Smyrna times., 1910-01-05
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Tuesday. December %.

l.. SOnecalf, at LOveland, o., caused
the death of Rosa and Paul SOnnecalf,
aged eight and five years respectively.
In order to form plans successfully
tC fight combinations of milk dealers,
1903 milk producers from all sections
Df the United States will meet in Chi
rsgo, Feb. Z, 1910.
Show windows of two jewelry stores
In Chicago were robbed of watches,
Eilverware and jewels valued at $4,000
by man who broke the plate glass
with a paper covered brick.
Wednesday, December 29..
Four shot firers were killed in a dust
explosion caused by ''windoy" shot
IN mine No 5, two miles south of Cen
tralia, Ill.
Mrs. Lucinda Grafton, who became
widely known during the Civil War
for work for sick soldiers. died in
Pittsburg.
The National Woman's Suffrage as
sociation in New York has started an
indirect plea" campaign through
neatly printed ''votes for women"
stamps.
While Mrs. Henry BlantOn was
across the street talking to a neigh
Dor at Pratt. Kan, she saw her home
n mass of fire, with her three children
inside burning to death.
Thursday, DecembeT 80.
Jerome M. COudrey, eiglSeen years
old son of Congressman Harry NJ
| Cov5ro,, of Tho TuoIft1, oODuroec;o~oI
district. shot and killed himself in his
experiments Of the buckingham club,
in St. Louis, Mo.
Joseph Mackeley aged thirty-three
years. who killed eighteen-year-old
Caroline Hunt and shot her parents.
Stephen Hunt and wife, Monday night,
was captured at Toledo, o.. by police
at an obscure hotel.
Miss Johnny Preston, seventeen
years of age, shot herself at Willow
Springs, Mo-, because she had run up
some small debts at a store DIR.
Abram Mullinix. seventy-two years old,
who was called, fell across the bed
and died of apoplexy.
Friday, December 81.
| Because she said he was lazy, John
\. Johnson killed Mrs. Anna Shelley
on Dec. Is at Medford, Wis. Johnson
was sentenced to life Imprisonment
by Judge Parish.
Mrs. E. ]. Milhan, known in wild
west shows as the "cow girl" died at
PCnca City, Mich. She was riding for
moving picture concern, when heI
horse fell upon her.
Two men were killed and four 9th
ers injured at Traverse City, Mich.
when the brakes on a Pere Marquette
logging train failed to work and tel
cars crashed down the incline into {
snow plow.
Results of experiments with guine;
pigs in Washington, showing that tn,
Rocky mountain spotted fever and tn,
typhus fever are different, have beel
confirmed says the public health AM
marine hospital service.
Saturday, January I.
Andred Mccall, thirteen years olc
son of ]. c. R. Mccall. assistant Uni
ed States attorney at Nashville. Tenn
was accidentally killed while hunting
Mrs Charles E. Spencer, wife of
railroad engineer, and mother Of fou
children, was found burned to deaf
after a fire had destroyed a shed a
the rear of her home at Battle Creel
Mich.
Plunging over a cliff sixty feet hig
to the bottom of Blanco Canyon. {
F1oydada, Tex, Mrs. S. R. Beck, thirt,
five years old, and her ten-year-old so
were burned to death in the debris
their wagon and household effects.
Henry Bell. negro, was hanged
the Jail at Dawson, Ga, for the mu
der of Will Jackson, another negro,
Graves Station, about a year ago. BE
passed the coffin that he was to |
buried in and cody patted it with h
hand.
Monday, January 8.
w. H. Ehrig, of Hellertown, Pa,
a dinner to several friends servel
finely favored watermelon, kept fro
last summer.
Hundreds of thousands of oper
tives in mills in Massachusetts al
Rhode Island had their working hou
shortened to fifty-six per week. nc
labor laws becoming effective.
Fearing both mob violence and
tempts at rescut, officials at GreenU
KY, removed to Cattlettsburg Nj
Sarah R. Higgins charged with t
murder of William Culberson.
Drinking a toast to Happy M
Year" in his saloon. at Chicago. Jac
Minsberg put down his glass to fl
a robbber opening fire on him. He
} fused to open the cash drawer and W
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