Smyrna times., 1909-05-12
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
IuesdaY. NAV d

GOSIIy GrOSS, SlXty-fiVe
years of age, was married at Battle
creek, Mich, to Miss Ruby Louise
Haughey, eighteen years of age.
William Zeltyt was shot and in
stantly killed and Simon Michwerski
was fatally wounded during a fight
with Frank Linski in a Chicago dance
hall.
Tired of life, Ellsworth S. H. Sandel.
a painter and paperhanger, of Read.
ing, Pa, committed suicide by swal.
lowing a big dose of chloroform and
arsenic.
A. H. Demerick, an electrical engi.
neer, was drowned in a sluicing tun.
nell 800 feet long, which was cut
through solid mountain at one end
OF the Roosevelt storage reservoir at
Phoenix Ariz.
Wednesday, May 5.
Peter Wells. a veteran undertaken
or Elwood, Ind. who had made 3374
collins by hand, is dead at the age of
eighty-three years.
The supreme court of Colorado held
that clubs in prohibition towns have
no right to dispense liquer even to
their own members.
DespOndent because of continued i'll
health, William F. Dose, a newspaper
man of Belleville, ILL.,, committed sui.
eide in Central park, New York, by
shooting himself through the head.
On charge of having murdered a
railroad section foreman in Texas
thirty years ago, a man known as
John Adams. who had been WORKING
as laborer, was arrested at Fred.
erick, Okla, by deputy sheriff.
Thursday, May 6.
DIR. J. Counterman, of New Albany
seventy-five years of age, pleaded gull
ty in the United States district court
at Fort Scott. Kan, to the charge OF
counterfeiting.
Addison S. Beardsley, confidential
secretary to Carpenter & Co.. real es
tate brokers in New York, was sen.
fenced to prison for five years for EN-.
bezzling $4,000.
Delirious from Illness, Captain Will
liam Cook. a prominent Elk and a
noted drill master, leaped from a
fourth-story window at Toledo, O., and
was instantly killed.
Friday, May 7.
Matthew Bynum and Willard Wylie
brothers-in-law, shot and killed each
other at Dukedom, near Mayfield Ky.
Senator P. C. Knox, of Pennsylva
mia, celebrated his ffty-sixth birthday
anniversary in Washington on Thurs
day.
Fire wiped out the buildings of the
North Pacific Lumber company, at
Barnet. near Vancouver, B. c., entail
ing loss of $35O,0O0.
Frustrating a plot to kill an Italian
and his wife, who lived at East
Vivian, near Bluefeld, W. Va, four
officers raided a lodgeroom. and in the
scrimmage that followed two Italians
were killed and eleven arrested.
Saturday, May 8.
Passed Assistant Surgeon James P
d. Bruler, medical officer of the United
States gunhoat Paducah died aboard
that vessel at San Jpan, Porto Rico.
Jacob E. Ridgway. president of the
Quaker City National bank, of Phila.
delphia, and we'll known as fnancier
died of general debility, aged eighty
five years.
While sleeping in the anteroom O.
his study, Father Scrippo, of the West
Vile Roman Catholic church at Dan.
vile, ILL.,, was fired upon by three men
armed with shotguns, but escaped in
Jury.
Lewis Jenkins, the fifth of the ne
groes convicted of the murder of Mrs.
Mary F. Skipwith and Walter John
son in Powhattan county, was electro
cuted in the penitentiary at Rich
mond, Va.
Monday, May 10.
Fire destroyed the plant of the Lib
erty Hat company, at Newark, N. ].
causing a loss of 100000.
The entire plant of William Godfred
& Co., lumber dealers at Cheraw, S.
c., was destroyed by fire, with $50,00C
loss.
Lorenzo D. Cunningham, a negro
employe of the United States mint at
New Orleans, is under arrest, charged
with stealing $500 worth of gold.
Mary Sullivan, 1O7 years old, an EN-.
ploye and pensioner in the ChanleI
family for more than fifty years. died
at Barrytown, near Poughkeepsie
N. Y.
James Renfrew, manager of the
Western Union Telegraph company at
Chambersburg, Pa, committed suicide
by hanging himself in the cellar of his