The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1909-03-26
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Thursday, March 10.

,.r's he's introduced Dill III oon
'-- Va making Columbus day, Oct II,
Teal holiday.
p-.sijent Taft accepted an invita-
49,. % attend the annual spring dinner
.so Gridlron club, to be held In
,..ssinron. April II.
lanes W. Keller. a graduate of the
...-.ochusetts Agricultural college,
S for some time the first assistant
mist Of the department of agricul-
80 oG Pennsylvania, has, been ap
'..~.e3 chief. to succeed Professor F.
rrrer who goes to Washington to
~ 2 government position.
Friday, March 10.
,~-,an c. Mann was declared not
NV in Chicago of the murder of
-. frances Gilmore Thompson.
II, Married to George F. BARKER forty
s.@ Years ago. Martha E. Barber has
s 49, application in Scranton, Pa, for
a., 80 On the ground of desertion.
winnipeg Manitoba. has decided TO
,.~o worlds exposition in 1912, and
-l,' raise a fund of 100000 for that
purpose c,uoo.,o,,t hoe
-...ss an act Incorporating the
y..io,al Council of Congregational
Csr-ches of the United States.
~se main building of the Eastoni
.. Foundry & Machine company. 10
....s Of West Easton. was destroyed
~ fire entafing a loss of 100000.
Saturday. March 20.
u.rTam II. Stevenson, of Glenside
go. awarded $50 damages in court at
y,--is,own Pa. by a jury for the bite
80 dog belonging to L. E. Snively.
relieving that the constitution Of
40 limited States should begin with
80 words In the name Of God" Rep
sentative Sheppard, of Texas, has in
,-,suees a resolution in congress pro
v,sin~ for an amendment to that eff
feet.
lanes VI. Marshall. assistant post
master Of Lancaster Pa, who was
-os.~asfer from 1876 to 1885. and was
Connected with the local postoffice con
errouslv since 1867, except during
nsnooratic administrations. died on
Friday
Monday, March p.
Six men we're killed and many IN
ir-ed IN an explosion in the Sunnyside
n ccsl mine near Evansville, Ind.
William Jennings Bryan condemned
. the Democratic representatives who
snnrorted Cannon IN the recent fight
II IN congress.
Patrick Nash shot and killed Harry
Martin at Mahanoy City. Pa. declar
ing the latter had called him a non
h union workman.
Alfred Allen, who shot and killed his
wife a few weeks ago at Wetumka
81 Ala was sent to the penitentiary fol
Il twenty-five years.
Councilman John F. Klein, OF Pitts
burg. who refused to testify in the
n graft cases. was sentenced to thirty
n DAYS IN Jail and fined 500.
tuesday, March %.
John H. Starin, the noted steamship
ii owner died at his home in New York
n aged. eightythree years.
Fire destroyed the Winchester tan
nery the largest industrial establish
melt in Winchester, n. H., entailing Q
less Of sl50OOO.
Arhelus Christian, a negro, who
n on Feb is criminally assaulted and
then stabbed to death young while
school girl. was electrocuted in the
I lsni,snuary at Richmond, Va.
George w. Taylor, Of Upper Alton
4 l... a veteran of the Civil War, con
q y.ctei Of cheating the government out
ctsl7000 in a pension fraud, sentenced
Ia six months confinement and fined
! $500 Is dead at the Peoria, ILL.,, work
4 house.
Wednesday, March "a.
The Carpenter Steel works. at Read
lls Pa. posted notices Of a reduction
4 Fl 70 per cent in wages.
Chicago tanners and shoe manufact
trers appointed a committee to visit
4 Nashington TO fight the Payne bill as
stands at present.
Justice Reed at Trenton, N. j., fixed
1 p week Of May 10 for the electrocu-
! fion Of Giovanni Maioni. who was re
fently convicted Of killing Mrs. Maria
Juno
81 Rev Michael Bergrath, for -four
4 ears rector of ST. Patrick's Roman
a'holic church. Of White Haven, Pa
4 ( ed at Wilkes-Barre of general de
ity aged seventy years.
The Pennsylvania state live stock
] 4 an.tary board has issued an order
aev.ng from quarantine for foot and
olih disease the whole state except
aHs Of lancaster and Delaware coun.
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