Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-09-17
a WEEKS News CONDENSED.
Thursday, September 8.

- NdtSOu CONVICTED Oh as
saultlng young Girl. was sentenced TO
lie Imprisonment by a Chicago Judge.
General Darlington Booth and Mrs.
Booth. OF the Volunteers of America.
have arrived in New York from Lon
dor
The Japanese government has placed
a contract for 1900 tons of the finest
nickel steel plates with the Carnegie
Steel Company of Pitsburg
Nathan Harris and H. c. McMichael.
machinists. were seriously burned by
coming in contact with a live wire at
the Central Iron Works, Harrisburg.
Pa.
Governor Pennypacker has appointed
Horace Hoskins, of Philadelphia. and
Jacob Heimer, of Scranton, members
of the Pennsylvania Veterinary Medi-
cal Examining Board.
Friday, September 9.
The Panama Canal commission has
called for proposals for IL steam SHOW
els for canal construction.
Joseph Elsie, an aeronaut, was killed
while making a balloon ascension and
parachute leap at a fair at Tuscola. Ill.
Mrs. Eckley B. Coke. widow of the
Luzerne county. Pa, coal operator. will
establish hospital for consumptive
miners.
The comptroller of the currency has
issued a call for the condition of ma
tional banks at the close of business
September 6.
David Greenburn. a wealthy Junk
dealer of Greensburg,> Pa, was muir
dered and robbed by man with whom
he was riding.
Saturday, September 10.
Solomon Kerr, aged 81 years, post
master at Lebanon, Pa, died suddenly
of pralysis.
Sir Thomas Upton will leave Eng
land the latter part of this month to
visit the Worlds Fair at ST. Louis.
Because her husband went to a base
ball game over her protest, Mrs.
Charles Evans, Of Monterey, Ia, COM
mitted suicide.
Justice A. P. Rich, of the New York
supreme court, and members of his
family were received in private au-
dience by Pope Plus.
While praying on the grave of her
twin sister, Yetta Berkowitz was
crushed to death under a tombstone in
a Brooklyn cemetery.
Monday, September ~.
The battleship Georgia will be
launched at Bath, Me-, October IL.
Rear Admiral w. S. Schley, retired,
will shortly publish his autobiography
Accused of being short $1,000 in his
accounts as clerk in the postoffice.
Harry S. Rawls has been arrested in
bingham county. Va.
The United States cruiser Milwau-
kee was launched at San Francisco.
Miss Lillian jeffrey, of California
christening the ship.
The 2-yearold child OF Milton Mann.
of Bangor, Pa, died from scalds re-
ceived through the overturning Of a
bucket of scalding water.
Tuesday, September 10.
Almost every business block at Idaho
Falls, Ida, was destroyed by fire, en-
failing a loss of over 100000.
Herbert w. Bowen, United States
minister to Venezuela. has arrived at
New York on a leave of absence.
The plasterers of Wilkesbarre, Pitts
ton, Plymouth and Nanticoke, Pa. are
on strike for an increase of wages from
SO to $500 a day.
Thomas Thompson. of Pottsville. who
was convicted of murder in the second
degree for killing Peter Curley. was
sentenced TO 20 years Imprisonment.
The Ottoman Bank has notified the
American legation at Constantinople
that il has on deposit $4,000 for land
OF an American citizen, Illegally seized
at Smyrna.
Wednesday, September "a.
Charles S. Hall, a New York lawyer
has been appointed assistant treasurer
or the national Democratic committee
The strike at the American Steel and
Wire company's plant at Sharon. Pa.
has been settled and the men returned
to work
BY the explosion of a 12-inch steam
pipe at the American Steel and Wire
works, Worcester Mass, five men were
scalded, two fatally.
John ID. Rockefeller has given the
Young Women's Christian Association
of Cleveland, o., 100000 for the erec-
ton of a new building.
j. =. Fenton, a travelling man from
Philadelphia. while crazed with drink.
leaped from a window of a hotel at
Boone, Ia, and was killed.