The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1910-03-18

months Of 1904 daily average OF
10000.
James Derr. a prominent produce
dealer of Philadelphia. hanged himseii
I'm the cellar Of his home while men
tally d%eranged.
Despondent because she was sepa
rated from her husband. Mrs. jacob
Rufe. forty-eight years old. oil Lahs
- -
Ing herseN.
The old a ferry Ann Arbor. No l.
burned at Manitowoc. Wis. and the
crew narrowly escaped. Two men
were forced to jump into the river
The loss is about $4,000.
Friday, March H..
David Alexander Munroe assistant
editor of the North American Review
died Of a complication of diseases IN
81. Vincent S hospital in New YORK.
Robbers dynamited the safe OF the
Bank of Edna. Kan. obtained a sum
estimated at $4,000 and escaped on a
hand car after exchanging shots win
a number OF citizens.
Merritt C. Burns. a machinist, EN-
ployed at the Reading railway shops
at Reading. Pa. was engaged In max
inc 2 test Of a tank. when it exploded.
tie top striking his head and crushing
his skull.
A sixty-inch se~archlight. the largest
IN American Notifications. is being in
stalled at Fort Rosecrans. on Point
Iona. at San Diego. Cal. 1t can pick
ND a vessel over thirty miles at sea
Saturday, March II.
A warrant was issued at Savannah.
Ga. charging James NJ. Doyle. for
merly teller of the Hibernian bank.
with embezzlement of something over
$4,000.
Colonel Alexander Robert Chisolm.
formerly lieutenant colonel on the t
of General G.. T. B~eauregard. OF the
armies of the Confederacy. died at his
home in New York.
Charles Davis. colored. who last
August murdered Ella Welch. aged
4 fifteen years. Of %Ironton. also colored.
was e~lectrocuted in the Ohio peniten-
tiary at Columbus. O.
Charles +. Hunter. commander ol
the Rough Riders. issued a call for
every member of the regiment to meet
in New York city on June Is TO join in
welcoming former President Rocsc
welt back from Africa.
Monday, March "A.
Vincent Anglo, of Lansford, was i'm
stantly killed by an explosion of dy
Mantle in a mine at TamaQua, Pa.
"I am getting too old to work said
Silas Tuniso. aged sixty-seyen years.
al Chicago. As he slashed his throat
, with a razor and died.
A man supposed to be named Bar
ker jumped from a Seaboard Air Line
train into the Manitee river at Tampa.
Fla. and was drowned.
A reward of 5000 has been offered
70 rthe arrest Of James Doyle. alleged
to have embezzled s996SS9 from the
Hibernian bank. of Savannah. Ga.
Tuesday. March IS.
The nomination of Harry w.
Thatcher to be postmaster at South
Bethlehem. Pa. was confirmed by the
United States senate.
John II. SantOry. manager of a
clothing store at Kingston. n. Y. pur.
chased a new automobile Saturday
and caused $500 damage while trying
10 learn how TO run Il.
Nicholas Rotelle. t%wenty-four years
old. was crushed to death beneath a
freight car on the Trenton Cut-off rail
road near Norristown. Pa. He had
crawled under the car to make re-
pairs.
Rather than allow another person to
use her blue ribbon coach horses. Mrs.
NJ. Z. Edgerton. a resident of the mil
lionaire colony at Plainheld. N. j.. re.
Gently had a veterinary surgeon shoot
them. Mrs. Edgerton lately became
devoted TO the automobile.
Wednesday, March is.
During an argument with his wife.
Augustus Hof. of Philadelphia, com.
mltted suicide by shooting himself in
the head.
Mary Wilson. seventy years old
pleaded guilty in New York to shop
lifting and was sentenced TO serve
eleven months in the penitentiary.
Among the nominations for post
masters sent to the senate were the
following: Peter f. Wanser. Jersey
City. y. j.. and George w. Schaef
S~usQuehanDa. Pa.
Kirk Alexander. siXty-two years old.
and his son Alvin. thirty years old
were found dead i'm their bed in Ok.
fnrd moan Chnetnr Pa frnm inhalinr