Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1908-09-26
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
Thursday. September II.

tnuFsueJf september lls
The machinery department at the
Reading railway car shops at Reading,
Pa. has gone on ten hours a day.
While jealous. George Mitchell. aged
twenty-five. shot and instantly killed
Miss Georgia Pratt, aged thirty years.
at PASSPORT. Me.
Augusta Zimraith. fourteen months
old. pulled a pot of boiling tea over on
herself In her home in Philadelphia
and was scalded to death.
Martin l.. Hellings. retired bust
ness man of Devon. suburb Of Phila-
delphia. was struck by an express
train and instantly killed at the Devon
station of the Pennsylvania railroad.
Friday. September 10.
A +. Bonelh. a former banker of
Cleveland. o.. charged with the theft
OF $50 1000. arrived IN New York as a
prisoner on the steamer Afghan Prince
from Brazil
The New Boston colliery OF the Mill
Greek Coal company at Mahanoy City.
Pa, shut down on account OF the wa
ter shortage. throwing 1000 employees
out Of work
In a collision between trolley car
n. =.
Estella Traphagen. aged eighteen. suf-
fered possibly fatal injuries. and Mar
celia Connell. aged seventeen. the
fracture OF an arm.
The great council OF the United
States. Improved Order OF Red Men
selected Detroit. Mich. as the place
OF the great council session next year:
Cleveland in 1910; Columbus. O.. ia
1911. and Cincinnati In 1912.
Saturday, September 10.
For some inexplicable reason Silver
WE'LL. a fourteen-year-old schoolboy
committed suicide by hanging himself
in the cellar of his home in Mount
Vernon. n. Y.
Carroll w. Ashby. cashier or the
Southern Railway company. for thirty
years an employee of that system. was
found dead in a Turkish bath estab-
lishment I'm Washington.
The Virginian railway is running
copper wires along it's lines in Vir
ginia and West Virginia for the pur
pose of inaugurating the use OF the
telephone exclusively for the dispatch
ing OF trains.
Monday, September q.
The Georgia senate passed the bill
abolishing the convict leass system
practically as it came from the house
OF representatives.
Harry Domain, twenty-five years Of
age. OF Nanticoke, Pa. was drawn
through the huge rollers OF a coal
breaker and ground TO pieces.
William II. Gray and William S
Rule, government clerks. were drown
ed in the Potomac river at Washing
ton. when a gasoline launch caught
fire.
One man was killed and three 9TH
ers injured. one fatally. when an
eighteeninch steam pipe burst In the
ten-inch mill OF the Cambria Steel
company at Johnstown. Pa
Tuesday, September %.
Robbers dynamited the safe in the
Albion postofice near Erie. Pa. and
escaped with over $1,000 in cash and
stamps.
Clarence Richardson. OF Ashland. O..
shot and killed HIS sweetheart. Miss
Lydia Corbin. at Portsmouth. o., after
they had quarreled. and escaped.
John Rowley. nineteen years OF age
employed in a paper mill at Tarentum
near flINHDuIbs DtCdlut cnA&AnSltu IN
the machinery and his body was badly
mutilated.
In a fight with ordinary pocket.
knives at Hot Springs. Ark. Charles
Dunfield. OF Pennsylvania. was killed
by Sam w. Ray. Of Tennessee. as the
elimination OF a quarrel
Wednesday, September %.
The Pennsylvania State Homeo-
pathic Medical society held its forty
fifth annual session at HARRISBURG
Fearing that he would go insane and
have TO be confined In an asylum.
James Cogan. a clerk in the law office
of DeForest & Brother. New York city.
committed suicide at Washington by
shooting.
John Murray Dowie. aged eighty
three years. father of John Alexander
Dowie. the founder Of Zion City. and
who was repudiated by his son, died at
the home of his sons widow. Mrs. Jane
Dowie. on White lake, Muskegon
county.