Smyrna times., 1909-06-30
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Tuesday, June %.


George Kraus, eighty-three years old.
of Pittsburg, to commit suicide by TAX
ing paris green.
Judge Emmett Field, of the first divi-
Sion. circuit court in Louisville, KY,
was stricken with apOplexy as he was
about to open court and died in
few minutes.
While despondent from illness,
Frank NJ Campbell, manager of the
Philadelphia branch of the Jones &
Laughlin Steel company, of Pittsburg,
shot and killed himself at Nanwert. o.
Wednesday, June %.
DIR. H. B. Hoover, of Susquehanna
university, Selinsgrove, Pa. was elect
ed president of Carthage (IllO college.
The buildings of the Laurel Cut
Glass company, at Jermyn, near Scran
ton. Pa. were destroyed by fire, along
with much finished stock, entailing a
loss of $4,000.
Clyde Cow, a former Methodist
preacher, was sentenced to serve four
years in the penitentiary at Mexico,
Mo, as an accessory in the death OF
| Miss Elizabeth Gleason.
Charles Ulary. said to be the son OF
a wealthy undertaken of New York
shot and slightly injured Beatrice
Kelley, eighteen years old, at Erie
Pa. and then committed suicide by
shooting himself through the head.
Thursday, June "a.
President Taft has been mustered
in as an honorary member of tht
local camp Of the Regular Army AM
Navy Union.
Mrs. Grover Cleveland, with he
daughters. Esther and Marion, ant
her son, Richard. are at their summe
home in Tamworth, N. H.
Foes of the liquor traffic in Chicag
hope to have 100000 persons in lin
in the temperance and law enforce
ment parade on September 25.
According to an official statemen
given out by the Louisiana game con
mission, $500 deer were killed in tina
state during the season just closed.
The degree of doctor of laws wa
conferred by the trustees of Washin
ton and Jefferson college at Washin
ton. Pa, on former Judge James Ga
Gordon, of Philadelphia.
Friday, June IS.
Captain Abraham E. Culver. of IL
United States navy, died suddenly
Washington. aged fifty-three years.
The comptroller of the currency
sued a call On all national banks for
! report of their condition on June %.
Following a trivial quarrel at Wac
, Tex. George Cohen, nine years old, S
cured a target rifle and killed Magg
. Farrell, eight years his senior.
Joseph Bertucci, an alleged Blat
!. Hand slayer, was found guilty by
Jury in Chicago and was sentenced
. twenty years in the penitentiary.
Firm in the belief that she was
!, die soon, Mrs Mary Moore, of Salir
Kan. wrote her obituary notice a ft
days ago and Thursday she died.
It Saturday, June &c.
h Mrs Albert Pulitzer, wife of t
4. well known New York journalist, di
e suddenly.
g Fifteen masked men took ALB
s. Reese, a negro, who assaulted a VIII
n woman, from Jail at Cuthbert Ga, a
se hanged him.
s. A resolution was adopted by
lie Washington legislature inviting Pre-
ly dent Taft to attend the First Natiol
ed Conservation Congress, to be held
ut Seattle, Aug. 26.
so After spending twenty-five years
n. Japan serving as teachers, Miss
Op bella Graham Prince. aged eighty, g
ed Miss Mary Gray Prince, aged sever
ne six. arrived in Seattle, Wash, enro
ct to their old home in Portland. Me.
IN IN Monday, June %.
IN The No Name Hat company,
"a ploying 400 hands, decided to move
~ plant from Orange, N. j.. to Phila
10 phia.
Five explosions of nitrO-glycerlne
49, Wheeling Junction, o., ruined 81
-, - girders valued at 100000, which W
~ intended for non-uniOn operation
.av Stock raisers got a judgment
.be $4,000 against the Traders l
Stock Exchange in Kansas City /
,id suit under the Sherman antitrust
ION The Society of Naval Architects
ION session at Detroit, refused to ad
ION Noah to the rolls of honorary m
he bers, on the ground that he wa
sev gamekeeper, not a boat builder.
TOR Charles Clark, the boy leper who
Iffv capped from the almshouse near {
for den. N. j., was a prisoner at the he
the of correction at Philadelphia f
nod June 10 to Saturday, having been
fenced for vagrancy.
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