Smyrna times., 1910-02-16
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Tuesday, February 8.

John H. Core, aged seventy years,
one of the wealthiest men in eastern
Virginia, and the uargest individual
holder of real estate in Norfolk, Va,
is dead.
Homer c. Cope. an Indianapolis.
Ind, bricklayer, shot and killed his |
gother-inlaw, Mrs. Louisa C. George;
Shot his wife in the head and then |
killed himself with the same weapon. |
Cope and his wife had separated.
Wednesday, February 9.
Herman ;trauss. twenty-four years |
old, who just completed penitent:a"y
term, shot and killed his wife Annie.
eighteen years cid, and then killed
himself in fat in New York
William O. Parsons, thirty-fiYe
years old. of Ripley, w. Va, Demo
cratic nominee for congress in the
Fourth West Virginia district in the
last campaign, died suddenly of heart
failure in a local hotel.
Clyde Morlen. eight years old, w1s
attacked by wolves at the city park
menagerie in Parkersburg, w Va, AMI
an arm was so badly lacerated thai it
will have to be amputated. AS the hoy
stood near the cage one animal seized
his left arm and two others fastened
their teeth in his legs.
| Thursday, February 10.
Three men who slept in one room
in Brooklyn were found dead from gas
and the theory of the police is that the
gas was accidentally turned on.
Health Commissioner Rex Shell, OF
Peorio, ILL.,, has ordered an immediate
investigation as the result of what is
declared to be a widespread epidemic
of stomach and bowel trouble, the
cause of which is thought to be en-
balmed beef
Bessie LOngenecker, exhibited in
museums throughout the country un-
der the name of Baby Madeline" who
although only seven years old, weigh
ed 250 pounds, died in hospital a;
Columbus, O., an hour after her C.-,h
ing caught fire from a stove.
Friday, February II.
Mary Cain, colored, is dead at the
age of 116 years at Durham, N. c. De
tails of the War of 1912 and the par
that Orange county soldiers played il
II were fresh to her.
Guilty of involuntary manslaugh
ter was the verdict rendered by
jury at Parkersburg, w. Va, in tn
case of ]. Everett Sayre. a bushes
man, charged with having caused tn
death of his wife by administering t
her bichloride of mercury on thei
wedding day.
Frank HartsOugh, forty years old.
prominent oil operator, committed su
eide at his home near Huntington
W. Va, by firing a bullet into hi
brain. He had been married only
month, and left note saying that tn
Indifference manifested toward him +
his bride was responsible for his 4
spondency.
Saturday, February II.
Brigadier General Robert L. Meed
Z U. S. NJ c. retired, died at his hon
in Lexington Mass, after an illness
= several months.
Friday was the seventy -sevent
! birthday anniversary of Chief Justit
Melville W. Fuller, of the supre1
court of the United States. He hi
9 served almost twenty-five years
chief justice.
Representative Edgar d. Crumpac
er, of Indiana, was placed in the fie
81 as a candidate to succeed Speak
. Cannon at a meeting of the IndiaI
Society of Washington. The society
non-partisan.
- G. W. Thomas, a Jail guard, a
Matthew Cc lspv sunprintendent Of I
street force fought a duel on t
street at Chattanooga, Tenn. Thorn
died two hours after the encount
. his body riddled with bullets. Gods
: may recover.
Monday, February Il.
Enamel hardware material got il
a sore in her hand, and Miss Ms
z Corner. of Marietta, Pa, has b
: case of blood poisoning.
Z Thomas H. Dodge, a philanthrop
; and inventor of the cylinder print
Z press, died at his home at Worcest
; Mass. aged eighty-seven years.
2 M. F. Woodrow, a Rhodes scho
3 from Kentucky. won the Vinerian !
Z scholarship at oxford university, L
: don. The scholarship is among
2 more important of those open to c.
= petition.
= Atlantic City, N. j., will hold an
; ternational living machine meet dur
z June, according to plans of Geo
3 Homans. New Yorker, who is bac
9 by big hotel men of the resort.
! mans has started to raise 5000 .00C
ha awarded for nrizee