The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1909-07-16
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
IhursdaY. July 8.


rev nr. Edward Everett Hale.
colonel Atila Cox president OF the
louisville. Henderson & ST. Louis and
director of the Louisville & Nash
Vile railroad. and a widely known
erancier died Al Louisville, KY, after
long Illness.
Anna spangler. the four-year-old
daughter of wealthy farmer Of sun
prairie near Madison. Wis. who was
thought 10 have been kidnapped by
TWO men in an automobile was found
three miles from home unhurt
Friday, July 9.
Jim Virgins. colored, was executed
st Vienna. Ca. for the murder OF his
wife in 1908.
Stanley Ketchel and Sam Langiord
will fight to a finish in Ely New. on
Labor day. Sept. 6, for the middle,
weight championship of the world ana
a purse Of $4,000.
Held fast by his foot which was
caught in the temporary tracks IN chi
cago. Joseph Andrews. a worklngman'
was run down and killed by State
street surface car.
Ira w Lamunyon, aged eighty-two'
said to be the only surviving member
of the mass convention in Jackson,
Mich. on July 6. 1854. at which the
Republican party was organized died
in Denver Colo.
Saturday, July 10.
Philip Miller of Toronto dropped
dead at a dance at the Detroit (Mich.)
Boat club.
Major J. W. Long. U. S. A., retired,
was run down at Washington by an
automobile and died three hours later
at the Emergency hospital.
Following a dispute over some col
lections. Z. r. Shields was shot and
killed by Joe Stevens on one Of the
main streets OF Wilmington, n. c.
Rev. Father Thomas Bowling, as
sistant rector of the Sacred Heart
Catholic church in Norfolk Va. was
drowned at Cape Henry while bathing
After sending his wife TO the Cats
kill mountains for the summer VIII
liam Leitch sixty-fve years old,
master plumber committed suicide in
Philadelphia by asphyxiation.
with party of friends
Monday, July r.
Restoration of the checkoff has
averted strike of $4,000 miners in the
Kansas soft coal fields.
A bin is proposed in Georgia to com
mel Confederate veterans to pay 5000
tax for selling near beer" they being
now exempt
Near Middleburg. Pa Abraham
Baer tried TO rouse his young wife TO
prepare breakfast and found she had
died during the night
His foot catching in the reins whHe
he was getting ont of his buggy at
Ringtown. Pa. Benjamin Long fell
headlong 10 the ground and was killed.
In a fight over a white woman. the
widow of negro. at Easton. Pa.
Henry Walker. colored, shot and seri-
ously wounded John Good, also col
ored.
Tuesday, July 10.
Miss Mary Morgan, oldest daughter
OF the late Senator Morgan, OF Ala
bama. died at Lenoir. n. c.
Roasted to a crisp. the body OF r.
+ II. Snuder. a woodsman. was found in
a coke oven at Tyler. near Brookville,
Pa.
Andrew Strobel, of South Bethle-
hem. Pa. ventured into deep water
while bathing in the canal and was
drowned.
Charles Houpt, fifteen years old.
died in Pittsburg. begging the first vic
tim of tetanus, resulting from an in
Jury received during the Fourth OF
July celebration.
Wednesday, July "a.
Miss Mamie Davey. of Chicago, and
Clarence Hunt, living near Sturgis.
Mich. we're drowned in Klinger lake
under mysterious circumstances.
Lloyd Griscom. former United States
ambassador 10 Italy. was a passenger
on the Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse,
which arrived in New York from Bre-
men.
William f. Corey. president Of the
United States Steel corporation, and
Mrs. Corey returned from Europe on
the steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der
Crosse
Harry Charles of Herrville. Pa. a
private in the United States army ord
nance detachment stationed at Sandy
Hook barracks. committed suicide by
cutting his throat with razor.
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