Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-10-29
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Thursday, October 20.


Thursday, October 20.
The 22d annual Indian conference
was held at Lake Mohawk, N. Y, with
$50 delegates present
Fire destroyed the new freight
sheds of the Nashville and ST. Louis
railway at Nashville, Tenn, and their
contents, entailing a loss of 5000 900.
Emma Grennell, poor girl, has
been awarded by Chicago court s4O,-
900 damages for the loss of one arm
and three fingers in a trolley accident.
William H. Kensington, a leading
Mormon and u. S. commissioners at
Alton, Wyo., has been arrested at
Evanston, Wyo., on = argos of poly
gamy.
Friday, October 81.
Robert S. Mccormick. American am.
bassador to Russia, arrived in New
York on a visit to this country.
George Jagger5, under sentence OF
death at Newton. n. J., committed sui
eide by taking chloroform aud car.
bolic acid.
Rev. Or. ]. Vernon Bell, of Dubois.
was elected moderator of the Presby.
terry of Pennsylvania ~ the Oxford.
Pa. session of the pres5ytery.
Governor Murphy, of New Jersey,
has selected his daughter. Mrs. VIII
liam B.. Kinney, to christen the battle
ship New Jersey, to be launched at
oaiaty. 80, -soynn.so- -
Saturday, October %.
Secretary of the Navy Morton in
spected the work in progress on the
naval academy buildings at Annap.
oils, Md.
Three trainmcn were killed in q col.
lision between two freight trains on
the New York Central railroad at Ge-
neva, N. Y.
The armored cruiser Pennsylvania.
built by Cramp & Son, at Philadel.
phia, will have her Official trial on
November %.
Andrew Carnegie has given Dickin-
son College, Harrisburg, Pa, $50, 900
to pay an obligation on the new pre-
paratory building.
A crowded trolley car at Stamford.
Conn, jumped the track and crashed
into the abutments of n bridge, injur.
ing several persons. one fatally.
Monday, October "a.
Ordered out with a Lehigh Valley
wreck crew. Peter Winisk, OF Delano,
Pa, dropped dead from excitement.
In a head-on collision between
trains near Natchez, Miss, three men
were killed and two fatally injured.
Damages suffered by farmers as the
80
nassas, Va, have been fixed at S13, 200.
In rear-end collision, caused by
slippery rails, between trolley cars al
Westboro, Mass, Is persons were in
jured, several seriously.
Former Governor Beaver, of Penn
sylvania, called on President Roose-
welt to invite him to attend one of the
Pennsylvania State College functions
next year.
Tuesday, October IS.
The powder house of Abbott G. Son.
Marshalltown, Ia, was blown up.
shaking the entire city and killing two
men.
John Morley, the English statesman.
has been invited by President Roose-
welt to be his guest at the White House
on November 9.
Henry Klein, OK Alton, Ia, commit
ted suicide in New York by throwing
himself under street car in the pres
ence of scores OF people.
DR.. Van Te.burn Hoffman, surgeon
OF the Atlantic Coast Line railway at
Sumter, S. c.. beat his wife and then
blew the top Of his head off with a
shotgun.
Frank Gustafson, a convicted wife
murderer, who vas to have been sen
fenced to death in the electric chair,
hanged himself in the Tombs prison,
Neg York.
"Wednesday, October 20.
Over 80 persons were injured. sew
eral fatally, 10 two head-on collisions
between troiley cars in afog at Seattle
Wash.
The total registration of students at
Princeton University, Princeton, N. j.,
number 1886, /, falling off of "a from
last year.
Former President Cleveland will de-
liver an address at a Democratic mass
meeting at Cooyer Union, New York,
November 2.
President Roosevelt has appointed
Mrs. James Longstreet, widow of Gen
eral James Lchsstreet. postmaster at
Gainesville, &c.
George Carpenter, of Philadelphia,
a trolley car cpnductor, was crushed
to death in collision of cars while
adjusting the Qole of his car,