The Farmville herald. [volume], April 29, 1910, Page TWO, Image 2

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DEATH CLAIMS
MARK TWAIN
King o; Mffis Pzsses Away ai
His Connecticut Home.
WROTE HIS UST WORDS
Humorist Lapsed Into Unconscious-,
neaa and Paaaed Away Without a
Struggle?Tried to Jeke Until the
Last.
Kee April St Samuel
1_ Clemens iMark Twain) die.i
gina pectoris at his hone
city He le
gradually until his death
All hope of a recovery wa*
dened on Wednesday night, s
waa evident to the physicians I
lng him that ths patient wai
ually losing around. He hud
?clous through practically all
Uln. -able kuowl
edge of his condition and of the figh'
that was in progress His spirits kept
np to the last, and until Wednesday
dight he tried to joke a little with th*
people about him.
He recognized his daughter, Booka
a rational word or two and, feeling.
himself unequal to conversation, arrota
out In pencil: "(Jive me my gi
Those were his la.-u words. Lavin*;
them aside he Bank first Into reverie
ead la*er into final unconscious]
America's Most Popular Author.
Beyond question Mark Twain was
the most popular American author.
Boms persons think of him as the most
popular wrl'er In the English lan?
guage, certainly the most widely
known humorist, and a philosopher o'
Barta. In recent years his conspicuous
std pungent personality has made him
not less than a national Institution.
..as horn In IRS.t in the town oj
nerida, Mo. HIb father was a lawyer
who "kept *-'ore" because h.
not i u. In thoa*
-
qualities of one of Hark Twa;:
tlcularly I baracters, Colonel
Mulberry n pree
en' la Jud They also reai.
p*ared in hil st n He died when Bani
uel (
an-l ? throughout his Mfe. th<?
son v ? ng on" about the
trv and tbs world The family was liv
?
died, and I first writing wal
done for the Hannibal loumal
age of eighteen be cami to New York
and worked as a printer; Mien ?
adeiphia and Washington, then back
to Missouri and Iowa He nv. nt from
Cincinnati to Nee Orleans where he
deci i d to 1 ia i Mississippi pilot
?rn almost literally to feel I
In the dark through the more than a
thou - ti Nen
Orleans and St. Lou
all ' set down In "1
the Mississippi."
Hi married In 187? Miss i
Langdon, of F.lrnira. and went to liv*
In Buffalo, where he became inter
ested in the Bi
after ira the family moved ti
Hartford, where they lived from 1 sT^
for nearl Many
I were published during this pep
lad, find Mrs Clemens began h< r wort
as her husband's llterar) adviser am
kept np this work a< lons as she lived
An ' tuie tour afforded va
rlety. but the platform betane
distasteful to him and he declared hf
would never lecture again Yet in 1891
he started out on the "reading tour'
around the world, which set him or
his feet again financially and gallie;
him wide approbation. Then came f
stay la Europe, bul after a period Ol
familv henavenient he came back ti
America in ll I In 1888 Yale gavi
him the degree of master of a
in itel the decres of dot tor of Utera
ture. In If A . , rown
?1 his honors with Ihe degree of Uti
The world rang with his name.
FISHED BABY OUT OF RIVEF
Bundle of Clothing Containing Infan
Hooked by Fisherman.
Ithaca. N Y . April ll - V
Powers, a local angler, thought hi
Would try bis luck in Six Mil
at the Meadow street bridge, and go
a most unusual bib His lins drtftei
inshore. When suddenly he fell a heavi
load on the end of it. Thinking tha
he had made a haul, he yanked lt in
On the end of his line was a heavi
bundle of underclothing, ami
was the hod] of a seven-months ob
baby The body was bruised and mark
erl and dirty, hut in a good stat.- o
rvatlon Powers was somewha
alarmed and tailed the sheriff Th'
sheriff is looking for the mother.
* $12,500 For Loss of Both Eyes.
vYlumb" rll 87. ? '
Frank, a former employe of the He
lancourt Brewing company, wa>
Judgment foi $1'
nany bj I
and claimed thu)
lat with whir1- the interic
of t'
alcohol and th) 1 his bltaV
Boya Crossing Continent on Horses
Pt Li I" -:
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tlnor,'
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Th-jrsday, April 21.
South Dh Ibltlonlsts mad"
material gains lt. a local option ?lec
tion winn' eh(cb has
rut! growing iiec
:,at no ma
- ?,.
