Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-11-21
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Thursday, Novembsr 70

denied in New York.
Francis j. Terrence, Of Allegheny.
has been reelected president of the
Pennsylvania Board of Charities.
The navy department has ordered
the Lancaster in commission at League
Island navy yard as a receiving ship.
Amour 6 Co.'S elevator, at Savan.
nah, ILL.,, together with 100, 900 BUSH
els of grain, was destroyed by fire.
Loss, $150,000
While horseback riding at Memphis.
Tenn, Miss Douglass Calhoun, promi
Dent in society and wealthy. was
thrown from the horse in front of q
trolley car and killed.
Friday, November 10.
Fire that started in a dry goods
store destroyed the business portion
Of Abba, Ia. Loss. $250,0OO
In collision of freight trains near
New Hope. KY, six trainmen were
killed and another fatally injured.
Louis j. Rothstein was convicted In
New York of swindling Forstman &
Co. out of $4,000 on fraudulent order
for clothing.
Henry Klein and Frank Gray. of
Minneapolis, were drowned in Lake
Eddy by the overturning of their boat
while hunting.
Judge w. R. Day, president OF the
Mckinley National Memorial Associa-
ton, has called meeting at Washing.
ton, ID. c., November 10. Designs will
be viewed and discussed.
Saturday, NovercLer IA
August Solid, Il years old. OF Me
nominee, Mich. shot and killed his
cousin, Joseph Allison, during a
quarrel.
The engineer was killed and four
passenger injured two fatally, by the
derailing of Pennsylvania train near
Buffalo, n. Y.
The Cuban government has decided
not to recognize the new Republic of
Panama until other Latin-American
governments do.
An explosion OF natural gas al
Marion, Ind. wrecked the home of
BENJAMIN Hight and terribly burned
the five occupants.
The secretary of the treasury re.
ceived from an unknown person in
Brooklyn a conscience contribution OF
$1O7.50, and from Trenton. N. j., 500
Monday, November is.
Admiral Dewey has returned to
Washington from an inspection trip
to Annapolis Nd, and Newport News,
Va
Three robbers locked up the town
Waterman at Mapleton, Ia, and took
$4,000 from the safe of the State
Bank.
Wilbert Cobbs was struck and fatally
hurt by a hose cart while the latter
was on its way to Ere at Williams
port, Pa.
Twenty boot and shoe factories at
Quebec, Que, have closed down on ac-
count of strike and over 5000 en-
ployes are idle.
One man had his head blown off and
two men were fatally hurt at La Porte,
Ind, by the explosion Of boiler run
ming a corn shredder.
Tuesday, November IL.
The transport Logan has arrived at
San Francisco from Manila, with %
officers and 265 men OF the 18th cav
airy.
Matthew Nelson, after a quarrel with
his sweetheart. Title Moore, shot and
killed her on the streets of Blooming
ton, H.. and then killed himself.
A dynamite explosion on the stock
farm of DR.. j. b. Hartman, near CO.
lumbus, o.. killed four men instantly
and injured several others. They were
blasting stumps.
The remains of Mrs. Elizabeth X
Monroe, widow of James Monroe. fifth
president of the United States, were
eZhumed at Leesburg, Va, and taken
to Richmond to be re-interred in Holly
wood cemetery
Wednesday, November 18.
A copper deposit, rich in quality and
of immense extent, has been found
near Carney. Mich.
Robbers blew open the safe In the
First National Bank of Lyons. Neb..
and secured over $1,000.
Over foot of snow has fallen at
Calumet, Mich. and telegraph and
railroad service is impaired.
The 18th annual convention of the
Association of American Agricultural
Colleges and Experiment Stations was
held at Washington, d. c.
Mrs. Frank Downing. bride, jump
ed into the river at Minot, N. d.. to
rescue her sister, who had broken
through the ice, and both of them
were drowned.
Might Bs Worse.
Maud--You won't think so much of
Jack, perhaps, when l tell you that /
borrowed his knife the other day to
sharpen lead pencil with. and found
he had been using it to cut plug to-
bacco.
IreDe-Well, that shows he doesn't
bite the stuff off with his teeth, you
Hnitefnl thing-Chicago Tribune