Smyrna times., 1910-02-23
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Tuesday, February IS.

passenger agent for the Missouri Pa
cific Railway company, is dead at Kan.
sas City, Mo-. aged seventy-one years.
Hugh Flynn. aged fifty-eight years,
a pioneer Delaware & Hudson railroad
engineer. was stricken with heart dis
ease while attending mass in Holy
Saviour church at Wilkes-Barre. Pa,
and died before aid could reach him.
Many robberies which have occurred
in the Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation at Trenton, N. J., battling the
police, have resulted in the placing of
large placards prominently about the
building warning the members against
thieves.
Wednesday, February 16.
Timber thieves of southern Indiana
have been driving away the farmers
with fire. Houses and barns on eigh-
teen farms lately have been destroyed
Burglars blew the safe of the Citi-
zens' bank. of Chatsworth. Ind. with
nitro glycerine and escaped with a
team, taking $4,000 in paper money and
$4,000 in silver Night Watchman KyIa
and Albert Kerber. a citizen, were
found later. bound and gagged
Because four of its members were
colored, a jury was dismissed by
Judge John H. Pitchford in the dis
trict court at Wagner, Okla. Judge
Pitchford said: '"I do not propose to
insult white men by making them
serve on the jury with negroes"
Thursday, February II.
A. F. Schalhirt, general agent at
ITagerstown. Md. for the Norfolk &
Cumberland Valley railroads, com
mitted suicide by shooting.
It is learned from Linkoping. Swe-
den that John Bleckman. of Chester.
ton, who died at the poorhouse last
month, left an estate in his native
country valued at $4,000.
Miss Cynthia Woody died at Roam
oke, Va. aged seventy years. Short
after her sister, Miss Susie Woody
aged sixty-seven years died. A third
sister, Mrs. M. A. Penn. was taken i'll.
and her condition is serious.
BY a vote of 100 to 8, the house Of
Representatives of South Carolina
passed the resolution for an amend
ment to the federal constitution. per.
mitting congress to lay an income tax
without apportionment among the
| states
Friday, February 1s.
Frank Hooks, white man, fell into
pot of boiling tar at Jacksonville
Fla, and was so frightfully burned
that no hope Of his recovery is enter
tanned
There are 100000 homeless cats il
Chicago. according to Hugo Krauss
superintendent of the Anti-Cruelt,
Society. and he recommends that tht
surplus be put out of existence
Rabbi A. l. Levy, pastor of a larg
congregation in Chicago, has close
the purchase of $4,000 acres of far
lands in Pierce County, Ga. to b
used in the Jewish agricultural move
ment which was inaugurated in 1882
With a view of checking an Ell
demic of typhoid fever, the Heat
Board. City Council and Waterworl
Board decided t. erect n disinfcct y
plant on the Mississippi RRiv7l
There arc 500 cases of typhus in NJ I
nea polls.
Saturday, February 10.
Flashlight powder exploded in
Photographic supply factory in Ctic
go killed Miss Sylvania Brewster ar
lnjuring ten men and girls The {
plosion wrecked the bUilding
In a pistol duel on the streets {
Georgetown. Ga, G. D. Keigler. sh~
and fatally wounded his brother-i
law. Walter Vining.
Three elephants owned by shov
man broke away from a street para5
in San Francisco. Many persons ha
narrow escapes from being trample,
Entering a butcher shop, the beas
half wrecked the place. then heada
for a winery, where they tossed ha
rels and kegs about. They were fin
ly cornered in a vacant lot.
William Terry, a mechanic.
dead at Memphis. Tenn, and Hen,
Spencer, clerk. is held on a charge
murder as result of a pistol duel.
Monday, February 21.
While cutting down trees Jct
Weiss, of Ackermanville, Pa, accide
tally cut slice out of his head as t
axe slipped.
For the first time in years ice h:
formed in the Gulf of Mexico. folio
ing drop of "a degrees in temper
ture at Galveston, Tex
William E. Holloway. of Montgol
cry. Ala. was elected president of Il
Hungarian-American bank at Ne
York, to succeed E. S. De Lima.
J. H. Hawthornwaite, a Sociali
member of the provincial parliame
of Nanaimo. 3 c., will Introduce a b
excluding Oriental children from pu