Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1909-04-28
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
tuesday. March 20.

Mrs. Lucy Palmer Willard, grand
niece of t,re late President James A.
Garfield, died in Seattle, Wash
A washout sent a Grand Trunk
freight train from Grand Haven, east
bound, into the ditch one mile west of
Grand Rapids, Mich, and three men
were killed and one was fatally in
jured.
A bolt of lightning shot down
through the vestibule of the Methodist
Episcopal church in the little hamlet
of Meade, near Detroit, Mich, and al,
though about fifty perRns were crowd
ed together, there were but five in
jured.
Wednesday, April Fl.
Four robbers blew open the safe of
the Bader Savings Sank, at Badger,
Ia, secured $500 in silver and gold
and escaped.
Miss Rose Fremel fell dead at the
funeral of her brother in Chicago as
the last words of eulOgy were being
said over the casket.
John Macarthur. twenty years old,
captain of the Huntington, Ind, foot
ball team, is dead as the result of in
juries received in a game here with
the Wabash high school eleven.
ST. Louis Compress. No. 2, one of
the largest cotton congresses in Lit
tie Rock, Ark, was practically de-
strOyed by fire. causing a loss which it
is estimated will approximate almost
$1,OOO,OOO.
Thursday, March %.
Roland p Falkner has accepted the
presidents tender of membership on
the Liberian commission.
Former United States Senator David
Turpie. born il Hamilton county, o.,
in 1929, died in indianapolis Ind.
Robbers visited the office of the Nor
ris nursery at West Chester Pa, blew
open the safe and wrecked the place
but secured less than 81 in cash.
An appropriation of $4,000 to pay
the travelling expenses of the presi
dent, to be expended in his discretion
during the fiscal year of 1910, is pro
posed in an amendment to the census
appropriation bill, introduced by Sen
ator Guggenheim, of Colorado.
Friday, April %.
Rudolph Buol was assassinated al
Chattanooga, Tenn, while asleep, the
murderer placing a stick of dynamite
on his bed and exploding it with {
fuse
Thrown out of his position as {
! baker because the firm that employed
| him was forced to shut down, OWNS
| to the Patten corner in wheat, JOSEPH
Zilberger, sixty years old, committed
suicide in New York.
d.. William e. Cell, of DOyles. own
Pa, a noted explorer, who has trav
eled extensively in Africa and China
and has just returned from a triI
around the Great Wall of China, callet
on President Taft.
The expenditure of S3,250,000 on tn
canal zone Turing the month of jar
uary has brought the total expenditur
on the zone toward the construction
of the canal civil administration, saI
itation and plant building, to $93,915
OOO
Saturday, April "a.
James l.. Dixon, of Chicago, inhel
tied 100000 from a rich uncle and tw
days later enlisted in the U. s. Marin
corps.
Lawson Addison, a negro, was hans
ed at Chester, S. c., for the murder {
two women near Lowrysviile, Cheste
county.
James E. Clark was found guilty &
St. Louis of killing Joseph Flood
telegrapher, last December, and
was sentenced to serve fifteen year
in the penitentiary.
General Clement A Evans, con
mander-in-chief of the United Confe
crate Veterans has accepted an inv
tation to present to the United Stats
government the monument to Gener
Stephen D. Lee at Vicksburg, Miss
on June II.
Monday, March &c.
The National bank, of Arrowsmit
H., was robbed by safe blowers, WI
secured $4,000 and escaped.
Four persons were burned to deaf
in the destruction by fire of the Ce
trail hotel in Topeka, Kan.
Henry NJ. Bolger, a hotel and saloC
. proprietor of Pittsburg, was four
guilty of accepting $1750O for Il
purpose of briging councilmen of tn
city to secure city deposits for loo
bank.
, Harry Rheams, a sixteen-year-o
f, train robber, who killed Villa
l Dempsey, a passenger on a Gre
: Northern train, in a hold-up near Gre
l Falls, Mont, year ago. was sentenc
: to life Imprisonment.