Smyrna times., 1910-01-26
CONDENSED KEWS ITEMS.
Tuesday, January 1e.

Mexico to statehood was adopted in
the house and will now be sent to the
senate.
Frank Phillips, an emplove of the
E. M Holt plaid mills. at Burlington,
Va, was caught and wound around a
shaft, receiving perhaps fatal injuries.
Former Governor George P. Werts,
one of the best known Democratic
politicians in the state of New Jersey,
died at his home in Jersey City from
pneumonia.
James Lavine. colored, employed at
the Friends school at Arlington, near
N0rristown, Pa, who was convicted of
robbing the pupils of that institution,
was sentenced to eighteen months i'm.
prlsonment in the county Jail.
Wednesday, January 1e.
Mrs. Margaret Collier Graham. au.
.,hor and magazine writer. is dead at
her home in Pasadena, Cal, aged
sixty-two years.
Losing his balance as he was cross
ing plank over the elevator shaft of
the new Ur.on Theological seminary
In New York, Alexander Boes. fore
man of a gang of plcsterers, fell seven
stories and was killed.
Papers have been signed in Balti.
more by two of the three interests
controlling the A. S. Abel estate trans
ferring to Charles H. Grasty control
OF the stock in the A. S. Abel com
pany, which publishes the Baltimore
Sun.
Thursday, January 20.
David Abel and Biddle Gist, negro
convicts on the chain gang at Chester,
S. c., were instantly killed by the ex.
plOsion of a stick of dynamite, which
Abel was thawing out.
AS a result of a quarrel over the set.
tlement of a sisters estate at San
Francisco, of which they had been ex.
ecutors. Michael ]. Erby, aged sixty.
two shot and killed his brother Pat
rick in the entrance to the superior
court.
William H. McIlvoy, seventy-four
years old, of Madison, ILL.,, is dead,
leaving twenty-six children and 118
grandchildren. He boasted that he
never wore a white shirt or stiff collar,
never used an umbrella and never had
his picture taken.
Friday, January Fl.
John S. Condor, cashier of the New
Rochelle N Y, Water company, ac.
cidentally killed himself while exam.
lining a revolver in his home Condor
had been i'll some time.
William and Charles Mullins, ne
groes, were publicly hanged at Os
ceola, Ark, before 5000 spectators for
the murder of A. Robinson and his
daughter, hOuseboat dwellers.
Colonel Robert Lowry, twice COVER
nor of Mississippi, died at his home
at Jackson, Miss, aged seventy eight
years. Colonel Lowry in the Confeder
ate army commanded a Mississippi
regiment.
Mrs. Louisa Bradley, thirty-seve1
years old. wife of B. E. Bradley, gen
eral manager of the St. Louis Post
Dispatch. shot and killed herself in g
rooming house, whittier she had gone
after escaping from two trained nurs IS
Saturday, January %.
The Virginia Anti Saloon league con
ventien at Richmond adopted site
wide prohibition as it's policy.
Joseph G. Lance alias w. H. Borne
fifty years old was arrested in Chi
cago on a charge of swindling NOR,
than a hundred persons out of a tota
of more than 100000.
Roasted to a crisp, the bodies o
Mrs. ]. A. Mullis and her three-weeks
old infant were found in the fireplace
of the woman's home in the Daniel
Mill settlement, near Lincolnton, N. c
Joseph Durkin, nine years old. wa
the hero of fire in a three-story fla
building in Chicago, when he rescue
his sister, six years old, and grope
his way through the smoke and rouse
a man and wife, both invalids who es
capped
Monday, January "a.
Suit was entered against forme
State Treasurer Cameron, of Ohio, an
his bondsmen to recover $211, 900 a
legged to have been wrongfully take
from the state as interest upon stat
funds
GuWolu WI IhAHc, dSSu twenty-five
a laborer in the Barnum mine, died /
the Pittston, Pa, hospital with
broken back, having been caught b,
meath fall of roof in the mine a fe-
days ago.
While Bishop Fawcett was plannin
to prevent it, Professor Raymon
Riordan carried three teachers an
forty-three pupils of Jubilee colleg
from Peoria, ILL.,, to Laporte. Ind, I
open another school,