Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1908-11-21
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
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inurSCdy, november IL.
John Irby a negro. was convicted at
Spartansburg. S. c.. on a charge Of at
tempting a criminal assault on Miss
Leila Dempsey and was sentenced to
serve thirty years in the penitentiary.
Duncan Cameron McCallum, late
teller Of the Farmers Bank of Canada.
pleaded guilty at Toronto, Ont to the
theft of si6.495 from the bank and was
sentenced to three years in Kingston
penitentiary
Edward Bostwick. sixty-eight years
OF age. and a former state senator
OF Michigan. committed suicide by
strangling himself with a silf scarf at
the home of his sister. Mrs. Benjamin
Clark. in Syracuse. n. Y.
Friday, November 13,
Charged with cutting of half Of ia
cob Wynn's whiskers. Thomas White
was fined s35 in the criminal court at
Camden, n. ].
Judge Tayler, Of the federal court.
named War IN Bicknell and Frank A.
Scott as receivers for the Municipal
Traction company. of Cleveland. o.
Or. William Keith Brooks, professor
OF zoology at Johns Hopkins univer-
sity. Baltimore. Nd. and since the
founding of that institution continu-
ously in its service, died after pro
longed Illness.
John J. Miller. eighty-seven years OF
age. who has been employed in the
government service continuously for
thirty-three years. died at his home
In Washington as the result OF an at
tack OF acute indigestion.
Saturday, November IA.
The general assembly Of the Knights
OF Labor will meet in St. Louis in 1910.
Echo river, I'm the Mammoth cave.
near Louisville. Ky. is almost dry as
a result Of the drought
The president appointed George S.
Terry 20 be assistant treasurer OF the
United States at New York, If success
sion 10 Hamilton Fish.
Brakeman John Carter, OF Wilkes
Barre. Pa. was killed. and Fireman
f. T. Bradshaw. Of Wilkes BaFre. Pa D..
was fatally injured when the boiler Of
the engine drawing fast freight train
on the Delaware & Hudson blew up
near Windsor. n. Y.
Monday. November Is.
The big cotton mills at Laurens
C.. are to be greatly increased In ca
pacity.
Caught between car and the walls
Of a coal mine at Portage. Pa. John
Rebosh was fatally squeezed.
The University OF Illinois may es
tsbllSh $3.50. O0c veterinary school in
the Union Stock yards at Chicago
President Roosevelt has been asked
60 plant tree Feb u next on the
campus OF a new colored school at
Lexington. Ky.
The Home Missions Society OF the
Methodist church has Appropriated
100000 toward rebuilding San Fran
cisco churches destroyed by the ire
Tuesday. November ~.
The treasury has purchased 100000
ounces Of silver for delivery at New
York at 50.501 per fine ounce.
William Jennings Bryan has been
unanimously elected by the seniors OF
Westminster college. at New Castle
Pa. to deliver an address next June
during commencement
Lying in pools OF blood. with their
threats cut from ear TO ear. Mrs. Az
mes Lidner and her two children. aged
FIVE and three years respectively, were
found in their home at Frankford, XIV.
one Italian was shot 20 death and
three others probably fatally injured
at East Mllsboro. near Uniontown,
Pa. in a general fight over the owner
ship OF a we'll which was located be
tween two foreign boarding houses.
Wednesday, November 10.
William s. McKinnon. treasurer Of
Ohio. died at his home in Cleveland
after an Illness OF more than a year.
Herman Bjllik convicted of the muir
der Of FIVE members Of the Vzral fam
lily. WAS sentenced by Judge Barnes in
Chicago TO hang on Dec. IL.
Gene Doudell. a siXteen-year-old ne
gro. confessed TO killing Ernest Walsh
twelve years old, also colored. at Ham
ilton. Ga. by beating him on the head
with a rock and throwing the body
into a creek after robbing him Of 81
Charles n Hanscom. president Of
the Eastern Shipbuilding company. an
nounced that the plant at Groton.
Mass. where the battleships Mime
sofa and the Dakota were built. would
be sold at auction and the yard dis
mautled.