Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1908-10-03
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
Ihursaay. september 81.

Thursday, september %.
President Roosevelt has commuted
the five-year sentence in the Baltimore
city Jail imposed on William II. White.
the bookkeeper and paying teller OF
the Canton National bank. Of Canton.
Md. to three years and four months.
with allowance for good conduct.
The Egg-O-See Cereal company. with
Headquarters in Chicago and factories
in Buffalo ~ T.. and Quincy. Ill. has
been placed in the hands Of a com
mittee of creditors. the assets being
valued by the company at S1,500,000.
but the creditors are said 70 regard
them as about equal to the indebted
ness.
Friday, September 25.
William r. Payne. a writ server In
the sherin's Office at Philadelphia.
committed suicide by shooting himself
Ia the head.
A big motor bus in New York. trav-
cling at a high rate Of speed. crashed
into an electric light post at Forty
fourth street and Fifth avenue and
twenty persons were hurt. including
many women.
More than 100000 feet Of partly
finished lumber. piled In the yards OF
the George w. Barker company and
the Jordan Lumber company. at Mil
ford Ne. was destroyed by a fire. en-
failing q loss OF $4,000.
Saturday. September 2s.
Harmon l.. Nissley. president OF the
Harrisburg. Pa. school board. died
suddenly
Mrs. Eliza Bragg. widow Of Major
General Braxton Bragg. OF the Con
federate army, died at New Orleans.
The comptroller Of the currency IS
sued a call on national banks for a
statement OF their condition at the
close OF business on Sept %.
Fire almost totally destroyed the
plant OF the Schauble Brewing com
pany. at Hudson. n. Y. The loss will
be at least $4,000.
Leslie Carter. one time capitalist
and president Of the South Side Ele-
waited Railroad company. OF Chicago.
died in Chicago after a prolonged 81
ness.
Monday, September %.
BY a vote OF 80 to 45 the Indiana
legislature passed a county local op-
ton bill.
Charles F. Beck. Of Catasauqua. Pa.
died suddenly OF excitement. due 20 at
tending the Allentown fair
Forty winners Of Cecil Rhodes schol-
arships from all over the country sail
ed from New York 20 begin a four
years course at oxford.
Confederate veterans rendered mill
tary honors when the widow OF the
lato General Braxton Bragg was buried
beside her husband az Mobile Ala
Harry Miller. Of Manchester Nd.
was struck by n passenger train on
the Northern Central railway. south OF
York. Pa. and his body was horribly
mangled.
Tuesday. September %.
John VI Rankin. superintendent OF
materials and supplies OF the Reading
railway system. died az Reading. Pa.
aged seventy-one years.
Emil f. Grau. the student who had
his back broken in the annual sopho-
more freshman cane rush at the Wor.
cester (Mass) Polytechnic institute
last week. died OF his injuries.
Caleb Powers. the Kentuckian. who
spent eight years in a Kentucky peni-
tertiary in connection with the Goebel
assassination case before being par
doned by Governor Wilson. was hap
tiled into the Baptist church at Jel-
llco. Tenn. In the presence OF 500
persons.
Wednesday, September 80.
The State bank al Ladysmith. wis.
was robbed OF about $4,000 by cracks
men. who escaped on a hand car.
Rev Alexander LeClaire. ninety-six
years old who had been for seventy
five years a member of the Masonic
fraternity. died at Lynden. Wash.
The Wisconsin supreme court de-
clared unconstitutional the Wisconsin
eight-hour telegraphers' law. which
was enacted at the 1907 session Of the
legislature.
While officers were attempting to
arrest him for bigamy. George Won der
Schulenburg a drug clerk. jumped
from a window into 100-foot airshaft
In East One Hundred and Twenty
eighth street. New York. and was
killed.