The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1908-05-15
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
Thursday. May Z.

Thursday, May Z.
Two women and two girls are be
lleved 10 have perished in a fire which
destroyed the Shaw building IN the
heart Of the business soA ion Of Hous
ton. Tex
Judge Lanning IN the United States
court al Trenton. y. j., appointed
Frank Wyant and Edmund Price re.
ceiyers for the New Jersey and West
Virginia Bridge company.
The president entertained at lunch.
con at the White House Cardinal
Logue. Catholic primate Of Ireland;
Cardinal Gibbons, Mgr. Falconio. the
papal delegate. and other church dig.
niiaries.
Friday, May 8.
Mrs. J. V. Titus. nlnety-two years
old. fell down stairs at the home Of her
daughter al Scranton Pa, and was in.
stantly killed
Immediately following his prelim
mary trial at Naples Tex. on charge
Of assault 10 murder. and rob. John
Williams. negro. was taken by a mob
and hanged.
Four persons We're killed and twelve
injured in a fire believed to be Of in
cendiary origin which practically de
stroyed the fvestOry tenement house
at l0l Orchard street. New York.
Foods colored green with copper
salts will not be entitled TO entry into
the United States under the pure food
and drugs law after Jan. ] next ac
cording TO decision Of the. board OF
food and drug inspection. consisting of
Secretaries Cortelyou. Wilson and
Strauss.
Saturday, May 9.
Major Edward X. LOwndes. Of the
marine corps. has been retired from
active duty because of disability
W.. F.. Loucke. of Selma. Ga, his wife
and their baby were killed when an
automobile was struck by a Southern
Pacific train at Reedley. Ga.
Mrs. Margaret Kieronsh was ac
quilted by jury in Philadelphia Of the
charge OF poisoning her husband.
Grioving because he was compelled
togo 10 the almshouse. DR.. Charles B
Warrington. for more than thirtyhve
years a practicing physician in variou,
New Jersey towns. is dead al the War
rem county a. J) almshouse. where
he had been for the last ten days.
Monday May H.
The will of Thomas Crumbaugh
leaving 100000 TO the Spiritualisi
church. has been set aside by a jury
at bloomington III.
Paul Willis. a wellknOwn youna
Carlisle. Pa. attorney. has been ap
pointcd by the United States court
federal commissioner for that district
The body of William Mcllhonny, q
weak.minded inmate Of the Adams
county. Pa. almshouse. who escaped
Anrn 30. has been found In a field
three miles west Of Gettysburg.
In a fire at Punxsutawney Pa
which destroyed the general store and
boarding house of John Becke $4,000
in money. the savings Of eight for
oigncrs. was consumed. and Mrs
Becke was seriously and perhaps IA
tally burned.
Tuesday, May p.
Mrs Helen f. Moses national presi
dent of the Christian Woman's Board
of Missions died in indianapolis, Ind
Work was resumed in all the coal
mines i'm Illinois which were in a con
dition to do so after six weeks idle
ness.
In tornado that passed over Mercer
and Henry counties in Illinois. one
woman was killed. several children
injured and many buildings destroyed
While temporarily deranged from
reading the newspaper accounts OF the
Guinness murders, Jacob Pouch. aged
seventy years committed suicide at
Warsaw, Ind.
Wednesday, May 10.
BENJAMIN James Fernie, Pm. d. foI
many years associate editor of the
Christian Herald died at Lakewood
n. J.. after a prolonged Illness.
Walter G.. Berg. chief engineer OF
the Lehigh Valley railroad died unex
pcctodly at his home in New York.
S. G.. Peters. recently a pay clerk on
the cruiser Rainbow. was arrested at
Manila for alleged embezzlement oil
100000.
John Loughead. aged forty years.
living apart from his seyenteenyear
old wife. broke into her bedroom at
her mothers home at Toledo. o., and
shot her innicting a fatal wound, then
turned the revolver on himself and
blew ont his brains.