Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-10-27
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Thursday. OCT. Is.


fugitive bank teller of Elizabethport,
N j., is now placed at S109,716.
Theunis Botha, brother of the Beers
commanding general, surrendered to
the British at Volksrust Oct. 10.
Brooklyn won the $500 baseball tro-
ply presented by a Pittsburg paper,
winning three games to Pittsburg's
one.
1t is officially announced that Queen
Wilhemina of Holland will marry Duke
Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwe in the
spring
William L. Wilson, postmaster gen.
eral under Cleveland, and author of the
Wilson tariff bill, died at Lexington,
Va, aged 81.
Friday, Oct. 10.
Galveston relief fund contributions
to date are 81 ,095, 2O2
The population of Arizona is 122.212:
in 1890, So $50
Gen. Joe Wheeler announces his 10y
al support of the Democratic national
ticket.
Ex-Governor w. p. Dillingham; was
elected United States Senator from
Vermont.
Prince Hohenlohe has resigned as
chancellor of Germany and is succeed
ed by Count Won Buelow.
S. 1. Morris is under arrest in Chi
cago for an alleged attempt on the
life OF ]. w. Gates, the steel magnate,
whom he declares owes him $4,000
Saturday, Oct. 20.
Tho Andre monument at Tapran. n.
Y, is to be destroyed by its new owner.
George Dickey, of Nyack
Nearly $4,000, 600 in gold arrived at
San Francisco yesterday from Austria
liza on the steamer Alameda.
The dressmakers of MINNEAPOLIS
more than 200 in number, are out on
stcike for ten hour day and extra pay
for overtime.
G. E. Seely and Harry Shearer were
convicted at Duluth, Mimi, of setting
fire to timber on the Chippewa Indian
reservation.
Henry E. Youtsey was convicted at
Frankfort, Ky, of completely in Coo
bells murder and sentenced to life i'm
prisonment
The Municipal Council of Berlin
adopted a resolution to build municipal
street railways after the expiration of
the present charters.
Monday, Oct. %.
The total registration in greater New
York for 1900 is 646,15
A new Japanese ministry has been
formed, with Marquis Ito as premier.
During a fire in st. Paul a gasoline
explosion wrecked a building and kill
ed four firemen.
A tornado near Atlanta, Tex. swept
path 200 yards wide and killed a col
ored family of six.
A letter from Aguinaldo, received in
Manila, orders Filipinos to desist from
attempts at pacification.
Fire in a Wilmington Del.) livery
stable last night caused $25. 900 loss.
Twenty horses were burned to death.
Jesse Sanders (colored) had his neck
broken while in a friendly wrestling
match with comrade at Lake City,
Fla.
American manufacturers have secur-
ed contracts for coal trucks for the
Transvaal colony, undertaking Brit
ish competitors 20 per cent.
Tuesday, Oct. 23.
Chicago's registration shows 402. 500
voters in the western metropolis.
President Mckinley has returned to
Canton to remain until after the cleo
ton
William ]. Bryan will address
Princeton college students at Prince
ton Junction on Thursday next.
1t is now believed the sale of the
Danish West Indies to this government
for 1000, 000will soon beconsummated.
1t is reported in London that Prince
Christian Victor, now serving in South
Africa, Is suffering from enteric fever.
Mrs. Ada Meylert Scranton, wife of
ex-Congressman Joseph A. Scranton.
died last night at Scranton, aged 5S.
Senior Carbajal, formerly Peruvian
minister of marine, is en- route to Eu-
rope to purchase q gunboat and war
material.
Louis Vehan is a prisoner in New
York, charged with embezzling S24, 900
from the firm of Louis Vehan & Co.,
of Chicago.
Wednesday, Oct. n.
A freight train ran into landslide
at Pine Creek, n. Y, last night Fire
man Joseph II. Ryan, OF Corning, was
killed.
Count Cassini, the Russian ambas-
sador, and his niece, Miss Marguerite
Cassini, arrived in New York from Eu-
rope yesterday.
The new baseball club selected from
the New York, Brooklyn and other
clubs TO play a series of games in
Havana will sail for the Cuban capt.
tai this week.
The Pittsburg convention of the Ma
tional Association of Bridge and Struc-
tural Iron Workers of America de-
cided to make a movement to secure
| a general observance of the eight hour
work day law.