The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1909-01-15
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Thursday, January z.


The senate ratified arbitration treat
les with the Argentine Republic and
Salvador.
Mrs. Mary McVannen Campbell,
real daughter of the American Reyo-
luton, whose father served seven
years with the Revolutionary army
died at Warren, Pa, aged ninety-two
years.
Edward Wright, commissioned by
General Booth to investigate the ad-
visibility of establishing a Salvation
Army colony in Mexico, was received
by President Diaz, who warmly COM
mended the project.
Friday, January 8.
The Fort View hotel at Winchester,
KY. was destroyed by fire. and one
guest was burned to death and several
injured,
Because tho date is too near his
African trip President Roosevelt has
declined an invitation to attend the
dinner of the Iowa society In New
York on March 10.
Mrs. Dougles Bolton was killed and
Miss Eva Bolton, John Bolton, Mrs.
Fred Odell and Mrs. Fred Curtis were
seriously injured in fire at Calumet,
Mich. which destroyed a small apart
ment building.
Harry Gilmore. seventy years Old
who has spent thirty-six years In
prison for various robberies, received
a sentence of eight years in Jersey City
for clearinghouse thefts to which he
confessed his guilt.
Saturday, January 9.
While their parents were at frolic
at a neighbor's home at Spartansburg
s. c.. three negro children perished In
a fire that destroyed their house.
Rev. Horace w. Bolton, d. d.. tenn
perance evangelist, Of the Whining
ton NJ. E. conference, died at his home
in Camden, Del, from an attack OF
diabetes.
Frederick Corby Pole. thirty-four
years old, wanted in Montreal on a
charge of grand larceny in the sum OF
s250OO. has surrendered himself to the
police at Cincinnati, o.
John Witizar was instantly killed,
and John Thorma probably fatally in
jured in Braddock, a suburb Of Pitts
burg. at a crossing of the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad by shifting engine.
Monday, January II.
A cat. apparently suffering with the
rabies. attacked AID seriously bit Mrs.
Mary Conners in a Chicago grocery
store.
Despondent. Frank Naftzgar. we'll
to-do mill owner of Wooster. o., kille'
himself by shooting on his mothers
grave.
Ross Shingler, of Altoona, Pa, eight
years old, found dynamite cap, struck
It with a hammer, and the explosion
carried away his left hand.
Julia Zimcavage, aged three years,
fell from chair into a tub Of scaldine
water at Shenandoah. Pa, and was SO
terribly burned that she will die.
Two blind inmates. an aged negress
and a negro boy, perIshed in a fire
which destroyed the parish home for
the poor in Lancaster county, S. c.
Tuesday January u.
Joseph Wharton, the famous iron
master and philanthropist, died at his
home in Philadelphia, aged eighty-two
years.
All records for cold weather at
Great Falls, Mont, were broken Mon
day. when the weather bureau ther-
mometer went to A below zero.
Captain John Barr, who sailed the
Yacht Thistle when the Scottish chat
lenger for the Americas cup was de-
feated by the Volunteer in 1887, died
at his home in Marblehead. Mass.
John Conness. former United States
senator from California, and the last
survivor Of the pallbearers Of Presi-
dent Lincoln. died at his home in ia
maica Plain, near Boston, aged eighty
eight years.
Wednesday, January 13.
w. W. Kitchin, for twelve years
Democratic congressman. was inaugu-