Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1909-10-09
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Thursday, September Is.

Thursday, September rs.
Engineer S. PER-, of Spencer. n. c.,
was fatally hurt six miles below Lynch.
burf, Va. by jumping from his engine.
which had left the rails.
NJ. +. Ryan, OF Kansas City, was
elected grand chief OF the Brotherhood
of Railway Carmen of America at the
convention at Atlanta, Ga.
Robert Hoe, aged seventy years,
head of r. Hoe & Co, printing press
manufacturers of New York, died in
London after a short illness.
G. McHenry Jones. president of the
West Virginia Institute for Colored
Persons. one of the most prominent
negro educators in the country, died at
Charleston, w. Va
Friday, September "a.
Fire destroyed the Otto Kuhne pre-
serving and picking works at Topeka,
Kan, causing a loss Of S125.OO0.
Three women were killed and three
men and n woman seriously injured
when an automobile containing eight
persons jumped off a trestle at Seat
tie, Wash.
After attempting TO kill his father at
La Crosse. Wis, William Schaefer,
while insane, turned the revolver on
himself and fired one shot, falling
dead on the floor
John NJ. Grice, an American mining
contractor, and FIVE Mexican miners
were instantly killed by an explosion
of dynamite in the Petgrina mine. in
the Guanaiuato district at Guanaiuato,
Mexico.
Saturday, September rs.
Frederick L. Kinds, OF Ausable
Forks. near Plattsburg, N. Y, a well
known Adirondack hotel man, commit
ted suicide.
One person was burned 70 death, an
other instantly killed and a third seri
ously burned. when an automobile
driven by John McLendon ran OF ar
eightfOot embankment at Americas. Ga
Robbers broke into a number of the
watch houses along the Norfolk &
Western railroad between Glasgow
and Buena Vista, Va, aud stole a mum,
Der of Winchester rifles kept for the
use Of the watchmen.
Charles w. Blodgett, of Chicago, a
travelling salesman. was killed. Albert
Westerberg was fatally injured and
Oscar Johnson. Ernest Christensen
and Fred Dangston were hurt when an
automobile in which they were riding
turned turtle at Rockford. Ill.
Monday, September 81.
The death sentence has been I'm
posed at Sudbury, Ont, on Mrs. Annie
Robenson for killing infants of her two
daughters.
One man was killed and several 9th
ers were seriously hurt when the Buck
eye powder mill at Edwards station
H., blew up.
Having failed to kill himself with
chloroform. Rev. =. J. WOolard OF
Tuckerman. Ark. shot himself to death
at Hot Sprlnks, Ark.
Bottle manufacturers, IN confab al
Pittsburg, reported that the wave OF
local option and prohibition had badly
crippled their business.
Charles ]. Bell, former governor OF
Vermont died suddenly OF heart fail
ure on a train in the Grand Central
station in New York as he was about
to leave for Boston.
Tuesday, September %.
Eugene Swinbanl, seventeen years
old, died after being hit by a pitched
ball in a game being played at Chicago
Four persons were instantly killed
and three others injured in a collision
between a freight train and hand car
near Milwaukee. WIS.
William Davis. twenty years old
killed his father. Eli Davis. six miles
south OF Coshocton. o.. during a quar-
rel between the boys parents.
Dr. John Janvier Black. a leading
physician of Delaware and known
throughout the country for his writ
ings on medical and other subjects
died at his home in New Castle, Del.
after a brief illness, aged seventy.
three years.
Wednesday, September %.
The National Guard Association OF
the United ~'tates selected St. Louis as
the place for its convention in 1910.
Rolla b. Noodle, formerly president
of the National Association OF Master
Plumbers, died at his home at Dayton.
O., from heart trouble.
After running amuck and attacking
the officers and hospital stewards of
the United States hospital ship Relief
at Manila, John Ransom, a fireman of
the ship, was shot and killed by Civil
ian Mate Heinke.
A mountain feud was revived in the
circuit courtroom at Hot Springs, Ark,
when VIII MacDaniels shot r. l..
Walker in the presence of Judge
Evans. while tho latter was instructing
the newly empanelled grand jury.