The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1910-03-25
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Thursday. March II.

. killed and two injured.
While conversing with his attend
ont At Laurel Del. George Thomas
ared forty. died from heart failure.
Ne had been suffering from dropsy.
Senior P~rudencio De Murgliondo'
coneul general from Uruguay to the
United States. died at his home in Bal
timore OF pneumonia. He was born IN
Buenos Ayres seventy-nine years ago
Friday. March 10.
Two men were killed and several
injured by an explosion Of dynamite
in the oil and gas field north OF Bar
tlesville. Okla.
Edwin A. Herndon. for fifteen years
managing editor Of the Lynchburs.
Va. news. was thrown from horse
hack. and his head. striking a gate
most. he received injuries from which
he died.
Found in the real Of a Chinese
store. where it is said she had been
held prisoner for a year, Chan Shee'
seventeen years old. was taken into
| custody by federal officers II was said
the girl was brought through San
Francisco as the wife Of a Chinese.
after being bought in China.
Saturday. March 10.
In a dispute over 80 cents. r. W.
Graham. an engineer of Valley Falls.
s. c., was struck on the head by a
rock thrown by Emory Bishop. and
J died.
Mrs. Anna Forsell. thirty years old,
q patient in the Seney hospital. Brook
lyn. \. Y. was crushed TO death while
being carrier on an operating cart In
the elevator OF the building. She had
1ust undergone an operation.
In a desperate pistol fight near
Bourbe. XIV. between Luther Ray and
Greed Turner and three sons. the
elder Turner was killed and Ray was
MORALLY wounded. Ray was shot in
half a dozen places and left TO die 10
the road.
John Smith Kirk. aged s~eyenty-three
years. chief clerk of the personal tax
division OF the District Of Columbia.
w.
was found dead in a bathtub at his
/, home in Washington. The coroner is
(, sued a certificate Of death by suicide
by drowning.
Monday, March p.
Two masked h%ighwaymen relieved
passengers on a Chicago street car Of
about $50 and escaped.
One of the last surviving generals
OF the Confederacy. General Thomas
H. Rosser. is seriously III at Charlottes-
vile Va.
Preliminary returns indicate that
the Western Federation Of Miners
have voted to affiliate with the Ameri-
can Federation Of Labor.
Mrs. William Simmons. Of Marietta.
Pa. in gathering up some newspapers.
accidentally gathered up her hus-
bands a envelope. containing nearly
81. and It was burned.
Tuesday, March %.
George Olewiler. a prominent citizen
Of Long Level. dropped dead while he
was about TO enter the Free Peoples
church at York. Pa. Death was due to
heart trouble.
President Benjamin Ide Wheeler. Of
tho University Of California,
IS that Colonel Theodore Roosevelt
viii deliver a course Of lectures at the
university during the spring OF 1911.
After a stay OF two days at their
home in Trenton, S. c.. United States
Senator b r. Tillman and Mrs. TIL
man arrived In Atlanta. Ga. The sens.
tor was driven Immediately to a local
sanitarium.
Henry Savage. an %aeronaut. narrow
" escaped death when his balloon ev-
ploded and he fell 800 feet at Los a
eeles. Cal. In descending his para
chute opened and checked his fall.
Savage was unconscious when picked
up. but recovered in a few minutes.
Wednesday, March %.
The plant Of the Roe Stephens Man
uiacturing company. at Detroit. Mich.
makers of hydrants. has been burned.
Loss, s25O.OOO.
4 second aviation meeting on a
scale larger than that OF last year will
be held at the Bethany Aviation field
at Rheims. France. from July 3 to
July 10.
Paincovcrtville. La. a town of 500
inlSbitants. has been destroyed by
fire. Eyery building in the business
section aud the best resident section
was burned.
After kissing his twelye-year-old
daughter eoodby. J. l.. Fessenden, a
merchant at Glen Iron. near Lewis
burg. Pa. committed suicide by firing
q bullet through his skull He vas de-