The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1908-11-27
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
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Fire OF unknown origin destroyed
Green Brothers' shoe factory at Fred
ericksburg, Va
Bitten in the hand on Aug. 30 while
rescuing several children from a rabid
dog Gustave A. Wolf died In Chicago
of hydrophobia.
Major General ". II. Duvall has
been selected 10 succeed Major Gen
eral John F. Weston. in command Of
the troops in the Philippines.
Fire supposedly Of incendiary ori'
gin. at the Wabash Screen Door com
pany. at Memphis. Tenn. destroyed g.
800 600 feet Of lumber entailing a loss
Of sl25.oOO.
Friday, November 20.
Continued IN health caused Judge
G A. McClung. OF common pleas court
Of Pittsburg. TO send his resignation to
Governor Stuart.
Mrs. Mary Harbour. accused Of the
murder OF Miss Rose Adams, her fos-
ter daughter. was found guilty Of muir
der in the second degree at Sioux
City la.
Samuel f. Campbell. an automobile
dealer al New Haven. Conn. was held
crlminally responsible for the death
OF Rev. Or. C. Brlnley Morgan, wno
was struck and killed by Campbeiis
machine
John Krauss. who is connected with
the Pacific State G. Sunset Telegraph
company. OF San Francisco, commit
ted suicide in his cabin on the steamer
Adriatic while the vessel was enroute
TO Queenstown, Ireland.
Saturday, November q.
Seven track laborers on hand car
were run down by Chicago Burling
ton & Quincy railroad passenger train
between Highland and Lagrange, III.
Henry /. Schrifogel was found guilty
Of murder in the first degree for Kill
ing Mrs Mary Hamilton by a jury In
the criminal court, Washington.
Joseph Meyer a chauffeur and Mar
garet Atkins were drowned when an
automobile carrying them and three
other chaufeurs. each with a young
woman companion. swerved from It's
course and plunged into the Calumet
river at Chicago.
Monday November %.
Brvan's official plurality In Nebras
ka was 4lo2.
A heavy bowlder that fell into th'
West Algion slate quarry at Pen Argyll
Pa. struck Martin Parson. at work a.
the bottom. and crushed out his life.
Fred Campbell. convicted Of attack
ing and shooting a twelveyear-old girl
was sentenced at Franklin. Pa TO
term of fifteen years in the peniten
tiary
A big automobile. containing nin'
occupants. was struck by an electri'
car al East Charleroi Pa and seyeI
of the occupants injured. one Of then
fatally
Tuesday. November "a.
John Barrow. a well-known rive
man at Pittsburg was murdered an
robbed OF $500 and his body throw
into the Allegheny river
Arthur Honekar, ten years old, wa
drowned while padding in a leakin
boat on a lake at Brldgeton, n. j.
Rev. Henry T. OReilly, rector o
the Roman Catholic Church Of the Ar
nunclatlon. at Shenandoah, Pa. for IN
last forty years, died suddenly Of ape
plexy.
During a heavy fog al Wheeling
W. Va. two street cars collided a
schads Crossing. fatally iniurng Nc
torman Woods and seriously hurtin
six passengers.
Wednesday, November 25.
The largest wooden schooner in IN
world. the six-master Edward B. VIM
low. Sis fet long was launched fror
the yard Of Percy & Small at Bath. M
While playing with the fire in IN
kitchen stove in his home IN Philade
phia. the clothing Of threeyear-ol
| Russell Simon became ignited and b
was burned 10 death.
John HAYNES. a farmer OF Winon
&. G.. after trying TO kill his wife an
children with a shotgun. shot Henr
Moore. who went to the assistance
the family. in the leg, and then Bile
out his own brains.
The orange crop of Cuba this yes
will be the largest in the history OF n
island and will reach 100000 boKe
according to a report made TO the b.
reau of manufactures by Consul Hol