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

merous smaller buildings at William
son. w. Va Loss 100000.
Governor E"rpby. accompanied by
several New Jersey officials. paid a
visit 70 tie United States Military
Academy X Yves; Poirt. n. Y.
/ A>.-i.H Acnna. brother OF Sena-
tor .. y. Hanna. hes given $4,000
. - ='.ittc;'; receive University.
Cleveland. @, 10 ioGa5 a chair in an
aCCr-y 2n1 kindred 81 jects.
Ffi1ay, October 2.
Plans have been approved ny the
navy department for a large new
naval prison at Portsmouth, n. II.
While stealing a ride on a freight
train at Union City. Ind, one tramp
was killed. two fatally injured and
five others seriously injured.
After being reconciled to his wife.
Barney Barnes, of Augusta, Ca, fired
bullet through her heart and then
killed himself Jealousy was the cause.
A mass of human bones, supposed
to be the person who set fire to Jacob
Schar's barn, near Elizabeth, n. j..
were found in the ruins of the build
ing.
Saturday, October 8.
Sir Thomas Upton will sail from
New York for London next Friday.
The French jewelry exhibit for the
st. Louis fair already amounts to 81
100000 and includes a 100000 pearl
collar.
Major General Corbiu. adjutant gen.
eral of the army, is TO be assigned to
the command Of the department of the
east with headquarters at Governors
Island. n. Y.
The official trial of the battIeship
Missouri will take place on the 21st
inst. Captain Cowles, President Roose-
velts brother-in-law, will be the first
commander.
Monday, October S.
Seven Cinnamon were arrested al
Cleveland, O., on a charge of trying
to get into this country illegally.
While on his honeymoon in Niagara
Falls, N. Y, Herman Hooker, of Chi
cago, went insane and was taken in
charge by the police.
Because she was placed in the Chill
drens' Home at Terre Haute, Ind. r.
year-old Anna Fans committed sui
eide by drinking carbolic acid.
Colonel Leonidas w. Spratt, one of
the surviving members of the South
Carolina secession convention. died at
Jacksonville, Fla, aged 50 years.
A. Parent and J. Curtis were
shocked to death at Montreal, Can, by
the boom of a derrick they were oper-
ating coming in contact with an cleo
trio wire.
Tuesday, October c.
Fifteen persons were injured by the
derailment of trolley car on q sharp
curve at Middletown. Conn.
Three small children OF George
Hoether, of Caseville, Mich, were
drowned by the capsizing. of a row
boat.
Attorney General Knox haa return.
ed to Washington from an extended
vacation and resumed the, duties Of
his o@cc.
by an explosion OF Gas n n mine
of the Plymouth Coal Company. al
Plymouth, Pa, seven men were badly
burned. The cause of the explosion
is unknown.
The entire force of butchers in Rice
& Sterner's large abbattoir, at Beth
lehcm, Pa, are on strike for nine
hours with 10 hours pay.
Wednesday, October 2.
George w. Mackey, a prominent
lawyer, was found dead in bed at his
home at Bangor, Pa.
General Robert y. Pearson, assist
ant paymaster of Chicago, dropped
dead of heart disease in his ofiae
Senator Thomas c. Plat. OF New
York, announces that his marriage to
Mrs. Lillian r. Janeway will take
place in New York on October rs.
AS result Of several years. in feel
ings, s. n. Terry. of Wilmington. n. c.,
shot and killed George T. Bland. his
son-in-law. Terry was committed to
jail
Instructions have been sent TO Unit
cd States Minister Squiers at Havana
to exchange Publications of the coal
ing station treaty between the United
St,tnc and Ctha