The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1908-08-28
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CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
Thursday. AUGUST 20.

Hector France, the French novelist
ana publioist, died IN Paris.
The Pennsylvania grand lodge
Knights OF Pythias, met in annual con-
yention AZ connellsyille.
Two mines OF the BerwindWhite
Coal company AZ Windber near Pitts
burg. were closed down for lack OF
water.
The machinists on the Gould rail-
road have voted 10 call a general
strike. but efforts will be made TO set
tie the dispute
The tonyearold daughter OF John
Stoltz. living at Armour. S. D.. com.
mitted suicide using a double-barreled
shotgun 10 commit the deed.
Friday, August 2i.
The Christian Missionary Alliance
OF Southern New York and Northern
Pennsylvania held a conference at
Binghamton. n. Y.
Captain Charles X. Jackson. sey-
enty-One years old, a Great Lakes
sailor for more than half a century.
died at his home in Algonac, Mich.
A license was issued al Elicott City.
Md. for the marriage Of Rev. George
S. Fitzhugh, aged siXty-seyen years, TO
Lulu v Frazier. girl ten years old.
Archbishop Falconio. apostolic dele
gate at Washington, has accepted an
invitation 10 dedicate the newly es-
tablished Francican seminary at Cats
kill. ~ Y. on Sept II.
Saturday. August p.
seventy.six miners lost their lives
by an explosion in the Maypolo mine
at Wigan, England.
Leslie A. Fields was fined $500 for
Offering for sale obscene postal cards
on the Boardwalk az Atlantic City,
n ].
John V. Farwell, Chioago's pioneer
merchant and capitalist, is dead. lie
had been head OF the firm Of J. V. Far
we'll & Co. since 1862.
Joseph Nushura. aged twenty-one.
fell sixty feet down the Lackawanna
shaft IN Olyphant. Pa. and every bone
In his body was broken. lie toppled
from the. carriage while ascending.
Monday, August %.
Thieves broke into John Figler's
hennery at South Bethlehem. Pa. and
stole l70 spring chickens.
Charles Jenkins. OF Lehlghton. Pa.
caught foot in guard rail on the
railroad at Packcrton. was run down
and killed
To inaugurate a campaign OF edu'
cation on the injunction question Chi
cago labor leaders formed the lniunc-
tion Reform League.
Saving her daughter. who had stop
ped on a railroad crossing TO play with
a dog. Mrs. Joseph Mackey was killed
by a train at Peoria. m.
Said 10 have secured 1925 by falsely
representing that he had the financial
support OF Russell A. Alger. Frank
lin |. Pishion. OF Richmond, Va, was
arrested at Detroit.
Tuesday, August 25.
George Pail. Hungarian. was
drowned IN the Delaware river at Kin.
kora. n. J.. while bathing.
The Pacific feet. under Rear Admit
raj swinburn. sailed from San Fran
cisco for Honolulu. towing seven tor
pedo destroyers.
Rev. Thomas n. Arnold. one Of tho
most prominent ministers Of the Chris
tlan church in the south, died while
en- route 70 Versailles. Ky, 70 preach
at a funeral.
Three persons were badly hurt. one
woman probably fatally. while several
others were terribly bruised in a panic
on a swiftly moving street car. which
caught fire. at Cleveland, o.
Wednesday, August 26.
Joseph Butcher, said TO be the old
est member OF the Odd Fellows lodge
in New Jersey died at his home In
Camden. aged SO years.
About 1000 men were given employ
ment at the mills OF the Cherry River
Boom q Lumber company, located at
Redwood. near Clarksburg, w Va.
Clayton W. Williams. colored. who
murdered Mrs. L. d. Briggs recently.
by beating her over the head with
chair. died OF starvation and exhaus.
ton in the county Jail at Chicago.
Clifford Savage. legless newsboy
who sold papers In New York, and
known among his fellows as the Fly
ing Dutchman," committed suicide
here by inhaling Illuminating gas In
his home on the East Side.