Smyrna times., 1909-06-09
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Tuesday, June 1.

cannon, Henry Mahan, aged seventy
years, former soldier, was killed at
st. Marys, near WapakOneta, o.
Starr Hoyt Nichols, broker of New
York, committed suicide by taking
chloroform in his apartments at the
Royal Hawaiian hotel in Honolulu.
Charles E. Jack, we'll known tackle
on the Colorado college football team
a few years ago, died in Denver, Colo,
from the effects of injuries received
in the Thanksgiving day game in 1906.
Wednesday,, June 2.
Jesse Fletcher, a wealthy business
man of Indianapolis, Ind, committed
suicide at Turtle lake, near Alpena,
Mich.
Battling Nelson has been matched
to fight Ad Wolgast for ten rounds be-
fore the Pacific Athletic club at Los
Angeles, Cal, on July II.
A. D. oliver, a bank president in
Climax, Ga. was arrested, accused of
a remarkable series of swindles by
which the victims lost $25O,OOO.
Charles Werkheiser, a veteran of
the Civil War, who was a bugler for
General Judson Kilpatrick's cavalry,
was overcome by heat at Riegelsville,
near Easton, Pa, and died a few min
utes later.
Worrall F. Mountain, of East Or
ange. N. j., was appointed by Governor
Fort judge of the district court of East
Orange, to succeed Franklin Fort, Jr
a son of the governor, who sometime
ago resigned.
Thursday, June 8.
Albert Esberger. a Cincinnati, o.,
jeweler, shot and killed an unidentified
burglar in his home.
The Florida state senate passed the
Robertson bill, providing life imprison,
ment for lddnappers.
Harold Flammer, of Princeton, a
student, was fined and paid 5000 in the
police court in Trenton, NJ j., for
reckless driving of an automobile.
Bridget Tarfy, cook, who died in
New York, at the age of seventy years,
bequeathed her entire fortune of $780,
900 to James E. Johnson, her negro
assistant.
Vice President James S. Sherman
has rented +he Truman cottage at Ne
Ah-Ta- -Wanta, on Grand Traverse bay,
Mich, and will, it is said, spend the
summer there with his family.
Friday, June 4.
Jefferson Davis birthday and Con
federate Memorial day were celebrat-
ed jointly throughout the south on
Thursday.
A. E. Miller, a leading farmer and
banker of LafaAett Ind, was found
dead beneath his overturned automo
| bile in a ditch near his home.
The Lincoln Memorial association S
executive committee at Cincinnati o..
accepted a gift of 100000 from Mrs
Frederick H. Aims for the erection OF
a Lincoln memorial which will cos
$25O,OOO.
The Newport News Shipbuilding and
| Dry Dock company announced the
| closing of a contract with the South
| ern Pacific company for the cOnstruc
tion of four passenger and freight
steamers, the contract aggregating
S3,O00,000.
| saturday,, June ..
Colonel Jacob Dachrodt, a vel
known veteran and politician, died al
Easton, Pa, at the age of eighty-twC
years.
Ambassador Bryce, of Great Bri
tain. who is leaving for a summer va
cation abroad, called upon Presiden
Taft to say farewell.
Engineer John Smith and Fireman
Reynolds were killed at Saginaw
Mich, when a Pere Marquette railwa!
engine ran into washout and tippeC
over, burying them underneath.
During a small riot at the Fort Pit
Coal company'c plant at Bellaire, o.
Lucergo Talliti shot and instantl!
killed Mike Baggo and Andy Petro ant
seriously wounded another man.
Monday, June z.
A lad of fifteen years killed a you'll
of sixteen in Tallahassee, Tenn, as
sequel of a personal feud.
The department of agriculture o
Pennsylvania reports an attendance o
100000 at the county fairs for 1908.
Mrs. Bridget Nelson. an aged won
an, was struck by train while walk
ing on the track near Neshamin
Falls, Pa. station.
John Fritz. the iron master, present
ed to Lehigh university at South Beth
lehem, Pa, a thoroughly equippe
modern engineering laboratory.
The French ambassador formal
presented to the city of San Francise
a medal expressive of the admiration
of his nation for that city's enterpris
IN recovering from the earthquake an
fire disaster.