Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1906-12-22
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
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dead OF heart disease at PittsburR
when about 10 board a train.
Whitelaw Reid. American ambassa-
dor to Great Britain, arrived IN this
country TO spend the holidays.
Both branches OF congress will ad-
journ for the Christmas holidays on
December 20 and reconvene January 3.
The vegetable canning factory OF ].
p. Polk & Co, at Greenwood. Ind. the
largest in the world, was destroyed by
fire. Loss. 100000.
Maitland Boon, at one time mayor
of Quincy. H., and a personal friend
of Abraham Lincoln, died at Water
town, y. Y. aged 70 years.
Friday, December -.
Or. James d. Eggleston was sea-
fenced 70 10 years Imprisonment at
Denver, Col. for counterfeiting SO
bills
The plant OF the New York Cement
company at Rondout, n. Y. was de-
stroyed by fire. entailing a loss OF
$25O0OO.
Mrs. Martha Smith. 20 years old.
was burned to death in her home at
Brooklyn. n. Y. by her clothing talk
ing fire from a lamp.
Colonel William L. Brown. former
publisher OF the New York Daily News.
died at his home in Great Darlington,
Mass. aged Ga years.
Saturday. December IS.
Robbers wrecked the safe OF the In
terstate Bank at Drexel, Mo-, and es-
capped with $4,000.
Miles Woodruff and wife were struck
and killed by an Erie railroad train
near Hornell. N
Ira Godfrey, OF Washington. a promi.
nent mining promoter. was struck and
killed by trolley car in New York.
James A. Kratz. private secretary
TO Attorney General Moody, has been
appointed a special assistant attorney
general
President Roosevelt has declined to
attend the reunion Of the Blue and
the Gray at Wilmington, n. c.. on
January 10, as he could not spare the
time.
Monday, December II.
Burglars got $1,000 cash and $1,000
in checks from E. d. G. Mathers' pri-
vate bank at Shortsville. n. Y.
The late United States Senator Cor
man left property in New York worth
$S2.4l2. Of this S4S5O2 being in cash in
bank
Thomas Flannery. Of Wilkes-B Barre,
Pa, went TO sleep on the tracks OF the
Jersey Central railroad and was run
over by train and killed.
Jefferson Morgan. who recently died
near Portersville. Beaver county. Pa.
had $1,000 concealed in holes in the
ground and other obscure places.
Cholera has broken out among the
hogs in Blair township. Blair county.
Pa. and IL belonging TO Oliver Shay
were killed and their carcasses ere.
mated.
Tuesday, December 10.
The senate confirmed the nomina
ton of Afford w. Cooley. of New York.
20 be assistant attorney genera.
Louis Dabner pleaded guilty In court
in San Francisco TO the murder OF NJ
Munakata. manager OF the Japanese
bank.
The Pennsylvania Limited ran into
n freight train at Canton. o.. and the
engineer and fireman OF the freight
were fatally injured
President Roosevelt will deliver an
address before the New York Board of
Trade at a convention TO be held in
January l6.
Mrs. Sarah Albright. OF Lancaster
Pa, was horribly burned while pour
ing fat into a pan on the stove. which
caught fire and communicated with her
clothing
Wednesday, December 10.
Thomas Platter aged u years. one
OF the best known bankers in Ten.
rcsscc. died at his home in Nashville.
A motor car in a mine near Wheel
ing. W. Va. ran away. knocked down
several supports and caused a cave-in.
which killed one man and injured sew.
eral others.
James Thomas, president OF the pa
vies & Thomas company. and the
Wahnetah Silk company. died Of can.
Ger at his home in Catasauqua. Pa.
aged - years
Jewels valued at over $4,000 were
stolen from the residence OF Joseph
Vega in New York and $500 reward
has been offered for the arrest of two
servants who disappeared