Smyrna times., 1909-07-14
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Tuesday. Iulv &

"HA'O man anu three negroes
were drowned when a skiff capsized
IN squall at Hickman, My.
through installing a carbolic acid
bottle for one containing Nyhisky. L.
D. OKelley, policeman, of Salisbury.
N. c., is dead.
For sending threatening letters to
Rudolph Spreckels, BENJAMIN w.
Soule, Of San Francisco. was sentenc-
ed to four years in the penitentiary.
Because she insisted on going to a
moving picture show, Edward Bailey.
OF New Orleans. fatally shot his step
daughter, Doris Sweeney, aged sixteen
years.
Wednesday, July 7.
Emily Morgan, colored, probably the
Oldest resident of Georgia, is dead at
Columbus, at the age of lit years.
Lieutenant Commander William K.
else, executive officer of the gunboat
Annapolis, station ship at the naval
station at Tutuila, Samoa, died at that
place.
BY the collapse of a bridge over a
swollen stream near Maryville. Mo-,
Charles Daniels and John Brewer. two
farmer boys, with their team, were
drowned
Benjamin Simcox, seventy-seven
years old, a veteran of the Crimean
war, and who claimed to have taken
part in the famous charge at Bala-
klava. died at Lexington, KY.
Thursday, July 8.
While ipcoDn Noovoo
his wife at Lodi, Wis. and then COM
mitted suicide by drowning in a shall
low pool.
Following a long established GUS
tom, the senate voted six months sal.
airy to the widow of it's late chaplain,
Rev. Dr. Edward Everett Hale
Colonel Atilla Cox, president of the
Louisville, Henderson & St. Louis and
a director of the Louisville & Nash
vile railroad, and a widely known
financier. died at Louisville, KY, after
a long illness
Anna Spangler. the four-year-old
daughter of a wealthy farmer of Sun
Prairie, near Madison, Wis, who was
thought to have been kidnapped by
two men in an automobile, was found
three miles from home, unhurt
Friday, July g.
Jim Virgins, cOlOred, was executed
at Vienna, Ca, for the murder of his
wife in 1905.
Stanley Ketchel and Sam Langford
will fight to a finish in Ely, New. on
Labor day. Sept 6, for the middle
weight championship of the world and
a purse of $4,000.
Held fast by his foot, which was
caught in the temporary tracks in Chi
cago, Joseph Andrews a workingman,
was run down and killed by a State
street surface car.
Ira w. Lamunyon, aged eighty-two,
said to be the only surviving member
of the mas convention in Jackson,
Mich, on July 6, 1854, at which the
Republican party was organized, died
in Denver. Colo.
Saturday, July 10.
Philip Miller, of Toronto, dropped
dead at a dance at the Detroit (Mich.)
Boat club.
Major J. W. Long. U. S. A., retired,
was run down at Washington by an
automobile and died three hours later
at the Emergency hospital.
Following a dispute over some col
lections, E. R. Shields was shot and
killed by Joe Stevens on one of the
main streets of Wilmington, N. c.
Rev. Father Thomas Bowling, as
sistant rector of the Sacred Heart
Catholic church in Norfolk, Va. was
drowned at Cape Henry while bathing
After sending his wife to the Cats
kill mountains for the summer. VIII
liam Leitch. sixty-five years old,
master plumber, committed suicide in
Philadelphia by asphyxiatiOn.
with party of friends.
Monday, July IL.
Restoration of the check-off has
averted a strike of $4,000 miners in the
Kansas soft coal fields.
A bill is proposed in Georgia to COM
pei Confederate veterans to pay 5000
tax for selling near beer" they being
now exemp+.
Near Middleburg, Pa. Abraham
Baer tried to rouse his young wife to
prepare breakfast and found she had
died during the night.
His foot catching in the reins while
he was getting out of his buggy at
Ringtown, Pa, Benjamin Long fell
headlong to the ground and was killed.
In a fight over a white woman, the
widow of a negro. at Easton. Pa,
Henry Walker, colored. shot and seri-
ously wounded John Good. also col