The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1908-11-20
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Thursday. Novsmbsr q.

JNlu LIDN A"Ela. n t- NNlAH lNNNA ~
spartansburg. s. c.. on a charge Of at
tempting a criminal assault on Miss
Leila Dempsey and was sentenced TO
serve thirty years in the penitentary.
Duncan Cameron McCalum late
teller OF the Farmers Bank OF Canada,
pleaded guilty at Toronto. Ont TO the
theft OF Sl6.s95 from the bank and was
sentenced 20 three years IN Kingston
pcn.tentiary.
Edward Bostwick. sixty-eight years
OF age. and a former state senator
Of Michigan. committed suicide by
strangling himself with a SID scarf at
the home Of his sister Mrs. Benjamin
CLARK. in Syracuse. n. Y.
Friday November f3.
Charged with cutting of half of Ja-
cob Wynn's whiskers. Thomas White
was fined s35 in the criminal court at
Camden y. J.
Judge Tayler. Of the federal court.
named Warren Bicknell and Frank A.
Scott as receivers for the Municipal
Traction company. OF Cleveland. o.
Dr. William Kieth Brooks. professor
OF zoology at Johns Hopkins univer-
sity. Baltimore. Nd and since the
founding Of that institution couluu-
ously in It's service. died after a p.o-
longed illness.
John J. Miller. eightyseven years Of
age who has been employed in f,a
government service continuously f'r
thirty.three years. died al bis home
in Washington as the result OF an at
tack of acute Indigestion
Saturday. November "a.
The general assembly of the Knights
Of Labor will meet in ST. louis 10 1910.
Echo river. in the Mammoth cave.
near Louisville. KY is almost dry as
q result OF the drought
The president appointed George s.
Terry 20 be assistant treasurer OF the
United States at New York. in success
sion to Hamilton Fish.
Brakeman John Carter, Of Wilkes
pa-re Pa. was killed. and Fireman
/ +. r. Bradshaw. Of WilkesBarre. Pa,
was fatally injured when the boiler OF
the engine drawing a fast freight train
on the Delaware e. Hudson blew up
near Windsor n. Y.
Monday. November rs.
The big cotton mills at Lamens S.
C.. are 20 De greatly Increased In ca.
pacity
Caught between q car and The walls
OF a coal mine at Portage Pa John
Rebosh was fatally squeezed.
The University Of Illinois may e.
tablish a s250000 veterinary school IN
the Union Stock yards at Chicago
President Roosevelt has been asked
IN plant a tree Feb - next on The
campus OF a new coiored school at
/ Lexington. KY
The Home Missions Society OF Tho
Methodist church has appropriated
100000 toward rebuilding San Fran
cisco churche. destroyed hr the fire.
Tuesday. November II.
The treasury has purchased 100000
ounces OF silver for delivery at New
York at 5050l per fine ounce.
William Jennings Bryan has beer
unanimously elected by the seniors o
Westminster college. At New Castle
Pa. to deliver an address next June
during commencement
Lying in pools of blood. with theii
throats cut from ear TO ear Mrs. Az
nos Iidnor and her two children. age,
five and three years respectively. were
found in their home at Frankiord, Ky
One Italian was shot 10 death an'
three others probably fatally injured
AZ East Milsboro near Jniontown
Pa. in a general fight over the owner
shin of a well which was located be
tween two foreign boarding houses.
Wednesday. November 70.
William S. McKlnnon. treasurer o
Ohio. died at his home in Cleve.an.
after an illness OF more than year.
Herman Bulik. convicted of the muT
der of five members Of the Vzral fam
uv was sentenced brJudge Barnes il
Chicago 10 hang on Dec. H.
Gene D0uiol. q sixtoenyear-old ne
gro confessed 20 killing Ernest Walsh
twelve years ola. also colored. at Ham
uton Ga. by beating him on the hea
with a rock and throwing the bod,
into a creek after robhing him Of s..
Charles s. Hanscom. president o
the Eastern shinbuild.ng company an
nounced that the plant at Grotor
T, Mass. where the battlosh'ns Mime
sofa and The Dakota were built wou.
be sold at auction and the yard di'
mantled.