Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-09-01
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Thursday, Aug. 2a.


rested the speakers.
The Beers are giving the English
troops much fighting, and President
Kruger will not yield.
By the explosion of a projectile on a
Russian batsleship three marines were
killed and nine wounded.
There are $4,000 Russian troops al
ready in the far east, or on the way
there by land and sea.
George H. Hosmer, one of the best
known oarsmen in the world, is dead
at the Carney hospital in Boston.
In accepting the Populist nomination
for president at Topeka. Kan. William
j. Bryan declared that silver is still
an issue.
Friday, Aug. "a.
The population of Philadelphia is
1928 697.
Andrew Carnegie. who is in Scotland.
denies the report that he will stump
for Bryan.
The population of the city of Cleve-
land. o., is 3S1. 76S; Toledo, 131 .S22. and
Columbus. 1850
In the Fitzsimmons-Sharkey fight at
Coney Island tonight Sharkey was
knocked out in the second round.
The negro Peck, whose attempted
lynching for assaulting a little girl
caused the recent fatal riot at Akron.
o., was today sentenced to life i'm
prisonment
Mrs. Elizabeth Hutchinson is dead
and four of her children are in the hos
ptal at Atlanta i'm a serious condition
from eating ice cream which was made
in an improperly cleansed freezer.
saturday. Aug. %.
The population of St. Louis is SIS. 23S
BY a recent court decision all SQUAT
tiers on the 60-foot strip along Nome
Beach, Alaska, must vacate.
The steamer Mariposa brought over
100000 in specie from Sydney, Aus
tralia. to San Francisco, yesterday.
During a storm two little children of
Charles Bunker, named Frida and
Adele. of Milwaukee, Wis. were killed
10y bolt of lightning.
Bethel Baptist church at Fairview
KY. built as a memorial on the site of
Jefferson Davis birthplace. has been
struck by lightning and destroyed
Henry +. Youtsey, i'm Jail awaiting
trial for completely in the Goebel muir
der and who has been i'll. has become
worse and is reported TO be in a SER
ious condition.
Monday, Aug. ~.
Hon. Charles DENLY, Democrat, ex-
minister to China, has declared for Nc
Kinley.
The Vesper Boat club, OF Philadel-
phia, won the senior eight cared cham
pionship in the Paris exposition race.
Congressman Charles II. Boutelle.
of Maine. is rapidly recovering his
health at a sanitarium at waverly.
Mass.
After jauntily ordering and drinking
glass of whisky, Edward Sexton blew
out his brains in a barroom at White
Plains, NY.
While bathing at Portsmouth, N. H.,
Burt II. Kaufman, OF ST. Louis, struck
his head against a gas bracket, fell
into the bathtub and was drowned.
The bankruptcy report for Great
Britain for 1899 shows a decrease of
4S1 failures and G1, 125, 900 in liabili-
ties as compared with the previous
year.
Tuesday, Aug. %.
The population of Denver. Colo. is
1889, against 106,713 in 1890.
Bob Fitzsimmons has retired per-
manently from pugilism, and will open
a training school IN Chicago.
During the last few DAYS terrific
thunderstorms have caused much dam
age in the districts of Stuttgart, Leip-
sic and Rostock, Germany.
The Peoples party national commit
tee accepted Townes declination as
vice presidential candidate and named
Stevenson as the nominee.
The population of Baltimore, rs lust
bulletined by the census bureau. is
5OS,957, against 434, 439 in 1890 This is
an increase of 74.5rS, or 1918 per cent.
Tuesday, Aug. 29.
The census of Boston is 56O. S92
against 44S,477 in 1890.
An anarchist was arrested at Car
rara, Italy, charged with conspiring to
kill Victor Emanue! III.
The business portion of Cartwright,
Wis, town of 1000 inhabitants. was
entirely destroyed by fire yesterday.
The autumn maneuvers of the Ger
man army will be attended this year,
for the first time by a representative
of the French army.
The United States army transport
Lawton arrived at Seattle. Wash from
Nome with 220 passengers, two-thirds |
OF whom are destitute miners return
ed at the expense of the government.