Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1910-01-29
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Thursday. January 20.


convicts on the chain gang at Chester,
s. c., were Instantly killed by the ex-
prosion of a stick of dynamite, which
Abel was thawing out
AS a result OF quarrel over the set.
Element of a sisters estate at San
Francisco. OF which they had been ex-
ecutors. Michael j. Erby, aged sixty
two shot and killed HIS brother Pat.
rick in the entrance to the superior
court
William II. McIlvoy. seventy-four
years old. of Madison. Ill. is dead.
leaving twenty-six children and 11s
grandchildren. He boasted that he
| never wore a white shirt or stiff collar.
never used an umbrella and never had
his picture taken.
Friday, January 81.
William and Charles Mullins. ne
groes. were publicly hanged at Os-
ceOla. Ark. before 5000 spectators for
the murder of A. Robinson and his
daughter. houseboat jewellers.
Colonel Robert Lowry. twice cover
nor of Mississippi. died at his home.
at Jackson, Miss. aged seventy-eight
years. Colonel Lowry in the Confeder.
ate army commanded a Mississippi
regiment
Mrs. Louisa Bradley. thirtyseven
years old. wife of b. f. Bradley. gen.
eral manager of the st. Louis Post
Dispatch. shot and killed herself in a
rooming house. whittier she had gone
after escaping from two trained nurses.
Saturday. January %.
The Virginia Anti-Saloon league con-
vention at Richmond adopted site
wide prohibition as its policy
Joseph q Lance. alias w. II. Borne.
fifty years old. was arrested in Chi
cago on a charge OF swindling more
than hundred persons out OF a total
Of more than 100000.
Roasted TO a crisp. the bodies OF
Mrs. ]. A. Mullis and her three-weeks-
old infant were found in the fireplace
Of the woman's home in the Daniels
Mil settlement near Lincolnton. n. c.
Joseph Durkin, nine years old. was
the hero OF a fire in a threestory fat
building in Chicago. when he rescued
his sister. six years old. and CROPPED
HIS way through the smoke and reused
a man and wife, both invalids. who es-
capped.
Monday, January "a
Suit was entered against former
State Treasurer Cameron. of Ohio. and
his bondsmen 20 recover $211. 900 al
legged to have been wrongfully taken
from the state as interest upon state
funds.
Edward Worthine. aged twenty-five.
a laborer in the Barnum mine. died in
the Pittston. Pa. hospital with a
broken back. having been caught be-
meath fan of roof In the mine a few
days ago
While Bishop Fawcett was planning
10 prevent 1t. Professor Raymond
Riordan carried three teachers and
forty-three pupils of Jubilee college
from Peoria, Ill, TO Laporte. Ind. to
open another school.
Tuesday, January rs.
Mary Mallie. thirty years old. and
single a lodger at a house In Pitts
burg. died at the Allegheny General
hospital OF burns received while smok-
ing cigarettes in bed.
~ pei SUNS Convicted OF running
turkey rafles and slot machines in the
recent crusade against gambling I'm
Harrisburg Pa. were sentenced bv
President Judge Kunkel 10 a fine of
$50 and costs each.
A gift OF 81 900 900 has been refused
by the six leading Jewish charitable
institutions OF New York city. The
conditions OF the gift OF the late Lewis
A. Heinscheimer stipulated that the
benehciaries form a federation for col
lection and distribution OF funds They
refused to consolidate.
Wednesday, January %.
President Taft nominated Edmund
w. VOORHEES, to be postmaster az
Brooklyn. N. Y.
Headquarters OF the Rockefeller
Hookworm Commission has been open
ed in the Union Trust building in
Washington.
w. c. Hayes former banker of San
Francisco. was placed under errest at
Memphis. Tenn. at the request of the
California authorities. charged with
having violated the banking laws OF
that state.
For smuggling Chinese into the Unit
ed States from Mexico. Nick Strato-
kos, of New Orleans. and Chew Duck
Fun, OF Galveston. Tex. were sen
fenced at Galveston. to a year in the
United States peniteniary at Fort
Leavenworth, Kan.