Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1906-07-14
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Thursday. Julv $.

'HAtSOoJr July D
The North Carolina Democratic
state convention endorsed. William J.
Bryan for president
Edward Guthrie. aged II years. was
killed by the explosion of a toy can
non which he was firing at Memphis.
Tenn
Harry F. West, president sf the
Penn Mutual Life Insurance company.
of Philadelphia. died at Atlantic City.
~. j.. of heart disease.
William JAWS. OF Charleston. w.
Va. was shot by his wife and his body
was left all night in the yard at their
home. Just before he died he called
his little children to him and told
them their mother had killed him.
Friday, July 6.
During the fiscal year sAst closed
there were S7i3 rural mail routes put
into operation.
Julius Weiner Jumped from the Will
Harrisburg bridge in New York to the
street, 100 feet below. and nearly every
bone in his body was broken.
Harlow c. Voorhees,. of PHILADELPHIA.
son of Vice President voorhees,. of the
Reading railway. lost an eye by the
premature explosion OF fireworks.
Susan NJ. Wykof. widow Of General
Charles a. Wykoff. who was killed at
the battle Of San Juan Hill, in Cuba.
in 1898. died at her home in Easton. Pa.
Mrs. William Snyder, while witness
ing the display of fireworks IN Bluff
ton. Ind. was hit on the top of the
head By an unexploded aerial bomb and
killed.
Saturday, July Z.
James Pearsall. colored. convicted
of criminal assault on white woman.
was hanged at Lexington. Ky.
Two persons were killed and six In
jured by the explosion OF a gasoline
tank in dye works at Saginaw, Mich.
Five members OF the Illinois naval
reserves we're drowned by the capsiz-
ing Of a small boat on Lake Michigan
at Chicago.
Miss Eleanor Brown daughter OF
the president of the Southern Refining
company. was killed in a runaway &C
cident at Los Angeles, Cal.
The plant OF the Reading CPa)
Slaughter House company. containing
10000 pounds OF lard and the meat Of
90 steers. was burned. entailing q loss
Of $4,000
Monday, July 9.
Kellar Savidge. while horseback rid
ing near Seven Points. Northumber-
land county, Pa. was thrown by his
horse stumbling. and fatally hurt.
Mrs. X. r. MacKinnon was burned
10 death and two of her daughters
were seriously injured in a fire which
destroyed their home in Buffalo.
The Twelfth Cavalry at Fort OgIe-
thorpe. Tenn. has started on a prac-
tice march TO Knoxville. lip miles
away. over the old line OF march of
Burnside's men I'm 1864
Guilty OF conspiracy to defraud the
government IN connection with gov.
eminent lands. s A D. Porter was
sent TO jail for two years at Portland.
Ore. and sentenced also TO a fine OF
$1,000.
Tuesday July 10.
VIII Anderson. a negro. was hanged
at Tillar Ark. by a mob for assault.
ing white woman.
The German-American Gymnastic
Alliance will hold their next meeting
In 1905 In Cincinnati. O.
President Roosevelt has appointed
Charles Earle as sOCilitor FOR the de-
partment Of commerce and labor.
Mrs. Clara Stone Hay widow OF the
late Secretary OF State Hay. is IN AZ
her summer home near Newbury.
y IT,
J. p. Sloan. Jr.. chief OF the prasi-
dents secret service corps. wa hnod
$40 at Oy' er Bay for assaulting a
New Yorl, nhotorrapher.
Wednesday, July II.
Despcadeut because he was out OF
work. Arthur Brock attempted 10 COM
nit suicide in Philadelphia by cutting
his throat
George Mitchell. who shot and killed
Franz Crefield leader OF the Holy
Rollers" st Seattle Wash. was &C.
quilted on the plea OF insanity.
Elijah Les. e,t, OF Bord antown. n. J..
fireman G.. q Penn sy,var.7 r-il~o a
train was p c " p Ing -.srvR w IN