Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-12-17
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Thursday, December 8.

Thursday, December 8.
Lew Spencer, famous In the min
strel world for the last 20 years, drop
ped dead in Chicago from heart dis
ease.
Senator Proctor presented to the SEN
ate a memorial adopted by the Yer
mont legislature, protesting against
reciprocity with Canada.
Townsend Cox, of Bordentown, N.
j., an ex-member of the New Jersey
legislature, died of injuries sustained
In falling down stairs in his home.
Daniel Best. Of Harrisburg. Pa, was
convicted of forging his sons name to
o government pay warrant and SEN
Fenced to 80 days in jail and pay a
line of 500.
Friday, December
BY an explosion of FIRE mp in
coal mine at Burnett, W. IL min
ers were killed and four red.
The safe OF the Point tsant. W.
Va, postoffice was blown Nv rob
bers and s110o In cas- =
taken. -
A steam pipe burst on tn: British
steamer Murcia at Baltimore Nd, and
frightfully scalded two men, one IA
tally.
Jesse Williams, an agent Tor a Phil
adelphia medical book concern, COM
mitted suicide in Wilmington, Del, by
shooting.
Fannie Snyder, aged years, of
Philadelphia, fell into a tub of scald-
ing water at her home and was fatally
scalded
Saturday, December 10.
DR.. Garrett Lampen, of Philadelphia,
has been elected president Of Bellvue
Presbyterian College, Omaha, Neb.
Eleven fishermen were drowned in
an attempt to rescue the crew of a
wrecked steamer at Newbiggin, Eng
land.
The court house at jamestown, Fen
tress county, Tenn, was burned by in
cendiaries and many valuable records
were destroyed.
The child labor law of Illinois is be-
ing enforced in the coal mines of the
state, and $500 boys have been taken
away from employment.
Joseph Jacobs, of New York, a de.
tective attached to the district attor-
for one year for perjury in the Garfield
gambling case.
Monday, December IL.
President Roosevelt has decided not
to call special session OF congress in
the spring to revise the tariff.
Amendments to the Montana state
constitution relating to child labor
and the eight-hour law have been de
clared in full force.
The register of the Naval Academy
at Annapolis, Md, shows S23 mid
shipmen enrolled, the largest numbel
in the history of the institution.
Knotting a handkerchief about hi:
neck and placing a newspaper through
it. James T. Lunn twisted the paper
until he strangled to death at Flint
Mich.
The pay of the anthracite miner:
of Pennsylvania for November ha.
just been fixed at Z per cent. abov,
the minimum basis fixed by the strik,
commission.
Tuesday, December 13.
The arbitration treaty between tn
United States and Great Britain wa
signed in Washington.
Robbers entered the postoffice a
Reinbeck, Ia, and escaped with $25OC
after exchanging shots with a posse
On the North German Lloyd steame
Hanover, which arrived at New Yorl
from Bremen, were 10000 birds, mostl
canaries.
The widow of Confederate Genera
D. H. Hill, sister of Mrs. "Stonewall
Jackson, died at Raleigh, N. c., at a
advanced age.
For the fifth time within tw
months the Newport (Ky.) Iron Foun
dry was dynamited, but no one wa
injured. Strikers are suspected.
Wednesday, December IA.
James Hall was sentenced to liv
years Imprisonment for forgery by
Philadelphia judge.
Baron Speck Won Sternburg, the Gel
man ambassador, sailed for German
on the steamer Kaiser Wilhelm II.
/, The store of Long G. Kremer, Phi
lipsburg, N. J., was robbed of $10C
worth of revolvers, guns and cutlery