Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-10-13
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED


President Castro has issued a proc
lamation converting the congress OF
Venezuela for Feb. 20 next.
Standard OIL steamer sunk the tug
boat Fleetwing at Philadelphia. David
Strawbridge and Fred Hickman were
drowned.
Twenty-one bodies were recovered
from the debris at Galveston yesterday,
making a total of 1885 officially report
ed as recovered since the storm.
The American Tin Plate company
and the Tin Workers Union reached
an agreement yesterday on wages for
the ensuing year. The rate will be
practically the same as last year.
Friday, Oct. ..
Adam Erhart, aged 72, and Mrs
Sadie Gallagher, 10, eloped from But
Ter county. Pa. and were married at
Etna.
Two men held up a Burlington road
train near Council Bluffs, Ia. Express
Messenger Baxter killed one, and the
other escaped.
While cutting the grass over HIS
wife's grave Frederick Fritz, aged u.
q prosperous farmer, living near Tren-'
ton, dropped dead,
There were 10000 spectators at the
48 productions of the Passion Play at
Oberammergau. Admission receipts
totaled 1900 900 marks, and villagers
received from visitors about 1000, 900
marks
Saturday, Oct. O.
Birmingham, Ala, proposes to hold
a great industrial exposition In 1905.
At a meeting OF Baptist ministers
In Southington, Conn, Rev. A. T. Han
ma declared certain Baptist universi-
ties "hotbeds of heresy."
Benjamin Prime, 106 years old, and
probably New York's Oldest citizen,
died yesterday at Port Richmond, S. l..
where he was born a slave
In a letter to a Philadelphia news
paper Wayne MacVeagh, who was
Cleveland's ambassador to Italy. an
nounces his support OF Mckinley.
Democrats OF the Sixth New Jersey
congressional district nominated Will
lam N. Coler, Jr., for congress. He 70
brother Of Comptroller Coler. OF New
York
Monday. Oct. Q.
The population OF Delaware is 1884,
7S5; in 1880, 16s.4s3; in 1850. ss.oss.
At Lynbrook. L. l.. S1-year-old Mrs.
Caroline Bessler was burned TO death
by her clothing igniting.
The, Alaskan cable, which was lost
by the cable ship some time ago, has
been recovered and carried on to
Nome City.
Driven frantic by the cries of her
children for food, Mrs Mary Saybold,
whose husband was Ill, committed sui
eide at Yonkers, N. Y.
Collision between q Lake Shore and
Michigan train and a trolley car at
Chicago last night injured eight per-
sons, one perhaps fatally.
Because one OF their number had
been discharged, a number OF Italians,
with sticks. stones and knives, attacked
their bosses In the Lehigh Valley
yards at Buffalo. X. and were dis
persed by the police. RI
Tuesday, Oct. o.
In his New York tour Mr.. Bryan win
speak in 81 places and will occupy Ave
days, exclusive OF New York city and
Buffalo.
Andrew G. Armstrong. one OF the
founders OF Scribner's Monthly, died
at his country home at Stamford,
Conn, last night, aged II.
Secretary of War Root, who for some
weeks past has been III at his Long
Island home, is expected back at his
desk In Washington tomorrow,
Arrangements for building 3.0Oe
freight cars for the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad by the Pullman company. at
Pullman. Ills, were completed yester-
day,
Isaac. A. Swiegard. ex-superintendentl
OF the Reading railroad. was held for
trial In Philadelphia for discharginR
men for belonging to the Trainmen's
Brotherhood.
A Capetown dispatch says: Tho
Beers now occupy Wepener, as we'll as
Rouxville and Ficksburg, in Orange
River colony. and the British are at
tempting TO surround them.
"wednesday, Oct. 10.
William Schrieber, a missing bank
clerk of Elizabeth, N. j., is defaulter
to the amount OF $4,000.
Harry o. Dell, an expert forger
awaiting trial at Riverhead, L. l., COM
mitted suicide by cutting his throat.
Forty or efty persons throughout the
United States have been arrested for
refusing to reply to questions Of CEN
sus cnumerators.
Crown Prince Frederick William will
| appear in Berlin during the coming
| winter In a series OF court theatricals,
assuming leading parts.
Major Edward Goldberg, United
| States Indian agent, died at Seneca
| Falls, Mo-, yesterday from toadstool
| poisoning. Mrs. Goldberg is also very
| i'll from the same cause.