The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1910-03-11
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Thursday. March 8.

Rector. a night clerk. was arrested for
alleged completely In the theft.
With her body. face and hands torn
end her two children suffering with
innumerable scratches. Mrs. George
McNemsry. Of Pittsburg, Pa, bears evil
dences Of an encounter with a cat that
went mad.
Gordon Davis. who was born a slave
70 Jefferson Davis family and who
was jefferson Davis servant. died at
his home in South Boerne. Tex, aged
sixty years. During the Civil VA he
was taken by Union soldiers and made
a corporal i'm the Union army.
Friday. March 4.
Walter Dagen. fifty years old. who
was expected TO be the chief witness
for the state IN the prosecution OF for
mer county commissioners indicted al
Tifn. O.. recently for alleged graft
ing. committed suicide.
Lieutenant General Arthur MacAr-
thur. retired. before the Milwaukee
Press club. urged the establishment
Of mobilization depots I'm various cen
tiers Of population to store arms and
equipment for $50. 900 men.
Henry Akin. aged forty-fve years.
a miner of Sycamore. selected a spot
in the woods at Glasgow. near Johns
town. Pa. to end his life by cutting
his throat. Years ago his father com
mitted suicide by hanging not far from
the same place.
Saturday. March 5.
Both houses OF the Oklahoma lcgis
lature ratified the income tax amend
ment 10 the federal constitution
John Wren and Patrick Quinn. pc
licemen. were shot in Chicago by two
Italians supposed to be members OF
3 Black Hand organization. Wren is
said TO be dying. Quinn's wound is not
serious.
W. T. Jones. one OF the wealthiest
planters in South Carolina. will have
10 serve a life sentence in the state
penitentiary FOR the murder OF his
wife, the supreme court having al
irmed the judgment of the lower
court.
Monday, March 7.
Plank Ridge washery. near Shenan-
doah. Pa. which has been idle for six
weeks. resumed. giving employment to
several hundred men and boys.
One man was killed five injured
and several are missing in a landslide
AT Mountaindale. Wash. on the Chit
cago. Milwaukee & Puget Sound rail
road.
W. D. Iced. OF Denver. Lancaster
county. Pa. has a goose which laid
an egg nearly one foot in circumfer
ence One way and eight and three
quarter inches The other
It is rumored that e%iehty-four coal
mines I'm the New river district OF
West Virginia with an annual outpu'
of 100000 tons will be controlled by
a single Washington selling agency.
Tuesday. March 8.
AS he was stepping forward 10 be
baptized al a revival service at Girard.
o.. James Apologize sixty-dve years
Old. a wealthy and prominent citizen
dropped dead.
A Bessemer & Lake Erie railroad
locomotive was thrown into French
creek by the collapse of a steel bridge
near M~eadville. Pa. The engine sank
In 100 feet Of water. The crew escaped
A burglar. who gave his name as
James Clark. r~ansacked the Alpha
Tau Omega Fraternity house at Chi
cago. was chased by twenty students
m pajamas and captured. taken bacl
80 the fraternity house. given a bath
and turned over 10 the police.
Wednesday, March g.
An unidentified man committed sui
eide by jumping from the North street
bridge into the swollen SuSquehanna
AZ wilkes Barre Pa The body quickly
disappeared
Governor G.. y Haskell. Of Okla
bona. vetoed the so-called Taylor cleo
lion bin. under which It is claimed
most of the colored men of the state
would be barred from voting on con
stitutional amendments
Tony Stillitano. twenty-four years OF
age. was shot to death in a crowded
restaurant at Johnstown, Pa. but when
the police arrived the place was de.
aerfed AMI uo clue 10 the former pa
irons coz occupants was Q%h.ainable.
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