The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1908-06-05
FARMvILLE, VA. FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 1905
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
Wednesday. May %.

A wage scale operative until March
81. 1909. affecting about 10000 miners
In the Pittsburg district has been
signed.
John ODonnell. Of Newark. n. j.. a
painter. was whirled 10 death by the
shafting In the factory OF the II. B.
Virgins Son company at Bloomfield.
n. J.
In mine explosion at Salinesville.
near Lisbon. O.. three men were killed
outright and one man was killed by a
falling pipe after he had been dragged
out Of the mine by the rescuers.
Friday. May %.
Victor Stanley. a lawyer. was SEN
tenced In New York to serve not less
than five years and not more than ten
years in state prison for forgery
". C. Smith. former president OF the
National Exchange bank. OF Lexington.
XIV. committed suicide at his home
near Lexington by shooting himself in
the head.
Ralph J. Lehman. the tenyear-old
son Of Alr and Mrs. Peter Lehman, Of
Lebanon. Pa. was accidentally drown
ed in a pond In the Westenburger
stone quarry.
The trolley chain connecting Phila'
delphla with Reading was made com
plete when the first car made the run
from Pottstown to Boyertown, dis
tance OF eight miles in forty minutes.
Saturday, May 30.
Governor Stuart appointed Robert 5.
Conklin. Of Columbia. Lancaster coun-
ty. Pa. to be state commissioner OF
/ forestry.
Mrs. Harriet Belt Stevens. Of vii
mington Del. well known In society
and as an author. committed-suicide al
Portland. Ne. by shooting herself
President Roosevelt has appointed
David F. Barry. OF Providence, X. l..
and Herbert l.. Satterlee. Of New York
as members OF the board OF visitors "a
the naval academy.
President Roosevelt issued an order
that in honor Of the memory OF the
late General stephen d. Lee. com
mander-in chief OF the United Confed
crate Veterans. the flags In the Ma
tIonal Park cemetery at Vicksburl
should be halfmasted.
Monday, June I.
Winning approximately s2.OOO,OO'
bv his corn corner. James A. Patten
Of Chicago gave sl5O,OOO for a gymna
sium al Northwestern university.
While snoozing in the Matchbox
lanes Kaser. a switchman in th'
PENNSYLVANIA railroad yard at Sun
bury. Pa. burst a blood vessel in hi
leg and lost two quarts Of blood.
During Memorial Day exercises a
: Calvary cemetery at ST. Paul. Mimi
Timothy +. Mccarthy. an aged rail
I road man. fell dead OF heart dlseas
while placing flowers on his wife
b grave.
Tuesday June 2.
Charles W. Sharpe. Of Camden, \
. J.. alleged to be a bank swindler. wa
arrested at Newark, y j., on the r.
quest Of the police OF Atlanta. Ga.
President Roosevelt pressed a
electric button which gave the sigma
p in Kingston. n. Y. to start the parad
. in celebration Of the 250th anniversar
Of the founding Of that town.
Leaving the side Of his mother
Pitman. n. J.. George NJ. Park. fou
and.a.half years old, son Of Mr.. an
Mrs. Alexander Park. Of Philadelphia
wandered to the shore Of Tylers lax
and was drowned.
J. It is probable that several me
elected superintendents Of schools
= boroughs throughout Pennsylvanl
will have 10 be elected over again b.
{ cause OF failure TO give advertised n
tice OF the election.
Wednesday, June 3.
Hildebrand Fitzgerald. one OF n
proprietors and business manager
the Philadelphia Item, is dead, age
!. hfty-nine.
safe blowers blew the safe and TO
\ bed the postofiice at Maryville. TenI
: securing S51165 In cash and staml
worth $500.
n, owing to a general decrease In Il
> demand for anthracite coal the Rea
Il Ing company's Schuylkil collieri'
!. closed for three days.
Frank Johnson, a negro, who klll'
married woman at Clarksburg, Y
Va. because she refused TO elope WI
= him was sentenced TO be hanged
July II.