The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1908-10-30
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
Thursday. October d.

thursday, october n.
Charles Eliot Norton, the well-known
philanthropist and scholar and for
many years a member Of the Harvard
faculty died at his home at Cambridge,
Mass
William A. Gerton, an engineer on
the Reading railway. was struck and
instantly killed by a stone projecting
from a bridge at Fort Washington.
near Philadelphia.
Three persons were killed. four 9th.
ers badly injured and the lives Of
hundred more were imperilled by fire
in the six-story tenement hous at SO
East Third street. New York
Friday, October 20.
Because she was forced TO change
her home thirty-nine times in her mar.
ried life. Mrs. Jennie E. v Jarrett. Of
Fort Wayne Ind. asked a divorce from
James E Jarrett.
Crazed at the cancellation Of his en-
gagement to Nellie Diemeyer nineteen
years old, August sauerersln. aged
twenty-three. shot her twice and then
sent a bullet into his brain at Grand
Rapids, Mich.
Benjamin F. Gilbert aged IS years.
was found guilty Of murder in the first
degree at Norfolk. Va. for killing his
sweetheart. Miss Amanda Morse when
she refused his suit for the attentions
Of another young man.
Saturday, October "a.
City Detective Clyde Edgeburn, OF
Pittsburg. shot and almost instantly
killed Policeman Thomas Farrell. !
whom. II is said, be mistook for a
highwayman.
While driving across a Baltimore & |
Ohio railroad crossing at Derby o.. a |
peddler's wagon in which we're Albert
Lewis and Harry Bernfeldt was struck |
by an express train and both occu-
pants were killed.
Despondent over long illness from /
nervous prostrstion, Oscar ]. Sell. who
managed Ave and ten.cent syndicate
stores at Roanoke. Va. and Bristol
Tenn, and who returned 10 Allentown.
Pa. fourteen weeks ago. shot himself
in the head at the home Of his father
in-law
Monday, October 26.
A dummy election will be held on
the Isthmus OF Panama, with Bryan
and Taft as candidates.
Major Harry Benson succeeds Gen.
eral Samuel NJ. Young as superintend.
ent OF Yellowstone park.
While picking coal on the railroad
at Island park, near South Bethlehem.
Pa. Mrs. Michael Wasco was killed
instantly.
Dr. w. II. Jones, Of Millerstown.
Pa. has received from his friend. p. J.
Scanlon. in Cork, Ireland, a piece Of
the original blarney stone from the
castle in Ireland.
An injunction has been issued at
Terre Haute. Ind, restraining the Ma.
tional United Mine Workers officers
from deposing leaders Of the district
organization AZ that place
Tuesday, October 27.
Cardinal Francis Mathieu. Of France,
died in London after an operation.
Rev. Dr. Hiram Bingham the noted
Congregational missionary who I'M
derwent a surgical operation at Johns
hospital at Baltimore, died
The supreme court OF the United
States set Jan for hearing Of argu
ments in the case Of the commodities
clause" Of the Hepburn railroad rate
act
Because Of IN health. Secretary Met.
calf has been obliged TO cancel his en-
gagement to address political gath.
aring at Charlestown. W. Va. next
Friday. and has declined an invitation
10 speak al Akron. o.
Wednesday October %.
Miss Therese Helnfurter. ninety
'even years old. died AZ Hudson. Wis.
md is said 10 have been the oldest
ipinster ia America.
With his neck broken. the result Of
allng down stairs al Milwaukee. Wis
Herman Haedkeb, aged forty-four
ived twenty-eight hours before he eX.
bred.
The greater portion Of the thickly
ioused summer colony at Salisbury
Beach. Mass. was wiped out by IRE
which destroyed more than 100 cot
ages. entailing a loss of $1,000
Rev r. X. Nelson who until two
weeks ago was pastor Of the Camden
n J) Methodist Episcopal church
lod suddenly A. the residence Of Rev
, r White. al Delaware City Del. ,
rhere he was visiting