? cob! weather
|
? the A Vilseo
pal church in thi ir just eu 1
?d ns shown by a report of the ftnan
cial board
Thomas Taggart, former ebal'man
Iiemocratie national commi'tee.
announie.) in Intlianapolls. Ind., that
he will be a candida- -d Al?
bert J II--'. the I'nlted State*
senate.
Friday, April 22.
six Inchi at Knobs,
irfleld I'a .
and tl fell below
Th.
tim ti
ployment of women in fa
n ten hours pi
' I
After s' 'it In bunt?
ine d
Kenti, ilature, the Franklin
comity grand Jur) hst that lt
had hi
dence
8aturday, April 23.
Naomi Cbanaoi ara old. af
fer h.ing detained at Bills Isla;
more than a rear, arrived in Chicagi
from New York to join her mot'
Harry Enkley. of Dennison. O lost
BOth hands whin run over by a Ba!tl
more & ohio train Unkley says hu
was robbed of $27. I and
tied to the track.
When officers entered his offi
Kennebunk Me . wit;, r, warrant charg
ing him with performing an Illegal
operation. Dr J R Haler a leai'hi ?
physician, pulled a revolver from hil
desi, and killi d himself He was fifty
old.
Monday. April 25
M 8 Bond i I
county. Fa roll
A nail in its feed k;
belonged tn John lt Bradley, near Ma
? Ps
fnmi s Mrs Bitza
?
, into a grab burned to
at Findlay. O
h"a I
I tiona! home, at Dayton, o.
Dd the city
Red with his explantion of
ipped burning match, Jamel
nin-m. of Albany, N ' '-? ths
police pending an Invi nf th?
? a fire In the Morton hotel
Tuesday. April 26.
TOO thousand workmen were Idle in
the v land and Columbia
county, Pa coal regions because a
large number of anthracite coal mines
are drowned out
Pip j . weirs pia' ?
business af Centralia, Mo. Inctdlnt,
' the largest dry goods nt->
' ing houses, with a loss estimated Bl
more than |100.000
Ellin): House, colored, WUI I
cuted at Richmond. Va . for l
killed a colored nian near No
House escaped from the Norfolk
? h L'f> and was captun
next day.
The residence of Jesse A Quick, at
Prairie City, Ia., was demolished at
midnight hy a charge of dynamite
which had been placed under the front
porch, near the sleeping apartments
of Dr Alexander A Hell ami his bride,
formerly Mies Myrtle Quick
Mary Guthrie, of Carthage. 111., wes
lon
Wednesday, April 27.
Ed Keaton 110 years old, who liv. s
near Natches, Miss, was bitten by a
rattlesnake, but the doctors sav Je?
well.
One thousand foreigners, who Struck
? ? plant of the Pressed Bb
. eompi .ville, near Fitts
j burg Pa., returned to norie. The nun
? did not gain their d
First Lieutenant William B Un'
rhlrileth infant:
tinned at the Presidio at -
committed suicide In his hesd
quarters hy shooting himself through
the head
Henry Cantey colored, was in
statitlv killed; Superintendent Bpauld
? \ Ing's legs were broken, and A
erintendent John Bini's lep and
arm were broken by the falling of a
car In the shaft of the Halle gold ? BS
at Lancaster. S C
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and uive Stock.
PHILADELPHIA ? FLOUR
winter low grades, J3 60&3.90; wintei
clear, $4 T, Ity mills, fancy
RYE FLOUR firm, at $4Vo'iji I
barrel
WHEAT quiet: No 2 red. tl.lOfc
1.11
CORN steadv; No 2 yellow local
OATS quiet; No. 2 white
POULTRY: Live B1 ns, 1!
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j OFFER.
Pickett Water
Ia sold under a posi?
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when everything else
fails.
$100
will be paid for any
case of stomach or
kidney trouble Pickett
water fails to relieve
$100
will be paid any pet
son who can drink
Pickett water accord?
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without being benefit
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amount equivalent to
your R. R. fare and
hotel bill for 60 days,
same to be forfeited if
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that which it is guar?
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T. Frteman East. AHan Epa* ISBN S f?*
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Crewa. Va. St Vt
Lee & Thompson
Attorneys at Law
Farmville and Ck
CoOTTa-Prince" Edward. Nottoway and ?*
joining counties. PrompCatasiition to buawew
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FARMV1LLK. VA.
Practice in Court* of Prince Edward. Cumbsr
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United Statea Court at Richmond. . __,?
Especial attention paid to cases in bankrupt
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ATTOKNBY-AT-LAW,
PAMPLIN CITY. VA.
Practices! in Appomattox. Prince Edwardaj"
Charlotte counties. Supreme Court of vw?
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