Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1909-10-30
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Thur.day. October "a.


aged ninety-five years. a pioneer Unit
ed Presbyterian minister the Oldest
graduate of Miami university, died at
Winterset. la.
Fireman o. J. Sutton was killed and
eight persons were injured when an
engine and two cars OF the Austin &
Northwestern railway plunged into a
burning bridge over Waters creek
near Mcneil. Tex.
In a pisto! duel between Editor John
r. Pulliam and John w. Richards In
Pulliam's Office at Harrodsburg, Ky.
Richards was fatally wounded and Pull
liam may have TO have his arm ampu-
tated as q result OF a bullet which
crushed the bone.
Friday, October IS.
An unnamed donor has pledged
$4,000 TO the proposed 100000 en-
dowment fund for Wooster university.
at Ironton. o.
Tony Baffa. self-coufessed murderer
of Giuseppe Fllipelli in Chicago sew
eral months ago. was. sentenced to i'm
prisonment for life
Edgar Singer. a mail handler. en-
ployed by the Chicago Great Western
railroad. was arrested at Chicago by
postofice inspectors on charge OF
rifing mail pouches
holland G. Gertner. who is under in
dictment at Kingston. o.. upon the
charge OF embezzling funds from the
scioto Valley bank ranging from $780,
900 TO $4,000, is under arrest at Kan
sas City. Mo.
Saturday, October 10.
The last Of a number OF paper mills
at Rockton, H.. near Beloit. Wis. was
destroyed by fire. entailing a loss OF
$4,000.
Mrs. s. w Block. wife OF a dry
goods merchant Of Galveston. Tex.
committed suicide in the Jewish hos
pital at Cincinnati by hanging herself
with a towel.
Colonel Henry r. Harris. ex-coD-
gresham and third assistant postmas-
ter general during the first Cleveland
administration. died at HIS home at
Odessadale. Ca. after a lingering i'll
ness.
Mrs. II. c. Edwards. wife OF an Oak
land dentist. and c. n. AnaTgyros. an
Oakland cigarette manufacturer. were
killed and seven others were injured
in an automobile accident in a suburb
OF Oakland. Cal.
Monday, October IS.
Three men blew the safe in the bank
at Avon. MINI. and secured $500.
a two-year-old son Of William b.
Enck died OF ptomaine poisoning at
Akron. Pa. after great suffering.
The drowning of nine-year-old How
ard Hollen5ach. OF Northampton. had
the effect OF reuniting his separated
parents.
Sentences aggregating 40 years for
each were imposed at Rockford. III.
upon Melvin Crowell and Henry Brown.
said to have systematically robbed
trains.
Convicting him of second degree
murder. a St Louis jury recommended
a twelve-year sentence for Thomas
Kane. who killed Fred Mohrle. the
slayer OF Samuel Young, a political
leader. whom Kane followed.
Tuesday, October 10.
David q. Eggleston. secretary OF the
commonwealth of Virginia for the past
eight years. is dead at Richmond. aged
ffty-two years
At St Johnsbury. VT. l.. f. Hull
aged hfty-slx years was found dead
in bed by his wife who had dreamed
she saw him dead.
Tacoma. Wash. has adopted the
commission form of government four
TO one: the new charter provides for
a mayor four councilmen and a con
troBer.
Secretary Nagel removed from Office
Daniel d. Davies. immigration inspec-
tor at Chicago. because Davies had
4 overcharged for meals TO detained i'm
migrants.
I Wednesday, October 20.
Mrs Jacob Erwin. seventy years old.
Of Lewisberry, dropped dead while Wis
iting her daughter at New Market
near York, Pa
Or. NJ. J. Stack. for thirty-three
years assistant superintendent of the
government hospital for the insane in
Washington. is dead of cancer.
! Rev Adrian F. VanHulst. ninety
three years old. was found dead in his
room at ST. lgnatius college. in Chi
cago. OF accidental asphyxiation.
One man was shot ana killed. an
other was wounded. two policemen. one
OF whom will die. were beaten With bot
ties and half a dozen others were In
jured in a fight following a Polish wed
dino collaboration in NhfooVo