The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1910-05-27
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Thursday, May 10.

oroclamations .oncerning the national
forests. In all sls.SOS acres are ellmi I
mated and 199.O03 acres are added 10
the reserve
orders for 1000 steel freight acrs
have been placed with Chicago con
Germ bv the Grand Trunk railroad. IN
cluded in the order are 500 speciai au'
tomobile cars. =,
Detroit (Michl common council
nassed A resolution asking the prose
cutting attorney and the police depart
ment to investigate charges OF bribery
IN the council
Friday. May 90
Councilman F S Fernstrom startled
the salt Lake. Utah city council by as
sertipe that be had been offered
bribe and charging Mayor J. S Brans
ford with collision with a contractor
IN changing the terms OF sewer pipe
contract s.,.s
Comnlete returns from Tuesday
election in Denver Colo. show tha'
Miss Ellis Meredith. a well known clnp
woman has been chosen election com
missioner. her total Of 2O.ss7 eXceea
ing the combined vote Of her seven
men competitors. She is the nrs' "o
man elected TO Office in Denver
Saturday. May p.
Trade between the United States and
Panama in the fiscal year ending mex
month will exceed s2200O.OOO.
With the jail guarded by three com
NAMES of state militia, Howard Harris
a negro. convicted Of assaulting
white woman. was hanged at Thomas
Vile Ga
After unsuccessful efforts to take
her life with a razor and an axe MIS-.
III. Deal. twenty-seven years old. Of
Maiden. N. c.. saturated her clothes
with oil and set fire to herself she
leaves two young children.
Travelling alone one-third the way
around the world. ten-year-old LOIS
Reed Mcclure arrived at New Castle
Pa from Bombay, India. The girl Is a
daughter of the late Rev. Reed NC
CIure Of New Wilmington. Pa. a
United Presbyterian missionary VINO
died two years ago.
Monday, May %.
AS the result of a fall against an
iron bed during a scuffie at bis board
ing house in Berwick, Pa, Steven Bar
shun has died.
While Mrs. w. II. French, OF Craley
Vile. was preparing coal oil to apply
to an injured hog she was burned al
most to death.
Grieving over the dedath OF her sol
from ptomaine poisoning. Mrs JONI
Holland died at Tiffin, o., and was
buried with her boy.
Previous smoking records were
smashed by Walter W. Soergel' at Cni
cago who smoked an ordinary cigai
for 115 minutes and thirty seconds
without relighting
Tuesday, May "a.
A fire destroyed the dwelling o
James Alexander in Hazleton' ia.
and one of the inmates. Mrs. Kate 10
Germ. was burned to death.
Canaries constituted 80 per cent o
the birds imported into the Unite'
States during the past year near!
375.OOO of these pets singing thel
way into American ports in 1909.
The department of justice is investl
eating the subject of the price o
lumber in the United States to deter
mine whether or not the lumber trus
NAV be reached by the Sherman ant
trust law.
Porter. a twenty-six-year-old morse
has been given recognition by the On
cago commissioners, who have tol
mslly passed resolutions congratula'
ing him on his sixteen years of servic
and retired him. pensioned for life. t
snend the remainder Of his days
luxury.
Wednesday. May Is.
Two thousand coal miners In s
Clair county. ILL.,. returned TO worl
having been out for two months. Tn
miners got cents a ton increase
Governor Sanders, of Louisiana ma
signed a constitutional amendmer
~rbm,ttinr the proposal Of 100000
"a kin support OF the proposed World
panama exposition at New Orleans
1915.
A resolution requesting the author
ties to prohibit railroads from usir
wooden mail cars was passed by u
eighteenth annual convention OF II
Railway Mail Clerks Association
America at Kansas City, Mo
The Grand Army post at Bethel M'
having dwindled from 100 members
ten sold its property, consisting
muskets. cartridge belts, swords. flag
Afe and drum, at auction. terminatir
the existence Of body organized ov
thirty years ago. g.s
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