Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1909-07-24
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Thursday. July IS.


John Goode. eighty years OF age.
statesman. lawyer and soldier. died at
Norfolk. Va. following "a stroke Of
paralysis suffered several weeks ago.
Escaping from his stall, a mule be,
longing to Banko Rick, OF Bethel. Pa.
travelled sixteen miles over strange
roads TO his former home in one night
One million dollars OF free advertis-
ing for n campaign against tuberculo-
els was voted by the Joint convention
OF the National Bill Posters and the
Southeastern BIZ Posters at Atlanta.
Ca
Upon conviction by court martial for
passing bogus checks and failing TO
pay his debts, Major Charles ]. T.
Clarke. Twenty-siXth infantry. has
been dismissed from the army. &C
cording 70 an announcement &C the
var department.
Friday. July IS.
Thomas Swsngler. an expert Usher.
man. fell into the Delaware river at
Bristol. Pa. and was drowned.
Claude Tator. twelve years old. OF
Rhinebeck. n. Y. died at Vassar hos
pital. Poughkeepsie. OF tetanus. as the
result OF burns received on July 4.
BENJAMIN Wilmot HaggArd. for the
past three years disbursing officer OF
the United States house or represen.
tatives. died in Algona. Ia. OF tuber.
culosis.
State Senator Oscar c. Bayles was
shot and killed by David X Smith at
Monroeville. Ala. as a result OF Bayles
efforts 10 obtain pardon Cor Isaac
and Jesse Shirley who are serving
terms for the killing OF Jim Smith. a
brother OF David
Saturday. July ~.
Myrtle Cross. eighteen years old
was acquitted at Cripple Creek. Colo.
on the charge OF having murdered her
sweetheart, John Phillips.
Reports from points IN northern
Ohio show that an estimated loss OF
800 900 was caused by a storm that
swept over that section IN Friday.
Three men were killed and two in
iured in a head-on collision between
southbound passenger train No l2
and northbound train No. 26 on the
Chicago & Eastern Illinois railroad a.
Royal. Ill.
Jennie Smith. a young white woman
from New York. was sentenced to the
city stockade at Macon. Ca, haviug
been arrested In a room with Miles
Reid. a negro waiter, who was sent to
the chain gang.
Monday, July 10.
a Chicago woman. about to be com
mited to an asylum. killed herself and
her two sons.
Two sisters were drowned at Port
Huron, Mich, one trying 20 save the
other from death
The Diehl-Schiiling furniture plant
near Easton. Pa, was destroyed BY
IRE. entailing loss OF $50 900, partly
insured.
Secretary OF War Dickinson has or
dered the commissary general of the
army not TO purchase any goods from
trusts or combinations in restraint OF
trade.
George p. Richardson, facing trial
for larceny and temporarily In an in.
sane asylum. applied to the courts in
Boston not to release him. alleging he
is stHl insane.
Tuesday, July 20.
Residents of Catawissa, Pa. unable
10 Withstand the binding clouds OF
dust, sprinkled a number OF the streets
with oil.
Matthew Gill. a retired iron mer.
chant. shot and killed himself at his
home at Radnor. near Philadelphia
While respondent from illness.
An omnibus bill authorizing the con.
struction OF bridges across various
navigsble waters of the United States
was passer by the house OF represen-
tatives.
Samuel s. Spellman. whose wife IS a
millinery store proprietor in Cleveland.
killed himself by inhaling gas at St
Louis because he did not have money
to give to a grandchild.
Wednesday. July ~.
John w. O'Hara, American consul to
Santos. Brazil. has resigned because
of I'll health
A sufferer for some time from heart
disease. Miss Ida Gray. nineteen years
old. dropped dead on the street In
Philadelphia.
Baillie p. Waggener celebrated his
sixty-seconc birthday by entertaining
10000 children OF Atchison. Kan, and
Atchison county at Forest park
Joseph II. Norris, OF Guthrie, Okla.
who In 1908 was chairman OF the Re
publican state central committee Of
Oklahoma. was appointed Indian in
spector for the department OF the in
terror. TO succeed z. Lewis Daily, re