Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-10-31

MeIlen, resigned
S. Il. Morse, owner OF the Indianap-
oils Qnd) Evening Sentinel. fell from a
third floor window to the pavement
and was instantly killed.
The 18th annual conference OF the
American Sunday School Union was
held in Chicago, with over 600 dele
gates present including 100 mission
ariAS.
Friday, October %.
The widow of Rev. Charles H
Spurgeon. the noted Methodist minis
ter. died in London.
Hawaii is to be represented at the
st. Louis Worlds Fair by a building
of typical Polynesian architecture
The town of San Miguel, Cal, was
visited by fire that nearly destroyed
the town. The loss will exceed $685.
600.
The Pennsylvania German Society
held its 18th annual convention at
Lebanon, and elected DR.. ]. S. Stahs.
of Lancaster, president.
Charles S. White, one of the best
known journalists in northeastern
Pennsylvania, contested with the,
Wilkesbarre Leader, died after
weeks illness.
Saturday, October "a.
Burglars broke into the store room
or the Deutsch Jewelry Company. at
Cleveland, o.. and stole $4,000 worth
of diamonds.
Secretary of the Navy Moody ar
rived at Hampton Roads on the Dol
in nd VIE if
navy yard for the first time.
A boat containing FIVE Hungarian
laborers was swept over the Spring
dale dam, near Pittsburg, Pa, and four
of the occupants were drowned.
The navy department will rush work
on the cruiser Chattanooga, which was
towed to the Brooklyn navy yard from
the shipyard at Elizabethport, N. ].
Monday, October 20.
Five Italian laborers repairing the
tracks of the Erie road at Ramapo,
N. Y. were struck by an express train
and killed.
Cincinnati, o., is making elaborate
arrangements for the National w. c.
T. u. convention, which meets there
November IS to IS.
For embezzling $4,000, Albert w.
Deibel, former paying teller of the
City National Bank at Canton, O..
was given five years in prison.
Terribly cut and riddled with bull
let's, the dead bodies of Mrs. Annie
Holcomb and her 17-year-old daughter
were found dead at Jasper, Ga, with
no clew to the assassins.
Tuesday, October 27.
The banking firm of Scrogging e.
Workman, at Sheridan, Ore. was rob-
bed of $4,000. The safe was blown
open with dynamite.
In a drunken fight at Cleveland. O..
one man was fatally stabbed and six
others badly injured by knives and
clubs. A number of arrests were
made
Lieutenant General Young, chief of
staff, has returned to Washington from
Fort Riley, Kan. where he inspected
the troops engaged in the war ma
noeuvres.
The Twentieth Century Club, of Bos-
ton, has started movement to raise
funds to relieve distress in Macedonia.
which resulted from the insurrection.
Ihey expect TO raise S1,000,000.
"Wednesday, October %.
q. S. District Judge NJ. NJ. Estee died
at Honolulu from an operation for kid
ney troubles.
Fire at the Bay Shore Lumber Co.
plant at Marinett, Wis, destroyed g.
100000 feet of lumber valued at $780,
900.
J. A. Marcoux and wife were chloro-
formed to death in their home at Lead.
S. d., by burglars, who then ransack-
ed the house.
Three men were killed and five in
jured in an accident at the Canadian
Niagara Power company's plant at Nj
agara Falls. Ont.
Two children of Albert Coleman.
near Bryan, Louisa county, Va, were
burned to death in a fire which de-
StrOyed their homo