Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1909-12-11
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
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Thursday. December ?.
After q strike OF five months. four
mills Of the American Sheet and Tin
Plate company. NJ Bridgeport. O.. re-
sumed operations with old employees
who returned voluntarily.
Six young men charged with en-.
bezzliug amounts ranging from $4,000
20 $4,000 from national banks IN In
diana were taken 20 Fort Leavenworth
prison TO begin sentences Of five years
each
During a fire at the Lake street
school In Kalamazoo. Mica. 400 pupils
marched from the building I'm perfect
order. Smoke was filing several OF
the rooms before the Ere was dis
covered.
Friday. December 8.
Fred Rosena, an Italian. was hanged
az New Castle Pa. for the murder or
his cousin. John CoCcho. on July 12
1908.
Julius c. lander. a contractor. and
John Luski. a digger. were killed at
Detroit Mich by the caving IN OF
sewer trench
For saving the life Of John Freder-
ick. a civilian. Cook r. W. Evans. 81
the revenue cutter Forward at Key
West. Fla. has been commended by
the treasury department
Trinity college. at Durham. n. c..
Is 20 be endowed with $500. 900 for the
institution OF a medical. pharmaceuti
cal and dental department The do
nors are the Dukes. millionaire to
baCco men.
Saturday. December (.
The plant OF the Pittsburg Sanitary
Manufacturing company at Coraopolis.
Pa. was destroyed by a FIRE. Loss.
$4,000.
william J. Chiera. thirtynine years
old. was instantly killed at Detroit.
Mich. when an automobile in which
he was riding turned turtle.
Michael Stanton. a diven. was killed
az Cleveland. o.. while working under
the river. The air was shut OF acct
dentally and stanton was smothered 10
death.
T. A Bagwell. a fireman. vas killed
and several passengers slightly injur-
ed near Wichita Falls. Tex. In a col
lision between a Fort Worth & Den
yer passenger train and Wichita
Falls & Northwestern freight train
Monday. December 6.
An unknown man forced carbolic
acid down the throat OF Miss Goldie
Ingberg. OF Pittsburg. Kan. killing
her and stole her diamond Earrings.
Because a convict whom he whip
ped died IN 1905. Assistant Superin
tendent Durham. OF the Texas state
renitentiary. was indicted for murder.
His mind inHamed by reading
trashy novels. sixteenyesr-old Claude
Williams. OF Cannelton. Ind killed
thirteenyear-old James Hall during
quarrel.
Mrs. Henrietta Costley was walking
over q Pennsylvania railroad street
crossing in Sunbury. Pa. when loco
motive struck and drew her under the
wheels and btheaded her.
Stephen Stalstoke was buried under
an enormous fall OF coal at Bear Val
ley. Pa. and when uncovered he was
dead. while Floyd Latsha was fatally
injured by a rock falling on him.
Tuesday, December 7.
Ten persons were killed and thirty
nine injured, six probably fatally. in
Ohio during the three weeks hunting
season. which closed Saturday night.
Bedros Hampartzoomian, the AT
menian slayer of II. Tavshanjian. the
wealthy rug merchant. was put in
death in the electric chair at Sing
Sing. y. Y.
Myrtle Johnson. Ave years old. was
burned to death, and her mother and
two young brothers were fatally burn
ed in a FIRE which destroyed their
home at COnnellsviile, Pa.
Six hundred cases OF whisky and
large cargo OF whisky In barrels sank
when the steamer Park City. plying
between Louisville and Valley View.
went down near Glen Mary. Ky.
Wednesday, December g.
Harvey Johnson. colored, forty-three
years old. pleaded guilty in Philadel-
phia TO the murder of Catherine King.
also coloTed. and was sentenced to a
prison term OF sixteen years.
Halley's comet was visible on Dec. 4
in threeinch telescope at the obser-
vatory at Smith college. Northampton.
Mass. according TO a telegram re-
ceived at Harvard college observatory
Painting at the sight OF blood. Harry
T. Simmons. Junior at the Western
Reserve Medical college. fell to the
floor in hospital clinic at Cleveland.
o., sustained a fracture OF the skull
and died on the operating table al
which few moments before he had
been an assistant.