Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1909-11-13

stadt. Ky. was shot and killed in his
store shortly after drawing $4,000 from
bank, and robbery was the motive
Rev. z. r. Willard. of Akron. O..
the FIRST American pastor 10 hold chill
dren's day services, has retired from
the ministry because of Hl health.
Custaf Bischof western representa-.
tive or the Nathan Manufacturing
company Of New York. committed
suicide at HIS home IN Chicago by
shooting
Saturday. November 6.
Fire in the market house az Hous
ton Va. spread rapidly. destroying
two hardware stores. one grocery.
hotel. drug store and several cot.
tayes.
Miss Fanny Scott discovered that
profanity in Millville. y j.. IS expen.
sive. when Mayor Smith fined her
S725 for saying two swear words 20
Albert Reid
Colonel a. S Hutson was found
guilty at Charleston. W. Ca. OF en-.
bozzling $6i1 from the state OF West
Virginia in 1905. while holding Office
rs assistant adiutant general
Worthless bank securities" with
face value of a quarter az n million
dollars were sold at auction az Nashua.
y IT,. for 500 by Lester r. Thurber.
assignee OF the Security Trust com
pnny. OF Nashua and Grand Forks. y
ID The purchaser was r. =. Sargent. of
Grand Forks.
Monday. Nov-o,hs- 8.
Cotton mills at New Bedford. Mass.
employing 1900 employees. will cur
tail operations two hours per week
DR. G. j. Otto. who thirteen years
ago purchased the Lieser farm. on the
outskirts of Allentown. Pa. for $1,000
has just sold IL for $4,000.
Frank Petrovicz. north Scranton
Pa. miner, fell down n seventy-foot
shaft at the Manvile mine. a cut on
the face being the only injury.
The Cumberland Presbyterian
church has begun suit against the
Presbyterian church for possession of
Missouri Valley college, at Marshall
Mo.
Tuesday, November 9.
The Carnegie Steel company issued
Official notice Of its intention to build
an immense finishing mill plant al
Girard. Ohio. adjoining the Ohio works
at Youngstown. o.
Walter Hyde. twenty-eight years OF
age, OF Brooklyn. n. Y. an attache of
the Barnum q Bailey shows. was killed
and placed on the tracks OF the South.
ern railway near Central City park. al
Macon. Ca, according to Coroner
Young.
Charles W. Howell. charged with
holding up the clerks in the Great
Northern express Office at Seattle
Wash. and stealing $4,000 was iden.
tilted as the bandit who boarded
Great Northern mail car at 8onner's
Ferry, Idaho, on March Is. 1908. and
riied the registered mail.
Wednesday, November 10.
Three trainmen were killed and
thirty five persons injured in wreck
at kleinart's station, twenty miles
north of Knoxville. Tenn.
After three minutes deIiberation
the jury In the case OF Waverly VII
der. boy OF sixteen years. charged
with killing George Swift at Norfolk
va, rendered verdict of acquittal.
Walter Osborn. a wealthy lumber
dealer. shot and killed himself in
loft In the warehouse OF the Byron w
Green, Jr. Lumber company at New
York. of which he Is vice president
Orders have been issued at Charles
ton, w. Va, that Company a. Second
infantry, West Virginia National
Guard. located at Gassaway, be mus
tered out on account of the failure of
majority Of the members of the com.
pany to report as ordered last Thurs
day to protect the lives of two negroes
suspected of implication in an assault
upon Miss Alfredo Rockhold.