Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1908-10-24
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
Thursday, October IS.

Harry Andrews. nineteen years old.
Of Philadelphia. died at the Delaware
hospital in Wilmington. Del. from the
effects of broken neck sustained By
a iaH from a chestnut tree near VIII
mington two weeks ago.
The conscience fund of the poetoHce
department was enriched TO the extent
OF $3.50 by a remittance. received from
n woman. who explained that fifteen
years ago. when she was postmistress
at small office. she appropriated the
contents OF package
j. w. Lorraine. charged with steal.
Ing pay checks from the public health
department IN Washington last Au
gust pleaded guilty in the federal
court at Atlanta Ca. and was SEN
fenced to FIVE years imprisonment and
90 pay a FIRE of $1,000
Friday October rs.
Six persons were badly burned and
others were less seriously injured az
Amherst. o.. when a tank car filed
with gasoline on the Lake shore road
exploded following n wreck.
Antoine Muzzaroli. aged sixty-ono
a veteran OF che French army and
prominent both IN this country and
abroad as an educator and a writer. /
committed suicide In New York by |
shooting
Yonkcrs ~ Y. the place. and the
second Tuesday I'm October. 1909. tho
time. We're selected for the next am
nuM convention Of The supreme castle. +
Knights OF the Golden Eagle.
Saturday, October ~.
nr. Won Tiedmann. postmaster al /
Cortcz New. was arrested. CHARGED T
with emhezziing $500 OF the funds of
his office.
The treasury purchased 10000 4
ounces of silver for delivery az New .
Orleans ana $4,000 ounces for delivery .
at Denver a. 51.S07 per fine ounce.
Fire destroyed 20.O00O0O feet az
lumber and two saw mills and devas-
tated an area of ten acres az Rock
Island. ILL.,. causing loss OF 100000.
ono child was killed and another
seriously injured and a whole neigh
borhood was thrown into a tumult as
a result OF an explosion In the pa 10
shop OF Louis Kersberg in New York
Monday, October 10.
Pittsburg has a girl dying OF too
many pickles. eaten Ia facotry where
she worked
Captain Joseph T.. Brown. OF Birney
Mont. Democratic candidate for prcsi-I
dental elector. died in a ST. Louis hos.
pitaL
Government experts at Yuma. Ariz
declare tests have shown both Ervn
tan cotton grown there and an ila
ported roller sin are great successes.
Slipping from a freight train on
which he was riding az Wiuiamsport.
Pa. thirteen yearold Emersan Guthrie
had his left leg taken on az the knee.
Tuesday, October 20.
Gus Rogers. the comedian OF Rogers
Brothers. died suddenly at his home
in New York.
Mrs. John a. Blackburn was burned
10 death near her home at Scheu
w. Va. while lighting forest fires.
Harry Z. CrOut. manager of the Club
hotel. at Baltimore. Nd. was stricken
with heart trouble while attending the!
performance at the Gayety theatre andl
died within five minutes in the theatre
lobby
John Karle. a porter in the plant oil
the American Rope MANUFACTURING
in Brooklyn. was mangled
TO death by a carding machine in the
presence OF 800 screaming girl oper-
atives.
Wednesday, October p.
The skeleton of prehistoric ANIMAL
forty feet long and twenty-five feet in
height has been found in the Bad
Lands south of Glasgow, Mon.
Stepping from a train side-trackedi
At Burlington. n. j., Walter Stack
house Of Bridgeboro. walked in from.
lf the westbound milk train and was
fatally injured.
Harry and Lewis Kanarr were killed
and their mother, Mrs. James Quick.
vas fatally injured at Glare. Mich, by
he explosion of sixteen pounds Of dy-
lamite which had been placed In their
oven 10 dry and was forgotten.
An attempt to light fire with kero.
'ene cost tho life OF Mrs Mary PetlakI
1t Cleveland o.. inflicted burns upon
her husband, Lawrence, from which
he Will probably die, and came near
BURNING their infant child, asleep in an
adjoining room.