Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-11-28
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Thursday, November 10.

Congressman Butler. of Pennsylva-
MIA, introduced a bill in congress to
make the Brandywlne battlefield a ma
tional military park.
Mrs. Roosevelt has returned to
Washington from New York with her
sister, Mrs. Carow. who will be her
guest at the White House
The postoffice at South Beach, Conn,
was entered by burglars and every let
ter in the Office opened in a search for
money. Little of value was secured.
Governor Pennypacker has been
asked to call a special session of the
Pennsylvania Legislature to arrange for
the rebuilding of seven bridges across
the Delaware river destroyed by
foods.
Friday, November 20.
Harry Rose. who shot and killed his
wife in New York, was sentenced to
10 years in states prison.
Andrew d. White, former ambassa-
dor to Germany, sailed from New York
to spend the winter in Italy
Science Hall. on the campus of the
University of Georgia, at Athens, was
destroyed by fire. Loss $4,000.
Jacob Arnsbach and Joseph CONGO
niski were struck by a Reading Rail-
way train at New Ringgold, Pa, and
killed
During a fire at Sharon Hill, Mich.
a dynamite explosion in a burning
store killed three men and fatally in
jured another.
President Roosevelt has pardoned
Ephraim w. Clark, serving n life SEN
tence in the Maine state prison for
INJURED on the high seas. He was in
prison % years.
Saturday, November II.
President Roosevelt has reappoint-
cd George A. Hubbard postmaster at
Boston.
The plant of the New Freedom Wire
Cloth company, near York, Pa, was
destroyed by fire. Loss. $4,000.
BY the caving in of a sewer at
Youngstown, o.. two workmen were
killed and four others seriously in
jured.
Francis NJ. Drake. former governor
of Iowa, died at HE home in Centre
Vile. Ia He was the founder OF Drake
University at Des MONIES
Fire at Louisville, KY. destroyed
half q block of business buildings, in
Guiding the old Masonic Temple and
Hopkins Theatre. Loss. s250.0O0.
Monday, November %.
The American Federation of Labor
has decided TO hold its Next conven-
ton at San Francisco.
The use of Finsen rays for the cure
of consumption is claimed to have
worked three permanent cures in Chi.
cago.
On the transport Sumner, which
reached New York from the Philip
pines, were the bodies of 162 dead
soldiers.
A ST. Bernard dog afflicted with
rabies attacked and terribly lacerated
Matthew Reilly, aged 10, at Scranton
Pa The boys nose was torn off,
August Mortina and August Mishnei
were killed and two others fatally in
jured by a boiler explosion at the
Carbon Coal Company near Saginaw
Mich.
TUESDAY, November "a.
Senator Quay has introduced a bill
in the senate granting statehood tc
, Oklahoma
While sick and respondent Rich
mond T. Lacy, a prominent lawyer o.
Richmond. Va, committed suicide bl
shooting
George ]. Siegle, of Port Huron
, Mich. supreme record keeper of the
/ Maccabees of the world, died at SAM
| tarium of a lingering illness.
| In a freight wreck on the Southern
, Railway. near Charlotte, N. c., Engi
neer Guy Moore and Brakeman Charlie
Porter were killed and three trainmel
injured.
| Rev. Thompson Smith, senior chap
lain Of the Confederate army and init
mate friend of Generals jackson, lie,
and Early during the civil war, died a
Denver. Col. aged 81 years.
| Wednesday, November IS.
| James Nelson, colored, charged witt
/ attempted assault on white girl, wa
| lynched near Jefferson, N. G.
Burglars blew open the safe in tn
+! postoffice at Nanticoke, Pa, and Sc
cured $4,000 in money and stamps.
III. G. Squiers, United States ministe
F, to Cuba, has arrived in New York on
;, visit to friends and relatives in thi
country.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Smith, aged 6
years, were burned to death in a FIR
which destroyed their home at Gran
Rapids, Mich.
J Mrs. Lizzie Watkins, an aged negres
Of Harrisburg, Pa, was burned to deaf
at her home by accidentally pourin
turpentine upon her clothes, which be
came ignited from cook stove.