The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1908-09-25
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS

The machinery department at tho
Reading railway car shops at Reading,
Pa. has gone on ten hours a day.
While Jealous. George Mitchell aged
twenty-five shot and instantly killed
Miss Georgia Pratt. aged thirty years.
az Passport Me.
Augusta Zimraith fourteen months
old. pulled q pot Of boiling tea over ON
herself IN her home in Philadelphia
aud was scalded 90 death
Martin J.. Hollings. retired bust
ness man of Devon a suburb oft fhiia
delphia. was struck by an express
train and instantly Killed no the Devon
station OF the Pennsylvania railroad.
Friday September 10.
A T. Bonclli. former banker of
Cleveland. O.. charged with tho theft
of $50. 600. arrived in New York as a
prisoner on the steamer Nehan Prince
from Brazil
The New Boston coliicry ci the Mn
Creek Coal company 40 Mnhanov city.
Pa shut down ON account OF thc wa
ter shortage. throwing 1000 employees
out OF work.
In a collision between p trolley car
and an automobile at Newark y. j..
Estella Tranhacen. aged eighteen. sui
fered possibly fatal injuries. and Mar
celia Cornell aged seventeen, the
fracture OF an arm.
The great council Of the United
States. Improved Order of Red Men
selected Detroit. Mich. as the place
Of tho great council session next year;
Cleveland IN 1910; Columbus o.. in
1911. and Cincinnati IN 1912.
Saturday, September 10.
For some inexpicablo reason Silver
Veil. a fourteen-yearold schooboy
committed suicide by hanging himself
IN the cellar OF his home 10 Mount
Vernon. n. Y.
Carroll W. Ashby cashier Of the /
Southern Railway company for thirty /
years an employo OF that system. was /
found dead in a Turkish bath estab- /
lishment in Washington
The Virginian railway IS running /
copper wires along It's lines in vir-
einia and West Virginia for the pur- |
pose Of inauguratlng the use Of tho /
telephone exclusively for the dispatch
ing Of trains.
Monday, September p.
The Georgia senate passed the bin /
abolishing the convict lease system I
practically as II came from the house
Of representatives
Harry Domain, twenty-five years of
age. Of Nanticoke. Pa. was drawn
through the huge rollers Of coal
breaker and ground 20 pieces
William II. Gray and William S.
Rule. government clerks. were drown
ed in the Potomac river al Washing
ton. when a gasoline launch caught
fire
One man was killed and three 9TH
ers injured. one fatally, when an
eighteen-inch steam pipe burst in the
ten-inch mill Of the Cambria Steel
company at Johnstown. Pa
Tuesday, September p.
Robbers dynamited the safe in the
Albion postofce, near Erie Pa. and
escaped with over $1,000 in cash and
stamps.
Clarence Richardson. Of Ashland O..
shot and killed his sweetheart. Miss
Lydia Corbin. at Portsmouth. O.. after
they had quarrelod. and escaped.
John Rowloy. nineteen years Of age
employed in a paper mill at Tarentum.
near Pittsburg. became entanglod in
the machinery and his body was badly
mutilated.
In a fight with ordinary pocket
knives at Hot Springs. Ark, Charles
Dunfeld. OF Pennsylvania. was killed
by Sam W Ray. Of Tennessee as the
elimination Of a quarrel
Wednesday, September %.
The Pennsylvania State Homeo
pathic Medical society held IFS forty
NTH annual session az Harrisburg
Fearing that ne would 20 insane and
have to be confined in an asylum
James Cogan a clerk in the law office
Of DeFOrest & Brother. New York city.
committed suicide at Washington by
shooting.
John Murray Dowie aged eighty
three years. father of John Alexander
Dowie the founder Of Zion City. and
who was repudiated by his son. died at
the home Of his sons widow. Mrs. Jane
Dowie on White lake. Muskegon
county.