Smyrna times., 1910-03-16
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
tuesday, March 8.

AS he was stepping forward to be
baptized at a revival se~vice at Girard,
o., James Applegate, sixty-fve years
old, wealthy and prominent citizen,
dropped dead.
A Bessemer & Lake Erie railroad
locomotive was thrown into French
creek by the collapse of a steel bridge
near Meadville. Pa. The engine sank
In 100 feet of water. The crew escaped.
A burglar, who gave his name as
James Clark, rans9cked the Alpha
Tau Omega Fraternity house at Chi
cago. was chased by twenty students
in paiamee and captured, taken back
to the fraternity house. given a bath
and turned over to the police.
Wednesday, March g.
Governor c. N. H-elcu. of Okla
ho,1a, vetoed the so-ca!led Taylor cleo
ticr bill, under which it is claimed
mCst of the colored men of the state
would be barred from voting on con-
stitutiCnal amendments.
Tony StiIlitano. twenty-four years Of
age. was shot to death in crowded
restaurant at JOhnstOwn, Pa. but when
the police arrived the place was de-
serted and no clue to the former pa
irons or occupants was obtainable.
AS the result of a family quarrel in
which his wife took sides with her
father. William Davidson, a farmer
living near Ithaca, Mich. struck his
father-in-law, julius Teet, with the
butt of a shotgun, killing him. The
man next cut his wife's throat and
blew out his own brains.
Thursday, Karch 10.
Chicago elevated railroads carried
T7.261 100 passengers in the last six
months of 19O9-a daily average OF
100000.
James Derr, a prominent produce
dealer of Philadelphia, hanged himself
in the cellar of his home while men
tally deranged.
Desp0ndent because she was sepa
rated from her husband, Mrs. Jacoi
3ufe. forty-eight years old, of Lans
dale, Pa, committed suicide by shoot
ing herself.
The old car ferry Ann Arbor, No. l
burne1 at 'Ionitowoc, Wis. and thu
crew narrowly escaped. Two mel
we're forCo1 to jump into the river
The loss is about $150.000.
Friday, March IL
David A'exn1der MUnroe, assistan
editor of the l-Crth American Review
died of a c0mr7fca'iCn of diseases il
st. Vincent's hospital in New York
Robbers dJncTi+ed the safe of tn
Pank of Ejna. K@n.. obtained a sur
estimated at $1,000 and escaped on
han1 cnr after exchanging shCts wit
q n7r'her of citizens.
lTor-.tt c. B~rne. a Tnachinist, en-
plcrr'l At The Ealding railway shop
at Re91irg Pa was en- ~aged in nal
ing te~t Of t~1k. when it exploded
| tie ten s.rikin~ his head and crushin
his skull
A sixtv-incN ee"rrhligAt, the larges
| In Americar e0r+;fo tons, is being il
stalled at Fcr+ Rosecrans. on Poir
Lorna. at San Diego. Cal. 1t can pic
up a vessel over thirty miles at sea.
Saturday, March 12.
A warrant was issued at Savanna
Ca. CHARGING James NJ Doyle, 70
merly teller of the Hibernian BAN
with em0ezzlenent of something owe
S99O0
Colonel Alexander Robert Chisolr
formerly lieutennnt colonel on the sta
Of Gonerol z. r Reauregard. of tt
armies OF tho Coreederacy, died at h
home in New York.
Charles Davis colored. who la
August r-rrdered Ella Welch, age
fifteen ye"~s. Of Ironton also colore
was electrcor+ed in the OAio penite
tiarv at Coumh~s. o.
Charles T TInnter. commander
the Rough Rider issued a call f
every mer'her of She regiment to me
in New York city on June Is to join
welcoming former President Roos
welt back from Africa.
Monday, March IA.
Vincent Anglo. of Isnsford. was
stantly killed bv an explosion of d
Mantle in Q mine at TamaQua, Pa.
'I am ge+ting too old 10 work." sa
Silas Tunieo. AGED eivty-seven yeaI
at Chicago rs he slashcd his thro
vita a raZcr and died.
A man supposed to be named Ba
ker jumpe' frNm a Seaboard Air Lii
train into the Manitee river at lamp
Fla. and was drowned.
A reward of 5000 has been offer'
70 rthe arrest of James Soyle. alleg,
, to have embezzled S996SS9 from Il
Hibernian bank. of Savannah, Ga.