The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1909-02-19
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.


Thursday, eDflaFJ ll'
Mrs. Elizabeth Lehman. the Oldest
resident Of Lancaster county, Pa, died
in Mount Joy. aged 104 years.
-Four miners were fatally burned
an explosion of a keg Of powder in tie
GAYLORD mine. near Wheeling W. va.
Waldron Bates. an attorney OF Bos-
ton Mass. was instantly killed under
a train at Monroe. near Lynchburg' va.
Senator Frye introduced a Dill IN
the senate which requires all ocean
going steamers carrying fifty passen-
gers or more between ports 2OV miles
apart to he oSlipped with wireless
telegraph apparatus.
Friday. February Y.
William II. Whipple. founder OF the
first boys branch of the Young Mems
Christian association, died at his home
at Salem. Mass.
Rev. c. p. Pledger, assistant 10
Evangelist BILLY" Sunday. who has
lust completed a six weeks reNyal
service at Spokane, Wash diCd In tha'
city Of pneumonia.
Thomas Lewis. postmaster al GranO
Works. Ill.,. who pleaded guilty 10 EN-
bezzling ssS2O5 Of postofice FUNDS
has been sentenced to serve two years
in .he penitentiary.
Joseph Adams. twenty-slx years oiu'
who claims he is wanted by the au'
thorities of Quebec. Can, upon two
charges of false pretense. has surren-
dered himself to the Pittsburg police
and is being held pending word from
Canada.
Saturday, February 10.
Rev Dr. William Dunn Mitchell. OF
Baltimore. a widely known Methodist
evangelist. died suddenly at Princeton
n. J.. from heart disease.
Two men we're killed and one so
hadlv injured that he may not recover
by an explosion in the McAdoo tunnel
along the Hudson river at Jersey CITY,
Nj.
Mrs James Lamberton, aged eighty
one years. mother of Admiral Benja'
min P. Lamberton, of the United
States navy. died at her home In Car
Isle, Pa.
lanes Herman, a saloonkeeper and
Charles Winters. a driver. were shot
and perhaps mortally wounded in sta
pleton. S. l.. in a quarrel over dog
owned by Winters.
Monday. February IS.
Caspar L. Simonds, son Of the late
Commissioner of Patents William %
Slmonds. was accidentally asphyxiated
at Hartford, Conn.
Francis Heine. of near Orwigsburg
Pa. obtained from his seventy-hye col
onies Of bees last year two and three
quarter tons Of honey
The United Mine Workers will send
100 organizers into the Schuylkill. Pa.
region 10 get recruits 10 line up fol-
next April's scale contest
a small f-e in the Algonquin hotel
New York. caused a partial panic
among the $50 guests who rushed &c
the lobby In their night clothes.
Declaring that when he pleaded
guilty to l-rceny he was promised
sentence Of one year. and that he now
discovers he is lin" for twenty years
lanes O'N.nl demands his release
from the Illinois penitentiary
Tuesday, February IS.
Andrew Carnegie gave Cincinnati
O.. 100000 with which to build three
branch Libraries.
The Bank of Oaktaha, sixteen miles
south of Muskogee. Okla, was broker
into and robbed of $4,000.
FL. Woodruff, of Atlanta, Ga, drop
ned dead from heart disease on pas
senger train near Detroit. Mich.
Battalion Chief Michael Graham, one
of the five fremen who were injured
bv the collapse Of wall in a fire II
the packing sheds OF the Pratt Oi
works in Brooklyn, died.
A bill authorizing the acceptance by
the United States from the women''
relief corps. auxiliary to the Crane
Army of the Republic. Of lightweight
acres OF land contiguous to the Ander
} sonvile National cemetery, Georgia
was passed by the senate.
Wednesday, February H.
Rear Admiral James G. Green, U
? S. n. retired died at Edenton, n. c.
, The house of representatives passed
, the bill providing for separate state
hood for Arizona and New Mexico.
Leslie Coombs. aged nineteen years
was put to death by electricity in The
state prison at Dannemora. n. Y, fol
the murder Of Harry Hosmer, in st
Lawrence county, Sept. &c. 1908.
General William f. Micllle, adjutan
general Of the United Confederate
Veterans. gave out a statement say
ing there would be no joint session o
the "Blue and Gray" at Memphis.