Smyrna times., 1910-01-12
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Tuesday, January

OlI TANK cars and cars of merchandise
ON the Wabash Railroad was de-
stroyed by fire on the edge of Logans-
port. The oil exploded.
l'atthew ]. Whittall operating car
pet mills in Worcester and Palmer.
Mass, employing over 1900 hands,
announced that his mills will go on
tifty-six-bour schedule with no re-
ductlOn in wages. Piece workers are
given a raise of 5 per cent.
Clarence Carney was shot and
killed by his 65-yearold mother-in-law.
Mrs. Sarah Griffith, at Dresden, Mimi
She had met him at neighbor's to
discuss a quarrel of long standing.
Carney fired three times at the wo-
man, who stood her ground firing five
times and killing him.
Wednesday, January 5.
The American Institute of Electrical
Engineers, with a membership of over
5000, will hold its annual convention
in Charlotte, N. c., on March 23, "a
and 25.
Orders n ere received at the Brooks
plant of The American Locomotive
company, at Dunkirk, N. J., for sixty
engines, forty for the Lake Shore and
twenty for the Nickel Plate.
Unable to rescue her seven-year-old
daughter from their burning home
Mrs. f. Helsen was compelled to stand
by and see the house in Westwood.
Mich. and her child burn to death.
William o. Carter, thirty-five years
old, shot and killed Mrs. Belle War.
ner, aged forty years, at her home,
129 West Camden street, Baltimore.
Md, and then committed suicide. Car.
ter was married.
Thursday, January 6.
Frank Jackson, a negro, was cleo
trocuted at Dannemora. N. Y. for the
murder of his wife at Sandy Hill, N.
Y, in August, 1908.
Louis D. Cone, of this city. and his
vie were instantly killed at Chicago
when their automobile was hit by an
Illinois Central train.
Suffering from pellagrous mania
Mrs. Valentine Herman, a patient at
the state asylum at Peoria, Ill. escaped
in her night dress, dying later of ex
posure.
Mrs. Linton Davidson and her two
children, and Joseph Pacey, who room
ed with them, were burned to death il
fire which destroyed the November
barn at Peoria, Ill.
Friday, January 7.
With $4,000 in drafts and cash OF
his person. Harry Wilson, of Knox
vile, Tenn, has disappeared from
Denver, Colo.
John Elliott was killed and Alonzr
Hatteras probably fatally injured b,
being struck by the Delaware railrcat
pay train at Delmar. Del.
Hugh Wellick and John Lacocacl
were instantly killed when a Pennsyl
vania railroad passenger train strucl
the wagon in which they were cross
| ing the railway tracks at Latrobe. Pa
Following a demand for $4,000 in lei
ters which he received through tn
mail some time ago, B. Sinene, sixt
years old, an Italian merchant of CHI
cago. was shot and killed by thre
men as he lay asleep in the rear Q
his store.
Saturday, January 8.
City Judge Edwin S. Cochran, Jr
of Wilmington, Del, was seriously il
jured by falling on the ice at DelaYar
avenue and Rodney street.
A petition bearing over $4,000 name
was filed with the secretary of stat
at Guthrie, Okla, asking that a col
stitutional amendment granting tn
franchise to women be submitted
the people of Oklahoma.
| The Guatemalan consul and friend
of Nine. Barrios, widow of the forme
president of Guatemala, who entere
an almshouse on New Years day f;
New Orleans, have persuaded her
return to her native country. She wi
receive a pension.
The postmaster of Charleston, Y
Va, is in receipt of a two-cent STAN
from young woman living in Los A
geles, who states in a letter that tv
years ago, while here, she mailed
package and the government was dor
out of the amount she enclosed.
Monday, January 10.
The Christmas storm cost the tel
graph and telephone companies $3Ot
900 in New England alone
, Grief over the disappearance of h
: twenty-year-old daughter caused Il
death at Shamokin, Pa, of John Soc
oloski.
Her clothing fired by a defecti7
: lamp, Miss Emma Turner, who live
alone at Danville, Pa, was fatal
/, burned.