Smyrna times., 1909-07-21
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Tuesday, July 10.

Roasted to crisp, the body of R.
II. Snuder, woOdsman, was found in
a coke oven at Tyler, near Brookville,
Pa.
Andrew Strobel, of South Bethle-
hem, Pa, ventured into deep water
while bathing in the canal and was
drowned
Charles HOupt, fifteen years old.
died in Pittsburg, begging the first vic
tim of tetanus, resulting from an in
jury received during the Fourth of
July celebration.
Wednesday, July IA.
Miss Mamie Davey, of Chicago, and
Clarence Hunt, living near Sturgis,
Mich, were drowned in Klinger lake
under mysterious circumstances.
Lloyd Griscom, former United States
ambassador to Italy, was a passenger
on the Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse.
which arrived in New York from Bre-
men.
William E. Corey, president of the
United States Steel corporation. and
Mrs. Corey returned from Europe on
the steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der
Crosse.
Harry Charles. of Herrville. Pa.
private in the United States army ord
nance detachment stationed at Sandy
Hook barracks, committed suicide BIZ
cutting his throat with a r"2or.
Thursday, July Is
John Goode, eighty years cf ar.
GtofnCUoon 10
Norfolk, Va, following a stro?lo OF
paralysis suffered several WEI ago.
Escaping from his stall, a r9ul be-
longing to Banko Rick, of Bethel. Pa.
travelled sixteen miles over strange
roads to his former home in one night.
One million dollars of free advertis-
ing for campaign against tuberculo-
sis was voted by the joint convention
of the National Bill Posters and the
Southeastern Bill Posters at Atlanta,
Ga.
Upon conviction by court martial for
passing bogus checks and falling to
pay his debts, Major Charles J. T.
Clarke, Twenty-sixth infantry. has
been dismissed from the army. ac-
cording to an announcement at the
war department.
Friday July 16.
Thomas Swangler, an expert fisher
man, fell into the Delaware river at
Bristol. Pa, and was drowned.
Claude Tator, twelve years old. of
Rhinebeck, N. Y, died at Vassar hos
pital, POughkeepsie, of tetanus as the
result of burns received on July T.
Benjamin Wilmot Haggard, for the
past three years disbursing officer of
the United States house of represen-
tatives died in Algona, Ia, of tuber-
culosis.
State Senator Oscar c. Bayles was
shot and killed by David K Smith at
MOnroeville Ala, as a result of Bayles'
efforts to obtain a pardon for Isaac
and Jesse Shirley who are serving
terms for the killing of Jim Smith,
brother of David.
Saturday, July II.
Myrtle Cross, eighteen years old.
was acquitted at Cripple Creek, Colo,
on the charge of having murdered her
sweetheart, John Phillips.
Reports from points in northern
Ohio show that an estimated loss of
100000 was caused by a storm that
swept over that section on Friday.
Three men were killed and two in
jured in a head-on collision between
southbound passenger train No. Is
and northb0und train No. 26 on the
Chicago & Eastern Illinois railroad at
Royal, Ill.
Jennie Smith. young white woman
from New York, was sentenced to the
city stockade at Macon, Ca. having
been arrested in a room with Miles
Reid, a negro waiter, who was sent to
the chain gang.
Monday, July 10.
A Chicago woman, about to be com
mited to an asylum, killed herself and
her two sons.
Two sisters were drowned at Port
Huron, Mich, one trying to save the
other from death.
The Diehl-Schilling furniture plant
near Easton, Pa, was destroyed by
fire, entailing loss of 100000, partly
insured.
Secretary of War Dickinson has or
dered the commissary general of the
army not to purchase any goods from
trusts or combinations in restraint of
trade.
George P. Richardson, facing trial
for larceny and temporarily in an in
sane asylum, applied to the courts in
Boston not to release him, alleging he
is still insane.
WoIgast Whips Nelson.
"Battling" Nelson had decidedly the