The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1908-12-18
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.


After living together for over sixty
years Mr. and Mrs. John Paul. aged
eighty six and seventy-fve years re-
spectiyely. OF Sarnia. Ont, were as
phyxiated In their home.
T. j. O'Connor former national pres
ldcnt of the Ancient Order Of Hibern-
fans and former national president OF
the Catholic Knights Of America died
Of pneumonia at Savannah. Ga.
With fun military ceremonies, the
body of the late Rear Admiral Joseph
d. Coghlan. who died Saturday at New
Rochelle n. Y, was inferred in the
Arlington National cemetery at Wash
ingt0n.
Friday December II.
The president sent to the senate the
nomination OF George r. Wales. OF
Vermont 10 be chief examiner Of the
civil service commission.
The Nobel peace rizes were award
ed 90 r. j. Arnoldsen, Of Sweden, and
~ +. Bajer. Of Denmark Both the re-
cipients are ex-parliamentarians.
Despondent because OF falling health,
Miss Carrie S. Burns forty-eight
years old of San Francisco. killed her
self al the home Of Mrs J. F. REQ, in
Newark. n. j.. whose guest she was.
Five hundred employees at the Erie
railroad shops IN Scranton were re-
duced from fun time 10 two-thirds time
by am order from the head offices Of
The mechanical department in New
York city
Saturday. December p.
The town of Patton. la. was destroy
cl by fire. eniailing a loss Of $4,000.
William Fiddler was sentenced to
four years In prison at Janesyille
Wis. for attempting TO wreck a train
ON The ST. Paul railroad
Slipping as he was about TO stab a
hog Israel Hines a farmer of Man
chester township. York county. Pa.
fen upon the blade OF his butcher
knife and eashed open his throat al
most severIne the iugular vein
Dr C. q Mcconnell. medical eX-
am.ner in chief OF the knights OF Py
thias. announced that it has been for
mally decided that a sanitarium for tu-
berculosis patients affiliated with the
order shall be established IN New
Mexico
Monday December a.
Mort L. Smith. OF Athens Pa. died
from am overdose Of laudanum, taken
Go induce sleep.
Eight dozen hieh-bred eggs laid at
Sorantons poultry show and so rated
at 81 each. were sold for charity
mike" Rossa. q blind mendicant in
Chicago. has so much money that
Judge Gemmill has forced him TO re-
tire.
Three italian miners Of the North.
western Mining & Exchange company
were killed boy a fall Of rock in the
West Clarian mines at Brockwayville,
Pa.
So bad have the rats become at Re
hobotb. DEL that when Henry Frazier
went ont into his barn he found that
they had badly chewed the hoofs Of
both his horses which are badly lame
as a result
Tuesday, December IS.
The president sent 10 the senate the
nomination of William Hall Harris to
be postmaster al Baltimore Nd
C. 7. Spencer. Of Hugo. Va went TO
Norfolk to do his Christmas shopping
and was found asphyyiated in a hotel
Fifteen persons were injured, one
fatally. in an explosion Of a boiler at
the cement factory Of A. L. Nelson
Minneapolis MINI.
The Lutheran summer assembly
committee decided TO hold the meet
ing at Irving college Mechanicsburg
Pa. July % to Aug 8.
Rodolfo Gaona, a famous Mexican
bulnghter. was fatally injured in
fght I'm Puebla. the horns OF the anil
nal penetrating the abdomen.
Wednesday, December 10.
Charged with forging about twenty
checks aggregating 100000. Edward e.
Perkins was arrested at Chicago.
Having reached the age Of sixty-two
years. Rear Admiral John f. Pillsbury
chief OF the naval bureau of naviga-
tion. has been retired.
The body of Chief OF Police Biggy,
Of San Francisco. who was drowned
recently from the police launch Pa
troll has been found floating IN the
bay
Walter Boldt aged twenty years. Of
Louisville Ky. a hospital apprentice
at the training station at Newport.
r. T.. committed suicide by swallowing
sirychnine
In the presence of Bishop Talbot
and p large number of other distIn-
euishol mon. The new tomple Of the
local Mystic ehl'nns at WilkesBarre.
Pa. was dedicated.