The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1909-09-03
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Thursday, August 26.

President Taft has commuted the
sentence Of Charles +. Kline. serving
Ave years in the penitentiary at Co
lumbus, O.. for counterfeidng.
Pour men were seriously injured
and heavy damage caused when the
roof of the round house Of the Penn
sylvania railroad in Pittsburg col
lapsed.
George w. Drinkwater. OF Jersey
City. second engineer, was instantly
killed and three other men were IA
tally injured by the explosion OF
feed pipe on the tugboat Bee in the
East river.
Colonel William D. Shaw. railroad
man and originator Of Hello Bill" the
Elk slogan at lodge conventions. died
ut his home in Cincinnati. aged sew
enty years.
Friday, August 27.
Water in the streams in the north
ern section Of York county. Pa. 10
lower than 1t has been In thirty-nve
years.
George Ruttledge found pearl In
the Wabash river at Mount Vernon,
H., weighing forty-six grains, which
he sold for $500.
Rev. Robert Gamble. aged eighty
years. of Bridgeton. York county, Pa,
a well known Presbyterian minister,
died in the hospital at Columbia nom
a stroke of paralysis.
Firing a single charge OF bucksnot
at two supposed chicken thieves
Charles Hartshorn Sr.. at Newark, o..
instantly killed his nephew, John
Wsakley, and William Trace.
Saturday, August %.
The Manitoba Grain Growers asso'
citation estimates the wheat yield OF
western Canada at 107.00O.0O0 bushels
Professor E. b. Bierman, aged sew
entv years. former president OF Leba
non Valley college at Annville and one
O fthe founders OF that institution. died
suddenly at his Annville pa home.
Charles w. Fairbanks, former vice
president OF the United States, and
Rear Admiral G. B. Harder, Q. S. n.
were received in separate audience by
the prince regent in the Forbidden
City in Pekin. China.
BY the explosion Of an ingot moul'
filed with molten steel at the Mary
land Steel works, at Sparrows Point
Md. Thomas Smith. colorel, was Kill
ed and three or four others, all ne
groes. were badly injured.
Monday, August 30.
Rev. ]. c. Hartzell, Methodist Epls
copal bishop in Africa, arrived In New
York from Europe.
An explosion Of powder IN I'm
mine at Neck City, Mo, killed U"
and fatally injured one.
General rains in Kansas have grea'
" benefited the corn crop when ma
been set back by hot winds.
Premature discharge OF a cannon a
q farmers picnic at Esconaba, Mich
killed one gunner and seriously II
jured another.
As a result Of going In swimmln
too soon after recovering from an a
tack of typhoid fever, Lee Hildebran'
aged thirteen. of York, Pa, died irol
the exposure.
Tuesday, August 81.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles A. Cope
smith. Of Newton. were killed ne'
Newton. Ia. when their motor ca
rolled down a thirty-foot embankmen
Made frantic when his shopmat'
tainted him because he was dear.
j. fred sido. a graduate Of Heideloer
committed suicide by hanging hlmse
at Waterbury. Conn.
Edward Humber and Eric Helm
mann were drowned in the Tittan
wassee river at Saginaw, Mich,
the capsizing Of rowbOat in Will
thev we're being towed by a launch.
DEPUTY Sheriff J. W. Sykes. OF NJ
folk Va. died as the result OF woun
inflicted by one of three negro hie
wavmon who had been placed und
arrest by him and two special once
IN south Norfolk
Wednesday, September !.
Five weeks drought in Kansas "
broken by two-inch rain.
Diamonds valued at $4,000 We
tsolon from Mrs. Adolph Hirsch at
Vendome hotel in Chicago. and the
: is no clue TO the thief.
Engineer w. d. White was XIII
and ten passengers hurt when p
senger train and work train on
Northern Pacific collided near Detr'
9 Mich.
- The employees of the Southern II
1 WAYS big shops at Spencer. ~ c. ma
= been placed on a nine-hour work
= dav basis instead Of eight as here
y fore
While resisting an attack made NJ
him AT Canal Dover. O.. John Mace
railway Waterman. shot and instan
ljllod an unidentified italian and