Smyrna times., 1909-05-26
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
tuesday. NAV 10


Fire at, Fort Smith Ark dos+uo,
oo.npress and 5000 bales of cotton
causing loss of 100000.
Andrew Carnegie was received IN -,
uience by King Victor Emmanuel in
his palace in Rome.
Two miners were buried alive in q
mine at Negaunee, Mich. and wber
rescuers reached them thew were
dead. ' "ele
irwin w. Schultz, a former iudge of
tne Warren county, N. j.. courts. died
at his home in Phillipsburg. N. J.. of
cancer. o 90 -
Smith M. Lindsay, for years a prom-
lnent lawyer and post supreme regent
Oh the Royal Arcanum, died at Utica,
N. Y, after long illness.
Wednesday,, May 10.
president Taft has decided to an
point Oscar L. Whitelaw as assistant
treasurer of the United States at ST
Louis. to succeed T. ]. Atkins. recentIv
appointed postmaster at that place.
On behalf of George B. Dovey, presi-
dent OF the Boston National league
team, Senator Lodge presented to
President Taft special pass to the
gates of that club in Boston this sum.
mer.
Aram Zartanian, nineteen years old.
shot and killed himself at Providence.
R. l., after inflicting a dangerous
wound on Mabel Arabian, sixteen
year-Old girl, who objected to marry
ing him.
Thursday, May 20.
An earthquake 1900 miles away and
another probably of quite distant
origin" were recorded by the Chelten-
ham, Md, magnetic observatory.
A divorce has been granted by
Judge Van Nostrand to Mem Sing, a
Chinese. from Lee Shen Lena Sing, to
whom he was married in Oakland,
Cal, last. July.
While testifying in court in a dam
age case. DR.. R. Bruce Burns, a promi-
nent Philadelphia physician, was
stricken with paralysis and removed
to a hospital in a critical condition.
The survivors of the famous fight.
ing Fifteenth Pennsylvania cavalry
will erect a tablet in memory of the
late General William ]. Palmer, of
Colorado Springs, in prominent place
in Palmer hail. Colorado college.
Friday, May Fl.
Plans were completed for the un.
yelling at Hodgenville, KY, May 81,
of the Abraham Lincoln memorial
statue.
Charles E. Barber, a member of the
Aero Club of America, died in his
home at Warwick NJ Y, of injuries
sustained when his automobile was
struck by locomotive.
Pennsylvania State Forestry Com
missioner Robert S. Conklin announc-
ed that the 500 acres of forest land
bought in v-estmoreland and Somerset
counties had been constituted state
reserve. the first to be established on
the Ohio river watershed.
Saturday, May %.
Clarence Herbert Freeman, former
national checker champion, died at
Providence, r. I.
Catholic laymen of Denver, Colo.
are preparing to send petition to the
pope asking for the removal of Bishop
Matz, of the Catholic diocese of Colo
RADIO.
In the presence of their little daugh
ter, Eugene PEBBLES, a young iror
moulder, apparently insane. killed his
wife at Norfolk, Va, in a boarding
house kept by the victims twin sister
/ hn
Miss Clara Anderson, a servant in the
household of L. S. Schwabacher, vict
president of a wholesale hardwar'
company at Seattle, Wash, attacked ;
burglar in the family residence, knock
ing from his hands jewelry said to b.
worth $4,000 and driving the thief from
the house.
Monday, May "a.
r. G. Bush, formerly cartoonist TO
the New York World, died at his win
ter home at Camden, S. c.
The Florida house voted a $500
appropriation for a silver service TO
the battleship Florida, now under cor
struction.
Thieves entered the shoe store @
Samuel Goldberg. at Vineland, N. J
and carried away $50 pairs of shoes
s31 in cash and check for $3.50.
A stone found in Wisconsin, bearin
Runic characters and the date 136.
was made the basis Of claim tha
Norsemen discovered America earle
than Columbus.
Wells Post, G. A. R., of Columbus
O.. has adopted resolutions condemn
ing the erection of a monument I
Captain Henry Wirz, former con