Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1906-08-25
WILLIAM TRAVERs JEROME"
a WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Thursday, August 10.

'"e'9SSIy FNGStSA 10.
William Lucas. a Wholesale 1attes
dealer, Of Camden. n. J.. was fined
$lS.S0 and costs for selling short.
weight butter.
Owing TO domestic troubles, E. Fred.
erick Ford, a Pennsylvania railroad
brakeman. committed suicide by shoot.
ing at Enola. near Harrisburg. Pa
Louis Nye. a Night Waterman at .
bridge at Legiontiffe, near Pittsburg
was hot through Tie abdomen by three
men who were being chased BIZ de
tectives
In a ct OF insanity, Bmii Bernsr, ol
Batavia. Ills. murdered his brother-in.
law by cutting hrs throat with razor
slashed Mrs. Berner 50 severely thai
she will die. and then cut his owr
throat
Friday August ~
-Four persons were injured, two IA.
tally, in a collision on the Seaboarc
Air line at Portsmouth. Va
Attorney General Moody conferred
with President Roosevelt at Oyster
Bay on filling several vacancies on thu
federal bench.
Rev. DR.. Richard Efay, one OF III,
most prominent Untversalist Clergy.
men in New England. dropped dead OF
heart disease at Gloucester, Msss.
In a personal alteration. NJ. p
James, superintendent o. the Birrpiug
ham. Ala. gas works. was snot and "a.
tally wounded by W. II. Rogers, o
wealthy manufacturer
Saturday, August r.
Tho G. A. r. viii bold their next no,
tional encampment "a 6ayatoga. y. z.
in 1907.
The arnored crufseY North Carolins
will be launched az ths Newport News
Va. shipyards on October 6.
Rebecca S. Clark. better known n,
"Siphia May" writer OF many book
for children. died AZ Norrfdgewock. Ne
One man wac killed and three In,
tured by a premature explosion OF dy
Mantle at the Deer.ne Harvester plan,
In Chicago.
State Senator p. o. Butt, OF Perry
Vile. Ark. was seutanped 20 two year,
in the penitentisry Tor offering 6rIbs
20 another state senator.
Monday. August 20
Scott HowiREton was stabbed &c
death By MuncT Tstezy cuz7nx quar-
rel NJ Bristol, Va
Coe ID. Barnard, convicted OF perjury
in the land fraud trials ~ Portland
Ore. was sentenced - prison fcr twr
years and fined 5000
Isaac 8. Case, prominent IN b-siues.
and political circlea ind Monroe coun
tvs Pa) weRlthieet citizen. dIed a.
Stroudsburg. aged IL years
The widow OF James O'Donnell G
Norristown. Pa. rriiroader who wal
kelled three weeks ago. gave hlrCh q
twins. and nov h-1e n children 20 sup
port.
While returning non Atlantic cry
Mrs. Mary Denny, of Smyrna, Del. dick
OF heart disease m no Broad street sta
ton Of the Pe1oSViSArla railroad 81
Philadelphia,
TusSdsy. ARgrst "a.
With a tempsrstose o. ~ ana hfgh
humidity. Louisville. XIV reports three
deaths from heat.
Thomas Ellis, q Philadelphia was
killed by falling ae~f stairs II his
home, his ueck nsr13s nsDRen
James Downey is dying in Phila
delphia hospital WITH a broken back
caused by a bsrrel of patnt falling OF
him.
Edward Kolfereb, or Chicago. wfK
deposited $3.50 In tase WRECKED Afiiwau
kee Avenue Bank, noe1mttood suicide
by hanging
Following 9 QSofvek MrS J. Thomas
wife OF a miner q Pontiac, Wa-. Voc
killed by her husband who cat hr-s
throat and escaped
Wednesday. August n
The Bank OF Mentor, MINI. was rob.
bed OF 1920 by msn wAo blew open Ii,
safe and then escaped,
The 20th anaGSsi SrDvcDfAoA OF th,
County Commissioners Of Pennsylva
MIA was held At Lancaster
The large kitchen at the Soldiers
Home at Hampton. Va. IVES destroyed
by IRE, entAiiing q loss OF So, 600.
The annual conEsntJpo Of the Ra.
tional Associatian cz NeHsdealars
Booksellers and StaShoaaEs vas haid n
Chicago.
The strike OF the coal miners in Ala.
bams, affecting 5000 men and costing
the unisn e~-r 81 600 coo IN two years
has been declared or