Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1910-04-23
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Thursdsv. AprjI "a

The $3.50. 900 stone dam OF the Otis
company. at Three Rivers. Mass. has
been blown up to permit the constnlc-
ton Of a new dam higher up In the
Chicopee river.
Edward Roelich. a mechanic. was ar.
rested IN Chicago. charged with hav-
ing thrown a pot of hot coffee on his
wife and baby scalding them so SO
yerely that they may die.
Paid a salary OF SIS a month. Rev
Thomas l. Frazee. OF Cleveland. o
has contributed his salary TO pay OF
the mortgage on his church. and earns
living by working as a mechanic.
Several score widows of miners who
died in the St Paul coal mine disas
ter at Cherry. H.. last NOyembGr at
tackled deputy sheriffs while the bod
les Of thirtv-one miners We're being
prepared for burial The W - seized
board fan ON which were : rawled in
chalk the wo-ds. still alive Nov IA"
Friday. April IS.
Hurled from a telegraph tower when
II was demolished by a small freight
wreck. c. r. Deasley was instantly
killed no Thompson station. near Pitts
burg. Pa.
At a meeting of the directors OF the
American Hardware corporation at
New Britain Conn. II was voted TO I'm
crease the -apital stock from $500.
600 70 $3.50 600
The Nebraska state railway com
mission has started a movement to in
huence President Taft against the ap-
pointment OF any person who has been
a railroad attorney to the United
States supreme court.
Saturday. April 10.
A fully equipped "moonshine stUl"
WIS found at Memphis Tenn. by
Postofice Inspector Kline IN a shanty
boat
A freakish tornado AT Parsons. Kan
swept away barns and outhuoses in
it's 20O-foot path and sucked dry the
Bachelor creek for n considerable dis.
lance
d. B. Kuhns. chief engineer Of the
Mariana mines at Mariana. Pa. was
struck by pieces Of a bursting nv.
wheel his skull fractured and an arm
torn Of.
H. c. Kennedy, OF Crawfordsville
Ind. an expert In the manufacture OF
matches, was killed in an explosion
az the plant OF the Acme Match com.
pRny a. Roanoke. Va
Monday. April 70.
One fireman was killed and three
were injured in a $4,000 fire at Nash
Vile Tenn
Sisters OF Charity carried patients
from their burning convent hospital az
Cleveland. O.
A temporary shutdown OF cotton
mills az Fall River Mass. has thrown
10000 operative out Of employment
Falling over a fifteen-foot wall into
the creek az Mahanoy City. Pa. eight
yearold Anthony wassel was fatally
hurt
Insanity is thought 20 have prompt.
ed Mrs. Cora Van Orsdale. OF Fair.
berry. Neb.. 20 kill her two-year-old
daughter with hammer.
Tuesday. April 1e.
a lightning bolt descended upon a
fishing camp on the bank OF a creek
eight miles from Salisbury. n. c.. I'm.
stantly killing Charles Carroll. sixteen
years old.
Thirty.hve OF the 1900 convicts a..
the western penitentiary az Pittsburg
Pa. appeared for the Sunday dinnef
dressed IN neat black suits instead uf
the regulation prison stripes
Three Milwaukee boys. aged fifteen
armed with bowie knives and revolv
ers. bound for the home OF the late
Jesse James. In Missouri were an.
rested by the Chicago police.
After they had danced 10 hours and
80 minutes contest in which four
San Jose. Cal. men were the only ones
on the floor out Of list Of twelve en-.
trsnts. was stopped by the police.
Wednesday. April 20.
Robert J. Bradford, thirty-nine years
old. was shot and killed at Fayette
Vile, W Va. by Romeo Bennett. son
Of Circuit Judge William r. Bennett.
James Jackson president OF tha'
Eclipse Coal company at Indianapolis
Ind, has been sent 10 jail 20 answer
20 the charge OF swindling customers
by selling short weight coal
Herbert w. Tiers. who pleadcL
guilty I'm Plttsburg Pa. TO abstracting
funds OF the First National bank an
was sentenced 10 FIVE years imprison
ment. has had his sentence commuted
by Presiden Taft 20 four years
James Bryce British ambassador
has accepted Invitations 70 address the
Kansas City (Mo) Knife and Forl
club and tho students OF the Unlver
sity Of Kansas at Lawrence. Kan. on