Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1897-09-25
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Thursday. 4ent. 1a.

Thursday. Nept. l6.
Welcons rains have assured bounte-
GUS harvest In India few months
hence.
Five men. the Sfavest charge against
them being robbery. were taken from
jail at Versailles. Ind. and lynched by
q mob.
collision with the steamer ST. Johns IN
the North river, New York. last even
Ing. 1t Is believed that two women and
little boy were drowned.
Friday, Sept. IT.
Salmon are selling at Dawson at sic
each. one selling as high as $50. Hun
dreds OF people are feeling the pangs
Of hunger In the Klondlke.
Louise Michel. the French anarchist.
with two companions. was expelled
from Belgium yesterday. They con-
templated q speechmaklng tour
United States Consul Wilske. at
Managua. Is working to secure a liberal
concession for an interoceanic railway
In Nicaragua. which Will facilitate
trade.
A census taken by the Indian bureau
OF the various agencies shows there
are 6S demented redmen in the country,
and several OF these are idiots rather
than lunatics.
Saturday. Sept Is.
While experimenting with a moose IL
year-old v. ii. Grant hung himself near
Cincinnati.
DR.. Norgaard. OF Denver. has discov-
cred a cure for cattle fever, which
means millions TO ranchers.
A telegram from Krasnoyarslk, an in
terror Siberian town. states that a bal
loon was seen on the night OF Sept.
IA which is believed to be that Of Pro-
fessor Andree.
The hunting schooner Rather, at San
! Francisco. secured 26 sea otter and 19s
fur sealskins. One of the former was
entirely white and is worth from 500
to $1,000.
Monday, Sept. go.
General Fitzhugh Lee. consul genera
at Havana, viii return to his post OF
duty about the middle OF October.
Duchess of MARLBOROUGH, formerly
Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt, gave brit
to a son at the ducal London residence
The first cotton laden steamers OF the
season cleared from Wilmington. N. c.
on Friday for German and English
ports.
Robbers who knew the safe combina
ton got $500 in money and stamps from
the postoffice at Stewartstown. Yorl
= county. Pa
Thomas L. Hicks has been selecte,
< by the president for postmaster o
: Philadelphia. He is at present head O
the Philadelphia bureau OF highways.
Tuesday, Sept. 81.
u Archibald ]. Sampson. Of Arizona
has been appointed minister to Ecua
dor.
President Mckinley will leave Wash
- ington this evening for North Adams
Mass
- Famine is spreading rapidly in Hs
vana, and II persons died OF starvatio
=, last week.
- The big strike of iasters at Brocktol
"A Mass. is settled, and 1t is apparent
4. a victory for the strikers.
as The London Globe says EDITORIAL
NJ that England is not afraid OF a fourt
e. rate power like the United States. an
Id that we are suffering from a swelle
ht head
a Wednesday, Sept. 22.
mi There has been veritable stamped
an from New Whatcom. Wash. to the ne
an mining discoveries in the mountains.
T. A woman arrested in New Tor
es charged with stealing jewelry. is b
r. lieved to be Miss Harmon. sister
IN the ex-attorney general.
Six children locked in a house I
on Andy Smith and wife. colored. viii
r. the latter attended church at Donald
no S. c., were burned TO death in a fl
pr. which destroyed the house.
A letter from Alaska, received In s:
er Francisco, says a blizzard ragged
ny Chillkoot Pass on Sept. l. One thousal
men had a hard scramble to save tn,
q lives