The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1908-12-11
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Thursday, December 5.

Twenty horses we're bu-nsd to death
n nrs which dsstroySd the livery
Nable OF Gof Brothers. at Charleston,
~. Va.
j. II. sharer. commander for Ohio
II the Grand Army Of the Republic,
died at his residence in Alliance, O.,
0f acute indigestion.
John Francis Glider. a brother OF
Richard Wa'son Glider and we'll known
as a musician. died at Bordentown,
n. j.. aged ssysnty-one years.
Edward H. Jones. an executive OIL
Ger in many wilkes-Bsr Pa, cor
porations and we'll known in the iron
Industry. died from a complication OF
diseases.
Friday, December 4.
Herbert L. Satterlee. Of New York,
was sworn in as assistant secretary OF
the navy. in the presence OF Secretary
Newberry and others.
Major George 7. West paymaster OF
the Texas National Guard. fell four
stories down an elevator shaft at Fort
Worth, Tex, and was killed.
Asa result OF overeXertion at cham
pion roller skating. Charles Mackerick
a Pottstown PA high school boy, Is
IN a critical condition with appendi-
citis
DR.. Frederick c. Davis. OF Blossburg
Pa. has been appointed a member OF
the board OF trustees OF the Cottage
State hospital at Blossburg. vice Ham
ilton b. Humes, resigned.
Saturday, December 5.
Richard Evans. OF Philadelphia, was
shot and fatally wounded At Superior,
Wis. by a man whose demand for
money Evans had refused.
The treasury has purchased $4,000
ounces of silver for delivery at New
orleans and $4,000 ounces for delivery
at Denver at 4s.251 per fine ounce.
A man wno registered At the st.
lanes hotel at Baltimore, Nd. as j.
/. ONeal. Of Harrisburg Pa, commit
ted suicide Ia his room by shooting
Captain Robert Hanna, U. S. A., re-
tired. died suddenly in the Office OF
DR.. George E. Brewer in New York
when just about TO submit TO an ex'
animation by Or. Brewer.
Monday, December 7.
A state tuberculosis dispensary has
been opened in Bangor. Pa, with DR.
H. S. sherrer in charge and Mrs. j
Halsey Miller as nurse.
Rev. Mary Hanna Graves, the hrsl
woman to be ordained to the Unitarian
ministry in Massachusetts, died at hei
home in Boston, AGED seyenty-one
years.
Postal oficlals at Chicago are inyes
tigating a letter received by Rev. W
O. Waters threatening to damage his
church unless $4,000 was placed at
designated spot in Lincoln park
Twelve hours after being freed from
the rocks in Buzzards bay and while
being towed to New Bedford, Mass.
the cruiser Yankee sank in six faith
oms Of water.
Tuesday, December 8.
The safe in the jewslry repair store
Of w. G. Coxeler. at Hartford, Conn.
was blown open and iewelry to th'
value Of about $4,000 taken.
Rev. W. H. D. Hatton, chaplain o.
the First Pennsylvania Volunteers
known as the "Bucktails." died at Har
risburg. Pa, aged eighty-ons years.
L.ottie and Ida Kaplan, sisters, re
spectively ninsteen and seventeen
wears old. we're found dead In thei
room in an East Side tenement In New
York having been ssphyxlated by illu
mlnating gas.
Wednesday, December 9.
The French chamber OF deputies b.
a vote OF $50 to POI decided in favor o
continuing the death penalty In France
While returning home from a party
Michael Dorsey. a cripple, was strucl
nv A train at Gilberton, Pa, and In
stantly killed.
lanes J. Corbett, former heavy
weight champion OF the world, ha
consented to referee the hght betweel
Hugo Kelly and Billy Papks the nigh
OF Dec. Is at Los Angeles. Cal.
A big seven-story building at 10
Franklin street. New York. used b.
the Western Union Telegraph CON
pany as a storehouse, was destroye'
by fire. causing loss Of Sl5O,OOO.
President Roosevelt notified the sec
retary Of war that as soon as II cal
be done without injustice he desire
all negro regiments In the army to b
supplied with negro band masters.