Smyrna times., 1909-10-13
CO"DENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Tuesday, October S.

MTS. ELld JdINlS OuSpdlu vile OIL |
Seth Shepard, chief justice of the Dis
irict of Columbia court of appeals, died |
in Washington.
Ray Lamphere, who was convicted |
as an accomplice of Mrs. Belle Gun |
ness, is dying from consumption in the |
Jail at Laporte, Ind.
John White, twenty years old, SEN
fenced to four years for robbing a
store at Rayville, La, now admits that
he stole in order to be with his moth
er, Mrs Bette White, who two years
ago murdered her husband and was
sentenced to twenty years.
Wednesday, October 6.
The body of Charles B. Wahl, aged
thirty-one years, missing for some
days. was found in the Schuylkill river
at Reading, Pa.
The Governor John Albert Johnson
Memorial commission has been organ
lied at St Paul. Mimi, to raise fund
of $4,000 for a memorial to the late
Governor Johnson.
Thomas ]. O'Brien, United States
ambassador to Japan, sailed from San
Francisco for his post in Toxic after
a visit to his old home in Michigan
and other points in the east.
! Hugh Mcintosh, the fight promoter,
left London for Paris to try and ar
range a meeting between James ].
Jeffries and Jack Johnson for the
worlds heavyweight championship.
Thursday, October z.
Dudley Buck, the organist and COM
poser, died suddenly at the home of
his son at West Orange, N. ].
Walter H. Watson, of Philadelphia,
has been appointed a customs inspec-
tor. with headquarters al, philadelphia.
One passenger was killed and thirty
five persons were injured in a collision
between trains on the Illinois Central
railroad near Springfield, ILL.,
Wandering to a lonely spot in the
woods of the government hospital for
the insane at Washington, William
Ohle, sixty-two years of age, veteran
soldier, committed suicide.
L. L. Heller, OF Binghamton, presi-
dent of the Sterling Motor Car com
pany, was instantly killed when an
eastbound Lehigh Valley train struck
his automobile near Waverly, N. Y.
Friday, October 8.
Mrs. Eta Henderson. actress and
playwright, died at West Long Branch,
NJ.
Ben H. Morrow was arrested at Des
Moines. Ia, charged with numbering
his brother, Charles z. Morrow, who
was shot as he lay in bed.
While taking out his shotgun to
shoot pigeons. Henry Flory, a farmer,
living at Archbold. near Wause2n. o.,
accidentally discharged the weapon
and killed his wife, the mother OF
seven children.
The W. C. T. U. of Norfolk Va.
passed a resolution requesting that
no wine or other intoXicants be used
in Norfolk's entertainment of Prosi
dent Taft on the occasion of his visit
here to address the convention Of the
Atlantic Deep Waterways association
on Nov. 49,
Saturday, October 9.
A prolonged drought throughou
southwestern Kansas was broken b!
a rainfall of an inch and quarter.
Robert Lyon Rogers, for the pas
forty-two years United States commits
sioner for Maryland, died at Baltimor'
of the infrmities of age.
Della Nickson, twenty-four years o
age. of Blanchester o., shot and dllet
herself at the tome of her father-in
law. L. Linn, where she has been TO
five weeks.
Henry Steininger, head of a larg
contracting company of st. Louis, wa
killed, and Hugo Loewe, of East 81
Louis, ILL.,, was seriously injured at d
Soto. Mo, when their automobile ovel
turned after tire exploded.
Monday, October II.
Awakening from sleep at York, Pa
and reaching over to a crib in whic
her twin six-months-old children Ia.
Mrs. George Huston found one of thel
dead.
While attending the funeral of
relative in Lebanon, Joseph Daily, {
Chester. Pa, was attacked with appel
dicitis, and an operation was perform
ed on him.
Pardoned after serving ten years {
a twenty-fve-year sentence for murde
John w. Neill, of Harrisburg. ILL.,, ma
ried his former wife, who obtained
divorce after his conviction, remarriC
and became a widow.
Charged with completely in blowi1
up a dam that protected hundreds
Louisiana rice farms. between Il
owners Of which and cattle men the
is i'll feeling, six men were bound ov
by the federal commissioner at Je
nings, La