The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1908-08-07
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
ThursdaY. July 30.

Thursday, July 30.
Charles II. Meyer was reelected
president of the Western Federation
Of Miners hy the convention IN Denver
Thomas w. Symons Corps of Engi
necrs. was placed on the retired lat
OF the army on his application. after
more than thirty-seven years service.
Mrs Frank Pingham. wife of a
homesteader near Bonesteel, S. D.. cut
the throats Of her two boys, aged four
teen years and six months, and then
committed suicide by cutting her own
throat
Attacked with heart disease just az.
ter he had emerged from the surf at
Ocean City. n. j.. William H. Wade. a
contractor. OF Richmond Hin. l.. l..
dropped dead on the sand IN view OF
hundreds of boardwalk promenaders.
Friday, July 81.
The body of Rev H. F. Fisher. Of
Norristown. Pa, who died recently
abroad arrived in New York on the
steamer Teutonic and was taken % his
Pennsylvania home.
james H. Budd, former governor of
California and long prominent in Dem.
ocratic politics. died al Stockton, Cal.
after an Illness of a fortnight, OF urae.
mia aged ffty-eight years
While seated with her family at din.
ner at Toledo O.. Mrs Luella Stick
roth, wife of Conrad Striclroth. was
overcome by the heat and died before
medical attendance could be sum.
mOnod
Mrs Estella VI. H. Merrill, formerly
widely known as a newspaper writer
under the name Jean Kincaid." and
prominent also as a club woman. died
al her home in North Cambridge.
Mass
Saturday, August l.
Mrs Thomas O'DOnnell. of Wood
bury \. j.. who was horribly burned
by the explosion OF a gasoline stove
died of her injuries
After suffering for nineteen years
from elephantiasis. Mrs Anna L
Lynch. who weighed SO pounds died
al her home on the State road neal
McKeesport Pa.
Leonard Hendricks. thirty-one years
old. of Cranston. T. l.. in the absence
of his wife. killed himself and his two
little daughters. Ann, aged five years
and Lille. aged three years. by means
Of Illuminating gas.
Monday, August 3.
Ten policemen with rapid.fre re-.
yolvers are killing stray dogs at Chi.
cago.
A mob al Terry. S D.. a mining
camp almost whipped TO death George
Corey. who had beaten his wife while
on the street
President Bird S. Color. Of the Dor
ough OF Brooklyn. will be a candidate
for the Democratic gubernatorial nom
ination I'm New York
Caught by a mine motor In the Laws
shaft. AT Moosic. Pa. John Golden. al
afteenyearold door boy. was nearly
cut in two and died soon after reach
ing the Taylor hospital
Al the Bethlehem CPa) Steel works
last week the semimonthly pay rool
was $4,000 or $1,000 more than the
last pay day. and the largest since last
fall
Tuesday August 4.
President Roosevelt will not attend
the national encampment OF the Span
ish-Amerlcan War Veterans at Boston
during the last week Of this month. az
has been reported
Michael f. Kane, a hotelkeepcr Of
Mount Vernon, n Y. died suddenly Of
heart disease while on his way on a
Reading railway train from Atlantic
City TO Philadelphia
During the month Of July $50 babies
under one year old died in Chicago. |
and most of these deaths. the health
department believes. were the result |
OF the ignorance of parents.
Wednesday, August 5.
Chicago reports three deaths and
several prostrations due to the heat
on Tuesday
Charles w Westerfeld. aged twenty |
two. a clerk in the Produce Exchange
bank. I'm New York. shot and killed
himself in the basement Of that bank. |
Joseph ID. Homer formerly a mem. |
bcr of the firm of J. ID. Iorner. Son
q Company. straw hats. was found /
dead in bed with a bullet hole in his
breast in his room at Baltimore. Md
Robert n Todd who was Porto /
Rloan delegates 10 the national Re.
publican convention at Chicago. has
been nominated by acclamation for the
office Of resident commissioner for
Porto Rico az Washington