Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1909-06-05

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wnom he was married in Oakland.
Cal. last July.
While testifying in court in a dam.
age case. Or. r. Bruce Burns. a, promi-
nent Philadelphia physician. was
stricken with paralysis and removed
to hospital in a critical condition.
The survivors of the famous fight
ing Fifteenth Pennsylvania cavalry
will erect a tablet IN memory of the
late General William ]. Palmer. Of
Colorado Springs. in a prominent place
in Palmer hall. Colorado college.
Friday, May II.
Plans were completed for the I'm
yelling at Hodgenville. KY. May 81.
statue.
Charles f. Barber. a member OF the
Aero Club of America. died in his
home at Warwick. n. Y. OF injuries
sustained when his automobile was
struck by a locomotive.
Pennsylvania State Forestry Com,
missioner Robert S. Conklin announc-
ed that the 500 acres of forest land
bought in westmoreland and Somerset
counties had been constituted a state
reserve. the first to be established on
the Ohio river watershed.
Saturday, May p.
Clarence Herbert Freeman. former
national checker champion. died at
Providence. r. l.
Catholic laymen OF Denver, Colo.
are preparing TO send a petition 20 the
pope asking for the removal OF Bishop
Mstz. Of the Catholic diocese OF Colo
RADIO.
In the presence OF their little daugh-
ter. Eugene PEBBLES. n young iron
moulder. apparently insane. killed his
wife at Norfolk. Va. in a boarding
house kept by the victims twin sister
Armed with a small base ball bat
Miss Clara Anderson. a servant In the
household OF L. s. Schwabacher. vice
president OF a wholesale hardware
company at Seattle. Wash. attacked q
burglar in the family residence. knock
ing from his hands jewelry said TO be
worth $4,000 and driving the thief from
the house.
Monday, May %.
T. G.. Bush. formerly Cartoonist for
the Kew York World. died at his win
ter home at Camden. :. G.
The Florida house voted a $4,000
appropriation for a silver service for
the battleship Florida. now under con.
struction
Thieves entered the shoe store OF
Samuel Goldberg. at Vineland. ~ J.,
and carried away 100 pairs OF shoes
S3i in cash and a check for $50
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Runic characters and the date 1862,
was made the basis OF claim that
Norsemen discovered America earlier
than Columbus.
Wells Post G.. A. r.. of Columbus
o.. has adopted resolutions condemn
ing the erection OF a monument "a
Captain Henry Wirz. former com
mander OF Andersonville prison.
Tuesday May IS.
President Taft sent 20 the senate
the nomination OF Colonel Richard T
Yeatman. OF the Eleventh infantry. q
be a brigadier general
In closing their convention at Bos
ton. the Order Of Railway Conductors
chose Jacksonville, Fla. as the place
for the next biennial convention.
Three lives were lost in a collision
between the steamer Western State.
and the tug Princeton in the harboi
OF the United States life saving sta
ton at Buffalo. n. Y.
After a trip OF 5000 miles. without q
cent In their pockets. Arthur Crane
aged seven years. and Joe Crosby
aged nine years. both OF Saginaw
Mich. arrived at Toledo. O.
Wednesday. May %.
Five children were fatally burned
during commencement exercises in q
private school at Central City. Ky
George A. Dayton. OF BOonton, n. j.
committed suicide in the Central hote
at Boston by inhaling Illuminating
/ gas.
Lovett Davis, negro. charged with
| attempting to criminally assault a six
teen-year-old white girl. was lynched
at Pine BLUM. Ark.
Mrs. Lizzie York Case, a well known
writer of verse and prose for newspa
| pers and magazines. died at her home
near Baltimore, Md, aged seventy-twC
| years.
President Taft issued an executive
order directing that when holidays fall
on Sunday. all government employees
entitled TO a holiday shall be granted