The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1909-08-20
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Thursday, August u.


doned well.
Oscar Cassel. aged sixteen years,
fell from a train on the Philadelphia
& Reading railroad at Chester. Pa.
while stealing a ride and both legs
were so badly mangled that they had
10 be amputated.
Masked men. styled might riders"
by the country people at Brownsville
XIV. wounded Harden Minton, far
mer and took Andrew Farris. another
farmer. and two women from their
homes and whipped them.
Friday, August IS.
Mrs. Mary Munro, JOB years DID,
d,ed at the county hospital at Will
mington. Del, where she bad been for
some time.
The Buckeye Rubber plant at Akron,
O.. was partially destroyed by IRE
With its hundreds of tons Of raw ma
terial entailing a loss Of 100000.
Fire at the Reading pa Abattoir
company's plant resulted in loss es-
timated by the firm at close TO $4,000,
ahout two-thlrds of which IS covered
by insurance.
William Reed and five-year-old Eve
lvn Trautman were instantly killed and
Mrs Guy Trautman, her mother, per
hans fatally injured by being struck
by a passenger train while driving
across the Erie tracks at North Center,
near Akron. o.
Saturday, August u.
During an electrical storm at HOLDS
Island. Ala. Mrs. John Hornbuckle
was instantly killed and her little
niece. Matte Lemley, fatally injured
by a bolt of lightning.
The plant OF the Empire Graphite
company. at Porters Corners, near
Saratoga. n. Y, including a four-story
mill and several smaller buildings, was
burned. with loss Of 100000.
Despondent because he had been
renrimanded. Sergeant F. A. Burger.
of the marine guard OF the cruiser
Tennessee. now at the Puget Sound
navy ward. committed suicide by cut
ting his throat.
Esther Detweiler, three years old, Is
dead. her sister Rebecca, aged six
years. Is dying. and he mother OF the
children is seriously burned as the re-
suit Of a lamp explosion at their home
ar Vandergrift Heights. Pa.
Monday, August f6.
af Santa Rdr-
bara Cal. was destroyed by nre
which drove out several hundred
guests. Loss. $4,000.
Hugh c. Ward. a prominent Kansas
CITY philanthropist. law partner OF
Governor Hadley. OF Missouri, died in
a sanltarium at New York Of apoplexy.
Samuel s. Martin. Of Voganville,
Pa. was seriously hurt by fall OF
thirtv-fve feet while painting. both
arms being broken and internal In
juries sustained.
The International Typographical
union. in session at St Joseph, Mo-
voted 10 require local unions to anil
ate with the central bodies OF the
American Federation Of Labor
Tuesday, august II.
Harry Shellenberger. York, Pa,
butcher. died of blood poisoning. caus-
cd nv a small cut on the hand.
Benson Miller, fourteen years OLD,
was killed at Chicago by a pitcheu
hall which struck him on the ear.
LADY Alma-Tadema. wife OF Sir
Lawrence Alma -Tadema the painter
and herself an artist of note Is dea
Because she Tilted him. Harry Bliss
aged eighteen. shot and fatally wound
cd Miss Minnie Clarke aged seven
teen
Ned Marshall who is described as
an American millionaire. was N'le'
at Monte Carlo by a hospital guard
who escaped
Prince Albert Leopold. heir 10 the
Belgian throne has arrived in Ant
werp from his trip to the Congo and
was given an ovation.
Wednesday, August 10.
Charleston. S. c.. voted against pro
hibition for the county dispensary SIN
10 one i'm the liquor election.
Carrying twenty-five passengers the
+ steamer Seattle turned turtle 300 ieeI
from her dock at Couer DAlene
Wash. No lives were lost.
The petroleum fuel OF the steamer
Monte Blanco caught fire in the bar
bor at Callao. Peru. and the steamer
was completely destroyed
The first bale Of new crop North
Carolina cotton was sold at NorVeh
n c. It wa classed as good middllns
and brought IA cents a pound.
Ella Bullock and her two small SIS
ters we're burned 10 death In a hre
that DESTROYED the farmhouse near Id
Brosse. Kan. The fire was caused by
a gasoline explosion during the aD
sence of the parents.
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