Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1909-08-21
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.


Despondent from Ill health. Mrs.
James II. Ritter. OF McComb. @. clasp
Sd her baby in her arms az commit
ed suicide by jumping into an absn-
aoned we'll.
Oscar Cassei. aged sixteen years.
fell from n train on the Philadelphia
q Reading railroad ar Chester. Pa.
while stealing ride and both legs
were SO badly manElsd that they had
to be amputatsd.
Masked men. styled might riders"
By the country people at Brownsville.
Ky, wounded Harden Minlop. . far
mer. and took Andrew Farrts. another
farmer. and two women from their
homes and whipped them
Friday. August ~
Mrs. Mary Munro. 103 years old.
1iod at the county hospital at VII
ntngton. Del, whore she bad been for
some time
The Buckeye Rubber plant at Akron,
o.. was partially destroyed by are.
with its hundreds OF tons OF raw ma
teria1. sntailing a loss OF 5000 900.
Fire at the Reading pa Abattoir
company's plant resulted In loss ss-
timated by the hrm at close to SIS 900.
about two-thlrds OF which Is covered
by insurance.
william Reed and dvsyear-oId Eve
Ign Trautman were instantly killed and
Mrs. Guy Trautman, her mother. per
haps fatally injured by being struck
by a passenger train while driving
across the Erie tracks az North Center.
near Akron. o.
Saturday, August -.
Island. Ala. Mrs. John HornbucIls
was instantly killed and her little
niece. Matte Lemley, fatally injured
by bolt OF lightning.
The plant OF the Empire Graphite
company. at Porters Corners. near
Saratoga n. Y. including a four story
mill and several smaller buildings. was
burned with a loss OF 100000.
Dependent because he had been
rsprimandsd. Sergeant F. A Burger.
OF the marine guard OF the cruiser
Tennessee. now at the Puget Sound
navy yard. committed suicide By cut
ting his throat
Esther DetweiIer. three years old IS
dead. her sister Rebecca. aged six
years g DYING aui the mother Of the
children is seriously burned as the re-
suit 81 lamp explosion NJ their home
az Vandersrift Heights. Pa
Monday. August 20.
The Hotel Arlington AZ Santa Bar
hara. Cal wss destroyed by Hre
which drove cut several hundred
guests Loss. $4,000
Hugh c. Ward. 4 prominent Kansas
City pbilanthropist law partner Of
Governor Hadley Of Missouri died In
a sanitarlum az New York Of aDoplexy
samuel s Martin % VoganvilIe
Pa. was seriously hurt BY a fall Of
thirty ave feet while painting both
arms being broken and internal ia
turies sustained
The International typographical
union ga session az st Joseph No.
voted % require local unions % anil
ate with rhe central bodies ot the
American Federation OF Labor
Tlesday, August Y.
Harry Shellenherger York. Pa
butcher. died of blood poisoning caus-
ed by a small cut on the hand
Seuson Miller fourteen years old.
was killed AZ Chicago by a pitched
, ball which struck him on the ear
LADY Alma -Tadema wife % Sir
Lawrenca Airua-raiema the painter.
and herself an artist of note. IS dead.
Because she lifted him. Harry Bliss.
aged e,shte. n shot and fatally wound
ed Miss Mian.e Clarke aged seven
teen
Ned Marshall. who be described "a
an American millionaire. was killed
az Monte Carlo by a hospital guard.
who escaped
Prince A bert Leopold heir % the
Belgian throne. has arrived in Ant
werp from his trip % the Congo, AMI
was given an ovation.
Wednesday. August "a.
/ Charleston. s. G.. voted against pro-
/ hibition for the county dispensary six
10 one in the liquor election
Carrying twenty-five passengers. the
steamer Seattle turned turtle 500 feet
from her dock at COuer D'Alene.
Wash. No lives were lost
The petroleum fuel Of the steamer
, Monte Blanco caught FIRE in the har-
Dor az Callao. Peru. and the steamer
was completely destroyed.
The first bale OF new crop North
| Carolina cotton was sold at Norven,
| n. c. Il was classed as good middiing.
and brought IA cents a pound.
Ella Bullock and her two small sis
ters were burned 10 death IN a fire
that destroyed the farmhouse near La
Brosse. Kan. The fire was caused by
a gasoline explosion during the ALB
sence OF the parents.