Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1905-12-30
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSER
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George H Conley. superintendent OF
schools OF Boston. died suddenly OF
hear disease. aged 50 years.
Edward Bastian. a farmer, was
struck by an express train at Middle
town. Del. and fatally injured.
Will Carter a negro. was hanged at
Kenansville. y. c, for a criminal as
Eault upon 81 6year-old white girl.
A gas explosion at Decatur. Ill
wrecked n saloon. rendered the bar
tender permanently blind and seriously
injured three other men.
While playing on the Reading rail-
way tracks. Clyde Young. Il years
old. of Philadelphia, fell under a train
and had both legs cut OF.
Friday, December %.
The safe in the Corinth Deposit
Bank at COrinth. KY. was robbed Of
$500.
Both branches OF congress have ad-
journed until January 4 for the Christ
mas holidays.
Secretary Of the Interior Hitchcock
Is confined 70 his Washington home
with q severe cold.
A leak iu a kitchen gas stove IN a
New York grocery store caused the
death OF two men and SO overcome a
woman that she Will die
It IS said in Washington that LLOYD
Griscom viii not return TO Japan as
the American minister. but will be ap-
pointed am bassador to Brazil
All the Italians and foreigners en-
ployed as gatemen at crossings OF the
L.
burg viii be replaced by Americans.
Saturday, December %.
Three nuns were painfully burned
IN a fire az St Benedict's Academy.
Erie. Pa
The furniture factory Of the Warren
Woodworking company. at Belvtdere.
n. J.. was destroyed by Ere, entsilinE
= loss OF 100000
Judge O'Gorman. Of the New York
supreme court decided that a South
Dakota divorce decree confers no pro.
lection IN New York.
". Il. Moorehead. y guard In the
Ohio penItentiary at Columbus. O..
was fatally wounded in a fight be
tween FIVE guards and q convict
John c. New. former consul general.
70 London. and John c. Wright were
acquitted OF Noblisville. Ind. Of fraud
IN the sale OF stock involving Sss2..
900 In the First National Bank of In.
dianapolis.
Tuesday, December %.
Mrs. S B. Dibble. FIRST president Of
the National Christian Temperance
Union. died at her home at Grass Val.
ley. Cal
John Mccall. J. II. Wells ana James
Bester were suhOcated IN a lodging
house at New Orleans BY blowing out
the gas
Irwin BAXTER. United States district
attorney for Nebraska. has been re
moved by President Roosevelt for nal.
feasGnce in ONCE.
While returning from work. Charles
EehoI, OF Coatesville. Pa, was run
down by a locomotive and had a leg
cut of and his skull fractured.
Seven masked men held up three
armed watchmen and a dispatcher IN
the Toledo CO) Traction oompany's
car barn and escaped with over $1,000.
Wednesday, December 27.
Fire Quilted the Exchange Hotel. OF
Uniontown. Pa. entailing a loss Of
500. 900.
Mrs. d. Stuart Null. OF wellsboro.
Pa, was killed and her husband and
Miss Emma Mathers badly injured in
a runaway accident
After playing Santa Claus for neigh
bors. George Reed. OF near Coshocton.
O.. set IRE 20 the long cotton whIskers
and was fatally burned.
Louis y. Megargee. editor and pub
Usher OF Seen and Heard" and a
well-known journalist. died at his home
IN Philadelphia. aged so years.
In 1T OF jealousy. Ashby Willis.
colored, Of Wheeling. W. Va, crushed
the skull OF his white wife with an
axe and than l.rlt lis nucr H..