Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1910-02-19
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Thursday. February 10.


gas was accidentally turned on.
Health Commissioner Rer>SheII. OF
Peorio. H.. has ordered an immediate
investigation as the result OF what Is
declared TO be a widespread epidemic
OF stomach and bowel trouble. the
cause of which Is thought to be EN-
balmed beef.
Bessie LOngenecker. exhibited In
museums throughout the country I'M
der the name OF Baby Madeline" who.
although only seven years old. weigh
cd $50 pounds. died In n hospital at
Columbus. o.. an hour after her cloth
ing caught FIRE from stove
Friday, February II.
Guilty OF involuntary manslauEh-
ter" was the verdict rendered by a
Jury at Parkersburg. w Va. In the
case OF ]. Everett Sayre. business
man. charged with having caused the
death of his wife by administering 10
her bichlorlde OF mercury on their
wedding day.
Frank HartsOugh, forty years old. =
prominent oil operator, committed sui
eide at his home near Huntingdon.
". Va. by firing y bullet into his
brain. He had been married only a
month. and left note saying that the
indifference manifested toward him by
bis bride was responsible for his de-
spondency-
Saturday, February e.
Brigadier General Robert l. Meade.
U. 9. NJ. C.. retired died at his home
in Lexington Mass, after an Illness OF
several months
Representative Edgar D. Crumpack-
OF, OF Indiana. was placed in the field
as a candidate TO succeed Speaker
Cannon AT a meeting OF the Indiana
SOciety OF Washin gtou. The society is
non-partisan.
q. w Thomas, a fail guard. and
Matthew GOdsey. superintendent OF the
street force. fought a duel on the
street at Chattanooga. Tenn. Thomas
died two hours after the encounter.
his body riddled with bullets Godsey
may recover.
Monday February -.
Enamel hardware material got into
a sore in her hand, and Miss Mary
Corner. OF Marietta. Pa. has a bad
case OF blood poisoning
Thomas II. Dodge, philanthropist
and inventor OF the cylinder printing
press. died at HIS home At Worcester
Mass. aged eighty-seven years.
NJ. +. Woodrow. Rhodes scholar
from Kentucky, won the Vinerian law
scholarship at oxford university. Lon
don. The scholarship is among the
more important Of those open 20 com
petition
Atlantic City. ~ J.. will hold an in
ternational dying machine meet during
June, according TO plans OF George
Romans. a New Yorker. who is backed
by big hotel men OF the resort. Ho-
mans has started 20 raise 5000 600 TO
q be awarded for prizes.
Tuesday. February IS.
William II. Slough. aged nfty-six
years. died at York. Pa. from blood
poisoning, caused by a splinter he ran
into his hand while handling lumber.
Colonel Edwin s Jewett. general
passenger agent for the Missouri Pa
cihc Railway company. Is dead at Kan
sas City. Mo. aged seventy-one years.
Hugh Flynn. aged fftyeight years.
a pioneer Delaware & Hudson railroad
engineer was stricken with heart dis
ease while attending mass In HOLY
Saviour church at Wilkes Barre. Pa.
and died before aid could reach him
Many robberies which have occurred
in the Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation al Trenton. ~ j. battling the
police. have resulted in the placing OF
large placards prominently about the
building warning the members against
thieves
Wednesday, February 10.
Timber thieves OF southern Indiana
have been driving away the farmers
/ with fire. Houses and barns on eigh-
teen farms lately have been DESTROYED
Thomas Coley. supposed outlaw.
was killed, another robber was wound
ed and David l. Newlin. city marshal
was shot In a fight between Sheriff
I John Lawrence and his assistants and
two robbers near Wilburton. Okla.
Burglars blew the safe OF the Cit
zens bank, OF Chstsworth. Ind. with
nitro-glycerine and escaped with a
team, taking $4,000 in paper money and
$1,000 In silver. Night Waterman Kyle
and Albert Kerber. a citizen. were
found later. bound and gagged
Because four of It's members were
colored. a jury was dismissed by
Judge John H. Pitchford in the dis
trict court al Wagner. Okla. Judge
Pitchford said ''I do not propose to
insult white men by making them
serve on tho jury with negroes