Smyrna times., 1909-11-10
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
tuesday. November 2.

OluS at GOUZdleZ, l0&dS, O6mlIlO Ell
royo and Marcus Morales shot and
killed each other.
While escorting strike breakers
from a hotel at Steubenville, O., to
the La Belle Iron works detectives
fired into a crowd surrounding the
plant, seriously wounding four.
Mrs. E. M. Fowler was killed and
her two children were seriously in
jured when their home at Sloan
Springs, Ark, was destroyed by tor
nado
Julian P. Strauss. secretary of the
Gross-Strauss Department Store COM
pany, of Worcester, Mass, was killed
and Arthur W. Beaman, of Worcester
was seriously injured in head-on col
lision between two automobiles here
Wednesday, November 8.
The yard of the Charles H. ONeill
Lumber company at Jersey City. N. j.,
was swept by fire. entailing a loss es-
timated at 100000.
A remarkable money-raising cam
paign of fifteen days waged by the
Young Mems Christian Association O.
Boston has resulted in $510,337 being
subscribed for new home for the or.
ganization.
Mrs. Alpha Mack, a widow of In
dianapolis, Ind, learned that she had
fallen heir to a nestate worth $45.OOO
through the will of John Hastings.
forty-three years old, a suitor whom
she refused.
Thursday, November q.
Shots were heard in a room at Key.
stone, near Bluefeld, w. Va, and
when the door was forced the dead
bodies of Connie Blackwell and
Hungarian were found.
twenty-five people were hurt, three
fatally, when a car on the University
place line at Des Moines, Ia. jumped
the track at the foot of Nineteenth
street hill while headed down town.
John MarrOOney, a negro, is under
arrest at Battle Creek, Mich, on sus.
picion of being the man wanted in
Chicago for the robbery of $4,000 worth
of diamonds from Mrs. A. Hirsch last
August
Friday, November 5.
Two women were among the twenty,
nine applicants for census appoint.
rlents in Chicago who took the civil
service examination.
The new Dreadnought North Dakota
made a speed of 1926 knots on her
trial trip making her the fastest
Dreat nought battleship afoat
Albert Koch a merchant at Bern
stadt, KY, was shot and killed in his
store shortly after drawing $4,000 from
bank, and robbery was the motive.
Rev. E. R. Willard of Akron. O..
he first American pastor to hold chill
1ren's day services. has retired from
the ministry because of i'll health.
Gustaf Bischof, western representa-.
tive of the Nathan Manufactu~ing
company. of New York, committed
suicide at his home in Chicago by
shooting.
Saturday, November 6.
Fire in the market house at Houe
ton. Va, spread rapidly. destroyina
two hardware stores, one grocery, Q
hotel, a drug store and several cot.
tages.
Miss Fanny Scott discovered tha
profanity in Millville, N. j., is expen.
sive; when Mayor Smith fined her
1925 for saying two swear words to
Albert Reid.
Colonel A. s. Hutson was found
guilty at Charleston w. Ca, of EN-
bezzling s641 from the state of West
Virginia in 1904 while holding office
as assistant adjutant general.
| Worthless bank securities" with a
face value of a quarter of a million
dollars were sold at auction at Nashua
n. H., for 500 by Lester F. Thurber
assignee of the Security Trust com
pany, of Nashua and Grand Forks, N
D. The purchaser was F. S. Sargent. OF
Grand Forks
Monday, November 8.
Cotton mills at New Bedford, Mass.
employing 1900 employees, will cur
tail operations two hours per week.
DR.. G. J. Otto. who thirteen year,
ago purchased the Lieser farm, on the
outskirts of Allentown, Pa, for $97OO
has just sold it for $4,000.
Frank Petrovicz, a north Scranton
Pa, miner, fell down a seventy-foo
shaft at the Manville mine, a cut OF
the face being the only injury.
The Cumberland Presbyterian
church has begun suit against tn,
Presbyterian church for possession o
Missouri Valley college. at Marshall
Mo.
When Edward Letchmere, known al
the museum thief" is released from
the Ohio penitentiary he will be ar