Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1909-02-13
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
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bill was introduced in the Colo
rsdo legislature making 1t INSIDE
/ meanor 10 give. accept or solicit a tin
except on a sleeping car.
! Rear Admiral William j. Barpetts.
superintendent OF the naval observa-
tory at Washington, was transferred
to the retired list by reason of age.
The Pennsylvania state board Of
health ordered that sixteen cows az
fected with tuberculosis at the Door
district almshouse at Freeland. Pa. be
killed.
Three trainmen were Killed and one
was fatally injured when two stock
trains on the Chicago. Milwaukee &
st. Paul railroad collided head on at
Briceville, Mo.
Friday, February 5.
Richard Mueller, president of the
Association OF German Veterans In
America. was received In audience by
Emperor William In the palace in
Berlin.
Charles F. Holmes, against whom
damaging testimony was given by hia
tweive-year-old son in st. Louis, was
declared not guilty OF the murder of
his wife.
The United States has been asked to
be represented at the international
Musical Congress, to be held in Vienna
In May. 1909. on the occasion of the
centennial celebration OF the birth OF
Josef Haydn, the composer.
Saturday, February 6.
Drinking carbolic acid in mistake
for castor oil. Dudley e. Latham, a law
student at Columbia university. New
York. died in a hospital.
Five hundred cattle were drowned
by the food waters on the Stanford
ranch. near Tehama, Cal, and 1900
sheep persisted near Colusa.
VIII Foster, a negro, twice convicted
OF numbering John Young. q well
known white man. two years ago. was
hanged In the county jail at Spartans-
burg. s. c.
William Cloke. one OF the best
known newspaper men in New Jersey
and recently appointed by Governor
Fort state commissioner OF reports
died at his home in Trenton.
Monday, February &.
The postofice at Enola, Pa, was
robbed. the safe being blown open and
over 5000 t-ken.
II cost the Pennsylvania railroad
$4,000 in the Lancaster (Pa-) court for
destroying the lumber shed Of u. G.
Meilinger through a spark from n To-
,omotive.
Eight negroes will be hanged for
murder at different places In Louisiana
March 8.
The National Model License league.
composed of liquor men, will hold con-
'entions throughout the country to
work for uniform license laws.
The Wyoming house has passed n
ill appropriating $500 for dry farm.
ng experiments this year.
Tuesday. February 9.
Or. Elizabeth James. aged seventy
light years the oldest woman phvsl-
ian In Chicago, died at the county
ospial OF heart disease.
T. II. Pardo de TRvera. who has
cen a member OF the Philippine com
Mission since September. 1901, has re-
igned on account of iii health, to take
feet March 1.
Mrs. William H. Taft. wife OF the
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member OF the Connecticut Society
T Colonial Danes OF America, by right
7 her descent from Thomas Welles.
ne OF the early governors OF the state.
Henry and Bud harrington. father
nd son, fought against Robert and
harles Weatherford. brothers. with
lstols al Alexandria. La. over a dog
nd both the Barringtons were killed
nd Robert Weatherford was mortallv
ounded.
Wednesday, February 10.
II. ]. Miller, an erecting engineer.
II forty feet from a crane at Oak
ont. near Pittsburg. and was killed.
Senator Foraker on Tuesday pre-
nted to the senate the credentials
his successor. Senator Elect Theo-
IRE E. Burton. of Ohio.
The comptroller o. the currency IS
led call for statement of the con
ton OF national banks at the close
business on Friday Feb. s.
Joseph Bartosevic, twenty-five years
d. was found along the Philadelphia
Reading railway. above Phoenix.
lie. Pa. with both legs severed.
The j. & S. Emison corn mill. corn
lbs and elevator. together with 100.
0 bushels of corn. were DESTROYED bv
e at Vincennes. Ind, causing a loss
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