Smyrna times., 1910-03-02
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Tuesday, February q.

AS a result of continuing tests, the |
Commercial club of Omaha, Neb., an |
nounced that only 2715 per cent Of |
corn held by farmers for seed in Ne. |
braska will grow.
The validity of the ordinance of the |
San Francisco supervisors prohibiting
burial of the dead within its limits.
except that part under jurisdiction of
the United States. yas upheld by the
supreme court.
Hogs sold at the Chicago stock
yards at $3.50 a hundred. topping ali
previous records since 1870, when the
$40 point was reached. Small receipts
at the principal packing centers caus
Ell the advance.
Wednesday, February %.
Rev. Oman Ellyson. aged eighty-fivs
years. a native of Richmond, Va, for
haif a century and we'll known as a
Baptist minister. died at Lynchburg.
Va after brief illness.
In the presence of his victims
twelve-year-old' son, Pete Dynich a
boarder. stabbed Mrs. Thomas Marko-
vich to death in Duquesne. Pa. Dynich
IL n went 70 the cellar and sank the
knife in his left breast.
Baron Daillora Kikuchi, deputized
by the japanese government to pay
| tribute to the memory of the late Dr.
David Murray. who was instrumental
in establishing the public school sys
tenn of Japan. visited DR.. Murrays
| grave at New Brunswick N. J., and
decorated it with wreaths of roses.
Thursday, February "a.
Thirty-seven states were represented
| at the meeting of the Rural Free De-
| livery Carriers Mutual Benefit asso-
citation convention at Cincinnati. when
a national organization was formed.
The discovery was made that
thieves had been plundering the Sew
enth regiment armory, in New York.
of fixtures and decorations worth over
$1,000. Among the loot were two bronze
candelabra, each ten feet tall and
weighing a ton.
Visions Of fortune were shattered.
along with the interior of a Kitchen
in Roxbury, Mass, when Charles Dia-
mond and Atkinson Sayles were seri-
cusly injured in an explosion. result
ing from their attempts to cook a
new washing powder of their own in
vention.
Friday, February IS.
With antitoxin prepared by the
army medical laboratory at Washing
ton. army surgeons in a series of tests
are inoculating officers and men
against typhoid fever at Fort Wads
worth, Staten Island.
Jacob Bcilinger and wife, prominent
residents of Campbelltown Lebanon
county, Pa, died at their home within
four hours of each other. The wife
died of pneumonia and the husband
expired from shock. They were sey
enty years of age.
Word was received by the washing
ton police that John Ward Sturgis
formerly a bookkeeper in the National
Savings and Trust company. of that
city. who is wanted on the charge Of
forgery and grand larceny, has beer
captured III New Orleans.
Saturday, February IS.
Six persons were killed in a snow
sli9e AT A1air. Mont. in the Bittel
Root mountains.
Deputy Sheriff W. H. Luck. in al
effort to arrest a cclored man, wa
shot and instantly killed Nv tho pria
cner who in turn was k.l.e1 By twt
other deputy sheriffs.
The largest American flag, 160 by 81
| feet, is now used to cover the lille
that are being raised in the Phipp
= conservatory in Schenley park for tn
Faster flower show at Pittsburg
Wearing a wig and blue goggles
George Carron, thirty-two years old
who is charged with absorbing wit
$4,000 of the funds of the Unite1 State
1 Express company. for whom he wa
cashier at the Englewood branch il
1 Chicago, was arrested in a hotel lobb
In that city
Monday, February %.
Henry KG h, two years old. was tel
I riblv scalded at Danville. Pa. by tn
accidental overturning of coffeepot.
Antonio Mangano who killed hi
wife and three children last Decembe
was sentenced at Cleveland, o., to b
electrocuted on July Is.
Accidentally turning on the gas in
room in which his mother had locke
him, ten-year-old Patrick Guinness, {
1 Providence. R. l., was found asphy,
lated.
1 Thomas J. Quinn. fifty years old,
prominent mining contractor and
leading member of the Eagles. Elk
and A. o. H.. of Shenandoah. Pa, wa
killed at the Ellangowan colliery by
fall of coal.