Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-10-06
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Thursday, sept. NJ.

animously elected for his fifth success
sive term as president of Mexico.
Lightning knocked down tons OF
brick at Edwardsville, Ills, burying
four men, who were crushed to death.
Mrs G. A. Barker, a wealthy st.
Louis woman. saved her pet dog from
being killed by trolley car, but was
herself killed.
County Treasurer Bambauer was
held up at MERGED, CAL, compelled to
open the vault, which was robbed of
$500, and he was locked in the vault.
He was nearly dead when liberated.
Friday, Sept. rs.
Lawrence Pierson, of the Lake For
est Qlls.) University football team,
died from injuries received in a game.
There is a big demand for unskilled
labor in Texas. Railroads are carrying
Italians from Chicago and are import
ing Mexicans.
Capt. F. D. Sharp. u. S. A., retired,
cousin Of Gen. U. S. Grant, died yes
terday in Kansas City, Mo-, from an
overdose of bromide. Capt Sharp was
totally blind, and it is supposed he was
unable to properly guage the quantity.
At Springfield, Mass, last night Jim
my Michael, the Welsh midget, easily
defeated Bobby Walthour in an inter-
esting motor paced 20-mile race; MI
chaei was over four laps ahead Of
Walthour, and was never pushed.
Time, $500.
Saturday, Sept. 10.
The Republican, factions IN Delaware
have finally united on a state ticket.
Jim Howard, sentenced at Frankfort,
KY, to hang Dec. for the aiurder of
&c
William Gibbs (colored) was sem
fenced in Philadelphia to IL years i'm
prisonment and 500 fine for felonious
assault on 12-year-old colored girl.
: Chauncey Davis, hanged at Raleigh.
N. c., for burning the residence of Mrs.
Lavina Battle, died protesting his in
nocense.
AT Lake Charles, La, Paul Sloan, a
deputy sheriff, was shot and killed
while defending a negro from the ven
geance Of a mob.
/ Monday, Oct. 4.
Surgeon General Sternberg writes
letter favoring the army canteen.
| Sexto Lopez, formerly secretary and
confidant of Aguinaldo, arrived in New
York and went to Boston.
| 1t is officially announced that Lord
Roberts has been appointed command
er-in-chief of the British army
Andrew Carnegie, concerning whose
attitude in the campaign there have
been conflicting reports, has declared
for Mckinley.
! Senator Hanna says: ANY man
4, who would put straw in the way OF
settling the great miners strike ought
to be hanged"
Henry Cronenberger and William Ste
field, unionists, and Detective Foulks
were killed in fight with Cleveland
non-union men.
Aeronaut Minnie Woodall descended
in her balloon on a railroad track at
Terre Haute, Ind, Saturday In front
OF moving train, which was stopped
when touching her.
! Tuesday, Oct. 2.
J Governor Roosevelt yesterday adj
dressed several meetings in Nebraska.
I The Galveston relief fund has reach
ed only $SS1.043, and $1,000, 900 more
is needed.
/ Rev. F. f. Clark declares the present
unrest In China the result OF COM
mercial greed.
September Just closed was the hot.
test September month since 1881, with
only two rainy days in this section.
At Greenwood. Pa, mischievous boys
tied stick OF dynamite to cows tail.
and the animal was blown to bits.
Prince Albert OF Flanders and the
Duchess of Bavaria were married yes
terday at Brussels. 1t is genuine love
match.
| John E. Hudson, president of the
American Bell Telephone company.
died suddenly in Boston railroad sta
ton, aged 61
AT Wichita, Kan, a trolley car
plunged down a hill into a creek, In
Juring 80 OF the 80 passengers. A 20.
year-old woman had her eye knocked
out.
Wednesday, Oct. 5.
1t is announced that Melbourne will
be the capital OF Confederated Austria
lia
Republicans OF the Sixth New JERSEY
district renominatod Richard Wayne
/ Parker for congress.
A dispatch from Milan announces
1. the arrest OF five suspected anarchists
from the United States.
In New York's municipal council
yesterday a resolution for the removal
OF the Dewey arch was adopted.
German statistics show that 544 ,2S3
children below IA years of age are en-
gagged in industrial pursuits.
The Michigan supreme court, in a
unanimous opinion, declares the beet
sugar bounty law OF 1897 unconstitu-
tional
The heirs of the late Herr Pascherr,
the great German brewer, have pre-
sented to Munich 1000, 900 marks for
benevolent purposes.