The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1906-06-08
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events Of the Week Briefly
Chronicled.

Nothbie ENehth or thc week brlehy
Chronicled.
a theft by means Of raising a check
from S20GJ to S2.oOO.05 has occurred in
the Eastern New York reformatory al
Napanoch. and Edward Irish. comp
trolers clerk, Is missing
Lieutenant G.. NJ. Routh Of the Royal
artillery has Just arrived at Ostend on
a bicycle after having made a $500
mile wheel trip from India. His route
lay over the deserts OF Arabia and Wild,
mountainous Caucasla, his cyclOmeter
registering $500 miles when he landed
at Dover.
Monday, June 4.
Through a bill just signed by Govern
or Guild the state OF Massachusetts
has assumed control Of all telephone
and telegraph wires operated within
the state.
The balloon Of Baron Korwin, chief
Of the Austrian military balloon de.
partment, which left London Saturday
night I'm an attempt 10 reach Vienna,
descended at Dleppe, France. at l
o'clock Sunday morning.
Saturday, June 2.
That Reed Smoot is not entitled 10
bis seat as a senator from Utah was
the decision OF the senate committee Oh
privileges and elections, declared by a
vote Of Z to 3.
Representative Robert Adams Of the
Second congressional district OF Penn.
sylyanla Is dead at the Emergency hos.
pital IN Washington as the result Of
pistol shot fired through his mouth into
his head with suicidal intent. He left
a note Of farewell TO Speaker Cannon
assigning financial troubles as the
cause.
Friday, June I.
The FIVE year-old child Of Robert Ma
roney OF Cedar Grove, Kanawha coun.
ty, w. Va, was tied to q stake aud
burned to death by paymates who
were emulating the characters IN a
mock initiation OF "Red Men" recently
presented by members Of local lodge.
Pendennis White, a wealthy banker
and lumberman OF Buffalo, was killed
and Edward A. Bell and Richard b.
Lyman, stockholders, were injured IN
a collision between an automobile and
a trolley car. The men had been at
the Country club for dinner and were
returning to town. Whites neck was
broken.
Thursday, May 81.
A serious rising, assisted by secret
societies, IS In progress at Ylngshan,
China, and the people are seeking ref
uge IN the cities. The British gunboat
Snlpe, from Nanchang, has sailed for
the scene Of disorder. Tie governor
Of the province Of Klangsl IS sending
troops.
Miss Alice Riley, for three years
stenographer at the Office Of the Ubero
Plantation company. at Boston, in con-
nectlon with the operations Of which
Ferdinand d. Borges Is on trial for
fraud, testified that after she had been
discharged from the company's sery-
ice Borges called her into his Office and
asked her not to say that "the company
was a swndle."
wednesday, May 30.
A plot 10 assassnate King Alfonso
on his wedding day was said 10 have
been hatched in London. Fifty an
archlsts Of England, France and Spain
are alleged TO have been In II.
The death sentence was executed on
the eight murderers Of Police Lleuten-
ant Porzhtsk at Riga, Llvonla. These
were the workmen in whose behalf the
lower house Of parliament lnteTpellat-
ed Premier GoremykIn and demanded
commutatlon Of their sentences.
The bodies Of eleven more Victims Of
the great Gre at San Francisco have
been discovered, bringing the death
list at the mOrgue up TO AIS. Those Of
Andrew Coleman and David Cook were
found in the ruins Of store. Five
bodies were taken out OF the ruins OF
the Kingsbury House.