Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1906-07-07
4 WEEKS Nvws CONDENSED,
Wednesday, June n.

Bay, L. l.. to spend the S ummer.
Mrs. Elizabeth Dunbar. aged 1Os
years. died in the county infirmary a.
Grand Haven. Mich.
The Colonial Danes OF Virginia pre-
sented silver service to the battlesnip
Virginia at the Norfolk. Va. navy ward
Catcher Whitney. of the Burlington
Ia baseball team, died Of injuries re-
eeived by being struck in the head by
pitched ball.
Over 1000 delegates attended the 2sth
annual convention of the National As
ISOLATION OF Master Plumbers at At
lantic City. n. J.
Thursday, June %.
Three men, overcome by fumes fell
into an oil tank at Waterbury. Conn.
and were drowned
John Burke and wife aud baby were
struck by train near Bellefontaine.
o.. and all were fatally injured.
William Dodo was killed and another
man fatally injured by the falling of
the ceiling in an ice house in Phila-
delphia
In n fit Of jealousy, John A. Grimes.
a well-to-do farmer, shot and killed
Mrs Eva McGinn, widow, near Ros-
well. Ca
John w. Morrison, of Harrisburg.
Pa, was elected president OF the Va
tionai Association of Supervisors OF
State Banks At the convention at NIL
waukee.
Friday, June 20.
The Knights of St John will hold
their next convention at Reading Pa.
Mrs. Annie Klaus. of Philadelphia.
is dying from broken back. sustained
by falling while carrying a small stove
In her home.
The girls dormitory OF the Knox
county industrial school at Knoxville.
Tenn. was destroyed by fire and So |
girls had narrow escapes.
TWO fremen were injured. eight |
horses burned and $4,000 worth OF
property destroyed by a fire at the
yards OF the A. Hubbard Lumber com /
pany at Paterson. n. J.
Vivian Brent, an assistant attorney |
in the interior department for "a years
and a member OF the last constitu- |
tonal convention OF the state OF Mary |
land. died in Washington.
Saturday, June 50.
The senate confirmed Prank L. Lane. |
OF California, as interstate commerce
commissioner.
Aselus Kodl. at Warrington. Va.
shot and killed his divorced wife and |
her husband and then killed himself.
Joseph w. Shelly. district attorney OF !
Bucks county. Pa, dropped dead at
Willow Grove.
Henry ID. Perky. founder OF Dread In
sttute. in Baltimore county, Md. died
of apopleXy in Baltimore. aged SO years.
Samuel J. Flickinger. a prominent
newspaper man OF Cincinnati has been
appointed private secretary TO Governor
Harris. OF Ohio.
Monday, July 2.
The safe in the New Concord (Ohio) |
postofice was broken open by rob |
bers. who secured $500 in cash and !
$500 In stamps
John X. Vanhorn. Of Wellsboro. a
Pennsylvania railroad civil engineer.
was drowned in the Susquehanna river
at PeQueR, Pa. while in swimming.
Sir Wilfrid Lawson, Liberal member
OF Parliament for the Camborne divi-
sion OF Cornwall. died in London. aged
II years. lie had been IN for a long
time.
Greene and Gaynor convicted Of
defrauding Tic United St,tcs. aud now
In jail ~ Macon. Ca. have asked for
a traa r 90 savannah. 10 De near
their attcrn. VS.
Tueacay, Jsly 5.
Cardinal Gibbons. OF Baltimore. has
declined 20 be a member of the New
York international policyholders' com
mittee.
Professor Oslar Eckstein. Of the
chemistry department OF the Univer-
sity of Chicago. has accepted a posl-
ton with the Imperial University OF
Picking. China.
Fred. Owens. clerk in railroad con-
struction commissary near Blrmtng.
ham, Ma. was shot and killed bv an
unknown negro with whom he had a
dispute over few cents.