The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1907-09-13
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events OF the Week Briefly
Cbronicled.

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The Korean insurgents are abandon
ing organized resistance Of the Japa
nese. They now destroy railways ana
telegraph lines and murder unarmed
japanese. OF whom they have killed
seventeen, mutilating the bodies.
Monday, sept. o.
At Kittanning. Pa, following the
accidental shooting Of his companion.
Robert Ramsey, Jr., Howard Riley
committed suicide by Jumping in front
Of an express train on tho Allegheny
division Of the Pennsylvania railroad.
II Is certain, although no official dec
laratlon has been made. that Secretary
Oscar 5. Straus OF the department Of
commerce and labor VIII have con-
ference with President Roosevelt al
once in relation to the telegraphers'
strike IN New York.
Although he may not know it, the
condition OF the workingman. not the
man on salary. was better IN 1906 than
IN 1908. so the United States bureau OF
labor. OF which Charles i. Neil Is com
missioner. has declared IN making pub
llc the result Of lis annual inquiry into
wages ana prices Of food
A ray Of hope for possible solution
Of the yexing Moroccan problem came
from the Moorish empire IN the shape
Of an announcement that the tribes
men were ready 10 negotiate FOR peace.
Vice Admiral Philibert states that Il
delegation from the warning Arabs
had asked General Drude for an ar.
mistice
saturday, sept. :.
Twelve men were instantly killed
and twelve seriously injured when a
northbound local train on the line OF
the Chicago. Rock Island and Pacific
railroad jumped the tracks at Norris,
Ia
Mrs Mary Ann Pepper-vanderbilt
asked IN court 10 give herself into the
control Of Little Bright Eyes" IN
vited tho commission I'm lunacy and
iut lni. 10 AtAtllA Dii' va tA'A AfHNiAA
spirituallstic meetings In Brooklyn.
Gehelmer Baurath Whitfield, Direct
or Frischmuth. Director Jordan. Di-
rector Pforr and Professor Walter
Relchel Of Berlin, officials OF the Ger
man government sent to America 20
study electric railroads, are at Niagara
Falls.
Or Rudolph Silverston Is completing
an airship nj Il Milwaukee factory Of
which great things are expected. II
has n propeller eight feet IN diameter
which Will, II Is expected. send the ship
through the air with unprecedented
speed and carry the navigator from
Milwaukee 70 Europe In few hours"
A Milwaukeean Is said 20 be backing
the enterprise.
Friday, Sept. o.
Fifty-eeycn counts are contained In
a Joint federal Indictment Of the stand
ard Oh company and the Vacuum OIL
company handed In at jamestown.
NY
If Colonel Howe, commandant Of
cadets at West Point, threatened 70
dismiss the whole class Of cadets be
cause the members had sent one Of
their number 10 coventry" he over
rated his authority. say the officials
Of the war department, for the power
Of dismissal in such cases IS not con
fined 10 any official Of lower rank than
the president
Thursday, sept. ..
DR. Edward Glasgo. a physician. Is
dead from three bullet holes through
his head, and his wife Is slightly
wounded IN the left breast as a result
Of a mysterious shooting at Brazil. Ind.
Captain Henry Brown. inventor Of
the bell buoy, Is dead al Charleston,
$. c. He was eighty years old. lie
was born In Drobak, Norway, and
came TO America when sixteen years
Of age.
A school Of countless blue crabs Is
IN session 10 Great South bay, New
lNlkt tll~ WEEK. it AAAAif 'AA'Ah@N'AtA'
pave the sandy bottoms of Speonk,
y. Y. and overflow into all the little
salt creeks near the village.
"wednesday, sept. 4.
Judge Lapdis IN ths United States
district court at Chicago ordered the
postponement Of the grand jury inves-
tigation Of the rebating charges against
the Chicago and Alton road growing
out Of the recent trial and conviction
Of the Standard on company until
Sept "a.
That the American people are sur
feited with politics and refuse 70 be-
turned from the path Of commercial
and industrial prosperity by the poll
tlcinns was the declaration Of Vice
President Fairbanks In speech made
NJ the opening Of the fifteenth national
irrigation congress M Sacramento, Cal.
Young servant Maid shot Herself
SYRACUSE. y. Y. Sept lO-Etta
shank Of Union Springs, eighteen
years old. a servant I'm the home Of n
Syrncuse lawyer, committed suicide by