The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1910-05-13
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Thursday, May 5.

Onera House at Dubuque Ia. during
a performance.
rising bare fists David Caldwell and
Otto George. nigh school boys iougn'
an eight-round battle at San Mateo
Cal Caldwell Won by knockout
The bovs are said 70 be rivals in love
Two men were killed and nine per
CONS severely injured in a wreck on
the Ohio Electric railroad near Ur
hama o. A freight car broke away
from trolley express and plunged
Into a passenger car
Friday May 6.
Fire DESTROYED the art metal works
NJ Simon Aaronson. at Newark. y. j..
with 800 COO damage. and at the same
honr burned out his house in New
York city
Operations OF a forger named Cohen.
who secured almost $4,000 in cash.
have lust been revealed by the officials
of the National Shawmut bank at Bos
ION Three forged checks bore the
name Of a prominent banker.
Joseph Vauthier was acquitted At
New orleans Of the charge Of bigamy
after his attorney made the plea tina
the defendant was the father Of nine
children. Vauthier claimed that he was
intoxicated when he committed the
crime
w. r. Brookins OF Dayton, O.. one
of the student aviators under Orville
Wright made his first fight unaccom
panied at Montgomery. Ala, remain
ing aloft six minutes
Saturday, May 7.
Three fremen were killed at Macon
Ga and three others we're injured
when the tire on an automobile engine
exploded on the way TO fire.
Charged with Kidnapping Helen. the
seven-vear-old daughter Of John Jack
less. Mrs Jossio Sawyer was locker
ND at Providence. r. I. Mrs. Sawye'
was bousel-eeper for Jackless.
One woman. Mrs Emma Miller die
Of fright and two others suffered seri
ons injuries when a ledge Of a HE
cliff on which they were standine
crumbled beneath their feet at Ports
mouth. O.
Convicted Of holding MP and robbine
William Misner q merchant of s..
and watch. Michael McKevitt FRI
vogt and Joseph GlunsN We're sen
fenced 10 life Imprisonment by jury
IN Judge Barnes court in Chicago.
Monday May 9.
In taking the census Of Maryland
the enumerators missed both Governor
/ Crothers and his private secretary
Emerson r. Crothers
There are l6O young men IN West
Berwick. Pa. who came from On'
town. Roccavivi italy. the population
Of which is about $500.
Thomas F. Byrnes. former superin
tendent Of police Of New York, famous
for his work in the detective bureau
died at New York aged sixty-six years
Nehemiah Roach. Of Georgetown
D.. Del. whose legs we're cut of in a rail
road accident at Harbeson. some years
ago. has been pensioned by the Penn
sylvania railroad at $50 a month
Tuesday, May 10.
\ Wesleyan Female college at Macon
Ca. has been ordered closed. prom
ably for the term. by the president
Or. Ainsworth. because Of an outbreal
Of typhoid fever
Despondent Il is believed on ac
count Of ~ health. Peter Eller. sixty
two years old. a Civil War veteran
whose home was in Roanoke. Va, sho
and killed himself at the home Of hii
sonin-law. Acting Detective Harr'
Tucker. in Philadelphia.
Missing since May g. the body o
Edward Darragh. thirty-two years o
age was found floating in the Chris
tiana river at Wilmington Del From
the appearance Of the body It ha'
probably been in the water about fou
DAYS. No foul play is suspected.
Wednesday, May II.
The nomination of Thomas J. Alcot
to be United States marshal for tn
5 district Of New Jersey was sent to tn
2 senate Tuesday.
; While Chief Of Police Ernest Hahn
, of Mount Oliver. near Pittsburg. Pa
was guarding the homes Of the boz
ough. burglars entered his home an
carried of a gold watch, silverwar
and diamond rings that were secrete
in a china closet
Dependency over being Tilted eau;
S ed Charles Shuey. aged twenty-five, Z
l commit suicide at his home in Harris
z burg. Pa. Shuey was engaged 10 MARI
girl. but she chose another mar
i. He cut her portrait from frame, an
placing IT beside him took chloroforn