Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1908-08-22
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
Thursday August -.

Thursday August -.
Stephen BOcbeCk was killed ami
Edo Haycock fatally injured by two
runaway freight cars on the Read
ing railway at Coatesville. Pa. which
dashed into a company OF men on the
way 20 work.
Edward Kaiser. OF New York wa
killed. and James J. Johnson. OF
Wilkes-Barre. Pa. painters. was prob
ably fatally injured at Elmira, ". Y.
when a scanold on which they were
working gave way.
Levi Fannan. seventy.three years OF
age. shot and fatally injured his wife
Margaret. hfty-three years OF age: Sc
verely injured his hfteen-year-oIi
daughter Fife and then ended his own
life at his home In Dallasburg. o.
Friday, August "a.
William II. Taft and William !.
Bryan are expected 20 attend the G.
A. r. encampment az Toledo. o.. tie
first week I'm September
The delegates 10 the International
typographical union convention at
Boston decided 10 hold the next con
vention at St Joseph. Mo.
Swimming on the beach az Mar.
quette. Mich, Charles Foresman. six
teen years Of age. and Harry Rose
aged fourteen. we're drowned
John Clouser aged nine years. was
drowned in the Svataru creek. near
Middletown. Pa. within seventy Eve
feet OF where his father was working.
Saturday. August IS.
The New York Democratic state
convention will be held AZ Rochester.
Sept IS.
Rear Admiral James Kelsey Cogs.
well. u. S. n. retired. is dead at Jack.
sonville. Fla.
Two men were killed and nearly a
dozen others were overcome in man
hole OF the Empire City Subway com
psny In New York by gas from leak
ms main.
Crazed with jealousy. stephen Pc
trik. twenty-five years OF age. prob
ably fatally shot Marie Petrik. eigh-
teen years Old. his bride OF sevo q
weeks. at their home in Cleveland. o..
and then committed suicide.
Monday, August n.
Ten thousand Indiana coal miners
may strike over the discharge 81 a
mule driver. Several mines have SIS
pended.
Told by her doctors she would die
OF a cancer. Mrs. Robert Arthur killed
herself with a revolver at Sheepshead
Bay r. l.
Lockjaw. caused by stepping on a
rusty nail. brought about the death o.
Allen S. Miller. an undertaken. OF
Schaefferstown. Pa
A vanload OF articles. believed 20
have been stolen from the mails dur
ing three years. were found in the
room of Mail Wagon Driver Amos c.
Nolan, under arrest at New York.
Tuesday, August 10.
The National Editorial association
met IN its twenty-third annual con.
vention at St Paul MINI.
Two men were killed and two fatal.
ly injured by the explosion Of the
boiler az William Reid's sawmin nea-
Drace. Caldwell county, n. c.
The annual polo tournament for III
Brenton's Reef and West Chester cups
began on the grounds Of the We,
Chester Country club at Newport. r T..
William S. St Clair. an actor. q e.
in St Vincenrs hospital. New Ycrt
where he had recently been crC atel
on for cancer OF the stomach Mr. st
Clair. who was fifty years old. he'd ap-
peared frequently in productions in
many cities throughout the country.
WEDNESDAY August 70.
Stanley Ketcheil knock q Joe Thorn
as out in the second round az San
Francisco.
The National Shorthand Reporters
association began its tenth annual con
yention at Milwaukee. Wis.
BILLY" Papke. OF Illinois. had the
better of a rough six-round bout with
Sailor Burke. OF New York. al The
National Athletic club in New York.
Seven hundred Italian track labor
ers on the Northern Pacific railroad
went on strike for higher wages. Near,
~ the entire Pacific division is az.
fected.
The home OF Wofford Tweed. On
Laurel Mountain, near Greensboro. y.
c.. was destroyed by fire. and bic wife
their three children and Mr:au 'urrsv
Tweed were burned to death and their
bodies cremated in the flames.