The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1909-10-15
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
rhnrsdaA. October z.

has been appointed a customs inspec-
cor with headquarters al Philadelphia
One passenger was killed and thirty
I've persons were injured in a collision
between trains on the Illinois Central
railroad lear Springfield I'LL
Wandering 20 a lonely spot In the
woods Of the government hospital for
The insane at Washington, William
Oh!e. sixty-two years Of age. veteran
soldier committed suicide.
L L. Heller Of Binghamton. presi'
dent Of the Sterling Motor Car com
panv. was instantly killed when an
eastbound Lehigh Valley train struck
his automobile near Waverly. n. Y.
Friday October 8.
Mrs. Eta Henderson. actress and
playwright died at West Long Branch,
M
Ben II. Morrow was arrested at Des
Moines la.. charged with numbering
his brother Charles E Morrow who
was shot az he lay in bed.
While taking out his shotgun TO
shoot pigeons Henry Flory, q farmer
living at Archbold. near Wauseon. o.
accidentally discharged the weapon
and killed his wife, the mother OF
seven children.
The W. c. 7. U. Of Norfolk. Va.
passed a resolution requesting that
nc wine or other intoxicants be used
in Norfolks entertainment Of Presi-
dent Taft on the occasion Of his visit
here 10 address the convention Of the
Atlantic Deep Waterways association
on Nov 49,
Saturday, October 9.
A prolonged drought throughout
southwestern Kansas was broken By
rainfall Of an inch and a quarter.
Robert Lyon Rogers for the past
forty-two years United States commits
sioner for Maryland died at Baltimore
of the indrmities of acc.
Della Nickson. twenty-four years Of
age OF Manchester. O.. shot and killed
herself at the tome Of her fatherin-
law. 7. Linn. where she has been for
five weeks
Henry Steinineer head Of a large
contracting company of St Louis. was
killed. and Hugo Loewe. Of East ST.
Louis. H.. was seriously injured at De
Soto. No. when their automobile over
turned after a tire exploded.
Monday October II.
Awakening from sleep at York, Pa.
and reaching over to crib in which
her twin sixmonths-old children lay,
Mrs. George Huston found one OF them
dead
While attending the funeral Of
relative in Lebanon Joseph DAILY, OF
Chester. Pa. was attacked with appen-
dicius. and an operation was perform
ed on him.
Pardoned after serving ten years OF
a twenty-hve-year sentence for murder.
John W NELL OF Harrisburg ILL.,, mar
ried his former wife. who obtained
divorce after his conviction remarked
and became a widow.
Charged with completely in blowing
I'D dam that protected hundreds Of
Louisiana rice farms between the
owners of which and cattle men there
is ill feeling. six men were bound over
bv the federal commissioner at Jen
nings La.
Tuesday October r.
A A Booth was elected chairman
Of the Cunard Steamship company in
London
The Southern Iron and Steel com.
pany at Chattanooga Tenn. fled for
record fl Gadsden a mortgage tor SIG.
600 600
Brigadier General Amos S. Kimball
e. 5. A.. retired died suddenly at his
residence in Washington. aged sixty
nine years
Twelve night riders armed with
shot guns. surrounded the home OF
James Devon near Shannon. Ky. and
fred several volleys through the win
dows but no one was hurt
Wednesday, October 10
King Leopold of Belgium has deco
rated Walter McEwan the American
painter. with the order Of Leopold II.
One of the 200horse power boilers
m the West Side power house OF the
Amoskeae mills at Manchester y II.
exploded killing one man and injuring
half a dozen workmen.
Four people were killed, one man
was fatally injured and score of 9th.
ors were less seriously hurt in col.
rsion near Greenville. Tex on the
Missouri Kansas & Texas railway.
Using six charges Of nitro-glycerlne,
q small band of robbers forced their
way into the vault of the State bank
at Lewisyille. Tex. secured $1,000 in