Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1908-06-13
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
Thursday. June 4.

Thursday. June 4.
News that Harry lexis. a govern
ment mining expert. and compau on
were killed by Moros on April ] while
asleep In a hut has been received 81
Manila
Colonel Charles NJ. Sloan. a promi
nent insurance broker. who for many
years was a director of the G;rard Fire
Insurance company OF Philadelphia
died at Mt Holly. y J.
Captain A. J. Standing. widely
known as an Indian educator. and one
OF the founders OF the Carlisle Indian
school died Of paralysis at his home
at Dickinson college. Carlisle. Pa
aged sixty years.
Friday. June 5.
Mrs. Minnie Gumcrt hanged hersol.
in closet at her home in Appleton
Wis. with a shoestring while insane.
Rev. Robert Hitchcock Paine. rector
Of Moant Calvary Episcopal church
Baltimore. Nd. died of a compliCato-
of diseases from which ne had bee-
suffering for a long time
Charged with the embczzlement O.
about $4,000 from Servians. Pee
Zenich. thirty-seven years old. was
rested at Pitsburg ON complaint @
Sam Mam.ah. leader Of the Servia-
colony.
Saturday, Jure 6.
Sixty-uine students in the secrr
third and fourth classes at the ma.
academy az Annapolis. Nd. this ve-
have been found deficient il their a.
examinations.
Dr Henry Van Dyke. OF Priu.ctr
college. has been nominated by IA
ward 90 give the American lecture b
fore the University of Paris and cthe
French universities next winter.
The verdict against Walter r. CT
lette. former vice president OF the Mu
tual Life Insurance company. who had
been convicted OF perjury in connec
ton with the life Insurance invesura
ton. was set aside by the appeilat,
division OF the New York supreme
court
Monday, June 8.
Falling as he tried TO board a trai-
az Lancaster. Pa. Charles Williams co.
Philadelphia. was perhaps fatally in
jured.
The 5000 miners In the coal felds
Northern Colorado have rejected o..
proposed wage scale. but strike ma.
be averted
Tho Second battalion Twelfth Unit
ed States infantry. reached ogden
burg n. Y. Saturday. after a 200-mu
march from Plattsburg.
Secretary Taft VIII celebrate On,
from Yale Boy attending the commonce
ment on June % and making an a.
dress.
Tuesday, June g.
Miss Bertha Donaldson. who was a.
tally burned at her home az Wllmin-
ton. Del. while engaged in cookine
died Monday
The Greensburg (Pa) county com
missioners offered q reward OF SO.
for the arrest OF the person who as
saultcd and murdered Anna Luchlnsk
nine years old. whose body was iou.,
In box car az Mount Pleasant
The president appointed Capital
Lewis Guion. OF the Twcnty-siX
Louisiana infantry. a member of th
Nicksburg national park commission
20 an the vacancy caused by the recel
death of General stephen ID. Lee.
Ahonzo Nalzone. convicted at Wi
mington. Del. OF attempting 10 cXtor
$4,000 from Ranaele Gugiielmo. r.c.
Italian merchant. by means OF thrca
ening letters. was sentenced 70 thre
years at hard labor in the count
workhouse.
Wednesday, June 10.
Seven persons were drowned IN a.
foods AT Helena Mont
John s. Leech. the newly app0inte
public printer, was sworn inc cCi.
Tuesday.
Joseph Gran fell face downward i
a foot OF water at Titusville. Pa. VIII
in an epileptic 1T and was drowned
At the commencement meeting O
the board Of trustees Of Princeton ~.
versity gifts 70 the amount of $44
1911 were announced.
A fire OF unknown origin destroye
the New Cliff hotel. one of the famcu
summer hotels OF Newport. r. l.. "a
gether with a number Of small cot
tages connected with il, entailsng
loss OF 100000.