Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1909-05-05
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
tuesday. April 2z.

Pacy Hill was electrocuted in the
Auburn, N. Y, prison for the murder
of his cousin, Chloe Hancock, on
March IS, 1908.
Clifford Rutherford, assistant post
master at Lenox, Ca, was shot and
killed by a negro burglar, who had
robbed the postoffice, two stores and a
link.
Mrs. Mary Hoffman, wife of a Har-
risburg, Pa, business man, committed
suicide in the Pennsylvania Hospital
for the Insane in Philadelphia by hang
ing herself with a sheet.
"Wednesday, April %.
George Barton was sentenced to five
years Imprisonment and $1,000 fire at
Greenville, S. c., for robbing the post
office.
Rev. S. V. Williams. rSstor of the
Christian church at KaHkakee, ILL.,,
committed suicide by drinking carbolic
acid while mentally deranged.
Brigadier General John Breckenridge
Babcock, U. S. A. retired, died at sea
on board the steamer Prinz Friedrich
Wilhelm, which arrived in New York
Tuesday from Bremen.
Justice Harlan, of the United States
supreme court, denies that he intended
to be a candidate for the office of
moderator of the Presbyterian general
assembly which meets in Denver next
month.
Thursday, April 90.
injured by a tornado which wrecked a
large portion of Douglas, Kan.
Charles Scarborough. the negro who
attempted to assault Hrs. Taylor Frier-
| son. of Fort Myer, near Barlow, Fla,
was captured and lynched.
Chasing a rebellious COW home from
pasture resulted in the sudden death
from heart disease of Joseph Allard,
a farmer, near Vineland, N. ].
The woman suffrage bill which
| passed the Wisconsin senate some
time ago was killed in the assembly
after long debate by a vote of SO
to "a.
Fire destroyed the plant of the Lock
port Rubber company, at Lockport, N.
/ :
of the Susquehanna Smelling com
pany, entailing a loss of 100000.
Friday, April 30.
The Longmead Coon company and
other iron companies 'at Norristown
Pa, increased the wages of puddlers
from s3.75 to 81 a ton.
The comptroller of the currency is
sued a call for a statement of the con
dition of all national banks at the
close of business Wednesday, April %
The jewelry store of John S. Town
send in Chicago was robbed of article:
valued at $4,000 by burglars who tested
their plumber with acid before taking
it away.
A monument to Sam Davis. a Con
federate scout, who, rather than di
vulge the source of information whicl
he had secured, suffered death on tn,
gallows at the hands of the Federal
at Pulaski, Tenn, on Nov. q, 1868
was unveiled at Nashville, Tenn.
Saturday, May I.
Willie Carter, a negro. was hange
at Bamberg, S. c., for the murder O
his paramour.
officers of the Worlds Christian Ell
deavor union completed the purchas
of a lot in Boston for the site of a
international headquarters building.
Clifford G. Raynor, formerly manal
ing clerk for the Jenkins Trust con
pany. of Brooklyn, pleaded guilty t
forging notes to the amount of $500
while employed by that company.
The Phi Kappi Psi fraternity col
i cluded it's annual convention at Ha
I risburg, Pa. by selecting Meadvil
q as the place for next years meetin
5 and the election of E. S. Sprowls, {
e Washington and Jefferson, as worth
s. junior archon
n Monday May 3.
e The will of Governor Lilley. of Co
d necticut, devised an estate of S1,00t
d 600, one-third of which was in life i
u surance.
1t Henry w. Gazell, officer of a bar
in Cleveland, was sentenced to sevF
years in the penitentiary for the the
d, of 100000
4 Admiral George Dewey and null
IN Der of naval officers who sailed wi
Of him into Manila bay on May 1, 1SS
he at a banquet in Washington celebrat
s. the eleventh anniversary of that mel
10 orable victory.
n President Charles w. Eliot, of H;
IL ward university, will be honored by t
es mikado of Japan on May II with t
al decoration Of the Order of the Risi1
Sun, which will be bestowed upon hi
nv Ambassador Takahira at Boston.