The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1909-08-06
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Thursday. July %.

Inc union scale mas been signed q
cover the tin plate mill az Cumber
land. Nd. Of the ~ & G. TAYLOR Co.
Of Philadelphia
The Western FederatiA Of Miner.
instructed the executive board TO print
Socialist literature In a number of Ian
guages for distribution.
While working in bayfield, at Lack
awack. Ulster county, y. j.. John Hon
ST.. seventy-eight years Of age. drop
ped dead from heart disease.
One man was killed and two were
injured when a mortar exploded dur
ing a fireworks display in connection
with the convention of the National
Hay Dealers association at Cedar
Point. near Sandusky o.
Friday, July 30.
The French ambassador TO the Unit
ed States. J. J. Jusserand. and Nine.
Jssserand sailed for Euroye on the
steamer La Lorraine.
John r. TAFT ranking high as an
artist and a critic of note. was found
dead at the foot Of flight of steps in
his home in Baltimore.
The plant of the South Baltimore
Steel Car and Foundry company was
bought in by the reorganization COM
mittee of creditors for $4,000.
George Watson. seyentysix years Of
age. a prominent retired citizen oil
Reading. Pa. died on a trolley car
while returning from a park. where he
had become ill.,
Frank NJ Boyer an appendicitis pa
tient in the Harrisburg. Pa. hospital
fell or threw himself from a third
story window in the hospital and died
two hours later
Saturday, July 81.
The senate ratified an arbitration
treaty between the United States and
Paraguay which was signed on March
13 last.
President Taft has been elected an
honorary member of the Tuna club
the famous fishing organization Of
Catalina island at Los Angelica. Cal
As a result Of a switch engine dash.
ing into a heavily loaded suburban
street car in Memphis. Tenn, one per.
son was killed and five or six were
injured.
Claude Brooks. aged twenty-one
years a negro was hanged at Kansas
City for the murder of Sidney Hern-
don. well,a2-do real estate owner. for
merly of Tyler Tex. Jan. 10. 1908.
Monday, August ?.
The government contract for S25. 900
yards of olive drab cotton cloth for
the army goes to Massachusetts mill
At % cents yard.
A nail in the foot. then gangrene
md amputation of the leg to save his
ife all ended in the death of Thomas
-auer. at Berwick. Pa
From a bullet wound inflicted by his
divorced wife. John Haker died near
.ansing. Mich. question of money
Iayng started the trouble.
The North Carolina corporation com.
mission has closed the Citizens Bank
nd Trust company. az Southern Pines. I
accuse Of a cash shortage.
In an auto accident at Lake Geneva
H.. Philip Swift. eldest son Of Edward
= Swift. the packer. had a leg broken
nd was badly cut and bruised
Tuesday, August 8.
President Taft has decided TO in
ude Charleston. S. c.. in his timer
~ for the western and southern trip.
The funeral Of Harry c. Pulliam.
te president of the National League.
no committed suicide in New York r,
as held at Louisville. Ky. l.
Franklin X. Lane. a member OF the n
terstate commerce commission Is AZ
esent in France studying the regu- n
tons applied to French railroads
In the presence Of large number Of "
items the tablet marking the site of
4 Fort Yates. where General Grant
I his regiment the Twenty-hrst Hi
is infantry. in 1861. was dedicated
Springfield ILL.,
Wednesday, August 4.
Thomas II. Heist. former owner o.
? Bolton house and a prominent
siness man of Harrisburg. Pa. died
ldenly at his home at Wayne juno. W
n. Philadelphia. aged seventy years.
The raising Of the battleship Maine I'd
Havana harbor by the United States ";
'ernment was favored in a resolu- al
n passed by the New York state de-
'tment. United Spanish War Vet W.
ms