The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1908-10-02
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
Thursday, September "a.

thursday, september ~
President Roosevelt has commuted
The 1ve-ycar sentence in the Baltimore
,ity Jail imposed on william II. White,
the bookkoeper and paying teller OF
The Canton National bank OF Canton,
Md. 10 three years and four months,
with allowance for good conduct.
The EGO See Cereal company. with
headquarters in Chicago and factories
in Buffalo, n. Y. and Quincy, ILL.,, has
been placed in the hands OF a com
mittee of creditors, the assets being
valued by the company at sl,5OO,OO
but the creditors are said to regard
them as about equal to the indebted
ness.
Friday, September 25.
William r. Payne. a writ server in
the sheriffs Office at Philadelphia,
committed suicide by shooting himself
In the head.
A big motor bus in New York, trav-
cling at a high rate Of speed, crashed
into an electric light post at Forty
fourth street and Fifth avenue and
twenty persons we're hurt, including
many women.
More than 100000 feet Of partly
finished lumber. piled in the yards OF
the George w. Barker company and
the Jordan Lumber company, at Mil
ford Me. was destroyed by fire, en-
failing a loss Of s175.00o.
Saturday, September 2S.
Harmon l.. Nissley. president OF the
Harrisburg. Pa. school board, died
suddenly.
Mrs Eliza Bragg, widow OF Major
General Braxton Bragg. Of the Con
federate army. died at New Orleans.
The comptroller Of the currency IS
sued a call on national banks for a
statement of their condition at the
close of business on Sept. %.
Fire almost totally destroyed the
nlant of the Schaube Brewing com
pany at Hudson. n. Y. The loss will
be at least sl5OO00.
Leslie Carter. one time capitalist
and president Of the South Side Ele
waited Railroad company. Of Chicago
died in Chicago after a prolonged III
ness.
Monday, September %.
Nv a vote of 55 TO 45 the Indiana
legislature passed county local op
tion bill
Charles 2. Beck. Of Catasauqua, Pa.
lied suddenly of excitement, due to at
tending the Allentown fair
Forty winners Of Cecil Rhodes schol
arships from all over the country sail
ed from New York to begin a four
wears course at oxford.
Confederate veterans rendered mill
tary honors when the widow Of the
late General Braxton Bragg was buried
beside her husband at Mobile. Ala.
Harry Miller, Of Manchester, Nd.
was struck by = passenger train OF
the Northern Central railway, south o
York. Pa. and his body was horribly
mangled.
Tuesday, September 2e.
John n. Rankin. superintendent o
materials and supplies Of the Readini
railway system. died at Reading, Pa
aged seventy-one years.
Emil f. Grau, the student who ha'
his back broken in the annual sopho
more-freshman cane rush at the Wor
cester (Mass.) Polytechnic institute
last week. died Of his injuries.
Caleb Powers, the Kentuckian, witt
spent eight years In a Kentucky penl
tentiary in connection with the Goebe
assassination case before being par
doned by Governor Wilson. was bap
tized into the Baptist church at Jel
leo. Tenn. in the presence OF 90
persons
Wednesday, September 80.
The state bank at Ladysmith, Wis
was robbed of about $4,000 by cracks
men. who escaped on hand car
Rev. Alexander LeClaire, ninety-si'
wears old. who had been for seventy
five years a member Of the Masoni
fraternity died at Lynden, Wash.
The Wisconsin supreme court de
clared unconstitutional the Wisconsin
eieht-hour telegraphers' law, whicl
was enacted at the 1907 session of tn
legislature.
While officers we're attempting Z
arrest him for bigamy, George Won de
Schulenburg. a drug clerk, jumpe'
from a window into a l00foot airshaf
in East One Hundred and Twenty
eighth street, New York, and wa
killed.