Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1898-12-31
a WEEKS JEWS CONDENSED.
Thnrelav. Doc. 16.

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The cubsn commissioners recon-
mend an army OF $4,000 to garrison the
island
An attempt to take up the Lodge i'm
migration biz in the lower house OF
congress was defeated.
Americans m Havana declare the
Spaniards to b,ame for Sunday nights
fatal riot. in which three Cuhans were
killed.
Eight more scamen from the wreck
ed British steamer Londohfan were
landed IN Baltimore. making SO saved
and is lost.
In a speech at Atlanta President Nc
Kinley declared that the government
should care for the graves of Confed-
crate soldiers.
Ex-Governor Merriam, OF Minnesota.
Is mentioned as the probable successor
of Secretary Of the Interior Bliss, who
has rendered his resignation.
Friday. Dec. 10.
1t Is stated in Paris that warrant
has been issued for the arrest Of Count
Esterhazy-
The pension appropriation bill was
rushed through the national house In
twenty minutes.
Calvin s. Brice, ex-United States SEN
ator from Oaio. died of pneumonia in
New York. aged 50.
A wreck on the Florida Central rail-
road near Madison. caused by cattle on
the track, killed six persons.
William ]. Bryan thinks volunteers
should be promptly discharged and an
army Of occupation enlisted.
In a fire at Chicago Firemen Meyer
and O'Brien were killed by a falling
wall Nine others were injured
The American Federation of Labor
convention at Kansas City, Mo-. voted
against increasing the regular army.
Saturday. Dec. IT.
General Merritt and bride arrived at
New York from London.
The American peace commissioners
sailed from Southampton for home.
| Dewey declares that he is now ready
to hold Manila against thewhole earth .
| The bill to incorporate the Interna-
l tional American bank was defeated in
. congress by 103 20 las.
The new tariff for Cuba, which goes
into effect JAN 1, is lower than the San
| tiago emergency tariff.
/ Damaging evidence against Mrs. Bot
kin, alleged poisoner, was produced a,
her trial in San Francisco.
Il Mrs. Johanna Newell lost her life I'm a
Chicago fire. She was safe, but wen,
back for her 2-year-old daughter. The
child was saved.
Explosion in gas works at Pough-
keepsie, n. Y, killed Louis II. Eurhyte
fatally injured James McComb and
broke Patrick Gallagher's leg.
Monday, Dec. 10.
Hospital ship Missouri left Savannah
with 800 tons OF medical supplies FOL
Cuba.
General Shafter declares that "'Cubans
are nomore 1t for self government thar
gunpowder is for hell"
| Baron Ferdinand James de Roths-
child, OF the famous banking house
died in London Saturday.
The anti-anarchist conference ir
Rome declines TO recognize anarchis
outrages as political crimes.
Twenty lives were lost in a collision
between the British steamers Pierre
mont and Ilios in the North sea-
1 The United States cruiser Cincinnati
run on an unboyed rock in Santiag,
run on an unbuoyed rock in Santiag,
harbor. but was pulled of without seri
Gus damage.
Mrs. Mary Tut Throckmorton.
leader In Washington society in earlie
years, was asphyxiated by escaping
gas N the capital. aged So.
Tuesday, Dec. go.
In the two football games witt
Princeton and Harvard Yale's team
cleared $25, sos.
From New York to Mare Island tn
distance is $4,000 miles. From New
1 York to Manila IL O00
Explosion on the Clyde line steame
Fanita, In Havana harbor. killed En-
gineer Geer and injured three others.
Fire in Terre Haute. Ind. did s.. 900.
600 damage and seriously injured sew
eral persons, one young woman fatally
In the Mcgowan kidnapping case il
| Cleveland the judge decided that
| parent cannot be convicted of stealing
| his or her own child.
Theodore Heine. a Berlin artist, ha
been sentenced to six months imprison
ment for caricaturing Emperor VIII
Jams trip TO the Holy Land.
The jury IN the case of Senator Ken
ney. on trial at Wilmington. Del. 70
aiding and abetting Boggs in loetin
the Dover bank. failed to agree an
were discharged.