Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1905-10-07
A wEEK,s EEws CONDENSED.
Thursday, September IS


/ Five children were cremated in a
/ FIRE which destroyed their home at Fort
i Dodge. Iowa.
The First National Bank Of Orrville.
/ Ohio. has been closed by the comp
/ trolier Of currency.
James McHale. q rivoter at Cramps
shipysrd. Philadelphia was killed by
/ falling 90 feet from a ship.
John Fowler. the alleged slayer Of
I Or. Il. W Rulings. at Dickson. Tenn.
/ committed suicide ia Jail by hanging
+ himself
The law passed by the last MichiFan
F legislature providing separate courts
I for Juvenile offenders has been de-
/ clared null and void.
Friday September 20.
Burglars blew open the vault in the
I private bank Of c. B. Burnett g. Sons
at Eldorado IN. and carried of SIO.-
coo.
Walter b. Currley. OF Reading. a
brakeman on the Reading railroad.
was struck by en- engine AID instantly
killed at Allentown
While protecting his 1C-ycar-old in
valid daughter from assault. w. r.
Harr'ngton beat Charles Martin to
death elth a base bail bat at Detroit
William J. UUsscy. the noted
astronomer of Lick Observatory. has
accepted tEe chair of astronomy in
The University OF Michigan az Ann
ArbOr.
Saturday, September 80.
II. Stanley Uir.ch the father" OF
lhe Lebanon. Pa, bar. died OF cancer.
AGED ~ years.
over SEQ iron workers on three
large buildings in Baltimore went on
strike for an increase in wages
Frank Beard, the well-known illus
traitor. widely known ass the originator
or Chalk Talk died in Chicago. AGED
GO years.
Owners of the schooner Job II. Jack
son. which was sunk ia Chesapeake
Bay by the steamer Bayport. have
libelled the Bayport at Norfolk. Va.
for $4,000 damages.
President Roosevelt has named DR..
Lawrence +. Flick Philadelphia:
Henry q. Jacobs. Baltimore. and S. A.
Knopp. New York, 70 represent the
United States at the tuberculosis con.
gress in Paris.
Monday, October 2.
Congressman John Sharp williams
VIII stump Maryland and Virginia IN
the coming campaign.
The strike OF mail wagon drivers Ga
New York has been compromised by a
slight increase in wages.
A pig owned by George Brothers. Of
Allentown. Pa, fell into a butchers
scslcins vat. then swan the cool Jor-
dan creek and escaped.
Sutherland NJ. Provost. third vice
president OF the Pennsylvania Rail.
road company. died IN Philadelphia OK
\ complication Of diseases. aged %
years.
John Dickey, OF Lancagter, Pa. has
sued Harry J. Hartuon and Martin
Campbell for SEQ. 900 damages for per
mancrt irsrrios IN his u.ac- rer
whom they ran down while out driv-
ing.
Tuesday, October 3.
The big game season has opened in
Maine and hunters are going into the
woods IN large numbers.
Postmaster General Cortslyou has
concluded his vacation and assumed
charge at the postofios department.
Ex-Judge Henry Hice. aged II. one
OF tho most prominent lawyers in
Western Pennsylvania. died At Beaver
from paralysis.
Michael thinner, a farmer, comraIt-
ted suicide at Paterson. N. J.. by
jumping from a window OF the Cos
mopolitan hotel.
Wednesday, October 4.
Baron Komura. the Japanese peace
envoy. sailed from Vancouver, b. c.,
for Yokohama
John T. Pearce. for % years curator
OF Racine CWis) College. was found
dead in bed from apoplexy.
The Norvelle hotel, at Jackson.
Miss, one OF the best known in the
state. was destroyed by hre. Loss.
Sis. 900.
The estimated loss IN the hemp
growing districts in the Philippine
Islands from the recent typhoon Is
$4,000. 900 in gold.
The postofice department announces
that 14S1 rural free delivery routes
were established during September.
making total of s3.4ss