Smyrna times., 1910-01-19
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Tuesday, January II.

treasurer in Philadelphia.
For stealing $S from poor box in
church in New York. John De Lance
was sent to the penitentiary for Que
year.
Mrs. Sarah e. Partridge, one of the
best rifle and revolver shots in the
world shot and killed herself at Med
ford Hillside, near Boston. while de-
spondent because of Illness.
Three persons were killed and one
was fatally injured in a collision in
the Texas & Pacific freight yards at
Shreveport, La, between a Kansas
City Southern switch engine and a
westbound Texas & Pacific passenger /
train.
Wednesday, January IL.
Mari'z Meinhard. a waiter, leaped
through the balustrade of the second
mezzaniup floor Of the Metropolitan
Life building in New York and was
killed instantly.
w. P Whitaker. cashier of the Bank
of KenDesaw, at Kennesaw. ca, is be-
ing sought by the police and the bank
is closed as the result of an alleged
shortage in the cashiers accounts of
$4,000
Kansas quail and other birds are
| dying in large numbers from stqrva-
ton. The ground has been covered
with snow and ice for fOrty-two days,
and the birds are unable to find grains
or ground seeds to eat.
Thursday, January 13.
Charles Travers, a section hand on
the Trenton Cutoff railroad, was kill
ed at RambO station, near Norris
town. Pa, by being struck by freight
train.
Walter Morrison and John Atkinson.
sentenced to be electrocuted at Ra-
leigh, N. c., were reprieved for sixty
days by Governor Kitchin because the
electric apparatus is not yet complete.
Plans are making at Pittsburg for a
celebration next year of the first
steamboat navigation on the Ohio. 1t
is said that an uncle of eX-Presidant
Roosevelt was the builder of the first
steamer to navigate the river. 1t is
planned to have ex-President ROose-
welt as the chief personal feature.
Friday, January IA.
Fourteen persons we're injured. one
fatally and five seriously. in an explo-
sion of gas in a palm garden owned by
Henry Messerscnmidt at Pennington
Wis.
A plan was launched at the meeting
fthe beard of directors of the George
Washington university, in Washington
to raise $20O00O0 as an endowmen
fund within the next three years.
Official denial is made at Charles
ton, w. Va. of the rumOr that a com
bination has been formed by five prin
cipal companies of this state witt
Standard Oil interests to control tn
gas output of West Virginia.
Carl Wascher, fifteen years old
stopped a Baltimore & Ohio passenge
train within ten feet of a burnin
bridge west of Weltsboro Ind, by sis
Mailing the engineer with a rel hant
kerchief. Passengers in the four crowC
ed coaches made up purse of s100.
Saturday, January IS.
Alexander Hilger, aged sixty-fv
years, was killed by a locomotive 0
the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicag
railroad at Leetsdale, near Pittsbur
while saving his daughter from Il
same fate.
CalOgarO Siragusa, who was Sc
fenced to three years following
1 conviction of a charge of circulati1
y counterfeit money at Williamson
{ Pa. was given an additional two yea
for an attack upon deputy Unit
States marshal.
Trembling and pleading that he
taken to some other place for fear
! mob violence, Henry Smith, the neg
} convicted with three others of MI
dering Walter F. Schultz. an artist
) Chicago, at Alexandria, Va, was 81
fenced to be electrocuted. Smith
clared that he was not afraid to die
the chair. but he did not want to
thevictim of a mob.
Monday, January II.
Arrested at Terre Haute, Ind, Hal
Z EppeTly admitted having three WHY
living.
Pellagra killed Mrs. Sadie Cleme
an inmate of the State Hospital for
z Insane at Elgin. Ill.
. Blood poisoning, following an lnjl
. to one foot killed John w. Greid
: thai. former state bank commission
z at Kansas City, Kan.
: The death sentence was imposed
z Belleville, H.. on Willis Clark,
: ored. who killed a motorman /;
2 wounded and robbed a conductor on
= East ST Louis car.
= "a Bride For Chinaman.