Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1909-02-20
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.

Thursday, February ~.
Mrs Elizabeth Lehman, the Oldest
resident of Lancaster county. Pa. dis6
in Mount JOY. aged 104 years
-Four miners were fatally burned ~
an explosion of a keg OF powder fn the
Gaylord mine. near Wheeling, w. Va
Waldron Bates. an attorney or B'cs-
ton. Mass. was instantly killed uncef
a train at Monroe. near Lynchburg, Va
Senator Frye introduced q bill In
the senate which requires all ocean
going steamers carrying hfty passen-
gers or more between ports 400 miles
apart to be equipped with wireless
telegraph apparatus.
Friday, February ~.
William H. Whipple. founder OF the
first boys branch OF the Young Mems
Christian association, died at his home
at Salem. Mass.
Rev. c. P. Pledger. assistant TO
Evangelist Billy" Sunday. who hss
just completed six weeks revival
service at Spokane. Wash. died in that
city OF pneumonia
Thomas Lewis. postmaster at Grant
Works. H.. who pleaded guilty 20 en-
has been sentenced to serve tive years
in The penitentiary.
Joseph Adams. twenty-sir years OLD,
who claims he Is wanted by the su-
thorities OF Quebec. CSn-, upon two
charges OF false pretense. has surren-
dered himself 20 the PittsburR police
and is being held pending word from
Canada.
Saturday, February IS.
Rev. DR.. William Dunn Mitchell. Of
Baltimore. q widely known Methccist
evangelist. disd suddenly at Princeton.
n. J.. from heart disease.
Two mer were killed and one 40
badly injured that he may not recover
by an explosion in the McAdoo tunnel
along the Hudson river at Jersey City.
Nj
Mrs. James Lamberton. aged eighty
one years. mother OF Admiral Benja-
min p. Lamberton, OF the United
States navy. died at her home In Car
Isle. Pa
James Herman. a saloonkeeper, and
Charles Winters. a driver. were shot
/ and perhaps mortaily wounded In Sta
pleton. S. J. N a quarrel over . dog
owned by -rinters.
Monday February Is
Caspar I Slmonds. son OF the late
Commission 1T OF Patents william a
Simonds. was accidentally asphyxiated
at Hartford. Conn
Francis Heine. Of near Orwi gsburg.
Pa. obtained from his seventy-five col
| onies OF bees last year two and three
quarter tons OF honey.
The United Mine Workers will send
I 100 organizers into the schuylkill. Pa.
region 20 get recruits TO line up for
next April's scale contest
/ A small are IN the Algonquin hotel.
! New York. caused q partial panic
among the $50 guests. who rushed to
, the lobby II their night clothes.
Declaring that when he pleaded
| guilty 20 ls-ceny he was promised o
sentence OF one year. and that he now
| discovers he is I'm" for twenty years.
James O'Nein demands his release
from the Illinois penitentiary.
Tuesday, February 10.
Andrew Carnegie gave Cincinnati,
o.. 500 600 with which 20 build three
( branch Libraries.
The Bank Of Oaktaha, sixteen miles
y south OF M'iskogee. Okla. was broken
into and robbed OF $4,000.
! F. L. Woodruff, OF Atlanta. Ga. drop
ped dead from heart disease on q pas
senger train near Detroit. Mich.
3 Battalion Chief Michael Graham. one
OF the 1--WE fremen who were injured
by the collapse OF q wall in n are In
the packing sheds OF the Pratt oil
works in Brooklyn, died.
A bill authorizing the acceptance by
the United States from the women's
, relief corps. auxiliary TO the Grand
Army OF the Republic. OF eighty-eight
acres OF land contiguous TO the Ander-
sonville National cemetery. Georgia.
= was passed by the senate.
Wednesday, February ~,
Rear Admiral JAMES @. Green, q.
S. N. retired. died at Bdenton, N. c.
The house OF representatives passed
the bill providing for separate state
hood for Arizona and New Mexico
/ Leslie Coombs. aged nineteen years.
| was put TO death by electricity IN the
state prison at Dannemora. N. Y, for
the murder OF Harry Hosmer, in "a
, Lawrence county. Sept. 2e 1908.
General William z Mickle. adjutAny
general OF the United Confederate
Veterans. gave out a statement say
ing there would be no Joint session o.
, the Blue and Gray" at Memphis-