The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1905-09-01
FARMvILLE, VA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER /, 1905.

-four trade between Pacific coast ports
and China.
Twenty Mexican lab0rers were killed
and number injured by the premature
explosion Of quantity Of dynamite al
the Port works at ManzanlllO, Mexico,
recently.
Mistaklng his thirteen-year-Old broth.
er-in-law for burglar, Frank Hasty
Of Bolton, n. c., shot and killed Wade
Robinson. a son OF Engineer ]. ]. Rob
hson, OF the SeabOard Air line. Hasty
heard the other boy in an adjoining
room, secured his pistol and fired. The
victim died in seven hours.
Canadian capitalists. with Ameri.
cans, project a trolley line from Fort
Erie TO Point Abino. n. Y. A capital
OF Sl.OO0,OO0 Is said 10 be available.
aud the new concern proposed to take
over the ferry service between Buffalo
and Fort Erie as well as the small
steam railroad that runs from Fort
Erie about four miles along the Cana.
dian shores.
A meeting at Atlantic City, n. j., Of
the New Jersey eight hour committee
Of the International Typographical un.
ion voted to tender It's assistance 10
any labor bodies In the state contend.
ing for the eight hour working day.
Allen Ball Of Jersey City, who was
made chairman, named committee
Of three to act IN conjunction with the
New Jersey Federation OF Labor IN
forcing the eight hour issue.
Thursday, Aug. -.
Twenty persons were seriously In.
jured IN collision between two trains
at COney Island, New York.
The big breaker Of the Grcenough
Red Ash Coal company az shamokin.
Pa, was destroyed by fire. The break.
er was built five years ago at a cost of
$4,000.
As the result Of the tragic death Of
Simon Fibel, venerable resident Of
Brooklyn, under the wheels Of trolley
In Manhattan avenue the motorman Of
the car went crazy.
The Rev. Charles Thatcher Pfel6er,
aged thirty. formerly rector OF the
Church OF the House Of Prayer, Phla-
delpbla, was married to Miss Alice An
dersOn Hall Of Germantown, aged ff.
teen.
The first results Of the New York /
state census taken last June were
made public by Secretary of State |
O'Brien. They relate only to the city
Of Albany and show its population TO
be 0S,382 This is an increase Of 4,2ll
over the federal census Of 1900.
Goldle Mohr- Wood the former show
girl. reached a settlement with the chill |
dren Of her late husband, Alan w.
Wood. tho Plttsburg steel millionaire,
by which she Is 10 receive one-quarter
Of the estate. Mr.. Woods estate has
been estimated at from 100000 to
S10OOO.OOO.
Wednesday, Aug. N.
The most successful sale Of imported |
stock on the Bltmore estate of George
w. Vanderbilt was held at Asheville,
n. c., $4,000 being realized In all
ffty-eight head Of Jersey cattle were
sold, averaging S207 each.
The steamer Athos, seventeen days
late, with eight passengers and a car
20 Of rOtted bananas and with the
bones Of half eaten sharks on board to
Indicate tho perils Of her voyage, ar
rived at New York from jamaica.
Surrounded by evidences Of poverty
md with only her eight pct cats keep.
ng vigil. but with $4,000 in bank
notes beneath her pillow, Mrs. Mary
FULL. seventy-four years old, was found
lead in bed in her home OF two small
'OOm IN New York tenement.
Thomas Il. Waggaman, late treasurer
II the Catholic university ia Washing
on and whose financial difficulties
lave been told, was Indicted by the
District Of Columbia federal grand ju-
y for embezzlement In connection
With his management as trustee Of an
state