The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1910-02-11
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Thursday. February 5.


The comptroller Of currency OF 'he
treasury issued call for a statement
IF the condition of national banks at
the close of business as OF Jan. 81
The United States senate passed the
army appropriation bill and the urgent
deficiency appropriation bill, the lot
mer carrying sos ,44O,567 and the latter
s5,15O0OO 900.
Representative Hardwick, OF Geor-
g,a charged on the floor Of the house
that colored enumerators were peins
used 10 take the colored census oil the
south in order to overcome the Ill ei
fects 10 the Republican party arising
from, President Roosevelt's dismissal /
Of troops engaged in the Brownsville !
ARRAY
Friday February q.
In the absence of his mother the
,hroa.vear-old son of Mrs. Bonnie Mil
Tor If Arabia. O.. started a fire with
coal oil The house was destroyed. Inc
hov's elghteen-months-old sister per
/ ished.
President Taft announced that ne
d,d not consider an amendment 10 the
corporation tax law necessary IN oraer
~ nrevent rival concerns from obtain
ing information as TO the private al
fairs of competitors.
To prevent the lynchng OF a dying
oolored man. members OF the state
militia are guarding the jail at Hope
Ark The prisoner who is charged
with having insulted white woman
WAS shot while enroute to prison.
Saturday, February 5.
An apparent shortage OF upwards OF
s,5o 600 in the accounts OF the South
bridge (Mass) Savings bank was ad-
r,,tted nv officials OF that institution.
S Chicago will vote on the saloon ques-
. ton Of the April election provided the
!. notition nled can Withstand the Legal
attacks Manned by the liquor organ
nations.
l. President Taft has agreed. other en-
u gesements not interfering, TO attend
d on Feb % the annual banquet OF IN
# Alexandria Washington lodge OF Ma
S sons OF which George Washington was
the first master
r. Seizure OF twenty barrels OF oyster
ir m the complaint that they had Deei
e contaminated by sewage, created e'
ID element among Chicago dealers. IN
:. ovsters were said to have been shippe
n from South Norwalk, Conn.
Hak.
ut william S. Skaters three-yeaf-ol
le son Charles was perhaps fatally scal'
~ ed near Marietta, Pa.
SIS Struck by a ball in racquet gam
or at Chicago. Walter Farwell. son
e. former United States Senator Charlie
&c B. Farwell. lost an eye.
OF After long resistance James Dame
and his fye sons. noted feudis's. WI
he are charged with murder surrender
e9 10 the Kentucky authorities.
Following anonymous threats TO p,
70 son every person in the village
'rs Surfing wis. one child has perish
bv poisoned candy and the populate
IT'S of 300 is terrified.
Cd Tuesday, February 8.
to- Tho main factory building Of I
lon Quaker Shade Roller company, at b
CITY. Mich. was partly destroyed
ort Are causing a loss Of 100000.
I'm Iohn H. Core. aged seventy yea
ap one of the wcalthiest men in caste
md Virginia. and the largest individl
Of holder OF real estate in Norfolk. Y
the is dead.
and President Taft will celebrate
en- patrick's day with the Irish at {
res caeo having definitely accepted an
vitation of the Good Fellowship cl
'afs Of that city.
nor Homer c. Cope. an Indianapo
3 OF Ind. bricklayer shot and killed
as mother-iulaw. Mrs. Louisa c. Geor
one shot his wife in the head and q
8 Is killed himself with the same weap
Cone and his wife had separated.
by Wednesday, February 9.
,ors, Car shops to cost more than $40
oil 600 are TO be built by the Big F
lpon railroad at Beech Grove, near Ind
lOou arolis. Ind.
at Herman Strauss. twentyfour 70
old. who just completed a penitent
term. shot and killed his wife An
y eighteen years old, and then ki
and himself in a fiat in New York.
salth William o. Parsons, thirty
nedy Seais o'u. y, - -. oorgrese IN
CON Fourth West Virginia district In
and last campaign. died suddenly OF b
failure In o local hotel