Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-06-25
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Thursday, June 16.


Colonel James Form y, of the United
States Marine Corps, has been retired
on the age limit.
Next years session OF the Great
Council of Pennsylvania Red Men will
be held at York.
The Kentucky building at the ST.
Louis Worlds Fair was dedicated with
elaborate ceremonies.
The estate of the late Levi u. Letter.
of Chicago, who died suddenly at Bar
Harbor, Me, is estimated at between
$50. 0O0,O 600 and $50, 900.
Rev. DR.. Theodore Herman, of AL
lentown, Pa, has been chosen profess
sor of systematic theology at the Re-
formed Seminary, Lancaster, Pa.
Friday, June II.
Over 10000 Confederate veterans
marched in their annual parade at
Nashville, Tenn.
Matthew Roden, of Philadelphia, fell
from a train near Lewisburg, Pa, and
was instantly KILLED.
The business section of Norton, Wise
county, Va, was destroyed by fire, en-
failing a loss OF S150,000.
The Pennsylvania Bankers Associa-
ton has decided to hold their annual
convention at Atlantic City, N. j..
October and Z.
The American Red Cross Society has
been reorganized by the election of
former Surgeon General of the Navy
W. K. Van Ruypen as president.
Saturday, June t8.
The Norfolk and Western Railway
company will issue $35,000,OOO gold
40-year bonds, to bear interest at 4
per cent.
New England cities celebrated the
10th anniversary of the battle of
Bunker Hill with military parades and
| speech-making.
Personal inspections of all steam
boats plying from Chicago has been
| ordered as a result Of the General Slo-
cum disaster at New York
President and Mrs. Roosevelt at
| tended the wedding of the PRESIDENT
niece, Miss Helen Roosevelt, to Theo-
dore d. Robinson. at Hyde Park, N. j
Monday, June 20.
| The Vatican exhibit at the st. Louis
Exposition has been opened.
| Tenty persons were injured by {
| rear-end collision on the New Yorl
Elevated railroad.
| Two thousand men were thrown on
Of work by the closing down of stee
mills at Sharon, Pa.
|, Abraham Leackey, 65-year-olC
Lancaster count, Pa, farmer, dropped
dead in his field from over-exertioI
and heat.
| Cardinal Satolli was entertained a
dinner at the Catholic University
Washington, as the guest of Monslgno
| O'Connell.
Rev. Decatur Edwards, of Freder
icksburg, Va, while shooting at cats
accidentally shot and MORALLY wound
ed Mrs. Lucy Mann.
Tuesday, June 81.
The Ancient Order of United Worl
men decided TO hold their next conver
ton in Montreal. Can.
Cardinal Satolli was the guest o
honor at a dinner given in Washington
by Secretary of War Taft.
The 26th international convention
of the Knights of st. John was hel,
at Peoria, ILL.,, with 500 delegates il
attendance
The big hoist of the Ontario mine
near Park City, Utah. was destroye,
by fire, throwing 200 men out of worl
and causing a loss of $4,000.
| Jacob s. Martin, clerk in the Mel
chants National Bank, HARRISBURG
Pa, is under arrest charged with en-
bezzling $500 OF the banks funds.
Wednesday, June %.
| Fire destroyed the best part of Nc
Comb City, Miss, causing a loss o
over $500. 900.
| President Roosevelt has sent $50
to the relief committee of the Genera
Slocum disaster at New York.
| The Medina National Bank. of Nc
dina, n. Y. has been closed by tn
comptroller of currency as insolvent.
| Adolph Tancob. who confessed [,
burning buildings valued at over So
100000. is under arrest for incendiar
ism at Winnipeg. Man.
During an electrical storm at Al
lanta, Ga. Mrs. Ora Bradley wa
4 ctr,,oly NV op1 A.