The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1907-10-25
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Briefly
ChrOnIcIed

The decrease Of 1900 IN the number
OF pensioners on the rolls at the end Of
the fiscal year 1907 as compared Will
the year previous is the greatest de
crease in the history OF the pension
bureau. The total numb4r Of pension
ers June 80 1907. was 967,37l. and the
total value Of the pension roll at thai
date was S14O,S5O,SsO.
At Great Bend, Kan, +. f. Stacey
soon after his arrival from Denver at
tempted to kill his wife with a dyna
mite bomb. Stacey's mother-ln-law
saw her daughters peril and shovel
her out Of danger before the bomb ex
ploded. Stacey followed the womer
and struck both Of them with his fists
after which he was arrested.
Monday, Oct. 2I.
The cost Of the four months session
Of The Hague conference is estimated
Mt S2070,O00
Thomas w. Welsh. Jr., second vice
president Of the Second National banb
Of Pittsburg, said that Mrs. Cassie
Chadwick never had an account at the
bank. At the time Mrs Chadwick is
said TO have deposited S3OJ.OOO Mr.
Welsh was cashier Of the institution.
Saturday, Oct. 10.
At Columbus, o., the attorney gen.
eral has filed quo warranto proceed
ings against the plumbing trust, cover
Ing seventeen states.
Richard Croker Will not visit New
York this fall. Mr.. Croker has tele.
graphed from Dublin that he had de
cided TO postpone the trip until nexi
year He gave no reason for delaying
his visit to America.
Friday, Oct. IL.
Washington now sees a large mum.
Der Of men and women gliding along
the asphalt streets on roller skates.
They are department clerks going to
their work.
After careful study Of the work Of
the police dogs OF Ghent, Paris, Berlin
and other European cities Police Lieu.
tenant Wakefield Of New York has
started back to New York filed with
enthusiasm over the possibilities Of the
canine thief catcher
Thursday, Oct. II.
The proceedings Of the Philippine
congress We're opened by Governor
General Smith, who read the organic
act, after which he invited Secretary
Taft as father Of the Filiplnos" 10
open the assembly.
The annual reunion Of the Society Of
the Army Of the Cumberland has open
ed at Chattanooga, Tenn. About 400
delegates were present, including rep.
resentatives OF other reglmental and
brigade associations. Colonel ii. T..
Fitch Of Pueblo, Colo. delivered the
annual Grafton.
Six prominent men Of Woodstock,
Ont, among whom was the mayor,
were pallbearers at the funeral Of Mrs.
Cassie Chadwick. Despite the famlly's
endeayor to have the service as private
as possible, hundreds were at the
house and the grave. Her husband,
Or. Chadwick. was not present
At a banquet given in his honor at
Clearfeld. Pa, William b. Wilson, in
ternatlonal seoretary-treasurer Of the
United Mine Workers OF America, an
nounced his candidacy for president
Of the organization to succeed John
Mitchell, who voluntarily retires at the
end Of his present term because Of iii
health.
Wednesday, Oct. 10.
A dispatch from Detroit, Mich, says
that the body Of Mrs. W. T. Turner, a
niece Of the late Samuel J. Tllden,
was taken from the river here. She
had committed suicide.
Admitting he shot and killed his
mother, but asserting he did so I'm en-
deavorlng to save her from n burglar
who had grappled with her in her
home. George Smiley, seventeen years
old, Is being held Dy the ponce al
Kansas City.
Grief over the death Of a faithful
animal friend Will be publicly pro-
claimed in Hartsdale (N. " dog Gene
terry when a costly vault, ordered by
Mrs. Stanley Allan Shepard Of Los
Angeles. IS finished. In the vault will
repose the body Of Mrs. Shepard's poo
die. which died in New York several
days ago.
It IS said that the S9J6,60710 which
Anthony n. Brady received for the sale
Of the mythical Wall Street and Cort-
land Street Ferries company to the
Metropolitan Securities company Of
New York was in reality n political
fund and that the men who It was be-
lleved had profted from It made no
money out Of It.