Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1908-04-11
WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED


Thursday, April 2.
Dr. Norwood X. Vance. formerly a
surgeon, In the United States maxine
corps, committed suicide by shooting
IN a hotel at Atlanta. Ca
The barge Ashland, from Philacel-
phia. loaded With 1913 tons OF coal for
this.city and owned by the Philadelphia
& Reading Coal company, went ashore
on the rocks and sank at Bath. Me.
George Taylor was arrested In New
York on a warrant charging him with
the larceny of $1700 from Forbes &
Wallace. OF Springfield. Mass. by
whom he had been employed as aeon
ddential clerk for twenty-five years.
Friday, April 3.
Captain J. w. IsbIster. OF Chicago.
master OF the steamer Park Foster,
was run down and killed by a New
York Central engine at Buffalo. N. Y.
Mrs. William w. Weave, OF Hyner.
wife OF the president OF the Karthaus
Fire Brick company, committed sui
eide by drowning in the river at Lock
Haven, Pa
Three persons we're killed, fifteen
we're injured, some OF them seriously.
and the lives OF nearly 100 persons
we're endangered by a fire in a FIVE
story tenement house at a. Hester
street, New York.
Saturday. April 4.
James jeffrey Roche. American con-
sui at Berne, Switzerland. died after a
long illness.
Mexico has accepted the invitation
Of the Japanese government to partici-
pate in the worlds fair TO be held IN
Toxic in 1912.
Burglars blew open the safe in the
postoHce at Princess Anne Court
House. Va, and secured $500 In cash,
stamps and registered mail.
The dead body OF Mrs. Elizabeth
HighfIl. ffty-two years old, fortune
telling medium. was found in an arti-
fetal lake In Lafayette park. she hav-
ing committed suicide by drowning.
Monday, April 6.
Alvin Weiser. residing near Lyons.
Berks county. Pa, has a goose which
recently laid an egg that weighed ex-
actly one pound.
While returning 20 his home after
delivering produce. jeremiah Hamper.
a Springtown. Pa. farmer. fell ia with
a trio OF men who buncoed him out
OF 5000.
Their oyster skin upset by a high
sea. Captain w. V. Miles and two sons
OF Captain James II. Tyler. OF Somer-
set county. Nd. we're drowned in VIII.
loughby bay. Va.
Because OF over-production. the
mines Of the Delaware G. Hudson com
pany. at Lyon Mountain. ~ Y. have
been shut down. throwing out OF en-
ployment $50 men.
Tuesday, April 7.
The president sent 70 the senate the
name OF John S. Leech. OF Illinois, to
be public printer.
William II. Milton. OF Florida. was
sworn in as United States senator. 20
succeed the late Senator William J.
Bryan.
Burglars ransacked the country
home OF c. Emory McMichael at Dew.
on. near Philadelphia. and escaped
with goods valued at $4,000.
After shut down OF three weeks
duration. the plant OF the National
india Rubber works. az Bristol, r. l.,
employing about 400 hands. resumed
operations.
Wednesday, April 8.
Robbers dynamited the safe at the
State bank at Huron. Atchison county.
Kan. and escaped with $500.
Benjamin Rosenberger. aged seventy
years. dropped dead OF heart disease
while at work on his truck farm near
Norristown. Pa.
Congressman Abraham Lincoln
Brick OF the Thirteenth Indiana dis
trict, died suddenly in a sanitarium at
Indianapolis. Ind.
Bursting OF a tank OF molten glass
caused a fire that wiped out the plant
OF the Whitney Glass company, at
Glassboro. n. j.. entailing a loss OF
| $4,000.
Mrs. Ruth p. NJ Rea. widow of
Judge James ID. Rea, and mother OF
Samuel Rea. third vice president of
the Pennsylvania Railroad company,
died in Pittsburg from the effects OF
stroke OF apoplexy.