Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-08-06
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Thursday, July %.

Thursday, July %.
Charles Hartzell, secretary OF Porto
Rico. has announced his resignation,
to take place in October
Judge Parker, the Democratic presi-
Dental candidate. will not attend the
Democratic demonstration at Chicago
August 20.
The Pennsylvania freight station
and ticket Office at Steelton, Pa, was
entered By burglars, who carried away
several express packages.
Five valuable horses belonging to
Col. Henry A. Dupont, which were
standing in field at Winterthur, Del,
were struck by lightning and killed.
M. Marshall Langhorne, of Lynch
burg, Va. has been appointed consul
at Chungking, China, and Frank S.
Hannah, of EvaEStoE, Ind, consul at
MagdebTrg, Germany.
Friday, July 20.
Bellamy Storer, ambassador to Aus
tria, and Charlemagne Tower, ambas-
sador to Germany, have arrived in New
York
Lieutenant James w. Clement, OF the
United States battleship Kearsarge.
died at Trieste, Austria, of typhoid
fever.
The house of John Harper, at New
Haven, o., was destroyed by fire, and
Mr.. and Mrs. Harper, both over 80
years old, were burned to death.
Jerome Warner, railway postal
clerk, was sentenced to a years i'm
prisonment at Trenton, N. J., for alb
stracting money from letter.
Saturday, July 80.
Frederick Goodall, the famous artist
and member of the British Royal
Academy, died in London.
The U. S. torpedo boat destroyer
Marlborough arrived at Boston, to re-
main for the G.. A. r. encampment.
George Hildebrandt and Frederick
Shea were run down and killed by a
B. & o. locomotive at Locust Point,
Md.
Secretary of War Taft and a num-
Der of generals will attend the Worlds
Fair at st. Louis on Philippine day.
August Is.
Edward II. Garner, a Pennsylvania
railroad brakeman, was found dead on
top OF box car at Downingtown, Pa.
There are no marks on the body, and
IL is supposed that he died from heat
prostration or apopleXy.
Monday, August I.
The grand total of admissions to the
Worlds Fair since its opening is s.
657,577.
BY an explosion of natural gas In
the Russell Park hotel, Chicago, seven
persons were severely injured.
Fire destroyed the establishment of
the Shilbest Mercantile company at
San Francisco. Loss, $125. 900.
The dry goods store of Slight & AL.
len, Columbia, S. c.. was destroyed by
fire. Loss. $64, 900; partially insured.
The drought has almost destroyed
the maize crop of Roumania, and the
government has prohibited its exporta-
ton.
Rev. J. d. Stoop, a Congregational
minister, of East Hampton, Mass, will
occupy the chair of philosophy at
Grinnell College, Iowa.
Tuesday, August 2.
The Shenango tinplate plant, at New
Castle, Pa, will resume, giving en-
The balance in tbs general fund OF
the Pennsylvania stste treasury, July
80. was $13, 296,S7S.55.
Ex-United States Senator Vest, OF
Missouri, is steadily losing strength
although he takes nourishment.
Warrants have been drawn for the
| pay of the Pennsylvania national
guardsmen for camp duty at Gettys-
burg.
The Paddock Hodge Co. grain eleva-
tor at Toledo, o., was totally destroyed
by fire. Loss, s200,OOO; insurance
! $3.50, 1000.
Wednesday, August 8.
The International Conclave, African
Knights Templar, opened their annual
session in st. Louis, Mo.
John NJ. Beall, assistant, will succeed
/ c. M. Shepard as general passenger
agent Of the Mobile and Ohio railroad
DR.. Brown Ayers was elected presi-
dent Of the University of Tennessee
to succeed DR.. Charles w. Dabney. Dr.
Ayers was professor of physics at the
University Of New Orleans
Baron Speck Won SternbuRg, German
ambassador at Washington. accepted
the presidency of the national advisory
board of the American Institute of
Germanics of Northwestern University.