Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1910-04-09
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Thursday, March 81.

Thursday, March 81.
TWO negro murderers condemned to
death in the electric chair and a white
man charged with highway robbery
escaped from the Norfolk. Va. county
Jail by cutting their way through the
roof Of the prison and lowering them
selves by a rope made Of bedclothing
Roy Koegsle, thirteen years old. and
his fourteen-year-old comrade John
Gerlicky. were playing cowboy" at
Cleveland o. Gerlicky had taken his
fathers revolver 20 make the PLAY
lifelike. AS Buffalo Bill he fred the
gun at Koegele and the latter dropped
with a bullet through his chest. He Is
not expected 70 recover
Friday. April I.
Brigadier General John Luke Tier.
non. U. S. A.. retired. is dead at Buf.
falo. n Y. He entered the army as a
second lieutenant in 1862. retiring ar
ter forty years continuous service
Eleven hundred negro men. women
and children. in one OF the American
Tobacco company's stemmeries at
Louisville. Ky. struck The strikers
were disOrderiy and the police were
called out
Harlow n Higginbotham. seventy
two years old. former president OF the
| Worlds Columbian Exposition at Chi.
cago. Is rev'ving memories OF the Civil
War by tramping from Hot Springs
Va. 10 Clsrksburg. W Va. by wagon
roads Mr.. Higginbotham says he is
maging the journey for the pure
pleasure OF walking"
Saturday. April 2.
Twenty-eight insane foreigners left
| Stockton. Cal. on special cars for New
York whence they will be deported
James A. Donnelly. British consul nj
sa. annah. Ga. died suddenly at his
home OF heart failure. He was born in
South America siKty-three years ago.
Two Italians fought a duel in a New
York street not far from the East Side
water front. one OF them was killed
by a shot fred straight through his
head. His adversary escaped.
DR.. James G.. Cumming. director OF
the Pasteur institute OF the University
OF Michigan. announced the discovery
OF n new method for the treatment Of
hydrophobia. Or. Cumming uses a
virus.
Monday, April :.
Charged with embezzling $4,000
from the Bank OF Pine Valley. wetzeu
county. w. Va. Cashier Ezra Mayheld
was arrested
To succeed Robert NJ. LAfollette en-
the United States senate. Samuel
/ Cook. OF Nunah. Wis. has announced
his candidacy.
Elizabeth and Anna Ashton. Dan.
Vile girls. are in Jail at Shamokin
Pa, charged with breaking into a
Reading railway coach and starting a
fight
The central convention OF the Lay
mems Missionary Movement OF the Re.
formed Church in the United States.
which meets In Sunbury. Pa. April IL
and Is, will be a notable affair
Tuesday, April S.
The First National bank OF Ran.
dOlph. Neb. was robbed Of $4,000 by
three masked men. who bound and
gagged Town Marshal Carroll
Rear Admiral RObley ID. Evans. re-
tired. in an interview at San Antonio.
Tex. deplored the fact that congress
had authorized only two battleships
instead of four.
The two Japanese who were arrest.
ed at Manila for attempting TO pur-
| chase photographs OF the fortincations
OF Corregidor, have been released upon
orders from Secretary OF War Dickin-
son.
While singing a solo in the Grace
Episcopal church. at Honesdale. Pa.
Miss Minnie Smith struck her heat
against a lighted gas jet. igniting
large picture hat. The soloist cooIh
removed her headgear and handed il
to one OF the male members OF the
choir.
Wednesday, April 6.
Fred Lampey. ffty-fve years old.
was gored TO death by an Infatuated
bull at Lawrenceburg. Ind. while his
mother. eighty years old. looked on
pOwerless.
Harry f. McAllister. son OF a promi.
nent city official OF Baltimore. who
quit college to join the army. and who
deserted. Will be given a term OF two
years in the federal prison.
More than 800 saloons have been
voted out or business by the people OF
twenty Michigan counties. Sixteen
counties voted wet" There are now
forty dry" and forty three wet" coun-
ties in the state
The towns OF Bramwell and Poca.
hontas. W. Va. are terrorized over the
presence OF a panther. which. accord.
ing to sdvices received here. badly
lacerated two children at Winding
Gulf and killed thirty sheep and six
calves.