The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1909-01-08
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.


Th.rsday. December 81.
A. " Troutman, IN empioye OF
Kansas city produce company, com
N tied suicide after confessing he had
enbezzIes 1920 of the firms money.
Professor Benjapin Franklin Clarke,
nr,.essor emeritus Of mechanical engi-
neerng at Brown university died at
PROVIDENCE. Il. l., aged seventy-seven
yeafsN
In q aasCing accident which took
Mace d Upland, near Chester, Pa.
John ~ fris, aged twelve years. re-
ceived INJURIES which will probably ter
inmate fatally
Friday January I.
ROY. w. Robson hoffman, pastor OF
tie Fourth Congregational church, Of
Chicago, who accepted a call to Glen
ridge. n. j.. died Of asthma in Ber-
muda, where he had gone for his
health.
The United States produced 500, 49,
zoo worth of gold and 1929, 200 worth
Of silver in 1907, according to state
mcnts obtained from minis. assay Of
fees, smelling establishments and the
producing mines.
Major Isaac Walker Maclay, who
was present. at the assassination of
Abraham Lincoln, and who helped to
carry the wounded president to the
Peterson house and later ran for DR..
Todd. died in Yonkers, n. Y, aged
sixty-seven years.
Saturday, January 2.
Governor Charles e. Hughes. Of New
York. was Friday indicted for a Sec
ond term as chief executive Of New
York
For three days the house Of Miss
Jane Gore. who lived alone at Wyom-
ing. near Wilkes-Barre, Pa. had been
closed. and when neighbors broke in
they found her dead in the hallway.
One hundred opossuins. - the
usual accompaniment of sw, peta-
toes. win grace the banquet table Of
the Atlanta Ga. chamber of commerce
on the evening Of Jan IS. when Presi-
dent Elect Taft will be the guest Of
honor of the city.
Monday, January q.
Valentine Conry. a prominent young
man. was held up by two men at
Shenandoah. Pa. and so badly beaten
that his life is despaired Of.
Michael RYAN, convicted of ballot
box stuning at a Cleveland primary,
surrendered and began a one-year
sentence after fighting It for three
years.
Skulls of two soldiers who fell at
the battle Of Chickamauga we're part
of the plumber taken by burglars from
the Toledo. o., soldiers memorial
building
Tuesday January 5.
Daniel Miller. a well known citizen,
living near Boyertown, Pa, who cele-
brated his Tooth anniversary last Au-
gust lied Monday.
Mrs. Harriet Estes, who is said to
have been the only surviving daughter
Of the Revolution. died at Ithaca, N.
Y. aged eighty-seven years.
Henry c. Potter Jr of Detroit, vice
president of the Peoples State Saw
ings bank, committed suicide at his
home by shooting himself in the head.
Frank Davenport a negro. who in
November last shot and killed John
TAYLOR. a reputable negro, in Norfolk
county. was put to death in the cleo
trio chair in the state penitentlary at
Richmond. Va.
Wednesday, January 6.
The president sent to the senate the
nomination of Colonel George II. Ter
ney to be surgeon general, medical
corps
Nah Hong. a Chinaman, was hanged
at Macleod. Alberta, by Radcliffe Can
ada's official hangman, for the murder
of his partner in laundry
Henry Revel. a well known Conked-
crate veteran, aged sixty years, COM
mitted suicide near Waycrosse, Ga,
by firing a shotgun with the aid of a
stick,
An explosion which shook houses
and shattered windows five miles dis
tant occurred at Wood River. ILL.,, when
an oil tank of 100000 gallons capacity
caught fire.