The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1908-10-23
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
ThursdsY. October IS.

Harry Andrews. nineteen years old.
OF Philadelphia. died at the Delaware
hospital In Wilmington. Del. from the
effects Of a broken neck sustained by
a fall from a chestnut tree near VIII
mington two weeks ago.
The conscience fund Of the postofice
department was enriched 10 the extent
Of si50 by a remittance. received from
woman. who explained that fifteen
years ago, when she was postmistress
at a small Office. she appropriated the
contents Of a package.
]. w. Lorraine, charged with steal
ing pay checks from the public health
department IN Washington last Au-
gust. pleaded guilty in the federal
court at Atlanta, Ca. and was sen
fenced to FIVE years Imprisonment and
to pay a FIRE Of $1,000.
Friday. October 10.
Six persons we're badly burned and
others were less seriously injured at
Amherst. O.. when a tank car filed
with gasoline on the Lake Shore road,
exploded. following a wreck
Antoine Muzzarelli. aged sixty-one.
veteran OF the French army and
prominent both in this country and
abroad as an educator and a writer,
committed suicide in New York by
shooting
Yonkers. n. Y. the place. and the
second Tuesday in October. 1909, the
time we're selected for the next an
nual convention OF the supreme castle,
Knights Of the Golden Eagle.
Saturday, October II.
Dr. Won Tiedmann, postmaster at
Cortez New, was arrested. charged
with embezzling s44Oo Of the funds Of
his ONCE
The treasury purchased $4,000
ounces OF silver for delivery at New
Orleans and $4,000 ounces for delivery
at Denver at 5lSO7 per fine ounce.
Fire destroyed 20.0OO.OO0 feet Of
lumber and two saw mills and devas-
tated an area Of ten acres at Rock
Island. Ill.,. causing a loss Of 100000.
One child was killed and another
seriously injured and a whole neigh
borbood was thrown into a tumult as
a result OF an explosion in the paint
shop Of Louis Kersberg, in New York
Monday October 10.
Plttsburg has a girl dying OF too
many pickles. eaten in a facotry where
she worked.
Captain Joseph T. Brown Of Blrney,
Mont. Democratic candidate for presi.
Dental elector. died in a ST. Louis hos.
pital
Government experts at Yuma, Ariz.,
declare tests have shown both Egyp
tan cotton grown there and an i'm
ported roller gin are great successes.
Slipping from a freight train on
which he was riding at WlIllamsport
Pa. thirteen.year-old Emersan Guthrie
had his left leg taken on At the knee.
Tuesday. October 20.
Gus Rogers the comedian Of Rogers
Brothers. died suddenly at his home
IN New York
Mrs. John A. Blackburn was burned
10 death near her home at Schell
W. Va. while fighting forest fires.
Harry E. Crout. manager Of the Club
hotel. al Baltimore. Md. was stricken
with heart trouble while attending the
performance at the Gayety theatre and
died within five minutes in the theatre
lobby.
John Karle. a porter I'm the plant Of
the American Rope Manufacturing
company. in Brooklyn. was mangled
to death by a carding machine in the
presence Of 300 screaming girl oper
atives.
Wednesday, October q.
The skeleton Of a prehistoric animal
forty feet long and twenty-five feet in
height has been found in the Bad
Lands south of Glasgow. Mon.
Stepping from a train side-tracked
AT Burlington. y. j., Walter Stack
house Of Brldeeboro. walked in front
Of the westbound milk train and was
fatally injured.
Harry and Lewis Kanarr were killed
and their mother, Mrs. James Quick.
was fatally injured at Glare, Mich, by
the explosion Of sixteen pounds of dy-
Mantle which had been placed IN their
oven 10 dry and was forgotten.
An attempt to light fire with kero.
sene cost the life Of Mrs. Mary Petlak
al Cleveland. o., inflicted burns upon
her husband. Lawrence from which
he will probably die. and came near
burning their infant child. asleep In an
adjoining room.