The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1907-05-31
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events Of the week nricny
ChrOniclcd.

At Mincola. y. Y. the annual open
afr show Of the Ladies' Kennel club
opened with considerably over thou
sand entries. Every breed of dogs OK
ccpt settlers and pointers are on ezht
hition.
A Swatow (Chlnal report says that
rebellion has broken out mt W0nckDne.
in the Uping district Of the Chinchu
prefecture All the civil and military
officials at Wongkong have been assas.
sinated and their yamons burned.
Monday, May y.
The Albany legislature will not reach
final adjournment until Monday june
3. With but two exceptions this rc
markable session will have been the
longest regular session in well nigh a
century.
Harry D. Sellers, son Of Henry Sci
lcrs of the old and wealthy Sellers
family Of Pittsburg. was found dead In
his bedroom at the Sellers home from
a pistol shot. Although the family as-
serts that the death Of young Sellers
was caused by accident it is believed
that he committed suicide.
The secretary Of the German cmhas-
sy notified Secretary Root that the
German emperor had signed the bill
passed by the rclchstag recently giving
effect 10 the modus vivendi regulating
the tariff rates between Germany and
the United States. President Roose-
Welt has issued a proclamation an
nouncing IT,
At San Francisco Patrick Calhoun
has issued n statement addressed to
the American people, IN which Doc says
the returning of indictments against
himself and associates for bribery is
another step in the programme 20 gam
polit.cal control Of the city by Rudolph
spreckels and others for selfish pur-
poses through combination with the
Labor Union party.
Saturday, May -.
Theodore Tllton. the well known
American editor and author. who has
been nm in Paris for several days past
of pneumonia, IS dead.
The recent marriage Of William Ellis
Corey and Miss Mabelle Gilman was
commented on adversely I'm the Pres
byterian general assembly at Column
bus o.
Mrs. Howard Gould Of New York ir
nm interview with Commissioner Bine
ham told the whole story Of how sh'
had been bounded by detectives n th'
interest Of her husbands contemplated
suit against her. She said that She be
gan 10 live IN fear Of her life.
Friday. May %.
Almost exactly three years after th'
shooting Of Town Marshal Thomas
Cockrlll mt Jackson. Ky. a verdict of
NOT guilty was returned at Lexington
I'M the case Of Judge James llargis, th.
first Of those who were jointly charee'
with that murder
Governor Hughes sent TO the loe'sla
urc n special message urging The pas
| saLp or the so fHlltN N'M i'tN A''''''
bin. which provides judicial procedur
for the rerountlng of the ballots cas-
I'm the McClcllan-IIearst mayorali.
election I'm New York city i'm 1903.
At Stamford. Conn, the Rev. Di
William j. Long. questioned ahou
President Roosevelts Interview o'
Mature Faklrs" I'm a current maea
| zine. I'm which Mr.. Roosevelt seyerel
criticised Or Longs animal stories
called the president himself nainr
fakir and said he was not itu
sportsman.
John Bell at New York was fonn
guilty Of murder I'm the first degre
and sentenced to be- electrocutcd ON th
arst Monday I'm July next In his eel
Bell thus commented upon the yerllcl
81 have been handed a lemon, all riglr
bnt the fact that this jury hns convict
ed me does not mean TINT ! will eo Z
rbe electric chair" Bell killed ID
Charles Wllmot Townsend Of STATE