Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1910-03-12
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
rhursciax. March a

Following the footing of the safe OF
| the United States Express company at
Parkersburg. W. Va. OF $1,000, J. H
Rector q night clerk. was arrested for
| alleged completely IN the THEFT.
With her body. face and hands torn
and her two children suffering with
innumerable scratches. Mrs. George
AcNemery. OF Pittsburg. Pa. bears evi-
dences OF an encounter with cat that
went mad
Gordon Davis. who was born a slave
to Jefferson Davis family and who
was Jefferson Davis' servant died at
his home IN South Boerne. Tex. aged
sixty years. During the Civil War he
was taken by Union soldiers and made
a corporal in the Union army.
Friday, March 4.
Walter DageD. fifty years old. who
was expscfed 60 be the chief witness
for the state In the .. Neecution of for
mer county commissioners indicted at
THIN. o.. recently for alleged graft
ing. committed suicide
Lieutenant General Arthur MacAr-
thur. retired. before the Milwaukee
Press club. urged the establishment
OF mobilization depOts ia various cen
ters OF population to store arms and
equipment for 100000 men.
Henry Akin, aged forty-hVs years.
n miner of Sycamore. selected a spot
IN the woods at Glasgow. near Johns
town. Pa. TO end his life by cutting
his throat Years ago his father com
mitted suicide by hanging not far from
the same place.
Saturday. March S.
Both houses Of the Oklahoma legis-
lature ratified the income tax amend
ment 20 the federal constitution.
John Wren and Patrick Quinn. Do
bcemen, were shot 10 Chicago BY two
Italians supposed 20 be members OF
a Black HIND organization Wren Is
said TO be dying. Quinn's wound is not
serious
W T. zones. one Of the Eealthiest
planters IN South Carolina. will have
20 serve a life sentence in the state
penitentiaTy for the murder OF his
wife. the supreme court having M.
hrmed the judgment OF the lower
court
Monday. March ?.
Plank Ridge washery. near Shenan.
dosh, Pa. which has been idle for SIX
weeks, resumed. giving employment o.
several hundred men and boys.
One man was killed. i've injured
and several are missing IN a landslide
at Mountaindale. wash. on the Chi
cAgo. Milwaukee & Puget Sound rail
road.
w. ID. Iced. Of Denver, Lancaster
county. Pa. has goose which laid
an egg nearly one foot in circumfc-
ence one way and eight and three
quarter inc&s the other.
II IS rumnred that eighty-four coal
mines In the New river district o.
West Virginia, with an annual OUTPUT
OF 5000. 900 tons. viii be controlled by
a single Washington selling agency.
Tuesday, March 9.
As he was stepping forward 20 be
baptized At a revival service at Glrard
o.. James Applesate. sixty-nve years
old, wealthy and prominent citizen
dropped deeN
A Bessemer a Lake Erie railroad
locomotive was thrown into French
creek By the collapse OF a steel bridge
near Meadviile. Pa The engine sani
in 100 feet OF water. The crew escaped
eAA tAaAf WIZ taNG nAh AAAAt a.
James Clark. ransacked the Alpha
Tau Omega Fraternity house at Chi
cage. was chased by twenty students
In pajamas and captured. taken bacl
90 the fraternity house. given q batl
and turned over 20 the police
Wednesday, March 9.
An unidentified man committed sui
eide by jun ping from the North street
bridge into the swollen SusQuehanna
az wtlkes-Ba Pa. The body quickly
disappeared.
Governor c. n. Haskell OF Okla.
homa. vetoed the so-called Taylor cleo
ton bill. under which n Is claimed
most OF the colored men OF the state
would be barred from voting on con
stitutional amendments.
Tony Stillitano. twenty-four years Of
age. was shot 10 death In q crowded
restaurant at Johnstown. Pa. but when
the police arrived the place was de
serted and no clue to the former pa
irons OF occupants was obtAinable.
AS the result OF family quarrel in
which his wife took sides with her
father, William Davidson. = farmer
living near Ithaca. Mich, struck his
father-inlaw. julius Teet. with the
butt OF a shotgun. killing him. The
man next cut his wife's throat and
blew out his own brains.