Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-09-08
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Thuraday. Aug. 70.

AUX.
The population of Wilmington, Del,
| is &c, sos.
The population of Paterson, N. J.,
is 105.171.
Bresci, the slayer of King Humbert.
OF Italy. was sentenced to solitary i'm
prisonment for life
The American rod and nail mills at
Anderson, Ind, shut down Yesterday.
| throwing $50 men out of employment.
In the Corbett-McCoy fight at New
| York tonight Mccoy was knocked out
In the sixth round. Corbett gets S23,-
600 and Mccoy $4,000.
Friday. Aug. 81.
The G. A. R convention at Chicago
| elected Major Rassieur. of St. Louis.
| commander-in-chief by acclamation.
| England's high court of justice en-
joins picketing during strikes to in
| duce non-unionists to refrain from
| working.
| In letter to Senator Sewell, of New
| Jersey, Adjt. Gen. Corbin defends the
army canteen as conducive to morality
and temperance.
| Complete returns of the prizes won
| by Germans at the Paris exposition
show 261 grands prix, 545 gold medals
| and COS silver medals.
Andrew Coger, who on Monday night
! shot and killed Horton Bryant, jani-
tor OF an Amsterdam avenue, New
York, apartment house, was arrested
yesterday in Jersey City.
| A cyclone that visited Mafeking on
! Wednesday night did more damage
than the seven months bombardment.
One person was killed and two were
injured, and there were many narrow
escapes.
| Saturday, Sept. L.
Steamer Deutschland of the New
| Hamburg line, crossed the ocean in 5
days, II hours, % minutes, beating all
records.
| The Nicaraguan congress yesterday
! approved the commercial reciprocity
treaty between Nicaragua and the
1 United States.
Panic in street car at Akron, O..
caused by burning fuse, resulted in
the death OF F. Bargetz, killed by
jumping from the car.
Jesse w. Weik, ex-inspector of post
offices, is under arrest at Greencastle.
Ind, for continuing to use his In
| spector's railroad pass.
| Pensacola. Fla, coal company
! closed a contract yesterday for IOO. 600
tons OF coal to be shipped through that
! port to Fiume, Austria.
Louis Goodman, Russian pack
: peddler, died at his home in Pittsburg
yesterday from the effects OF a cold.
aged loo years. He worked steadily
until he was 104.
| Monday, Sept. 2.
| The electric tramway system of San
tiago, Chile, was formally inaugurated
| yesterday.
l A. Woods, farmer near Martelle
a. while beating his wife was shot
dead by their 1S-year-old son. A Jury
exonerated the boy.
An effort is being made to have the
! headquarters of the Brotherhood of
| the Locomotive Firemen removed from
Illinois to Rochester, N. Y.
In Chicago yesterday three deaths
and one prostration occurred as a re-
/ suit OF the heat. The dead are Michael
keefe, John Feely and John Walsh.
Robert A. Morris, OF Ellicott City.
Nd, bit into peach in which bee was
concealed. The bee stung him in the
throat, swelling ensued and he choked
70 death.
Tuesday, Sept. 4.
Inc PERUVIAN senate is considering
a Chinese exclusion bill.
case OF the bubonic plague has
been officially reported at Buenos
Ayres, Argentine Republic.
Ex-Governor l.. ID. Lewelling. Of
Kansas, died very suddenly and unex-
pectedly OF heart failure at Arkansas
City, Kan, last night.
A London dispatch says that Mrs
Maybrick, sentenced to life imprison-
ment for poisoning her husband, will
be released in two years.
Mrs. Mollenhauer, daughter-in-IawI
OF the millionaire sugar refiner of New
York, was waylaid by thugs and rob.
pea OF $40 In cash and 81 800 worth oil
diamonds.
Wednesday, Sept. 3. |
Glasgow has now 13 cases OF bubonic
plague, with 103 under observation.
Baron Sudely, a bankrupt in Lon
don, has liabilities of G79,6SS; assets
EGO.
Two st. Louis policemen were killed |
by electric shocks while using the po-
lice telephone.
The population of Richmond. Va ia
S5,05O; in 1890, S1,3SS. Charleston. s
c., 55,S07; in 1890, 54,955.
1t is reported that Gen. Delarev. the
Boer commander, has died of wounds
received at Glands River.
lack Montgomery, who was assist
ant attorney general during President
Cleyelands first administration, died
at Los Angeles, Cal, Monday night.
alIer an illness of several days.