The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1908-02-07
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events Of the Week Hriefv
Chronfcicd.

Nhroutcicd.
Baron Koeoro Tabah.ra. the newly
appointed ambassador Of Japan To the
United States has left Rome Tor
Washington 10y way of Paris.
Seven men were killed aud a half
dozen injured 10y the explosion of
boiler IN the rolling min Of Van AI'en
x Co. at Northumberland. Pa The
dead are David Clark Samuel SarvIss,
George Kress. William Jones, Grant
Leader. Willis Brouse and John Shol-
vim.
Monday, Feb. @.
Near Wesson, Miss. six persons were
killed outright by a cyclone which laid
waste a strip of farming country three
quarters Of a mile wide and several
miles long.
Charles i. Murphy, Tammany Hall
leader at New York. has sued ihe
Broadway Magazine for $4,000 dam
ages for libel lie also sued for SINH
ar amounts five firms and individuals
who circulated OF sold the magazine.
After a two days run the Home
bank. a state institution at Forty
eighth street and Fifth avenue Brook
lyn. closed with a long line Of de-
positors outside its doors wanting their
money. It was stated by the officials
that The institution, which has been
doing business since 19O5 is solvent
Two masked men with rcvolvers
held mp the conductor and motorman
Of a Public Service corporation trolley
car and robbed them Of $50 near Eliza
beth. y. J. They also took from two
passengers IN the car money and stick
pins from their necktics. The ear ram
on the line between Elizabeth and
Newark. The thieves got away.
Saturday. Feb. /.
At Southampton England a fire
started On the smoking cabin OF the
White Star line steamer Majestic
which had just arrived from New
York. and for a time it was thought
the vessel was doomed.
chancellor James Il. Day Of SYRIA .
cuse university, discussing President .
Roosevelt's message. said "Of the f.
presidents message. If I am entirely /
honest and frank, I am compelled TO I.
say that much Of it reads like the raw /
ings Of a disordered mind"
At Budapest. Hungary. q credit of .
100000 was received from New I.
York by the Hungarian Discount and F.
Exchange bank for the account of the
Count and Countess Laszlo Szechcnyi
Count Laszlo Szechenyi was married
in New York Jan. % to Gladys daugh-
Ter of Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt
President Roosevelt sent to congress-
the message expected from him m
view Of the overthrow of the employ
ers' liability law. But the message
proved to be far more than q recon-
mendation Of a law on that subject io
meet constitutional requirements. The
president resented IN language force
ful even for him the charge that his
policies caused the recent panic and
again condemned predatory wealth.
Friday, Jan. 81.
George Hackenschmidt Of Russia
easily defeated Joe Rogers. American
in the wrestling match at oxford Nu-
sic hall, London, for the championship
Of the world.
The fotilla Of American torpedo
boats under the command Of Lieuteu-
ant Hutch /. Cone, on its way from
Hampton Roads to Magdalena Bay.
sailed from Buenos Ayres for Punm
Arenas after a stay there of four days
Provisional Governor Magoon of Gu
ba, who was summoned to Washing
ton by the president to give informa
ton regarding franchises and indus
trial conditions in the island republic
denies that he will be made secretary
of war on Tafts resignation.
Thursday, Jan. 30.
In a speech at Portland. Ore, on
Graft Versus Good Citizenship"
Francis J. Heney attacked United
States Senator Charles w. Fulton D
His accusation is that Mr.. Fulton has
misused his high Office.
There was an outbreak Of political q
riotlng on the streets of Lisbon. i'm ,
which shots were fred and some peO- .
pie wounded The disorders. however
were Of short duration The police +
had received warning ia advance. and ]
they acted promptly. 81
A resolution proposing a consttu- e
tional amendment that the right TO f
vote shall not hereafter be denied or
abridged on account Of sex was intro
duced I'm the senate by Senator War
rem Of Wyoming a state that has wo 3
man suffrage and permits women TO y
hold Office
Wednesday, Jan. 20.
At Pontiac, ILL.,. members of the
board Of managers Of the Illinois State p
-eformatory heard stories from the DID,
Ups Of officers Of the institution them ri
selves Of brutality and torture inflicted p
ipon William Hamlin, an inmate. n
whose death and the conflicting expla- j.
nations thereof have raised a storm of
John d. Rockefeller's Pocantic0
ILLS estate, near Tarrytown, y. T.. g.
las become the refuge Of the uncm.
'l0yed for miles around. Believing n
hat there was a job for every man A.
Who appeared. hundreds have been m
locking 10 the estate until now the 8
rounds are 0verrun, and Superintend-
mt Hemingway doesn't know what 20
10 with them an.
Almost the Last Prop.
LONDON. Feb. Almost the last
rop was knocked from underneath