The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1910-06-03
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.


lad DOlb Nclc NASH
were rescued.
Alexander Combee. Of Breathitt
county Ky. was killed from ambush
while floating down the KENTUCKY
river on a raft
Forty-eight pals Of cloves. consign.
Cd 10 a Cincinnati spice company VIII
no DESTROYED under the pure food ACT
nv federal inspectors in New YORK
The oil has been extracted from the
cloves by a chemical process and they
have been stained with iron to niue
this fact
Friday, May "a.
The Panama Railroad company has
contracted for semi-bituminous COAL
retailing $4,000 tons, for next year
owing 10 the danger of spontaneous
combustion. due to excessive moisture
I nthe zone air. no bids for bitumlnOus
coal were considered.
p W. Ebelen, a well known morse
man of Henderson. KY. was snot anu
Killed. and Matte White. eoioreu
servant was fatally wounded by MIS-
Ebelen. Mrs. Ebelen gave herseu up,
saving either she or her husband nao
N die Jealousy was the cause.
Row 1. Hickman, twenty-one years
old son of DR.. Glyndeur Hickman, was
electrocuted at the Metropolitan hlec
trio company's plant in Reading pa
his foot coming in contact with a
charged wire. He was engaged TO De
married to Miss Gertrude Deyine.
Saturday. May %.
Goaded by schoolmates. who msue
finn If his suffering. Leonard, the nj
teen-year-old son Of S. d. Lawrence d
ZIMMERMAN at Genoa, Ill, drowned
himself in Fox river.
Tho total catch Of fur seals by ma
lives off the Alaska coast this season
\ wiu not be more than 125 pelts Japa
nese sealers using muf1ed power Doa's
will reap a harvest ,,
! Clad only in a night robe, Mrs. VII
liam stroker. forty-three years OLD o.
chicago committed suicide by throw
ing herself in front of a train. he'
bodv was badly mangled. She was de
ranged.
: Monday, May 80.
His axe slipping, Edward Dietz' o
near Marietta. Pa. cut his left loot 81
seriously that he tainted as he hobble'
in TO his home
Fourteen hundred employees OF IN
Malleable Casting company, oil Ioleuo
n are thrown out Of work through
, strike Of seventy men in the mouiders
n department
Her apron catching fire from stow
about which she was doing some coor
ing. Mrs. Margaret McGsrvey' age
S eightv-four years. of Wilmington Del
e was so badly burned that she died a
the Delaware hospital
= Under the guidance of Father Jon
: G. Hagen. director of the Vatican OF
servatory in Rome. the pope has mad
nm observation of Halloy's comet HI
holiness remarked that what he sa'
o scarcely warranted the commotion tina
It the comet has caused throughout tn
n world.
N Tuesday, May 81.
20 Bernard Dierkes, city auditor OF ,
1ouis from 1901 to 1909, shot and XII
ed himself.
T. The output Of the government
III smokeless powder factory at Picati
nv. \. J.. arsenal is TO be trebled an
the factory will turn out 5000 pound
, daily.
Two houses in the village Of Gut
RE. w. Va. we're destroyed by 70
sr nado which passed mp the Elk vale
lie several persons were injured al
at much live stock killed.
D. Van Pressly shot and killed his rat
,e er John Pressly. at Laurel Hill. net
at Nashville. Tenn, because the latter !
. fused TO let him have a horse to rid
The Young man is barricaded in b
" fathers house and declares he VIII u
" be taken alive.
Wednesday, June I.
Three hundred and fifty coal me
r. representing associations OF On
no Michigan and Indiana, met in ToleC
- O.. and effected a merger Of the thr
.,s organizations.
10 The statute of Missouri. passed
We March 10. 1907, prohibiting forei
}. corporations from doing business VII
ty in the state If they seek litigation
We the United States courts, was declar
ay unconstitutional by the supreme col
en- of the United States.
Shuford Abernehty thirty-six yea
old. a lumber dealer of Bridgewat
near Hickory. n c., was instan
IS killed. and Robert Hodges, aged thir
lot seven years. also of Bridgewater' "
ess seriously injured by Southern freif
we train while walking on siding.