Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1908-08-08
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
Thursday, July 80.

Thursday, July 80.
Charles n. Meyer was reelected
president OF the Western Federation
Of Miners by the convention in Denver.
Thomas W. Symons, Corps of Engi-
neers. was placed on the retired list
or tho army on his application. after
more than thirty-seven years service.
Mrs. Frank Pingham. wife OF a
bomesteader near Bonesteel, S. D., cut
the threats of her two boys. aged four
teen years and ak months. and then
committed suicide by cutting her own
throat
Attacked with heart disease Just af-
ter he had emerged from the surf at
Ocean City. N. j., William II. vsSie, a
contractor, Of Richmond Hill, l.. l.,
dropped dead on the sand in view OF
hundreds OF boardwalk promenaders.
Friday, July 81.
The body of Rev. II. f. Fisher, Of
Norristown. Pa, who died recently
abroad, arrived in New York on the
steamer Teutonic and was taken TO his
Pennsylvania home.
James H. Budd, former governor OF
California and long prominent in Dem
ocratic politics, died at Stockton, Cal,
after an illness of fortnight. of urae-
mia, aged ffty-eight years.
While seated with her family at din
ner at Toledo o., Mrs. Luella Stick
roth. wife of Conrad Strickroth. was
overcome by the heat and died before
medical attendance could be sum-
moned.
Mrs. Estella NJ. II. Merrill, formerly
widely known as newspaper writer
under the name Jean Kincaid," and
prominent also as a club woman. died
at her home ia North Cambridge.
Mass.
Saturday, August I.
Mrs. Thomas ODonnell. Of Wood
bury, N. J., who was horribly burned
by the explosion OF a gasoline stove,
died Of her injuries.
After suffering for nineteen years
from elsphantissis. Mrs. Anna E.
Lynch, who weighed $40 pounds. died
NJ her home on the State road, near
McKeesport. Pa.
Leonard Hendricks, thirty-one years
old. Of Cranston, r. l., in the absence
OF his wife. killed himself and his two
little daughters. Ann, aged FIVE years,
and Lille, aged three years, by means
OF illuminating gas.
Monday, August 3.
Ten policemen with rapid-fre re-
yoivers are killing stray dogs at Chi
eago.
A mob at Terry, s. D., a mining
camp. almost whipped to death George
Corey. who had beaten his wife while
on the street.
President Bird S. Coler, OF the Dor
ough OF Brooklyn, will be a candidate
for the Democratic g1bernatoriaI nom
ination in New York.
Caught by a mine motor In the Laws
shaft. at Moosic. Pa, John Golden. a
nfteen-year-old door boy. was nearly
cut in two and died soon after reach
Ing the Taylor hospital.
At the Bethlehem (Pa-) Steel works
last week the semi-monthly paw rool
was s175.000 or $1,000 more than the
last pay day, and the largest since last
fall.
Tuesday. August :.
President Roosevelt will not attend
the national encampment OF the Span.
ish-American War Veterans at Boston
during the last week OF this month. as
has been reported.
Michaei f. Kane, a hotelkeeper. OF
Mount Vernon. N. Y. died suddenly OF
heart disease while on his way on a
Reading railway train from Atlantic
City TO Philadelphia
During the month OF July 66s babies
under one year old died In Chicago.
and most OF these deaths. the health
department believes, were the result
OF the ignorance Of parents.
Wednesday, August S.
Chicago reports three deaths and
several prostrations due 20 the heat
on Tuesday.
Charles w. Westerfeld, aged twenty
two, a clerk in the Produce Exchange
bank, in New York. shot and killed
himself in the basement OF that bank.
Joseph d. HorneT. formerly a men,
Der OF the firm OF ]. ID. Horner. Son
Company, straw hats, was found
dead in bed with a bullet hole in his
breast In his room at Baltimore. Md.
Robert II. Todd, who was Porto
Rican delegates TO the national Re
publican convention at Chicago. has
been nominated by reclamation for the
ONCE OF resident commissioner for