Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1897-11-20
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Thursday, Nov. IL.


Mrs. Margaret Bougham died at
Springfield. Mass. said to be 124 years
old.
The Cleveland boy baby Is named
Richard Folsom Cleveland. for Mrs.
Cleveland's ather.
There is now talk of a combination of
tanning companies and glue manufac-
turers to control the glue output.
In the Thorn trial In Long Island
City Mrs Mack confessed that Thorn
killed Guldensuppe and that she as
sisted In disposing Of the body. Owing
to the illness of a juror Thorn's trial
must be begun again with a new jury.
Friday, Nov. 1e.
President Mckinley has appointed
Charles Page Bryan. OF Chicago. ~
minister to China
The degree of master OF agriculture
has been conferred on Secretary Wilson
by the Iowa agricultural college.
Durrant. the murderer Of Blanche La
mont and Minnie Williams. who was to
hang today. has been granted another
reprieve-
Miss Jessie Lincoln. daughter OF Rob-
ert Lincoln and granddaughter OF the
great emancipation, eloped with and
married Warren Beckwith. OF Mount
Pleasant. Ia Mr.. Lincoln Is indig-
nant.
Saturday. Nov. h.
More than two-thirds OF the mem
bers OF the senate are said to favor
annexation OF Hawaii
Henry A. Hicks. OF New York. suo-
ceeds James r. Sovereign as general
master workman OF the knights Of
Labor.
Last night Edward s. Walk. of Wilkes
barre. Pa. fell from streetcar at New
ark. N. J.. and had his skull fractured
He may die.
The engagement between George NJ
Pullman and Miss Felicite Ogelsby,
daughter of Illinois ex-governor. has
, been broken off.
John c. BuIIltt, Jr., q brilliant law
yer, committed suicide in New York
Z In letter he declared death q matter
OF trihing Importance
Monday. Nov. Is.
Rev. w. N. McVickar. OF Philadel.
r phia- has accepted the call TO become
5 Epicopal bishop coadjutor OF Rhod,
Island.
Through contributions and the poles
relief fund the widow OF murdered Pc
Iiceman Frederick Smith. of New York
will receive $4,000.
j. Alexander Doner, q hermit on th
4 mountains near Bellwood. Pa. wa
=, thrown from a wagon and Instant.
killed. his skull being fractured.
Alexander Coudot. Paul Holytracl
{ and Philip ireland. charged with muir
r dering six memers OF the Spicer fam
4 lily. were taken from the county jail o
Emmons county. N. D.. and lynched-
Tuesday, Nov. 16.
James r. Sovereign. ex-Knights Q
49, ..
presidential nomination in 1900.
Friends OF Father McPake. who's
recent mysterious death aroused Phila
y delphia, insist that the young prizes
!, was murdered
!, Encouragement John n. Langsto
died IN Washington. aged IS. He wa
~ the first colored man ever elected
a office in the United States
n Frightened by stumbling over the bod
Of a dead horse lying ina West Hoboke
Z street, Mrs. Schaffer was stricken wit
m sudden blindness.
10 The leaders OF Tammany Hall are
ne launch a presidential boom for JustiS
g. Alton d. Parker, recently elected to Il
New York court OF appeals
Wednesday, Nov. II.
v The Indiana bank failures have eau
D. ed great suffering among the small d
poSitorS.
Samuel Gompers addressed the Net
"a, odist ministers in New York on the
IA borer's side of the wage question
ne Ed Fink. OF Chicago. drank carbol
ng acid and died in the presence OF
re sv~sa+haart with whom he had Qua
~ relied.
%. Lindsay Neighbert, who attempted
III XIII Mrs. John Henry and to comm
suicide, jumped from a window at CT
w cinnau and was killed
Of Henry c. Ash, OF Philadelphia, WI
-, some western capitalists. Is establis
- ing a tramway from Skaguay to La
"a Bennett, on the road to the Klondi
gold fields