Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1909-01-09
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.


Thursday December ~.
James O'Brien, aged sixty-two years
noted detective, died at Wilkes
Barre. Pa. OF heart trouble.
New York state spent $2,50o. 600 Ger
| charity during the fiscal year Just
| closed. according to a statement made
by the state board Of charities.
George Schrecongost shot and killed
his wife on the street at Dubois. Pa.
and then, turning the weapon on him
self. inflicted probably fatal wound.
Figures compiled at the Pennsyl-
vania state highway department indi-
| cate that the state has thus far com
pleted 542 miles OF good roads and that
223 miles are under contract or in
| course of construction.
Saturday, December &c.
Notice was issued that the Buck
Ridge colliery at Shamokin, Pa. oper-
sted hy Irish Bros. would resume op-
erations Jan. T.
Thomas Jackson. young farmer Of
Bath county. KY. shot and fatally
wounded his father. Henry Jackson.
during a quarrel.
Herman Wade, sixteen years old.
and Lyle Misener, fourteen years old.
were drowned in Stone lake. at Cas-
copolis. Mich. by breaking through the
ice while skating.
In a collision between an automobile
and a trolley car in .ew York. George
c. Hurlburt. the aged librarian OF the
American Geographical society. and
his daughter were fatally injured.
Monday, December %.
Sixteen West Point cadets have been
dismissed for deficiencies in discipline
and mathematics.
While skating at Jewett City. Conn.
Robert Jeffrey and Hector Gingras.
boys. were drowned.
John Kusaloris. a well known musi.
clan and all-around athlete. was fatally
burned by gas explosion at Maplehiil
colliery. near Shenandoah. Pa
Claus Spreckels. one OF the foremost
German-American citizens Of the Unit.
ed States and known as the sugar
king Of the Pacific coast. died OF pneu.
monia at San Francisco.
Harry Erwin died at Locust Gap.
Pa. from injuries received by being
flung under train Christmas eve.
when he was in a hurry to reach Ash
land TO see his mother before she died.
Tuesday, December %.
The annual encampment OF the G..
A. r. will be held at Salt Lake City
from aug. TO 13.
Judge Hart. at Nashville, Tenn. has
refused bail TO Colonel Cooper. Robin
Cooper and John ID. Sharp. charged
with the murder OF Senator Carmack.
Out Of work and heart broken over
the loss Of a x-months-old boy. who
died two weeks ago. Louis Lotz shot
and killed himself in his home in Phil
ndelphia
p. W. G. Weaver. Tor thirty years y
member OF the Wilkes Barre. Pa.
board of health. and one OF the best
known physicians in northeastern
Pennsylvania died OF abdominal trou-
bles.
Wednesday, December 80.
Fire destroyed the sawmiu plant and
basket factory OF the Lovelace Lum-
Der company at Browton. Ala. entail.
ing a loss OF s2OO.00
Three trainmen were killed and one
was seriously injured In head-on col.
lision between two freight trains on
the Big Four railroad az Knightstown.
Ind
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Nasiulin. OF
Cleveland. o.. were found dead from
gas poisoning in their room IN the
home OF the husbands stepbrother.
Peter Palownka. in Brooklyn
Steel has arrived and work begun on
the new 2o.00O-ton battleship Florida
at the Brooklyn navy yard. and there
is talk of laying the keel on March 4.
as a mark OF honor to the Inauguration
Of Mr. Taft