Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1909-05-15
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Thursday, Nav O.

seventy-fve years OF age. pleauec gull
~ in the United States district court
at Fort Scott. Kan. TO the charge of
counterfeiting.
Addison 3. Beardsley. confidential
secretary to Carpenter & Co. real es-
tate brokers in New York, was sen
fenced to prison for 1--WE years for en-
bezzling 500
Delirious from illness. Captain Will
liam Cook. a prominent Elk and a
noted drill master. leaped from a
fourth-story window at Toledo. o., and
was instantly killed.
Friday, May z.
Matthew Bynum and Willard Wylie,
brothers-in-law. shot and killed each
other at Dukedom. near Msyfield. Ky.
Senator P. c. Knox. OF Pennsylva-
MIA. celebrated his hfty-sixth birthday
anniversary in Washington on Thurs
day.
Fire wiped out the buildings of the
North Pacific Lumber company. at
Barnet. near Vancouver. b. c.. entail
ing loss OF S350.00O.
Frustrating a plot TO kill an Italian
and his wife. who lived at East
Vivian. near Blueheld. W. Va. four
oficers raided a lodgeroom. and in the
scrimmage that followed two Italians
were killed and eleven arrested.
Saturday, May 8.
Passed Assistant Surgeon James p.
d. Bruler. medical oficer of the United
States gunbOat Paducah. died aboard
that vessel at San Jpan. Porto Rico.
Jacob f. Ridgway. president OF the
Quaker City National bank. OF Phiia
delphia. and well known as a fnancier
died OF general debility. aged eighty
Ave years.
While sleeping In the anteroom oil
bis study. Father Scrippo, Of the West
vile Roman Catholic church at Dan
Vile. Ill. was fred upon by three mer
armed with shotguns. but escaped IN
Jury.
Lewis Jenkins. the hfth Of the ne
groes convicted Of the murder OF Mrs
Mary r. Skipwith and Walter John
son in Powhattan county. was electro
cuted in the penitentiary at Rich
mond. Va.
Monday. May 10.
Fire destroyed the plant OF the Lib
erty Hat company. at Newark. n. J..
causing a loss OF 100000.
The entire plant OF William Godfred
a Co. lumber dealers at Cheraw. s
c.. was destroyed by FIRE. with $50. coo
loss.
Lorenzo d. Cunningham. a negro
employee Of the United States mint al
New Orleans. is under arrest. charged
with stealing $500 worth OF gold.
Mary Sullivan. 1O7 years old. an EN-
ploye and pensioner in the Chanlei
family for more than ffty years. died
at Barrytown. near Poughkeepsie
N. Y.
James Renfrew. manager OF the
Western Union Telegraph company a
Chambersbu-E. Pa. committed suicide
by hanging himself in the cellar OF bis
residence.
Tuesday, May II.
Francis O'Connor. formerly edito
OF the Catholic Union and Times an,
magazine writer Of note. died a
Rochester. ~. Y. aged seventy-sevei
years.
President Taft sent 90 the senat,
the nomination OF Henry Groves Con
nor. a Democrat. 20 be United States
Judge for the eastern district Of Nortl
Carolina.
Emmert Schoolcraft. a Civil Wa
veteran. eighty years old. and lift
wife Emily. seventy-seven years old
were burned 20 death at Detroit. Mich.
when their home was destroyed b.
! fire.
Charged with having embezzle,
| $1,000 from n local insurance company
J. B. Mccormick. one OF its agents
who was arrested on the Pimlico race
track. Baltimore. was taken TO Read
ing. Pa. when a warrant was serveC
on him.
Wednesday, May IL.
Another cut OF 5 cents a barrel II
all grades OF oil was announced b!
the Standard Oil company.
J. Pope Brown has been appointe,
state treasurer OF Georgia by Governo
Hoke Smith to I'LL the vacancy caused
by the death OF Robert E Park
John Borcfnac was killed and three
other foreigners were seriously injured
at HOLLYWOOD. near Indiana, Pa. in {
riot which was participated in by full!
a hundred men.
Charles Bright an eleven.year-olC
Camden. n. J.. boy. confessed that h'
and companion or the same age had
broken into many unoccupied houses
TO rob slot-meters.