The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1909-07-23
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Thursday. July IS.

raralvsis suffered several weeks ago
Escaping from his stall, mule be-
longing 10 Banko Rick Of Bethel. Pa,
travelled sixteen miles over strange
roads 10 his former home in one night
One million dollars Of free adyertis-
ing for a campaign against tubercuio-
sis was voted by the joint convention
of the National Bill Posters and the
Southeastern Bill Posters at Atlanta
Ga.
Upon conviction by court martial Tor
nassing bogus checks and failing 10
nav his debts. Major Charles }. 1.
Clarke. Twenty-sixth infantry has
been dismissed from the army, &C
oording 10 an announcement at the
war department.
Friday, July 16.
Thomas swangler. an expert fisher
man. fell into the Delaware river az
Bristol. Pa. and was drowned.
Claude Tator. twelve years old, OF
Rhjuebeck. n. Y. died at Vassar hos
p,tal Poughkeepsie Of tetanus, as the
result of burns received on July 4.
BENJAMIN Wilmot Haggard, for the
past three years disbursing officer OF
the United States house Of represen-
tatives. died in Algona, Ia, OF tuoer-
culosis.
State Senator Oscar c. Bayles was
shot and killed by David X. Smith at
Monroeville Ala. as a result Of Bayles
efforts to obtain a pardon for Isaac
and Jesse Shirley, who are serving
terms for the killing Of Jim Smith,
brother of David.
Saturday, July II.
Myrtle Cross, eighteen years old.
was acquitted at Cripple Greek Colo
on the charge of having murdered her
sweetheart, John Phillips.
Reports from points in northern
Ohio show that an estimated loss OF
500 600 was caused by a storm that
swept over that section on Friday.
Three men we're killed and two in
tured in a head-on collision between
sonthbound passenger train No. IL
and northbound train No 20 on the
Chicago & Eastern Illinois railroad at
Royal. III.
Jennie Smith. a young white woman
from New York. was sentenced to the
CITY stockade at Macon. Ga, having
been arrested in a room with Miles
Reid. a negro waiter, who was sent to
the chain gang.
Monday, July 10.
A Chicago woman. about to be com
mited TO an asylum. killed herself and
her two sons.
Two sisters were drowned at Port
Huron. Mich, one trying to save the
other from death
The Diehl-Schilling furniture plant
near Easton. Pa, was destroyed by
fire. entailing a loss Of 100000, partly
insured.
Secretary Of War Dickinson has or
dered the commissary general Of the
army not to purchase any goods from
trusts or combinations in restraint OF
trade.
George p. Richardson, facing trial
for larceny and temporarily in an In
sane asylum, applied to the courts in
Boston not to release him, alleging be
/ ia still insane.
Tuesday, July 20.
Residents of Catawissa, Pa. unable
10 withstand the binding clouds OF
dust, sprinkled a number Of the streets
with OIL
Matthew Gill, a retired iron mer
chant shot and killed himself at his
home at Radnor near Philadelphia
while respondent from illness.
An omnibus bill authorizing the con
striction Of bridges across various
nayigable waters of the United States
was passer by the house OF represen
tatives.
Samuel S. Spellman. whose wife Is
millinery store proprietor in Cleveland
killed himself by inhaling gas at st
Louis because he did not have money
to give to a grandchild
Wednesday, July n.
John ". O'Hara, American consul &c
Santos. Brazil. has resigned because
Of III health.
A sufferer for some time from heart
disease. Miss Ida Gray. nineteen years
old. dropped dead on the street II
Philadelphia.
Baillie p. Waggener celebrated HIS
sixty-secon1 birthday by entertaining
10000 children of Atchison. Kan. anc
Atchison county at Forest park.
Joseph H. Norris, of Guthrie. Okla.
who in 1908 was chairman of the Re
publican state central committee o.
Oklahoma, was appointed Indian in
spector for the department of the in
terror. to succeed u. Lewis Daily, re
signed