Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1910-04-09
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Friday, April I.

| second lieutenant in 1867, retiring ar
ter forty years continuous service.
Eleven hundred negro men, women
and children. in one of the American
Tobacco company's stemmeries at
Louisville. KY, struck. The strikers
were disorderly and the police were
called out.
Harlow NJ Higginbotham. seventy
two years old, former president of the
Worlds Columbian Exposition at Chi
cago. is reviving memories of the Civil
War by tramping from Hot Springs,
Va. to Clarksburg, w. Va.,Sy wagon
roads. Mr.. Higginbotham says he is
maging the journey for the pure
pleasure of walking"
Saturday, April 2.
James A. Donnelly, British consul at
| Savannah, Ga, died suddenly at his
home of heart failure. He was born in
South America sixty-three years ago.
Two Italians fought duel in New
York street not far from the East Side
water front One of them was killed
| by shot fred straight through his
head. His adversary escaped.
| DR.. James G. Cumming. director Of
! the Pasteur institute of the University
of Michigan. announced the discovery
of new method for the treatment Of
hydrophobia DR. Cumming uses a
virus.
Monday, April 4.
Charged with emhezzling $4,000
from the Bank of Pine Valley. Wetzell
county. w. Va, Cashier Ezra Mayfield
was arrested.
To succeed Robert NJ. Lafollette in
the United States senate, Samuel a.
Cook. of Nanah, Wis.,. has announced
his candidacy.
Elizabeth and Anna Ashton, Dan
vile girls, are in Jail at Shamokin,
Pa. charged with breaking into a
Reading railway coach and starting a
fight
The central convention of the Lay
mems Missionary Movement of the Re
formed Church in the United States
which meets in Sunbury. Pa, April 10
and 13, will be a notable affair.
Tuesday, April 5.
The First National bank. Of Ran
dolph. Neb.. was robbed of $4,000 by
three masked men. who bound and
gagged Town Marshal Carroll.
Rear Admiral Robley ID. Evans. re
tired in an interview at San Antonio.
Tex, deplored the fact that congress
had authorized only two battleships
instead of four.
The two Japanese who were arrest
ed at Manila for attempting to pur-
chase photographs of the fortifcations
of Corregidor. have been released upon
orders from Secretary of War Dickin-
SON.
While singing solo in the Grace
Episcopal church. at Honesdale. Pa
Miss Minnie Smith struck her heac
against a lighted gas jet igniting
large picture hat. fhe soloist coolh
removed her headgear and handed i
to one Of the male members of ths
choir.
Wednesday, April 6.
Fred Lampey. fifty-fve years Oil.
was gored to death by an infuriateN
bull at Lawrenceburg. Ind. while his
mother. eighty years old, looked on
pcwerless.
Harry E. McAllister. son Of a prom-
nent city official of Baltimore who
quit college to join the army, and who
deserted, will be given term of two
years in the federal prison.
More than 300 saloons have been
voted out of business by the people Of
twenty Michigan counties. Sixteen
counties voted wet" There are now
forty dry" and forty-three wet" coun-
ties in the state.
The towns of Bramwell and Poca
hontas, w. va. are terrorized over TIC
presence of a panther. which. accord
ing to advices received here. badly
lacerated two children at Windin~
Gulf and killed thirty sheep and ST
calves.
Thursday ArriI z.
Customs officials at San Frarcisc
boiled $4,000 worth Of ccntra5rr
opium and poured the valuable dru
into the sewers.
While roller skating in the s-rar
at Harrisburg. Pa. Genevieye Gepr
the thirteen-yesr-old daughter of Re
G. R. Gano, Of Carlisle was run dow
by street car and killed.
Thomas Noel, one Of the colored
men under sentence Of death who e
capped from the Norfolk Va. county
jail March 80. was captured in DruE'
monds' woods. on the outskirts Of Mr.
folk. He was shot With revolver and
a shotgun and is dying.