The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1909-11-26
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Fridav. November 10.

DESTROYED by fire. but the records ana
.ax rolls were not injured.
The comptroller of the currency Is
sued a call for statement OF the con-
dition OF all the national banks at the
close of business on Nov. l6.
Paul Wesley Collins. four years Old
died OF hydrophobia on a Big -Four
train at Indianapolis. Ind, while he
was on the way home from Chicago
where he had been for treatment.
Death due to his profession is the
verdict of the friends Of Dr. Francis
r. Sprague. one of the foremost ear
and throat specialists in the country
who died at Providence, r. l.. OF blood
poisoning contracted while operating
on a charity patient
Saturday, November 20.
Two masked men dynamited the
safe in the Bank Of Alleman, at ALE
man. Ia. escaping with $1,000 cash.
Charged with eight highway robber
les. twice shooting victims and escap
ing three times. Bud McLaurin was
caught at Durham. n. c.
Governor Brown. of Georgia. com
muted to life imprisonment the death
sentence of DIR. j. NJ. Elliott. of La
Grange. who was 10 have been hanged
at Atlanta for the murder of G. l.
Rivers.
II IS stated in New York that the
earning power Of the copper refining
and other companies that will enter
the proposed copper merger is be
tween s25.OO00oO and s30.OO0.0OO
based upon l3-cent copper.
Monday, November p.
Peter Kroeyer. Denmarks foremost
frd only world renowned painter died
in Copenhagen.
Pittsburg announces that Republic
Steel company puddlers wages viii
go back to $3.50 a ton.
While cunning near Lincolnton. y
G.. Wood Rogers. aged eighteen years
was killed by Earle Caldwell, a com
rade of the same age.
The gross receipts from the sales
Of North Dakota public lands during
the fiscal year amounted to s1282,6S6
while Montana lands brought $7l2.9S3
Ouarreling with his sister-in-law.
Mrs. Josephine Edwards. at Brooklyn
Adolph Ochs shot her in the back
then shot himself in the head Both
probably will die
Tuesday, November %.
Frank King. president Of the Iron
workers union Of Cleveland. O.. who
was waylaid and shot, died Of his
wound.
Philip Latourette. an insurance
broker. OF New York, dropped dead
near the New Jersey Central station
at Somervilo. n. J.
Edward Miller. known TO the police
as the "huggcr" was sent to jail foi
six months at Paterson. y. j.. by the
policcrocorder for annoying y0una
women after dark
Mrs. Philip Snowden the leader OF
the persuasive suffrageues Of Eng
land was presented to President Taft
ut the White House and had a few
minutes conversation with him re
garding women's rights.
Teodoro Rizzo. who murdered The
resa Proconia. seven years Old. and
Freddy lnfusino. two and a half years
old. in a lonely culyert in Utica, n. Y.
the night of Sept 70 last, was cleo
trocuted in Auburn prison.
Wednesday, November a.
Vespasian Warner. United States
pension commissioner. received from
President Taft an acceptance of Mr.
Warmers resignation.
Lonely without the wife who had
been dead for eight years. John Hart
man. an aged Englishman. of Cleve
land. O.. cut his throat
The large wholesale dry goods store
NJ the Bernard Frank company. al
Montgomery. Ala. was struck by light
ming and totally destroyed
Bloodhounds in running down the
assailant of seventeen-year-old Myra
Smith who was attacked on the street
at Lima. O.. came near causing the
death Of the wrong man
Following a conference between
MAYOR Tom t. Johnson. of Cleveland
and the administration counclmen ir
the formers Office. ordinances grant
ing a franchise for a S50O00000 sub
way system to the Cleveland Subway
company were introduced In the city