John G. Ziegler, of
Pennsylvania. to be an assistant sur
geon in the navy.
Dominick Acdierdi, two years old,
was killed by falling from the fire
escape at his home, 327 West Sixty
ninth street, New York.
The Pemigewassett house, one of
the largest hotels in the White noun.
tains, near Plymouth, N. H., was de-
stroyed by fire, entailing a loss Of
100000.
DR.. Lucien Treadway, Walker Tread.
way, William Treadway and Samuel
Amen were held for the grand jury at
Beattyville, KY, on the charge of at
tempting to assassinate Charles viii,
liams, following feud troubles.
Friday, May IA.
Engineers in wireless telegraphy
will be trained in the engineering de
partment at the Ohio State university
at Columbus
Joseph Sickle, a veteran of the
| Civil War, committed suicide by in.
haling gas in the room of Post Is, G.
A. R., at Manayunk, Pa.
The Christian Herald sent the Red
Cross $4,000 for relief work in Turkey
and this has been cabled to the Ameri
can ambassador at Constantinople.
Neal Harris, a negro, is held in the
Madison county Jail, at Brooklyn, Ill.
in connection with the killing Of
Charles Cheatham over a game oi
craps.
Saturday, May IS.
General" Means, a negro, commit
ted suicide at GAINESVILLE, o., follow
ing his arrest on the charge of muir
dering his twenty-two-year-old wife.
Mansfield Haroldson, one of the
jurors who tried the eight night rid
ers at Union City, Tenn, last January
six of whom were sentenced to b'
hanged. committed suicide.
Some liquors confiscated at speak
easies" by Pittsburg police and givel
to hospitals we're found to contain
knockout drops" after patients ant
attendants became unconscious.
A new speed record for typewritil
was made at Kansas City, Mo, by E
Trefzge1. of New York, when h
wrote an average of 1O9 words from
conv each minute for fifteen minutes.
Monday, May II.
Three men were killed and one ia
taIlv injured when the starboard boile
of the steel steamer James H. Hoy
exploded at Cleveland, o.
President Taft has sent letter t
Governor Stubbs, of Kansas, in whic
he makes it clear that the administrf
tion will not be drawn into state fat
tional fights.
RI Rev. John Lancaster Spaldint
who recently retired from the directio
of the Catholic diocese of Peoria, ha
been elevated to a titular archbish'
pric by Plus x.
: large number of persons were il
: iured. none fatally. when terrlh
t electrical storm broke over Cory, Pa
( and blew down the main tent OF Col
3 Brothers circus.
, Cautain John C. Henley, formerl
, mayor of Birmingham, Ala, and one
. tbe city's wealthiest and Oldest cit
! zens committed suicide at his hon
Nv shooting himself in the mouth wit
a pistol.