Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1909-04-07
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
tuesday, March 20

county, Texas, caused a loss estimat-
ed at 100000.
Justus D. Andrus, aged ninetv.fvo
years, believed to be the oldest men,
DER OF the G. A. R., is dead in Chicago
noble M. Davidson, inventor of the
.ractlon engine, was killed at Ada q
ny Delng struck by the engine of a
pennsylvania passenger train.
Tom" Rivers, a noted Kentucl,ian
was fatally shot and officer Clarence
rupert seriously wounded at Sapulpa.
Okla.' in fight in a gambling resort
Wednesday, March 81.
M. Z. Eversol sheriff of Perry coun-
", KY. has been arrested at hazard
charged with shooting Nathan Engle.
Inc tobacco factory of C. c. Bell e.
Son, at Springfield, Tenn, filled with
tobacco belonging to the Imperial To
Dacco company, was burned.
Dr. William Adler, a dentist. was
shot four times by Harriet Pace. a
lull blooded Chickasaw Indian, at Ma
dill, Okla, and died of his wounds.
Joseph Peter Mcintyre, chaplain of
the battleship Oregon during the men,
orable run from the Puget Sound navy
yard around Cape Horn to Santiago.
died at Seattle, Wash. of nervous dis
orders resulting from services during
the Spanish war.
Thursday, April I.
Medical Inspector Henry T. Percy.
U. S n, died at the naval medical
school hosnital in Washington from
uraemic poisoning.
Eighty fe'eral prisoners confined in
the peniten-iary at Moundsville. w.
Va. were token to the federal prison
at Fort Leavenworth. Kan.
The New York senate codes commit
tee reported favOrably the bill making
the maximum punishment for zidnap-
pink fifty instead of twenty-five years.
The Delaware state militia intends
to raise a fund from among its mem
bership with which to purchase a IL
brary as a gift to the battleship Della
ware
The extensive dry kilns of the Fore
man-Blades Lumber company, at Eliz-
| abeth City, N. c., were destroyed by
fire, with a loss of 100000 feet of
valuable lumber and timber.
Friday, April 2.
Three men were seriously burned,
one fatally, by a flash of hot metal at
the National Tube companys plant at
McKeesport, Pa.
President Taft declined an invitation
to attend the annual banquet of the
National Manufacturers association in
New York on May 49,
Barney Devine, Leonard Stevens and
Matthew Taylor. indicted eight years
ago for the murder of Clarence War
rick, fifteen years old, at Somerton
| o., have been arrested at GAINESVILLE, o
The marriage of Miss Mary Hoss
the only daughter of Bishop E. E
Hoss. of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South. to John McCurdy Head
man. civil engineer, of Philadelphia
took place at Nashville, Tenn.
Saturday, April 8.
The February grand jury at St
Louis returned it's final report, show
ing that it had found thirty-six indict
ments for fraudulent registration OF
voting.
Twenty priests, members of the
Order of st. Mary. in Chicago, had &
narrow escape from suffocation wher
a fire broke out in the dormitory where
they were sleeping.
President Taft accepted an invita-
ton to attend the 250th anniversary
of the founding of Norwich, Conn, tt
be held on July 4, if congress shall
adjourn by that time.
| George Sterling, a mute, and hi:
wife were arrested in Chicago, &C
cused of kicking their two-year-olC
baby under the stove. where it receiv
ed injuries from which it is expected
to die.
Monday, April 5.
DIR. II. c. Potter. of Saginaw, Mich
founder and builder of the Pere Mar
quette railroad banker financier ant
manager, died in California.
The postoffce at Enola, near Han
risburg, Pa. was robbed for the sec
ond time in two months. the safe be
ing blown to pieces and 800 in stamp
taken.
Eugene and J. L. Williams, brothers
we're shot in a street in Hazlehurst
Ga. by V. T. Showers, formerly of Con
yers. Ga. the latter probably fatally
as the result of a business quarrel.
The supreme court of Tennessee de
cided that the Cumberland Presbytei
ian Church still exists, and those VIII
refused to recognize union with tn
mother body are entitled to all tn