The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1909-03-19
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Thursday, March II.

Six negroes were hlileu at
Ca by a tornado and twelve business
buildings we're almost totally de-
stroyed .,o,o,
Tlovd NJ. Tnlman has been assigned
q he hank examiners district Of Penn I
svlvania made vacant by the death OF
Tvaminer Charming Bingham.
In street duel at Emporia' va j.
Thomas Brantley, a police sTsesnt
was shot and instantly killed and +. d.
Sheffield was so badly wounded tna'
he died later
Friday, March II.
DR. Thaddeus Asbury Reamy, known
in the medical profession as one OF the
GREAT authorities on gynaecology, died
al his home in Cincinnati, aged eighty
years. . .-o,,
AS a result Of the work OF train
wreckers. the southbound express on
the Arkansas, Louisiana Il CUR ran
road was derailed twenty miles north
~ New Orleans and the enginter was
killed and the fireman was seriously
injured.
DR.. Charles NJ. McCracken OF Cam.
eron. W. Va, recently convicted OF
second degree murder fc having caus-
cd the death by shooting of bis two
voar.old child last Christmas eve at
Noundsville. w. Va. was sentenced TO
ten wears in the penitentiary.
Saturday. March 10.
President Taft was informed Of the
death in San Juan OF Cher JUSTICE
, lose Severe Quinones. Of Porto Rico.
The Wyoming and the Arkansas are
> the names selected for the two mon
ster 26 900 ton battleships recently au-
! thorized by congress.
T. A report is in circulation among
f Chicago Roman Catholics that Rev
e lanes F. M,Gloin. of Buffalo, is to be
appointed by Rome as the bishop OF
Peoria.
Maior Guy Edie. OF the United States
army medical department, who ac-
oompanied Mr.. Taft around the world
ON his now famous tour. is to be the
s. presidents family physician.
+ Monday, March IS.
J. A head-on collision on the Seaooard
3. Air line at Colon. ~ c., killed Fire
g man H. Lindsay.
The commission form Of government
=. for Kansas cities is held valid by tns
sr state supreme court.
p While a score Of persons looked on
F. II. Brown. salesman, killed MIN
2. self with acid at Chicago
4. A large number of graft indictments
, were returned at Utica, n. y, In con
Do nection with the investigation o.
t. Oneida county politics.
n. II. r. Clark has resigned as assist
ant engineer Of the Gatun lock ant
dam. Panama. and returned to hi
home in Danville, Pa, after an absence
Of five years.
~ Tuesday, March IS.
Patrick Lamphear one of the mos
- widely known bourbon whisky expert
in America. died at Lexington, KY, o
pneumonia
d. Two men were killed and a thr'
was seriously injured by the explosion
Of the boiler Of the Rich icehouse 0
- the American Ice company at Farm
ingdale. Ne.
Mrs Earl Gore, wife Of a STATIC
agent at Glencoe, H., was burned t
death in her home in trying vainly Z
"a, a. save the life Of her baby, whose dres
stt had become ignited while playing nea
a stove.
80 An explosion in the retort OF a ga
generator of the Washington. d. c
Gas Light company's plant, at Twent!
sixth and G streets, N. w, resulted /
ne burning Of three men 30 severed
that 1t IS not thought they will SUI
vive
: Wednesday, March II.
Mrs. Elinor MacCartney Lane, tn
novelist. died at Lynchburg, Va, Will
on her way south with her husband
IN DR. Francis r. Lane, to recuperate he
Il health.
Rev. Alexander Craig. former pr
siding elder of the New Jersey confe
"a ence for the Paterson district. died
he his home at Newton. \. j., after Ion
illness. aged sexenty-fve years.
The whine OF a dog. which wa
watching beside the body OF his mi
tress. attracted the attention OF pa
8 sersby in an Evanston street hou'
in Chicago. and on entering the p
lice discovered that Mrs. Ella Barbe
49,, aged sixty-fve years. had been dea
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