Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-10-08
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Thursday, September 20.

Secretary of the Navy Morton made
his first visit to League Island, Phila-
delphia, and made thorough inspec-
ton of the naval station.
Charles Green, of Salem, N. J., who
was the mate of the oyster sloop Edi-
son, was knocked overheard in the
Delaware river and drowned.
Twenty French workingmen, who
are in this country to study labor and
Industrial conditions, were received by
President Roosevelt in the White
House.
Driven insane through grief at the
death OF Edward Hartman, whom he
had accidentally shot, George Brown
was picked up raving maniac on the
streets of Peoria, Ill.
Friday, September 80.
The triennial convention OF the
Daughters of the King was held at
New Haven, Conn.
Thomas w. Williams, a prominent
mining contractor of Wilkesbarre, Pa.
was killed in a colliery accident.
Former Vice President Stevenson
opened the Democratic campaign in
Illinois with a speech at BLOOMINGTON.
Harvard University, at Cambridge,
Mass, began the 269th year of its ex-
istence with the largest attendance in
its history
Three men were fatally injured by
the collapse of an apart. oent building
In Chicago, caused by the breaking of
steel support.
Saturday, October I.
S. w. Townley, an employee OF the
MarinS ways, Mobile, Ala, is dead
from sunstroke, the first recorded in
the history of the city.
Convicted on six indictments for
burglary, John Lynch, colored. was
sentenced to II years Imprisonment
by Camden, N. j., Judge.
Arthur J. Wyman, assistant In the
| chemical laboratory at Harvard Uni
versity, was killed a. Cambridge, Mass.
! by an automobile operated by a stu
dent.
Howard Newkirk, one of South Jer-
sey's most popular glass workers, is
dying at Baltimore, Nd, from blood
poisoning, due to picking a pimple on
| his arm.
Monday, October 8.
S-year-old Jesus Rivera was debarred
. from landing at San Francisco and or
| dered deported.
Sir William Harcourt, Liberal leader
in the British parliament, was found
/. dead in bed from heart disease at
! Nunchan, Eng.
John Suko, a miner, fell down a 1875
foot shaft at Lattimer, Pa, broke
nearly every bone in his body and died
"a hours later.
An explosion of a boiler at the
+, franklin Iron Works, Port Carbon. Pa.
totally wrecked the plant and killed
Engineer William Kane.
Miss Anna May Yeiser, of Paducah.
! KY, has been chosen to christen the
gunboat Paducah, to be launched at
Morris Heights. N. Y, October IL.
Tuesday, October q.
The rug factory of Fries-Breslin
company. at Camden, N. j., was de-
sfravad by fire. entaiiing a loss OF
$1,000. - 1
The Lincoln Republican League.
composed of colored men, will hold
fits convention at Charlestown. w. Va.
October IL.
New York Day was observed at the
st. Louis Worlds Fair by exercises in
the New York building, attended by
Governor Odell and many state Off
cials.
The Republican convention for the
third congressional district OF Wor-
cester, Mass, nominated lockwood
Hoar, son OF the late Senator Hoar,
for congress,
Wednesday, October 5.
James McManus, wanted at Harris
burg Pa, for embezzlement, was ar
rested at st. Louis.
John Barrett, United States minister
to Panama. has arrived in New York
on leave OF absence.
The battleship Ohio was placed in
commission at San Francisco, with
Captain L. c. Logan in command.
Major General James +. Wade. reti--
ing commander OF the Philippine divi-
sion, will sail for home October Is.
Robert Treat Paine, OF 30 g n, was
elected president of the International
Peace Congress at the Boston conven-
ton.
Frederick Auguste Bartholdi, the
sculptor who designed the Statue of
Liberty in New York harbor, died in
Paris.