Smyrna times., 1909-03-31
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Tuesday, March %.

lueSday, March %.
flre destroyed the Winchester fam
merry the largest industrial establish.
:nent In Winchester, N. H, entailine a
loss of $3.50
Arthelius Christian. a negro who
on Feb. l8 criminally assaulted and
Ineh stabbed to death young while
school girl was electrocuted in the
penitentiary at Richmond. Va.
George w. Taylor, of Upper Alton.
ILL.,, veteran of the Civil War. con-
Vlcted OF cheating the government out
Of $4,000 in a pension fraud. sentenced
TO six months confinement and fined
S0OoO' is dead at the Peoria, ILL.,, work
house
Wednesday, March "a.
the Carpenter Steel works. at Read
ing, Pa, posted notices of a reduction
of 10 per cent in wages.
Chicago tanners and shoe manufact-
urers appointed a committee to visit
Washington to fight the Payne bill as
it stands at present.
Justice Reed at Trenton, N. J.. fixed
the week Oh May 10 for the electrocu-
ton of Giovanni Maioni who was re-
Gently convicted of killing Mrs. Maria
LupO.
Rev. Michael Bergrath, for four
years rector of st. Patrick's Roman
Catholic church. of White Haven, Pa,
died at Wilkes-Barre of general de-
bility, aged seventy years.
Thursday, March IS.
Mre C,,JIixvon
born on TIE battlefield of Waterloo,
died at St. Luke's hospital, Detroit,
aged NINETY three years.
A bill introduced in the New York
! legislature would make kidnapping
punishable by death or Imprisonment
! for life. as the jury may determine.
Colonel Owen Hamilton, who served
as commander of the Eleventh Penn
| sylvania cavalry under General Sher
man during his famous march to the
sea. died at Pottstown, Pa, aged sew
enty-eight years.
Manfred Maar, the Trenton, N. j..
justice of The peace who was threat
ened with impeachment proceedings
at the suggestion of the Automobile
Club of America, placed his resignation
in the hands of Governor Fort
Friday, March 20.
Harry Bprber Moon. a member of
the lower house of the New Jersey
legislature died at his home in Phil
lipsburg. aged thirty-One years.
Charles A. Smith. freight agent O
the Lehigh Valley Railroad COMPANY
on the Hazleton and MahanOy divi
sions, died at HazletOn. aged fifty-six
years.
Pensions will be granted to all per
sons who have lost the sight of one
eye or their hearing from causes orig
mating in the military or naval service
of the United States if a bill intro
duced in the house by General Keifer
of Ohio, becomes a law.
Saturday, March 27.
The bank of Watson, H., was robbed
of $4,000 cash by cracksmen.
Fifty million dollars will be invested
in Mexico City and in different part'
of the country by French and Englisl
capitalists in iron and steel works.
DR.. Robert Reyburn, one of the ply
sicians who attended President Gar
field after he was shot by Giteau, die
in Washington, aged seventy-six years
John f. buckingham, seventy-On
years old. who was doorkeeper a
Fords theater at the time Presiden
Lincoln was assassinated died il
Washington.
Owners and proprietors of movin
nicture shows. both in Pittsburg an
Sharon. Pa. were ordered not to pre-
p duce pictures showing the kidnappin
of Willie Whitla, under a penalty G
forfeiture of the films and licenses.
Monday, March 20.
Three persons were killed at Bryan
t, Pa. in a collision on the Pittsburg
b Butler trolley line.
Harry Smith killed his six-year-ol
son Richard and then committed SD
$ eide at Corapolis. Pa.
d Five men were arrested in Sa
: Francisco. Cal, on the charge of col
y spiracy to steal records of the distri'
s attorney and block prosecution
graft cases.
$ Fire destroyed the buildings OF tt
Baltusrol Golf club, at Summit Hill
+ N. J., one of the most famous organ
g cations of it's kind in the country. Il
r links of which have been the scene
many notable tournaments.
Charles NJ. Schwab in an intervie
in Chicago declared that he feared !
tariff reductions on steel and 9th
nroducts. asserting that the skill
j. American workmen would meet al