Smyrna times., 1909-09-01
C0:.:DENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Tuesday, August "a.

John Z. Brown, a pioneer railroad
builder and one of Atchison's CKsnO
wealthiest citizens, died at his home
there, aged eighty years.
Judge Burdette in the circuit court
at charleston, w. Va, issued an in
junction restraining the state and
county officials from enforcing the 2.
cent fare law against the Norfolk &
Western railroad
Mrs. George Granger and Miss Coma
ieve Rabig were instantly killed and
hVe other occupants of a touring car
were seriously injured when the ma
chine was run over by a Big Four To-
comotlve and cabOose in Kankakee, Ill.
Wednesday, August 25.
A man who registered as Homes
Cassub," of Logansport. Ind, commit
ted suicide at the Grand Union hotel
in New York.
Miss Jennie lngersoll, aged seven
teen years, OF Galesburg. Ill. was
drowned viii e bathing in Pine lake at
Charleroi, Mich.
The goycrniacnt's bars are W.
against Switzerland live stock. be-
cause Of tae existence Of the foot and
mouth dis'ase among domestic ami
mails in tha; country.
Charged with having plundered a
Northwest Side residence in true burg
lar fashion and with having swindled
several other women of the same sec
tiOn out Of small sums of money. Mrs.
Bruniel k2oczcr, forty-three years of
age. is a prisoner in Chicago.
Thrra"aH August 26.
President TGrt has cOmmuted the
sentence Of Charles F. Kline, serving
five years in the penitentiary at Co
lumbus, O.. for cOunterfeting.
Four men were seriously injured
and heavy damage caused when the
roof of the round house of the Penn
sylvania railroad in Pittsburg col
lapsed
George w Drinkwater of Jersey
City, second engineer. was instantly
killed and three other men were ia
tally injured by the explosion of
feed pipe on the tugboat Bee in the
East river
Colonel William d. Shaw, railroad
man and originator of Hello Bill" the
Elk slogan at lodge conventions. died
at his home in Cincinnati. aged sew
enty years
Friday, August 27.
Water in the streams in the north
ern section of York county. Pa. is
lower than it has been in thirty-five
years.
George Ruttledge 70 md a pearl in
the Wabash river at Mount Vernon.
ILL.,, weighing forty-six grains. which
he sold for $250O.
Rev. Robert Gamble. aged eighty
years, of Bridgeton, York county. Pa,
a well known Presbyterian minister,
died in the hospital at Columbia from
a stroke of paralysis.
Firing single charge of buckshOt
at two supposed chicken thieves.
Charles HartshOrn. Sr.. at Newark O..
instantly killed his nephew, John
WeaSley, and William Trace
Saturday, August %.
The Manitoba Grain Growers asso
citation estimates the wheat yield of
western Canada at 1O7 900 900 bushels.
Professor E. B. Bierman, aged sev.
enty years. former president of Leba-
non Valley college at Annville and one
fthe founders of that institution, die@
suddenly at his Annville CPa) home.
Charles w. Fairbanks, former vice
president of the United States. and
Rear Admiral G. B. Harber, U. S. N,
were received in separate audience by
the prince regent in the Forbidden
City in Pekin, China.
BY the explosion of an ingot moull
filled with molten steel at the Mary
land Steel works, at Sparrows Point.
Md, Thomas Smith. colored, was kill
ed and three or four others, all ne
groes, were badly injured.
Monday, August 30.
Rev. ]. c. Hartzell. Methodist Epis
cOpal bishop in Africa, arrived in New
York from Europe.
An explosion of powder in a zinc
mine a Neck City, Mo-, killed tive
and fat9 injured one.
Gener 2ins in Kansas have greai
ly benefited the corn crop which had
been set back by hot winds
Premature discharge of a cannon a.
farmers picnic at Esconaba. Mich
killed one gunner and seriously in
jured another.
AS a result of going in swimming
too soon after recovering from an at
tack Of tVnhOid fever I 90 HiIdPhrand
aged thirteen. of York, Pa. died from