The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1909-06-04
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Thursday, May II.

manufacturers or dealers from using |
the coupon or premium system 10 |
stimulate sales.
secretary of War Dickinson viii at |
tend the graduation exercises at the
United States military academy at
west Point and make the presentation
If the diplomas to the members oil the
graduating class on June H.
Forced by the order Of his physician
N resign the Office of police magis-
,ro,e at East St. Louis, H., and TO OBJ
,ain employment where he could enjoy
nrre air and outdoor exercise. Thomas
stanton has started to work as
street sweeper.
Friday May %.
M,stakine her for burglar, George
w Thompson shot and killed his wife
=, his home in indianapolis, Ind.
The president sent to the senate the
nomination of Captain Herbert Wins
low of the navy. to be rear admiral.
Mrs Edmund Bush. who was EN-
Moved as an operative in a silk mill
- paterson. n. j.. committed suicide
-, drinking carbolic acid, because her
husband left her.
robert F. Scott formerly mining
engineer was sentenced in Chicago to
three wears Imprisonment at Fort
Ieavenworth on conviction of having
made plates for the coming OF money
Of the Argentine Republic.
Saturday, May 2e.
breaking of Lake dam in Salisbury
Nd sends an immense flood through
town causing much damage along the
strets and in the harbor.
In saloon quarrel at Oakland. Cal,
, about pavment for a drink Domnick
{ Cimella a bootblack. stabbed J. G.
2 Burlisson. a carpenter eleven tunes
S with a pocketknite.
Isaac y. Leeds, for thirty years sta
tion agent of the Philadelphia q
. Roadinq railway at Steelton. and one
Of the best known railroad men in the
ID county. died at Harrisburg. Pa.
Four men. with drawn revolvers and
IN true western style, held up about
thirty women and men in Fishman
o restaurant at 444 Seventh avenue New
0 York and robbed them OF all the
2 money they had.
Monday, May 81.
The bones of 157 soldiers, troops OF
S General Zachary Taylor found among
= the old earthworks at Isabel, Tex
o woro hurled in the National cemetery
l. at Fort Brown.
n For the first time since his grad
=, uation from the naval acamedy in 1881
Vice Admiral Uriu. of the Japanese
- navy. visited his American alma
> mater the United States naval acad
envy at Annapolis. Md.
Big loaves of bread. selling rapidly
at 25 cents each. aroused the suspicion
II of Sheriff Hughy in Cherokee, Okla
J. and led to his arresting local baker
/ following an investigation, whicf
:, showed that each loaf contained
II small bottle of whisky.
l. Tuesday, June I.
J. All lumber mills in western Canada
advanced prices so cents Thousand
- on common pine.
~ BY the premature explosion OF
~ cannon. Henry Mahan. aged sevent.
" wears. a former soldier. was killed a
er 81. Marys. near Wapakoneta, 0.
IL Starr Hoyt Nichols. broker of New
D, York. committed suicide by takini
lie chloroform in his apartments at thu
ROYAL Hawaiian hotel in Honolulu.
: Charles f. Jack. we'll known tackle
4 on the Colorado college football team
n a few years ago, died in Denver. Colo.
n from the effects Of injuries received
n IN the Thanksgiving day game In 1905
- - Wednesday, June 2.
q. Jesse Fletcher. wealthy business
man of indianapolis. Ind committed
! suicide at Turtle Jake, near Alpena
IN Mich
," Battling Nelson has been matched
III 10 fight Ad Wolgast for ten rounds be
fore the Pacific Athletic club at 10
=. Angeles. Cal. on July II.
~ A d. oliver. a bank president Il
J. Climax Ca. was arrested. accused o
10 a remarkable series Of swindles b,
to which the victims lost S250,0O0.
n Charles Werkheiser, a veteran o
in the Civil War, who was a bugler 10
in General Judson Kilpatrick's cavalry
was overcome by heat at Riegelsvill'
near Faston. Pa, and died a few min
utes later.
Worrall F. Mountain. Of East Oh
ange y. J.. was appointed by Goyerno
Fort Judge OF the district court OF Eas
,, orange. to succeed Franklin Fort Jr
a son of the governor, who sometim
, ago resigned.
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