The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1908-08-14
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
Thursday. AUGUST 8.

lnursoay, august o.
George F. Larimer. seventy-three
Years old. who made the first Westing-
house airbrike. died in Pittsburg.
r J Hume. wife and children. OF
Eau Claire. Wis. were drowned in
Lake Nabaganon. Wis. while attempt
ing 10 cross the lake in a duck boat.
Confined brooding over the death
Of his fayorite daughter. Anna, who
died several years ago. It is believed.
led Robert 5. Burr. aged seventy-one,
q farmer living at Farmingdale. n. J.,
to swallow laudanum, that caused his
Geath
Friday, August 2.
While scufIling over the possession
Of o shotgun at Elgin. H.. Victor
Swanson shot his friend. Regnow Mel
son. and then shot himself
Unable TO sleep because Of the heat,
Henry Thiele of Jersey City. n. j..
tried 10 end his life by shooting him.
self and is in a critical condition.
Captain ID. G. Purse. a noted devel-
oper. Industrial writer and promoter.
and having connections in New York.
Pittsburg and other centers. commit
ted suicide at Savannah. Ga.
Governor Stuart approved Nov. II
as the date upon which the memorial
to Pennsylvania regiments at Freder.
icksburg. Nd. shall be dedicated. his
approval being required by law.
Saturday, August 8.
The bottling works of Thomas J.
Beck. at Harrisburg Pa. was destroy
ed by fire. entailing a loss Of several
thousand dollars.
Mrs. Eliza ID. Stewart. the noted
temperance advocate. and known all
over the country as Mother" Stewart,
died at her home in Hicksville. o.
Two negro children were killed. one
was fatally hurt and one seriously IN
iured when a double tenement at Cam
den. Ark. was blown up by dynamite
Governor Stuart fixed Sept "a as
the date for the execution OF Francis
NJ Sohuts. who killed his little daugh.
ter in Fairmount park. Philadelphia.
and then tried suicide and Raphael
Peric. also of Philadelphia.
Monday, August TO-
For assaulting a three-year-old girl,
Henry Johnson. colored. was hanged
at Memphis. Tenn.
Smoke from a burning tobacco ware
L.. Ht ~
hrcmen. three seriously
Six hundred men won fight to save
the famous Calaveras grove of big
trees in California from a forest fire.
While cunning for groundhogs in
lower Lehigh county. Pa. Milton Dor.
ncy of Centre Valley. was seriously
wounded by the accidental discharge
Of his gun.
While picking coal on the Pennsyl-
vania tracks near Coatesville, Pa. |
Mrs. Mike Gembarche. a native Of Po-
land. was struck by the Chicago lin
tied and instantly killed.
Tuesday August II.
G. C. Bantz was appointed assistant
treasuer of the United States in the
place Of the late j. f. Meline
Mrs. Louise Chandler Moulton. the
wellknown authoress. died at her
home in Boston after an illness OF
nearly nine months.
Charlie Lokie, colored, about eigh-
teen years of age. was lynched at Tif-
ton. O.. for making insulting remarks |
to a young white woman.
Secretary II. T.. Van Norman. Of the
Pennsylvania State college. announced /
that the next convention Of the Penn
sylvania Dairy union will be held in
the same week as the
meeting of the state board Of agricul-
ture and the Live Stock Breeders as
sociation Jan 25-29 1909
Wednesday, August p.
Judson y. Evans. fortyhve years
old. a farmer Of Gladwyn. near Norris
town. Pa. while chasing several horses
out of a cornheld, dropped dead OF
heart failure
One man was killed and three were
badly injured as a result of a boiler
explosion at the plant Of the Break
water Construction company at Sa-
chem's Head. Conn.
Three year-old Cornelius Morey
who drank a half pint Of whlskey
which he found on the table Of his
home. 1921 Sullivan street in Phila.
ielphia. died from convulsions. de-
spite the efforts Of two physicians.
While holding a nozzle and direct
Ing n stream Of water upon a fire in
an abandoned building Of the Consoli-
lated Ice company at Pittsburg a
brick wall. twelve feet high, fell upon
william Popplnger driver OF engine
M AZ and instantly killed him