Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1909-05-01
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.


Thursrsyr March 20.
Former United States Senator David
Tcrpie. born In Hamilton county. o..
ia 1929. died In Indianapolis. Ind.
Robbers visited the Office CT the Nor
ris nursery at West Chester. Pa. blew
open the safe and wrecked the place.
but secured less than 81 In cash.
An appropriation OF F25.000 TO pay
the travelling expenses OF the presi-
dent, to be expended in his discretion.
during the fiscal year of 1910. IS pro-
posed in an amendment to the census
appropriation bill. introduced by SEN
ator Guggenheim. OF Colorado
Friday, April 2s.
Rudolph Buol was assassinatcd AZ
Chattanooga. Tenn. while asleep. the
murderer placing a stick OK dynamite
on his bed and exploding Il with =
fuse
Thrown out of his position as a
baker because the firm that employed
him was forced to shut down. owing
to the Patten corner in wheat, Joseph
zilberger. sixty years old. committed
suicide in New York.
DR.. William L. Cell. of Doylestown,
Pa. a noted explorer. who has trav-
eled extensively In Africa and China.
and has just returned from a trip
around the Great Wall of China, called
on President Taft.
The expenditure OF $3.250,OO0 on the
canal zone during the month Of Jan
uary has brought the total expenditure
on the zone toward the construction
- tha oo,ol cf,-ff DISQUALIFICATION -.
itation and plant building, to $685.
600
Saturday, April "a.
James l. Dixon, of Chicago. inner
tied 10000 from a rich uncle and two
days later enlisted in the U. S. Marine
corps.
Lawson Addison, a negro. was hang
ed at Chester, S. c.. for the murder OF
two women near Lowrysville. Chester
county.
James r. Clark was found guilty at
St Louis of killing Joseph Flood. a
telegrapher, last December. and he
was sentenced to serve fifteen years
In the penitentiary.
General Clement A. Evans. com
handkerchief OF the United Confed-
crate Veterans. has accepted an invi-
tation to pre- ient 10 the United States
government the monument TO General
Stephen ID. Lee at vlcksburg. Miss.
on June IL.
Monday. March 20.
The National bank. OF Arrowsmith.
Ill. was robbed by safe blowers, who
secured $1,000 and escaped.
-Four persons were burned to- death
in the destruction by fro Of the Cen
trail hotel In Topeka, Kan.
Henry NJ. Bolger. hotel and saloon
proprietor OF Pittsburg. was found
guilty OF accepting s17.50O for the
purpose OF briging councilmen Of that
city TO secure city deposits for a local
bank
Harry Rheams. sixteen-year-old
train robber. who killed William
Dempsey. a passenger on a Great
Northern train. In a hold-up near Great
Falls. Mont. a year ago, was sentenced
10 life imprisonment.
Tuesday. April 81.
Rear Admiral Joseph Nelson Miller.
u. S ~, retired, died at his home IN
East orange, n j.
Pacy Hill was electrocuted in the
Auburn. n. Y, prison for the murder
OF his cousin. Chloe Hancock. on
March is. 1908.
Clifford Rutherford, assistant post
master at Lenox. Ca, was shot and
killed by a negro burglar. who had
robbed the postohice. two stores and a
bank.
Mrs. Mary Hoffman. wife OF Har-
risburg, Pa. business man. committed
suicide in the Pennsylvania Hospital
for the Insane in Philadelphia by hang
ing herself with n sheet.
Wednesday, April %.
George Barton was sentenced to Ave
years Imprisonment and $1,000 fire a.
Greenville. S. c.. for robbing the post
office.
Rev. S. V. Williams. pastor of the
Christian church at Kankakee, H..
committed suicide by drinking carbolic
acid while mentally deranged.
Brigadier General John Breokinridge
Babcock. u. S. A. retired. died at sea
on board the steamer Prinz Friedrich
Wilhelm, which arrived in New YorL
Tuesday from Bremen.
Justice Harlan. OF the United States
supreme court. denies that he intended
to be a candidate for the ONCE OF
moderator of the Presbyterian general
assembly, which meets in Denver next
month.