Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1905-12-23
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Thursday, Deeember "a.


Louis McLane. a prominent hnan.
eier and capitalist OF Baltimore. died
OF complication of diseases. aged y
years.
The 4-months-old baby daughter OF
Arthur Davis. of Pembroke. near Har-
| risburg. Pa. was burned to death by
an exploding lamp
In a fire which destroyed the plant
OF the Mars Manufacturing company
at Evanston. H., two fremen were
killed and four seriously injured. Prop
erty loss. 100000.
W. J. Smith. confidential book
/ Keeper Of the Robert Stevenson Drug
company, OF Chicago. has been ar
rested on a forgery charge amounting
90 $4,000. which he says all went 10
| loan sharks.
Friday, December IS.
Leroy II. Anderson. treasurer OF the
| United Railways Of New Jersey. died
at Princeton. aged 6S years.
TWO children OF John Lusco were
| burned to death in a fire which de-
! stroyed their home at Greensburg Pa.
John Stansheld his Wife and two
/ children were seriously burned by a
gas explosion in their home at sharon.
/ Pa.
Richard West, convicted OF Illegal
| voting and perjury at the New York
election, was sentenced TO three years
| IN Sing Sing
While Jealous. William Clark. a
prominent farmer near Grand Rapids.
Mich. shot his wife 20 death as she
, lay in bed and then killed himself.
Saturday, December 10.
Mississippi has adopted new law
making house breaking a crime Dun
ishable by death or life Imprisonment
Senator w. A. Clark. OF Montana.
has purchased the Union mine. on the
Z mother lode. in EIdorado county. Cal.
for $1.750.O00.
Engineer 7. J. Welsh and brakeman
J. S. Harris were killed and Fireman
Grove seriously scalded in a rear-end
/ collision betW cen freight trains NJ New
Castle. Pa.
Daniel c. Gilman, OF Baltimore. Nd.
was reelected president of the Ma
tional Civil Service Reform League at
the Milwaukee convention.
Monday, December 10.
Tons Of molten cinder dumped on
two railroad .shanties at Steubensvine.
o.. fatally burned two men and hurt
two others.
The cornerstone Of the 5000. 900 SOL
diers' memorial building at Cincinnati
was laid by Corporal Tanner. com
/ mander-in-chief of the Grand Army.
Indictments were returned at Cleve-
land. o.. against Percy A. Secor and
Michael Ryan. charged with voting 40
times at the recent Republican pri-
mary.
Professor 8. stanhope Orris. OF
Princeton University. one OF the fore
most scholars in the United States
died at Harrisburg. Pa. after a long
Illness.
Tuesday, December 10.
The supreme court of the United
States took a recess until January 2.
President Roosevelt has re-appointed
Thomas J. Alcott United States mar
shall for the district Of New Jersey.
Ralph and Ray Relyea, brothers.
were drowned while skating on the
Coldwater river ar Coldwater. Mich.
Mrs. William Ostrum and her two
children, aged ! and years. were
burned to death in their home at Char
, leroix, Mich.
An unknown man. evidently a for
eigner. was struck by a train at Ian
caster, Pa, and his body cut in two
just above the hips.
Wednesday, December 20.
William Moore and Elmer Waldron
were suffocated in a natural gas pit
at Youngstown. o.
The main building OF the BOYS Re
form School, near Washington. d. c.
was destroyed by Ere. entailing a loss
or 100000. No one was injured.
In wreck near Reading, Kan. on
the Santa Fe road. believed to be the
work Of wreckers. two trainmen were
killed and several passengers were in
1ured.