The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1908-10-09
FARMvILLE, VA. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, !so8.
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
Thursday, October /.


The strike OF Canadian Pacific rail-
road mechanics. involving about 10000
men, which started Aug 4, has been
declared OF.
Cardinal Gibbons. archbishop Of Bal
timore, left London for Liverpool.
where he will embark on the steamer
Caronia for New York.
Fearing to face the disgrace which
he felt would follow his arrest on a
charge OF abusing his VIE, Leonard
]. schmitt, a piano maker. killed him
self In New York by inhaling illumi-
mating gas.
Fire destroyed property valued at
between $50 900 and $4,000 In the
heart Of the business district Of Dal-
las. Tex, and resulted In serious in
fury TO several nremen. who we're
caught beneath falling floors.
Friday, October 2.
owen Moran. English featherweight.
won the decision over Eddie Hanlon,
a lightweight, at San Francisco. after
twenty rounds Of fighting
BY the explosion Of the boiler Of a
freight engine on the Trenton cutoff
at Fort Hill, near Norristown, Pa,
three members Of the crew we're badly
injured.
Thieves ransacked the apartment In
Washington OF Major c. L. McCauley,
one of the presidents aides stealing
Iewelry and bric-a-brsc valued at
$500
Three laborers were killed and seven
injured in collision between a work
train and freight train on the Cen
tral New England railroad at Clinton
Corners. near Poughkeepsie. ~ Y.
Saturday, October 3.
Montreal was selected as the con
vention city Of the League Of Ameri
can Municipalities for 1903
DIR. George W. Holstein, aged eighty
eight years. the oldest Odd Fellow in
Pennsylvania, died at Norristown.
John O'Brien. a longshoreman and
iron worker. was held up in the yard
Of the Pennsylvania railroad at VIII
m'ngton, Del, by five men and badly
beaten.
Masked men held up a Steubenville-
East Liverpool Interurban car as the
car was entering Wellsville, o.. and at
the point of revolvers took s2l from
the conductor.
Monday. October 5.
Gus Jones, a negro. cut the throats
OF his wife. his son and himself at
Gallipolis. O., and all will die.
oliver Loders, Of Bethlehem Pa.
went to Bingen to gather chestnuts
and was killed by a fall from a tree,
his neck being broken.
Charles Lee. a negro, of Houston,
Tex. has invented a method Of exter-
minating the boil weevil in cotton
fields by me.ns OF chemical fumes.
Lewis K0rzon was imprisoned at
sunbury. Pa, charged with breaking
the neck Of Alex. Chikillo. in Mount
Carmel, by hurling him over a high
porch.
ue6Odys OCAODNl o.
F. ]. Geissinger, of j. X. Taylor
Post. No. 1S2, Bethlehem. Pa. dropped
dead in Philadelphia while waiting to
view a parade.
Mary Devine, two years old, was
burned to death on a lot near her
home in Philadelphia. when her cloth
ing caught ablaze from rubbish fire.
Ten persons we're killed and more
than a dozen injured In an incendiary
fire which wrecked the tenement
house at TN Mulberry street, New
York.
Thomas Morrison, prominent In
railroad and business circles, dropped
dead in the Office Of the Spring Grove
Cemetery association at Cincinnati
o.. Just as meeting Of the cemetery
trustees was about to be called "a
order.
Wednesday, October 7.
General Louis Fitzgerald. for more
than half a century a prominent figure
in New York, died at his home, Garri
son-on-the-Hudson, aged seveuty-one
years.
Andrew Zydusa. retired hotel
keeper at Jessup. near Scranton. Pa.
shot and killed his wife and. turning
the revolver on himself, committed
suicide
Charged with criminal assault on
his own daughter. Ben Price, a negro
was seized by mob at Gleniora, Tex.
taken TO the center Of the town and
hanged TO a tree
As the result Of collision between
a yard engine and a special freight
train on the Grand Trunk railway neaI
Brantford, Ont. three persons were
killed and two Injured.