Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1908-10-10
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
Thursday. October l..


road mechanics. involving about 10000
men. which started Aug 4. has been
declared or.
Cardinal Gibbons. archbishop of Bal
timore. left London for Liverpool.
where he viii embark ON the steamer
Carouia for New York
Fearing TO face the disgrace which
he felt would follow his arrest on a
charge of abusing his wife. Leonard
j. Schmitt a piano maker. killed him
self in New York by inhalng ilumi-
mating gas.
Fire destroyed property valued at
between S15O.O00 and $4,000 en- the
heart of the business district OF Dal-
las. Tex, and resulted in serious in
jury 90 several fremon. who were
caught beneath falling floors.
Friday, October ?.
Owen Moran English featherweight.
won tho decision over Eddie Hanlou.
a hshtweight at san Francisco. after
twenty rounds OF fighting.
by the explosion OF the boiler or a
freight engine on the Trenton cut-oH
az Fort Hin near Norristown. Pa.
three members or the crew were badly
injured
Thieves ransackod the apartment In
Washington OF Major c. T. McCauley.
one OF the presidents aides. stealing
iewelry and bric-a-brac valued al
$500
Three laborers were killed and seven
injured Ia a collision between work
train and freight train on the Cen
tral New England railroad al Clinton
Corners. near Poughkeepsie. n. Y.
Saturday, October 3.
Montreal was selected as the con
yent.on city OF the League OF Ameri-
can municipalities for 1903.
DIR. George W. Holstein. aged eighty
eight years the Oldest Odd Fellow ia
Pennsylvania. died at Norristown.
Joan OBuen. a longshoreman and
iron worker. was held up in the yard
of the Pennsylvania railroad az VIII
m'ngton. Del, by five men and badly
beaten.
Masked men held up a Steubcnvile.
East Liverpool Interurban car as the
car was entering Wellsviue. o.. and al
the point of revolyers took SCI from
the conductor
Monday, October S.
Gus Jones. "A negro. cut the throats
OF his wife. his son and himself az
Gallipolis. o., and all viii die.
Oliver LOders, OF Bethlehem. Pa.
went to Bingen to gather chestnu,s
and was killed by a fall from a tree.
his neck being broken.
Charles Lee. negro. OF Houston,
Tex. has invented a method OF exter-
minating the boil weevil in cotton
fields by meGks OF chemical fumes.
Lewis KOrzon was imprisoned at
Sunbury. Pa, charged with breaking
the neck of Alex. Chikillo. in Mount
Carmel. by hurting him over a high
porch.
Tuesday, October 6.
F. J. Geissinger. OF ]. X. Taylor
Post. No. 1872. Bethlehem. Pa. dropped
dead in Philadelphia while waiting TO
view a parade.
Mary Devine. two years old, was
burned 20 death on a lot near her
home in Philadelphia. when her cloth
ing caught ablaze from a rubbish fire
Ten persons were killed and more
than a dozen injured in an incendiary
fire which wrecked the tenement
house at liz Mulberry street, New
York.
Thomas Morrison, prominent in
railroad and business circles. dropped
dead in the Office of the Spring Grove
Cemetery association at Cincinnati.
o., just as a meeting of the cemetery
trustees was about to be called to
order.
Wednesday, October =.
General Louis Fitzgerald, for more
than half century a prominent figure
In New York, died at his home, CARR
son-on-the-Hudson, aged seventy-one
years.
Andrew Zydusa. a retired hotel
keeper at Jessup. near Scranton. Pa.
shot and killed his wife and, turning
the revolver on himself, committed
suicide
Charged with criminal assault on
his own daughter. Ben Price. a negro.
was seized by mob at Glenaora. Tex.
taken to the center Of the town and