Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1909-08-14
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Thursday, August 5.


tender 10 the throne OF Spain. leaves
. total Of $1,000. 600
s. v Mcdonald. farmer living near
Chiokashs. Okla. during a a. OF IN
sanity shot and killed his wife's
brother. J. A. Thompson and Mrs
Thompson and then shot himself
Justice Mills. IN the supreme court
AZ White Plains y Y. affirmed a yer
dict Of S22.5O0 IN the case Of Warren
Palmer against the New York Central
railroad for damages for injuries re
oeived about year and a half aEo.
vhes his wagon was struck by train
Friday August Q.
a $50 100000 steel plant will be es.
Ssblished in Mexico City within the
coming year by French and American
capitalists.
A. Liautard. head OF the American
Veterinary hospital. New York. has
been made chevaiier Of the Legion
az Honor IN Paris.
Ole r. Holton was arrested "on in.
formation at Moose Jaw. Sask.. oharg
I'd with stealing $4,000 from various
savings banks IN Norway.
Herman Bell thirty years old. shot
and killed Sarah Bell. HIS twenty-year
old niece. at Chicago. and later con
fessed 10 the police that notwithstauJ.
ing the fact that ne is married and the
fstheN OF family. he had secretly
loved the girl for the past six years.
Saturday, August z.
Miguel Antonio Caro-. a former pres
ioent Of Colombia, and well known a.
sd author died in BoEota-
Lightning struck Charles Kit1mil
ler's home at Marion. O.. and igniteo
the bedclothing In the crib OF = sleep
ing baby, who was not even awakened
Gold bricks Weighing 24O0 pounds
and worth more than half a million
dollars were received AZ the govern.
ment assay Office az Seattle. wash.
coming through the mail from Fair
banks Alaska, via Vancouver. p. c.
To commemorate the valor o. both
Union and Confederate soldiers az the
battle OF Gettysburg a monument &C
cost approximately $4,000 will be
erected on the old battlefield by a Chi
osgo business man, c. II Mcconnell
Monday, August 9.
The new battleship South Carollns
will be oniciany tried out Aug. "a on
the Maine coast.
Struck by a runaway horse at Leav.
snworth. Kan. J. Miles Moore. one 81
the ciU's founders. was killed IN.
stantly.
Trying to catch a chicken. Dorothy
Wilson. aged one year. OF Altoona. Pa.
fell from her high chair on her head
and may die.
Lightning al New Richmond. Wis
Killed every other one Of six horses
standing side by side. three OF them
not being touched
Mrs. Flora Newton Brown. OF New
York city. and Miss Doris MacHol. OF
New Haven. were drowned while bath
ing in Lake Waramaug az New Pres
ton. Conn.
Tuesday. August 10.
Edgar r. Stackhouse. OF Phlladel
phia, while on visit 20 relatives at
E2kton, Md. dropped dead from heart
trouble
Secretary Nagel. Of the department
of commerce and labor. has accepted
an invitation 10 address the Nationa
Negro Business league at Louisville
Ky. on Aug Is.
a Missouri Pacific passenger trair
northbound was derailed IN South
Leavenworth. Kan. the locomotive
was torn to pieces and all the cars
LEFT the track. but no one was injured
Lightning struck the Liberty Bel
mine at Telluride. Colo. and indirectly
killed three miners. who were over
come by the smoke that filled the
lower levels Of the mine after the
lightning had set FIRE 70 the building
AT the mines mouth.
Wednesday. August II.
Robert WOmack famous as the dis
ooverer of Cripple Creek. died at Col
orado Springs Colo. aged sixty-six
years. after a lingering illness
Richard Golden. the actor. died sud.
denly on board the houseboat Stroller
IN Gravesend bay. y. Y. where he Wal
the guest OF John Newton Porter.
Receipts reported Tuesday from the
operation OF the new tariff law amount.
ed TO $500. ga. as against the receipts
under the Dingley law for the same
day last year amounting 20 $67e57s
Manning c. Palmer. former presiI
dent OF the American Exchange Ma
tional bank OF Syracuse. y. Y. was
discharged from Auburn prison on q
pardon granted to him by President
Taft.