The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1908-03-06
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events 81 the week Briefly
Ghronicted.


agricultural associations from being
held liable for damages caused by
strikes. boycotts and the "unfair list'
has been demanded by tle Chicago
Federation OF Labor.
After beating him insens.bie and
rubhiug him of hls watch and several
hundreds of dollars An cash. fooipad-
prow'Ing about outside Prospect park
seized Charles w. Gallagher. %
wealthy broker of SOB ST. Johns place
Brooklyn. aud tossed him. bleeding and
insen~ibIe. over the wall into the park.
Monday. March =.
leslie NJ. Shaw, former secretary of
the treasury in statement 40 New
York denied that be was seeking the
presidential nomination aud intimated
that President Roosevelt would Dee a
candidate for a third term.
When an avalanche descended near
the village Of Goppensteln. Switzer-
land. the enormous atmospheric pres
sure which accompanied it demolished
n hotel at the mouth of thr Loetschen-
thai tunnel. killing thirteen persons
and ininring fifteen others.
A. NJ. stevens of Wilmantic. Conn.
n Rhodes scholar from Yale university.
won the high jump and the hammer
throwing contest I'm the university
sports at oxford England. he clear
"a five feet six inches in the jump and
threw the hammer l20 feet o inches.
I'm quiet way naval officials in
Washington are endeavorIng TO ar
nnge most agreeable surprise for
Admiral Evans when the battIeship
deef under his command sails through
the Golden Gate and completes the Pa
clfc cruise 10 is proposed to greet
the rear admiral with a commission as
~ admiral Of the American navy.
saturday, Feb. 20.
Governor Floyd at Concord. y. H.
slsned the request for the extradition
Of Paul +. Roy denounced by his wife
S. the slayer Of her brother, g.. A.
CGrklns.
An English syndicate is endeayorins
to arrange q fight between Tommy
Burns. holder OF the heavyweight pu.
enistc championship. aud Jack John
son. the American negro fighter in
London
Pearl harbor. Hawaii q strategic
point in the Pacific. viii Doe strongly
fortified. according TO a hin that has
been reported by the house committee
ou naval affairs. The measure. which
WIS introduced by Representative
Bates Of Pennsylvania. Is approved by
the president
President Diaz Of Mexico was IN
vifod by the fleet entertainment com
milfee at Los Angeles 10 be the CUES
of that city during the stay Of thI
American battIeship feet in the south
ou port. The governors Of Arizona
New Mexico. Neyada. Utah, Colorado
OREGON and Texas were also Invited.
Friday. Feb. y.
! Northern Siberia and Alaska may h
eliminated from the route Of the Ne'
York 10 Paris automobile racers as
| result of the failure of the cars 90 =
through the Indiana snowdrifts unde
their own power A plan now is ul
der consideration 20 go by way of Ja
pan to N'adivostok.
Twenty-Five specific charges ar
made in a petition praying for the r'
moral Of William r. Jerome as DIS
t'ct attorney of the county of Ne'
York which WAS sent 90 Govern'
Hughes at Albany by % committee q
stockholders OF the Metropolitan stree
railway of New York city,
A military court sitting ln the for.re.
of ST. Peter and Paul under the pres
dcncy OF General NikIfor0n at ST. i
tersburg has condemned 20 deaf
seven of the ferrorIsts charged wli
completely in the attempt upon Cd
lives of Grand Duke Nicholas Nich
laioyitch. second cousin of the en
. peror and NJ. ChtcheeIoviton the miI
d ister of Justice.
Thursiay. Feb. -.