Smyrna times., 1909-10-20
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Tuesday, October IL.

of the Cunard Steamship company in
London.
The Southern Iron and Steel COM
pany at Chattanooga, Tenn, fled for
record in Gadsden a mortgage for $751;
100000.
Brigadier General Amos S. Kimball,
u. S. A., retired, died suddenly at his
residence in Washington, aged sixty
nine years.
Twelve night riders, armed with
shot guns, surrounded the home of
James Devon, near Shannon, KY, and
fired several volleys through the win
dows, but no one was hurt.
Wednesday, October 10.
King Leopold of Belgium has deco
rated Walter McEwan, the American
painter. with the Order of Leopold IL.
One of the 2O0-horse power boilers
in the West Side power house Of the
AmOskeag mills at Manchester N. H,
exploded, killing one man and injuring
half a dozen wOrkmen.
Four people were killed one man
was fatally injured and a score of 9th
ers. we're less seriously hurt in co1-
Iision near Greenville, Tex, On the
Missouri. Kansas & Texas railway.
Using six charges of nitro glycerine,
small band OF robbers forced their
way into the vault of the State bank
at Lewisville, Tex, secured $4,000 in
money, overlooked $4,000 more and
made their escape.
Thursday, octcber IA.
In the midst Of a crowd of passen-
gers Edwin Clark, of Brooklyn drop
ped dead of apoplexy in the Cortland
street ferry house in New York.
| DR.. Charles Thompson McCaughan,
aged ninety-five years, a pioneer Unit
ed Presbyterian minister the Oldest
graduate Of Miami university, died at
Winterset, Ia.
Fireman o. J. Sutton was killed and
eight persons were injured when an
engine and two cars of the Austin &
| Northwestern railway plunged into a
burning bridge over Waters creek.
near Mcneil. Tex
In a pistol duel between Editor John
F. Pulliam and John w. Robards in
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Robards was fatally wounded and Pull
liam may have to have his arm ampu-
tated as a result of a bullet which
crushed the bone.
Friday, October IS.
An unnamed donor has pledged
100000 to the proposed 100000 en-
dowment fund for Wooster university,
at TrOntOn, o.
Tony Baffa. self-confessed murderer
Of Giuseppe FillipelH in Chicago sew
eral months ago. was sentenced to i'm
| prisOnment for life.
Edgar Singer. a mail handler en-
ploycd by the Chicago Great Western
railroad, was arrested at Chicago by
| p0stoGlce inspectors on a charge Of
riAing mail pouches.
Ncland c. Gertrer, who IS under in
dictment at Kingston. O., upon the
charge of enbezziing funds from the
Scioto Valley bank ranging from $780,
600 to $17G 900, is under arrest at Kan
sas City Mo.
Saturday, October 10.
The last of a number Of paper mills
at Rockton, ILL.,, near Beloit, Wis, was
destroyed by fire, entailing a loss OF
$4,000.
Mrs. s. W. Block, wife of a dry
goods merchant of Galveston, Tex.
committed suicide in the Jewish hos
pital at Cincinnati by hanging herself
with a towel.
Colonel Henry R. Harris, ex-con
gresham and third assistant postmas
ter general during the first Cleveland
administration, died at his home al
Odessadale, Ca, after a lingering i'll
ness.
Mrs. H. c. Edwards, wife of an Oak
land dentis,, and c. N. Anargyros al
Oakland cigarette manufacturer, were
killed and seven others were injured
in an automobile accident in a suburb
of Oakland, Cal
Monday, October 10.
Three men blew the safe in the banl
at Avon. Mimi, and secured $1,000.
A two-yearold son of William B
Enck died of ptomaine poisoning a
Akron, Pa, after great suffering
The drowning of nine-yeai%old How
ard Hollenbach, of Northampton, ha'
the effect of reuniting his separates
parents.
Sentences aggregating 14O years 70
each were imposed at Rockford, III
upon Melvin Crowell and Henry Brown
said to have systematically robbe'
trains.
Convicting him of second degre
murder, a S.. Louis jury recommends
a twelve-year sentence for Thoma
Kane. who killed Fred Mohrle, tn
slayeg of Samuel Young. politica
leader whom Kane followed.