The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1906-02-09
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Briefly
ChroDiclcd.

/ extension bonds amount TO S0OO,UOO IN
stead Of 100000.
Army officers who arrived at San
Francisco from the orient report that
the prospect of trouble in China is the
chief topic Of discussion in army circles
In Manila. The Thirteenth infantry and
two squadrons Of the Eighth cavalry
had been ordered to prepare themselves
for field service.
Totowa, a suburb Of Paterson, n. j.,
Is dogless owing to a mistaken Idea
that a mad canine had run loose In the
village and attacked several other dogs.
Fearing an epidemic, an order was
given by the officials for the destruction
Of all dogs. At least fifty. many Of
them valuable. were killed.
Monday, Feb. o.
The happiest silk weaver that ever
woye silk is Robert Hughes of Garfield
y. j., who has received word that he
has fallen heir TO S1OO0OOO in Ireland.
a magnificent buck. one Of the finest
ever seen on Long Island, shot ont
season by some pot hunter in Oakdale
woods, was found dead on the Ashton
estate adjoining Idle Hour, W. X.
Nanderbilts estate, at Oakdale, y. Y.
Silas W. Titus, water finder" has
agreed 10 supply Brooklyn with 100000
gallons OF water daily from driven
wells. lie believes several subterra-
mean rivers flow under the surface Of
Long Island, coming from the hills Of
New England.
The revolutionary movement I'm Per
sla IS assuming a moro acute charac-
ter. The shah IN great alarm recently
summoned home his most trusted ad-
vlsers In Europe The church party.
which Includes the powerful mollahs.
IS making the trouble.
The balloon Of the Aero club which
left London Saturday afternoon for
France and later was sighted from
Eastbourne pier moving seaward sue
cessfully crossed the English channel |
and descended In safety at Bermou- |
vile, twenty miles inland in France, |
after a four hour voyage
Saturday, Feb. 2.
1t IS probable that $4,000 men con-
Tolled by the United Mine Workers
Will walk out Of the mines in every
part Of the United States on April /.
The annual report Of President
Charles w. Eliot Of Harvard university
says that the American game Of foot
ball as now played is wholly unfit for
colleges and schools.
After persistently denying her mar
Rage 10 Wilson Miner for three days
he widow Of Charles T. Yerkes has
exercised her feminine prerogative and
acknowledged her young husband in
he presence Of a regular mass meet.
ng Of reporters at New York.
Pronounced dead by five eminent
physicians and then brought back to
ife through hypnotic power exerted
by DR.. John d. Quackenbos, a spe-
,iallst in therapeutic auto suggestion
his IS the curious and unrivaled ex-
'erience related by a beautiful young
'holr singer Of New York city. Adele
S the only name revealed.
Friday, Feb. 2.
It Is announced that Admiral Togo |
viii visit America in April with two
rmored cruisers OF the receptions at
Tokyo TO the generals returning from ,
lanchuria that Of General Nogl sur
.assed all others.
The murdered body Of Walter 2.
)olsen, twcnty-six years old, who was
ischarged from the United States ma
Inc corps at Norfolk, Va, after an
onoroble service Of five years. was c
ound packed in trunk there
King Christian, who reigned over
denmark forty-three years, left only
mall fortune, amounting to less than
10000 The king was exceedingly
harltable and gave large sums Of mon q
= for the relief Of the poor and TO de- O.
arving institutions -
Three men were killed and over fifty L
ijured and a number Of others are
Kissing ON board the United States =
Meade in the harbor at san n
rancisco. The steamer. with soldiers 81
nd supplies for the Philippines caught y
re and famed up from stem to stern.
was put out with difficulty. r,
Thursdny, Feb. 1. II
The Greene and Gaynor trial at Sa- y
lnnah. Ca, is costing the United Il
.ates government 800 a day. /,
Miss Alice Roosevelt the Countess de "a
hambrun and the latter's brother a
Nicholas Longworth
-ought their New York visit to a close ''
M returned TO Washington.
The Democratic minority Of the sen
e has been upset by the action Of =
lnator Patterson (Colo). who made a
eech on the Santo Domingo and No
ccan questions. I'm which he warmly az
.fended President Roosevelts policy. be-
Wednesday, Jan. ~. "a, az
hospital physicians say
ey do not think Heinard. the rabbit
@ man." Will recover his sight The
Grafton by which It was attempted A
graft the corneas Of rabbits eyes
on the blind eyes Of Heinard has tr
owed unsatisfactory. ed
The resolution authorizing a legisla- NJ
e inquiry into the specific charges Of
smanagement made against super
endent Of Banks Kilburn has been ~
ID uD IN the Albany senate. With