Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1910-01-29
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Thursday, January -.

Thursday, January 70.
Charles Travers. q section hand on
the Trenton Cutoff railroad was Kill
cd at Rambo station. near Norris
town Pa. by being struck by a freight
train
Walter Morrison and John Atkinson.
eentcucod Co be eIectrocuted al Ra-
leigh y. c.. were verrieyed for sixty
days boy Governor Kitchin because the
electric apparatus Is not yet complete.
Plans are making at Pittsburg for a
celebration next year Of the FIRST
steamboat navigation on the Ohio. II
Is said that an uncle Of eN-President
Roosevelt was the builder of the first
steamer 90 navigate the river. Il is
planned 10 have eX-President Roose-
Welt as the chief personal feature.
Friday, January a.
Fourteen persons We're injured one
fatally and five seriously. in an expo
sion OF gas ia a palm garden owned by
Henry Messerschmidt at Farmington.
Wis
A plan was launched at the meeting
o fthe board of directors OF the George
Washington university. IN Washington.
20 raise $4,000 600 as an endowment
fund within the next three years.
Carl Washer. fifteen years old.
stopped Baltimore & Ohio passenger
train within ten feet of a burning
bridge west OF Weltsboro. Ind. by sig
mailing the engineer with a red hand.
kerchief Passengers in the four crowd
"a coaches made up a purse OF 800.
Saturday, January IS.
Alexander Hilgcr. aged sIxty.fve
years was killed by a locomotive on
the Pittsburg. Fort Wayne & Chicago
railroad at Leetsdale. near Pittsburg.
while saving his daughter from the
same fate.
Calogaro Siragusa. who was sen
fenced 20 three years following his
conviction OF charge Of circulating
counterfeit money az WiIiamsport.
Pa. was given an additional two years
FOR an attack upon a deputy United
States marshal
Trembling and pleading that be be
taken 90 some other place for fear OF
mob violence. Henry Smith. the negro
convicted with three others OF muir
dering Walter f. Schultz an artist OF
Chicago. ar Alexandria. Va. was sen
fenced 20 he eleCtrocuted. smith de-
clared that ne was not afraid 20 die in
the chair, but he did not want 10 be
thevictim Of a mob
Monday, January y.
Arrested at Terre Haute. Ind. Harry
Epperly admitted having three wives
living
Pellagrs killed Mrs. Sadie Clemens.
an inmate OF the State Hospital for the
Insane at Elgin IN.
Blood poisoning. following an Injury
20 one foot killed John w Greiden-
thai. former state bank commissioner
az Kansas City. Kan.
The death sentence was imposed at
Believille. H. on Willis Clark. col.
ored. who killed a motorman and
wounded and robbed a conductor on an
East St Louis car
Tuesday. January rs.
The bin admitting Arizona and New
Mexico 20 statehood was adopted IN
the house and viii now be sent 10 the
senate.
Frank Phillips. an employc OF the
p. NJ. Holt plaid mills. % Burlington
Va. was caught and wound around n
shaft receiving perhaps fatal Injuries.
Former Governor George p. Werts.
one OF the best known Democratic
politicians in the state of New Jersey.
died at his home IN Jersey City from
pneumonia.
James Lnvine. colored. employed at
the Friends school at Abingdon. near
Norristown. Pa. who was convicted OF
robblng the pupils OF that institution
was sentenced 10 eighteen months I'm
prsonment IN the county jail
Wednesday, January 1e.
Mrs Margaret Collier Graham. au-
thor and magazine writer. is dead at
her home In Pasadena. Cal. aged
siXty-two years.
About 1000 operatives In all have
gone out on strike In Fall River. Fish
erville. Fitchburg and az several other
points In Massachusetts because of a
reduction in wages caused by the new
6fty-six hour law.
Losing his balance as he was cross
ing a plank over the elevator shaft of
the new Union Theological seminary
in New York, Alexander Boes. fore
man Of a gang Of plasterers. fell seven
stories and was killed.
Papers have been signed In Balti-
more by two Of the three interests
controlling the A. s. Abel estate trans
ferring TO Charles II. Grasty control
OF the stock in the A. s. Abel com
pany. which publishes the Baltimore
Sun.