Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1908-04-25
WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED


0tofEe roster, n PROMINENT Au0
wealthy contractor. was instantly kill
ed by railroad engine at Pittsburs.
Pa
Truman M. Dodson. prominent
Bethlehem. Pa, banker, and president
OF the Weston. Dodson company, coal
operators. died Of paralysis. aged sev-
enty-eight years.
Mrs. A l.. Foreman. aged seventy
seven years. widow OF the late Gov.
ernor Foreman. West Virginia's first
chief executive, died at Psrkersburg.
w. Va, after an illness OF several
months.
John Tracy. a discharged employe of
the Northampton (Mass.l street de-
partment, shot and fatally wounded
George +. Birge, superintendent Of
streets, and Immediately returned 20
his home and shot himself.
Friday, April ~.
William Reiss, who shot and killed
his wife at Economy. near Pittsburg.
Pa. April S. and then shot himself.
died IN a hospital.
Antonio De Lorenzo. en- italian. was
shot and killed by Raphael Darico as
De Lorenzo was entering the gate OF
his own home in Halle township. near
Hazleton. Pa.
John Maxwell and Charles Utter
bach. trainmen on the Pan Handle
railroad. were crushed to death when
two freight trains sideswiped at Col
lier. thirty-fye miles west OF Pitts
burg.
Saturday. April fe.
Ernest Mornes. nine years old. died
at New Castle, Pa. as the result of a
bullet wound inflicted by a young com,
panion while playing cowboy"
Ten-year-old Dominica Bello gave
up his life in New York for pet kit.
ten. being crushed under g large cleo.
trio truck as he tried TO rescue his pet.
While burning rubbish In the back
yard OF her home In Philadelphia Mrs.
Ellen Ambrose. fifty-five years old, was
probably fatally burned when her
clothing caught FIRE.
Homer B. Carroll. who for almost
forty years had been a horse dealer.
was killed by falling from the second
20 the ground floor through an elsva,
tor shaft in the American horse ex-
change In New York
Monday, April 20.
For highway robbery, Edgar Wag-
ner and Jay Zellers. net yet twenty.
one years old. were sentenced at Ian.
caster. Pa, to the Huntingdon Re
formatory.
The Bethlehem Steel company's
semi-monthly pay 10 its wage-earners
last week amounted 20 $50, 900, or
$50 900 more than a fortnight ago.
J. II. Brandt has secured an injunc-
ton restraining the school board of
Elizabethtown (Pa.) borough from is.
suing bonds 20 pay for q $50, 900
school. as the voters had no say in
the loan.
Tuesday, April II.
The United States senate passed a
bill appropriating 100000 for n public
building at Easton, Pa
Two safes in the grain store OF You.
land & McManus. at Lynn. Mass. were
! dynRmited by burglars. who escaped
] with between $1,000 and $500 In cash.
About $4,000 miners employed in the
! Pittsburg district resumed work Mon.
day in accordance with the agreement
reached last week at the Toledo Joint
| conference.
Despondent at his inability 20 secure
| work. George Webb. aged eighteen
years. swallowed carbolic acid from a
bottle and died while being taken TO q
hospital at Wilmington. Del
Wednesday, April %.
| J. +. Clapper. n prominent civil en-
! gineer. shot and killed himself at Pitts
burg.
Fire destroyed the planning mill and
lumber yard OF Finley & Campbell. at
West Newton. Pa. causing n loss of
| So, 900.
over $50 postmasters OF Pennsylva-
MIA met at Harrisburg 70 formally or.
4 ganize q State Postmasters' associa.
| ton for the betterment OF the service.
Plans are about completed for the
erection of three new coke plants by
the H. c. Frick Company IN the Con
nellsville, Pa. region. to cost $4,000
| 600.
/ +. ]. Draper and William Walcott.
both OF Milan, Mich, were instantly
/ killed when the automobile which they
were driving was struck by a passen-
ger train while they were attempting
to cross the railroad tracks