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

Tuesday, January IS.
Mary Mallie, thirty years old, and
single a lodger at a house in Pitts
burg. died at the Allegheny General
hospital of burns received while smok-
ing cigarettes in bed.
Thirty persons convicted of running
turkey raffles and slot machines in the
recent crusade against gambling in
Harrisburg, Pa. were sentenced by
President Judge Kunkel to a fine of
$50 and costs each.
A gift of 81 900 900 has been refused
by the six leading Jewish charitable
institutions of New York city. The
conditions of the gift of the late Lewis
A. Heinscheimer stipulated that the
benefciaries form federation for col
lection and distribution of funds. They
refused to consolidate.
Wednesday, January 26.
w. C.. Hayes, former banker of San
Francisco. was placed undeA arrest at
Memphis, Tenn, at the request of the
California authorities, charged with
having violated the banking laws of
that state.
For smuggling Chinese into the Unit
ed States from Mexico, Nick Strato-
kos. of New Orleans, and Chew Duck
Fun, of Galveston, Tex, were sen
fenced at Galveston, to a year in the
United States penitcniary at Fort
LeavenwOrth, Kan.
Thursday, January 27.
A large section of the business dis
trict of Cofeyville. Miss was wiped
out by fire. The loss is about 100000
The supreme court at Boies, Idaho
has handed down an opinion declaring
constitutional the local option law thai
has been attacked on almost every
provision since its passage.
John Hoagh, eleven years old was
killed; Walter Smith, fifteen years old
was fatally injured, and Marjory
Houghton, aged fourteen. had her leg
broken in . coasting accident at The
resa, near Syracuse, N Y.
The prompt action of her thirteen
year old dc-chter in forcing milk into
her mothers mouth after the latter
had taken a dose of carbOlic acid may
save the life OF Mrs Katherine Mar
tineck, of williamsburg, N. Y, accord.
ing to surgeons at the Bedford hospi.
tai. where the victim is now a prisoner.
Charged y, : attempted suicide
Fay, January %.
Harry II. Bell. of the editorial star
Of the New York Herald. was acciden
tally aaphyX.gted by gas in his home.
At Louisville. w Va, William Bel
cher shot oa1 fatally wounded A. II.
Parrot. Po,chcr escaped. Both men
were miners.
Uncle" 10 Ramsey, 119 years old.
thought to have been the Oldest perscn
in Ohio. dial at the county infi~mary
near Elyri" o.
Frederic; ". Keitel, of Denver. an I
Franklin F. Fay. of St Louis, were ac.
quilted at Denver, Colo, of frau6u.
lently obt8ining coal lands in Rcrt'
county by means of dummy entrymsn.
Saturday, January 20.
AS the result of an old feud, Be-
| Browning, 0f Haywood county, wa
shot and billed in the bank at Waynas.
vile. N. c.. by Allen Green, of the
same county The killing occurred
when the bank was filled with people
A bobslel carrying twenty children
was struck by fast train at AndOve"
| O., and carried 200 feet upon the pilot
Of the locomotive until brushed off by
an engine standing upon a side track
Not one child is thought to be serious
ly hurt
George B. Robertson, a negro, W
arrested at Louisville. Ky. charge
with the murder of Mrs. Jennie Gleq
horn, a white woman, whose dismem
bered body minus the head and hear,
was found in a negro resort in Chi
cago on Jan. 90.
Four men were killed and sixteer
injured sixteen miles south of ST
Paul. w. Va. on the Carolina, Clinch
field & Ohio railroad The wreck was
caused by large dislodged stone. tha'
fell on the track on a sharp curve, int
which a train of fiatcars backed.
Monday, January 81.
Seven men were hurt in an explo
sion in an artificial leather factory a
Newburgh, N. Y.
For smuggling over the Maine Dor
der. William J. Kelly was given four
teen years in the Atlanta, Ca prison
Many floral pieces were placed in
side the Mckinley tomb at Canton o.
including former Secretary Cortelyou'
annual wreath.
Because of i'll health, e. H. Wilbur
former president of the Lehigh Vale,
railroad, has resigned as borough
treasure of Bethlehem Pa. after cor
tinuous service for thirty-two years.