Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1910-05-14
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Thursday. May S.

has confessed. according 90 the police.
10 setting FIRE twice 20 the Grand
Opera House at Dubuque. Ia. during
a performance.
Using bare fists. David Caldwell and
Otto George. high school boys. fought
an eight-round battle az San Mateo
Cal Caldwell won by n knock out
The boys are said 10 be rivals in love.
Two men were killed and nine per
sons severely injured in a wreck on
the Ohio Electric railroad near Ur
bana. o. a freight car broke away
from a trolley express and plunged
into a passenger car.
Friday May s.
Fire destroyed the art metal works
Of Simon Aarouson. at Newark. ". J..
with 800. coo damage. and at the same
hour burned out his house IN New
York city
Operations OF a forger named Cohen
who secured almost $4,000 I'm cash.
have just been revealed by tho officials
of the National Shawmut bank at Bos
ton. Three forged checks bore the
name of prominent banker.
Joseph Vauthier was acquitted a,
New Orleans OF the charge Of bigamy
after his attorney made the plea that
the defendant was the father of nine
children. Nauthier claimed that he was
intoxicated when ne committed the
crime
W. r. Brooluns. OF Dayton. O.. one
81 the student aviators under Orviu
Wright made his FIRST flight unaccom-
panied az Montgomery. Ala. remain.
ing aloft six minutes.
Saturday. May 2.
Three hremcn were killed at Macon
Ca. and three others were Injured
when the tire on an automobile engine
exploded on the way 90 a Are.
Charged with kidnapping Helen. the
seven-year-old daughter OF John Jack.
less Mrs. Jossio Sawyer was locked
mp at Providence r l. Mrs. Sawye-
was housekeeper for Jackless.
One woman. Mrs. Emma Miller. died
OF fright and two others suffered seri
Gus injuries when a ledge OF a higr
cliff. on which they were standinr
crumbled beneath their feet at Ports
mouth. o.
Convicted OF holding up and robbine
William Misner. a merchant. of s.
and a watch. Michael McKevitt. Ere p
Vogt and Joseph Glunsh were sen.
fenced 10 life Imprisonment by a iu~y
In Judge Barnes court in Chicago.
Monday. May 9.
In taking the census OF Marylan
the enumerators missed both Governc-
CrOthers and his private secretary
Emerson r. Crothers
There are 100 young men in We.
Berwick. Pa. who came from one
town. Roccavivi, Italy. the population.
OF which Is about $500.
Thomas F. Byrnes. former superin
tendent OF police OF New York. famous
for his work In the detective bureau.
died at New York. aged sixty-six years
Nehemiah Roach. OF Georgetown
Del. whose legs were cut on in rail.
road accident az Harbeson. some wears
ago. has been pensi oned by the Penn.
sylvania railroad at $50 a month
Tuesday May 10.
Wesleyan Female college at Mac
Ca. has been ordered closed. pr-l
ably for the term. by the preside.
Dr. Ainsworth. because Of an guthrie
of typhoid fever
Despondert. it, is believed on A.
count Of IN health. Peter EIIer. siytv.
two years old. a Civil War veter~n
whose home was in Roanoke. Va. shot
and killed himself at the home OF his
sonin-law, Acting Detective Harry
Tucker. in Philadelphia.
Missing since May 3. the body Of
Edward Darragh. thirty-two years OF
age. was found floating in the Chris
tiana river at Wilmington Del From
the appearance OF the body It had
probably been in the water about -four
days. No foul play is suspected.
Wednesday. May II.
The nomination of Thomas J. Alcoe
TO be United States marshal for the
district Of New Jersey was sent TO thu
senate Tuesday.
While Chief of Police Ernest Hahn
Of Mount Oliver near Pittsburg, Pc
was guarding the homes OF the b9r
ough. burglars entered his home ans
carried on gold watch, silverwar
and diamond rings that were secrets
in a china closet
Dependency over being Tilted eau
ed Charles Shuey. aged twenty-five. IL
commit suicide at his home in Harris
burg, Pa Shuey was engaged to MARI,
girl. but she chose another mar
He cut her portrait from a frame. an.
placing II beside him took chiorosorm