Richmond planet., 1908-03-28
a WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Thursday. March te.

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The United Mine Workers of Amer
lea decided to hold their next national
convention in Indianapolis.
George r Richardson. one OF the
best known lawyers Of Mass. commit
ted suicide by shooting at Lowell.
Governor Fort sent 20 the senate the
nomination OF Earnest Lloyd TO be
prosecution Of Cape May county. ". ].
Andrew Jackson. a negro. known as
BLACK Sport" was hanged at Atlanta,
Ga. for the murder OF Policeman J. A.
Manner. on Dec. 6.
The home OF Henry Nils. a tobacco
farmer in Shelby county. Ky. about
thirty-fve miles from Louisville, was
burned by a small party OF masked
night riders"
Friday, March 20.
Mrs. Winnie Mangold was struck by
an express train on the Atlantic City
railroad at Hammonton. ~ J., and in
stantly killed
Orders for 136 new locomotives and
$4,000 tons ~ steel rails have Just been
placed by L New York Central Rail-
road company.
for the American Car & Foundry com
pany. committed suicide in the Bolton
house at Harrisburg. Pa. by shooting.
Abraham II. Hummel the New York
lawyer. who was sentenced TO serve n
year in the penitentiary for conspiracy
in connection with the Dodge-Morse
divorce case. was released from prison
Thursday.
Saturday. March ~.
A boiler in a sswmill on the Abrams
farm at Steubenville. O.. exploded. IA
tally injuring William Abrams, James
Oler and Bert Baker
Christopher y. Wilson a well-to-do
retired farmer OF Mil Stone, near Som
erville. n. j.. committed suicide by
hanging himself to his bed.
John b. Blaylock. a contractor OF
Lamberts Point. Va. was shot and
killed by Henry Hyslop in a quarrel
over seventy cents and Hyslop was
arrested.
Alonzo F. Shriner. chief deputy sur
veyor in the St Louis custom house.
was arrested on a warrant charging
embezzlement and failure to deposit
government funds in his custody.
Monday. March %.
The government has finally pur-
chased a site for a postofnce at
Easton. Pa. at cost OF $4,000.
For sending a Black Hand letter 10
Rocco Frasso. an Italian banker. Fl.
dele Falasco was given a year in Jail
at Reading Pa.
The Misses Madge Cannon and Eliz-
abeth Drumbor. of Scranton, Pa. have
signed contracts with the government
% engagement in hospital work In the
Panama canal zone.
over 1850 signatures have been
received to the petition asking Presi.
dent Roosevelt 10 pardon Captain Van
Schaick. who recently began a ten
years term for the Slocum disaster.
Tuesday March "a.
Brigadier General Jacob Kline, u.
s. A., retired. died az Johns Hopkins
hospital. Baltimore. Md. from kidney
disease
Joseph Paolucci. an Italian, was
hanged at Washington for the murder
OF his sweetheart. Elizabeth V. Dodge.
in September. 1906.
James w Blessley. who conducted
an employment agency at Harrisburg.
Pa. and victimized a number OF for
eigners, was sentenced to six months
in Jail.
An explosion caused by pouring ker-
oSene into the kitchen stove killed
Mrs. Florence Bitser and fatally in
jured her son at Dayton. o.
Wednesday, March 25.
The Reading railway roadway en-
ployes will at once be put on nine
hours instead OF eight.
DR.. Charles A. Baird, a well known
dentist was caught in the elevator in
the Wick bank building at Youngs-
town, o. and crushed to death.
Twenty persons were injured, three
fatally in a head on collision between
a passenger train on the Queen Cres-
cent railroad and a special freight
train. near Lexington, Ky.
A bequest Of $11 900 under the will
OF Mrs. Lyman Coleman has Just been
received by Lafayette college at
Easton. Pa. for the purpose Of estab-
fishing a lectureship in memory OF the
late Professor LYMAN Coleman.