Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1910-02-12
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
Thursday. February s

Thursday, February 8
The comptroller OF currency OF the
treasury issued a call for a statement
of the condition of national banks at
the close of business as OF Jan. 81.
The United States senate passed the
army appropriation bill and the urgenf
deficiency appropriation bill the for.
mer carrying ss5.440.567 and the latter
t515O.O0O
Representative Hardwick. Of Gecr
gia, charged on the floor OF the house
that colored enumerafors were being
used 70 take the colored census Of the
south IN order to overcome the iii eff
fects TO the Republican party arising
from President Roosevelbs dismissal
of troops engaged in the Brownsville
ARRAY.
Friday, February 4.
In the absence Of his mother. tho
three-year-old son Of Mrs. Bonnie Mil.
Ter. OF Arabia, o.. started a fire with
coal oil. The house was DESTROYED. The
hOy's eighteen-months-old sister per.
ished.
President Taft announced that he
did not consider an amendment to the
corporation tax law necessary in order
TO prevent rival concerns from obtain
fl information as to the private af-
fairs of competitors.
To prevent the lynchlng OF a DYING
colOred man. members Of the state
militia arc guarding the Jail at Hope.
Ark The prisoner. who Is CHARGED
with having insuited a white woman.
was shot while enroute To prison.
Saturday. February S.
An apparent shortage OF upwards OF
Sf50.000 in the accounts 81 the Sauth
Bridge tllcssl Savings bank was al.
mitted BY oC1cials OF that institution
Chicago VIII vote on the saloon ques.
ton at the April election provided tho
petition filed can withstand the legal
attacks planned by the liquor organi.
zations
President Taft has agreed. other en-
gagements not interfering. TO attend
on Feb. % the annual banquet OF the
Alexandria Washington lodge OF Ma
sons. Of which George Washington was
the first master.
Seizure OF twenty barrels OF oysters
on the complaint that they had been
element among Chicago dealers The
oysters were said TO have been shipped
from South Norwalk. Conn.
Monday, February 7.
William $. Skaters three.vear-cle
son Charles was perhaps fatally scald
ed near Marietta. Pa.
Struck by a ball In a racquet game
at Chicago. Walter Farweil. son OF
former United States Senator Charles
b. Farwell. lost an eye.
After long resistance. James Daniels
and his FIVE sons. noted feudists. who
are charged with murder. SURRENDERED
10 the Kentucky authorities.
Following anonymous threats 20 poi.
son every person in the village Of
Surfing Wis. one child has persisted
by poisoned candy. and the population
OF 200 is terrified
Tuesday, February 8.
The main factory building OF the
Quaker Shade Roller company. at Bay
City, Mich was partly DESTROYED bv
FIRE. causing a loss or 100000
John II. Core. aged seventy years
one OF the wealthiest men in eastern
Virginia, and the largest Individual
holder OF real estate in Norfolk. Va.
IS dead
President Taft will celebrate s..
Patrick's day with the Irish at Chi
cago. having definitely accepted an IN
vltation OF the Good Fellowship club
OF that city.
Homer c. Cope. an Indianapolis
Ind, briCklayer shot and killed his
mother-in-iaw, Mrs. Louisa c. George.
shot his wife in the head and then
killed himself with the same weapon
Cope and his wife had separated
Wednesday, February 9.
Car shops TO cost more than 81 600
600 are TO be built by the Big -Four
railroad at Beech Grove. near Indian
apolis. Ind.
Herman Strauss. twenty-four years
old. who just completed a penitentiarv
term. shot and Killed his wife Annie.
eighteen years old. and then killed
himself in fiat in New York.
William o. Parsons. thirtv-fve
years old OF Ripley W Va. Demo
cratic nominee for congress in the
Fourth West Virginia district In the
last campaign, died suddenly OF heart
failure ia q local hotel
CLYDE Morlen. eight years old. was
attacked by wolves at the city park
menagerie in Parkersburg. W. Va. and
an arm was so badly lacerated that II
Will have TO be amputated. AS the boy
stood near the cage one animal seized
his left arm and two others fastened
their teeth in his legs.