The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1909-05-28
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
THURSDAY. May 20.

.HuQEe du NDHtl anu ~ -'A-
Chinese from Lee Shen Lena Sing TO
whom he was married in Oakland
Cal last July
While testifying in court in dam
400 case. DIR. r. Bruce Burns. a promi-
nent Philadelphia physician, was
stricken with paralysis and removed
to a hospital in a critical condition.
The survivors of the famous "nght.
Ing Fifteenth Pennsylvania cavalry
will erect a tablet in memory OF the
late General William j. Palmer OF
colorado Springs. in prominent place
IN Palmer hall. Colorado college.
Friday, May n.
plans were completed for the un'
yelling at Hodgenville. KY, May 81,
of the Abraham Lincoln memorial
statue.
Charles e. Barber a member or the
Aero Club OF America. died In MS
home at Warwick. N. Y. OF injuries
sustained when his automobile was
struck by locomotive.
PENNSYLVANIA State Forestry Com
missioner Robert S. Conklin announc-
"a that the 800 acres of forest lano
bought in Westmorelsnd and Somerset
counties had been constituted state
reserve the first to be established Oh
the Ohio river watershed.
Saturday, May p.
Clarence Herbert Freeman, former
national checker champion, died al
Providence. r. |.
Catholic laymen of Denver COLO
are preparing to send a petition TO the
none asking for the removal Of Bishop
Matz. of the Catholic diocese OF Colo
RADIO.
In the presence of their little daugh
Ger Eugene PEBBLES. young iroT
moulder apparently insane. killed his
wife AZ Norfolk. Va. in a boarding
house kept by the victims twin sister
Armed with small base ball bat
Miss Clara Anderson. a servant In th'
household of L. s Schwabacher. vic'
president of a wholesale hardware
company at Seattle Wash. attacked
burglar in the family residence. knock
ing from his hands jewelry said TO b'
worth $1,000 and driving the thief from
the house
Monday, May "a.
T G. Bush. formerly cartoonist TO
the New York World. died at his win
ter home at Camden s. c.
The Florida house voted $500
appropriation for silver service 10
the battieship Florida. now under con
struction
Thieves entered the shoe store o
Samuel Goldberg, at Vineland, \. J.
and carried away 100 pairs of shoes
s31 I'm cash and check for $50.
A stone found IN Wisconsin. bearin
Runic characters and the date 1876.
was made the basis Of a claim tina
Norsomen discovered America earle
than Columbus.
Wells Post. G. A. R.. Of Columbus
O has adopted resolutions condemn
ing the erection of a monument I
Canfais Henry Wirz former con
mander Of Andersonville prison.
Tuesday May p.
President Taft sent 10 the senat
the nomination of Colonel Richard !
Yeatman of the Eleventh infantry
De bneadier general
In closing their convention at Boz
ton the Order of Railway Conductor
chose Jacksonville. Fla. as the plac
for the next biennial convention.
Three lives were lost in a collisio
between the steamer Western state
and the tug Princeton in the harbc
off the United States life saving ST.
tion ar Buffalo. n. Y.
After a trip of 5000 miles. without
cent in their pockets Arthur Gran
aged seven years. and Joe Crosb
aged nine years. both Of SaginaV
Mich. arrived at Toledo, o.
Wednesday, May 26.
Five children were fatally burne
during commencement exercises in
private school at Central City, Ky.
George A. Dayton. OF Boonton. y.
committed suicide in the Central hot
al Boston by inhaling illuminatin
gas
Lovett Davis. a negro. charged wit
attempting TO criminally assault a ST
teenyearold white girl. was lynche
at Pine Bluff. Ark
Mrs. Lizzie York Case, well know
writer OF verse and prose for newsp
pers and magazines, died at her hon
near Baltimore. Nd. aged seventy-tv
years.
President Taft issued an executiN
order directing that when holidays ia
on Sunday. all government employ'
entitled 20 a holiday shall be granite
leave on the Monday following.