Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1908-05-16
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
Thursday, May 2.


Thursday, May 7.
Two women and two girls are be-
iieved 10 have perished in fire which
destroyed the Shaw building in the
heart OF the business section OF Hous-
ton. Tex.
Judge Lanning, in the United States
court at Trenton. n. J.. appointed
Frank wyant and Edmund Price re-
ceivers for the New Jersey and West
Virginia Bridge company.
The president entertained at lunch
con at the White House Cardinal
LOgue. Catholic primate Of ireland;
Cardinal Gibbons, Mgr. Falconio, the
papal delegate. and other church dig
nltaries.
Friday, May 8.
Mrs. J. V. Titus. ninety-two years
old. fell down stairs at the home of her
daughter at Scranton. Pa, and was in
stantly killed.
Immediately following his prelim-
inary trial az Naples. Tex, on a charge
Of assault 70 murder and rob. John
Williams, a negro, was taLen by a mob
and hanged.
-Four persons were killed and twelve
injured in a fire believed TO be OF In
cendiary origin which practically de
stroyed the ave-story tenement house
at 1Of Orchard street. New York.
Foods cOlored green with copper
salts viii not be entitled to entry into
the United States under the pure food
and drugs law after Jan. 1 next. &C
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food and drug inspection, consisting OF
Secretaries COrtelyOu. Wilson and
Strauss.
Saturday, May 9.
Major Edward r. Lowndes. OF the
marine corps, has been retired from
active duty because of disability.
w. r. Loucke. Of Selma, Ca, his wife,
and their baby were killed when an
automobile was struck by a Southern
Pacific train at Reedley. Ca
Mrs. Margaret kieronski was &C.
quilted by jury IN Philadelphia OF the
charge Of poisoning her husband.
Grieving because he was compelled
20 go to the almshouse. Or. Charles B.
Warrington. for more than thirty-hve
years practicing physician in various
New Jersey towns. is dead at the War
rem county u. j. almshouse. where
be had been for the last ten days.
Monday, May II.
The will Of Thomas Crumbaugh.
leaving 100000 20 the Spiritualist
church. has been set aside by a jury
at bloomington. III.
Paul Willis. a well-known young
Carlisle. Pa. attorney has been ap-
pointed by the United States court
federal commissioner for that district.
The body % William McIlhonny. a
weak-minded inmate Of the Adams
county. Pa almshouse. who escaped
April 30, has been found in n field
three miles west OF Gettysburg.
In a fire az PuuXsutawney Pa.
which destroyed the general store and
boarding house OF John Becke. $4,000
In money the savings OF eight for
cigners. was consumed. and Mrs.
Becke was seriously and perhaps IA
tally burned.
Tuesday, May ~.
Mrs. Helen +. Moses national presl-
dent OF the Christian Woman's Board
OF Missions, died in indianapolis. Ind.
Work was resumed I'm all the coal
mines in Illinois which were in a con
ditioa to 60 so after six weeks idle
ness.
In a tornado that passed over Mercer
and Henry counties in Illinois. one
woman was killed. several children
injured and many buildings destroyed.
While temporarily deranged from
reading the newspaper accounts OF the
Guinness murders, Jacob Pouch. aged
seventy years, committed suicide al
Warsaw. Ind.
Wednesday, May IS.
Benjamin James Fernie. Pm. D.. for
many years associate editor OF the
Christian Herald. died at Lakewood.
n. J., after a prolonged illness.
Walter G. Berg, chief engineer OF
the Lehigh Valley railroad died unex-
pectedly at his home In New York.
S. c. Peters. recently a pay clerk on
the cruiser Rainbow. was arrested at
Manila for alleged embezzlement OF
$4,000.
John LOughead, aged forty years.
living apart from his seventeen-year-
old wife. broke into her bedroom at
her mothers home at Toledo. o., and
shot her. inhicting a fatal wound. then
turned the revolver on himself and
blew out his brains.