Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1901-06-15
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Thursday, June 6.

thursday, June 8.
G. ]. Creasey, Of California, a naval
cadet at Annapolis. was expelled for
hazing
Congressman R. e. Burke died at
Dallas, Tex. yesterday from paralysis.
aged SO.
William c. whitney's Volodyoosh
WOE the English derby in record time.
with William Third second and Yer
onere third.
Stephen B. Werner, of Syracuse. N.
Y, and Charles S. Perry. of Iowa. West
Point cadets. were expelled for vio-
lating rules.
Friday, June z.
W. L. Connell was appointed by
Governor Stone recorder of Scranton.
Pa, vice James Moir, resigned.
The Amalgamated Association OF
Steel Workers, in convention at Mil
waukee, reelected T. ]. Shaffer presi-
dent.
The syndicate headed by Charles T.
Yerkes, CT Chicago. principally Ameri-
cen capitalists, now control London's
underground railway.
John H. Bonnell, custodian of the
New Jersey state house since 1894.
died yesterday at the home OF his
brother in Newton. N. J.
Saturday, June 8.
A bed OF genuine asphaltum has
found near Texarkana. Ark.
Sarah Bernhard and Maud Adams
are to tour the country in Romeo and
Juliet"
A plan is on foot In Chicago to en-
courage all sports. including prize
fights.
Sheriff Joseph Merrill. with small
posse. fired on a mob who wanted TO
lynch negro at Carrollton, Ca, Kill.
ing George Bennett
Foxhall Keene's American horse Can
and Bells II, ridden by an American
Jockey, won the English Oaks. Ameri.
cans won heavily in wagers.
New Pennsylvania postmasters: Ed.
wardsdale. John ]. Jenkins; Nanticoke
Samuel Powell: Pittston, William ].
Peck; Burlington. NJ. Butterbaugh.
Monday, June 10.
An upset lighted lamp caused the
death OF Fonesia Fisher 3 years old
at Rochester, N. Y.
In a collision between freight cars at
Vestal. n. Y, a car OF dynamite ex.
ploded and five were killed.
Nebraska's supreme court declared
constitutional the law prohibiting em.
ployment OF females over go hours a
week.
The New York Yacht club commit.
tee has decided that Lawson's yacht
Independence cannot compete in cur
trial races.
Rosie and Mary Rooms and Mamie
Trainer, young girls. were drowned
while sailing near Philadelphia by the
boat upsetting. Their escorts escaped
Mai. w. II. DAILY, who was surgeon
general on Gen. Miles stan in Porto
Rico. and whose report started the
"embalmed beef investigation, com
mitted suicide by shooting in Pittsburg
Tuesday. June II.
Robert Williams Buchanan. poet
and prose writer. died in London, aged
SO years.
l.. Hartman, wayward son of 8
wealthy New Yorker, killed his actress
bride of a few weeks and himself al
a Chicago hotel.
Plans for q combination of 81 of the
largest pillow factories in the country
| practically were completed yesterda,
in Chicago.
Santo MARITIME, aged years, wa.
burned to death in a New York tene
ment, and his brother Philip, aged 8
| will probably die.
Wednesday, June II.
The entire junior class at Bethan,
college, Wheeling, w. Va, has beer
suspended for breaking up a fresh
mems meeting.
| President Mckinley has received al
invitation, engraved on a solid golt
plate. to attend the July carnival a
Deadwood, s. d.
Two Beers have been court martial
ed and shot for trying TO escape from
Pretoria to rejoin their commando
after having taken oath of neutrality.
The Minneapolis Chamber of Com
merce refused the application for mem
bership of Mrs. R. H. Passmore, who 4
successfully engaged in the grain bus
ness in that city