Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1908-08-15
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
Thursday. AUGUST q.

gears NAus WNo ntut the nTSl WcSllnE-
house Rirbrike. died in Pittsburg.
r j. Hume, wife and children. OF
Eau Claire. Wis. were dvbwned In
Lake Nabaganon. Wis, while attempt
Ing 70 cross the lake in a duck boat.
Continued brooding over the death
Of his favOrite daughter. Anna. who
died several years ago. Il is believed.
led Robert :. Burr. aged seventy-one.
farmer living az Farmingdale. n J.,
70 swallow laudanum. that caused his
death
Friday. August 7.
While scufiiug over the possession
Of shotgun al Elgin III. Victor
Swanson shot his friend. Regnow Mel
son. and then shot himself
Unable TO sleep because OF the heat.
Henry Thiele. OF Jersey City. y. j..
tried 70 end his life by shooting him
self and is IN a critical condition.
Captain d. c. Purse. a noted devel-
opcr. industrial writer and promoter.
and having connections in New York.
Pittsburg and other centers. commit
ted suicide at Savannah Ca
Governor Stuart approved Nov. Il
as the date 1pon which the memorial
10 Pennsylvania regiments az Freder-
icksburg. Nd. shall be dedicated. his
approval beiHg required by law.
Saturday, August 8.
The bottling works OF Thomas J.
Beck. at Harrisburg. Pa. was destroy
ed by FIRE. entailing a loss OF several
thousand dollars.
Mrs Eliza d. Stewars. the noted
temperance advocate and known all
over the country as Mother" Stewart.
died az her home 10 Hicksville. o.
Two negro children were killed. one
was fatally hurt and one seriously in
iured when a double tenement az Cam
den Ark. was blown up by dynamite.
Governor stuart fixed Sept "A as
the date for the execution OF Francis
NJ. Schuts who killed his little daugh-
ter I'm Fairmount park. Phnade. .aia.
and then tried suicide and Raphael
Peric. also Of Philadelphia
Monday. August 10.
For assauiting a three-year-old girl.
Henry Johnson. colored. was hanged
az Memphis. Tenn
Smoke from a burning tobacco ware
house az New York overcame thirteen
frcmen. three seriously
Six hundred men won a fight 90 save
the famous Calaveras grove Of big
trees in California from a forest ere.
While cunning for groundhogs In
lower Lehigh county. Pa Milton Dor
ney. OF Centre Valley was seriously
wounded by the accidental discharge
% his gun
While picbingacoal on the PennsyI-
vania tracks near Gainesville. Pa.
Mrs Mike Gembarche. n native OF Po-
land. was struck by the Chicago linn
tied and instantly killed.
Tuesday, August n.
C. C. Bantz was appointed assistant
treasuer-of the United States in the
place OF the late J. F. Melne.
Mrs. Louise Chandler Moulton. the
wcllknown authoress. died az her
home in Boston after an illness Of
nearly nine months
Charlie Lokie. colored. about eigh.
teen years OF age. was lynched az TIT.
ton, o.. for making insulting remarks
TO young white woman
Secretary III r. Van Norman. OF the
Pennsylvania State college. announced
that the next convention OF the Penn.
sylvania Dairy union viii be held in
Harrisburg the same week as the
meeting OF the state board of agricul.
ture and tho Live stock Breeders as.
ISOLATION. Jan. 25-2e. 1909.
Wednesday, August 2.
Judson r. Evans. forty-6ve years
old. farmer OF Gladwyn. near Norris.
town, Pa. while chasing several horses
out OF a corndeld. dropped dead OF
heart failure
One man was killed and three were
badly injured as a result of a boiler
explosion az the plant OF the Break.
water Construction company al Sa.
clcm's Head. Conn
eyear-old Cornelius Morev.
who drank a half pint or whiskey.
which ne found on the table of his
home. 1921 Sullivan street. in Phua-
delphia, died from commissions de-
spite the efforts OF two physicians
While holding a nozzle and direct
ing q stream OF water upon a FIRE In
an abandoned building Of the Consoli-
dated Ice company at Piusburg.
brick wall. twelve feet high. fell upon
William Poppinger. driver of engine
No. A. and instantly killed him.