Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1906-06-02
A WEEKS NE 5 CONDENSED
Thursday. Mav Il.

The 10th annual convention Of the J
American Cotton Manufacturing Asso-
citation was held at Ashevine. y. c.
Governor Pennypucker hasI ppointed |
William n. Stake Judge OF common 1
pleas court, No. 5. OF Philadelphia.
Miss Florence White. a stenographer. I
was run down and killed by an automo- !
bile in Milwaukee. driven by an editor
81 the Free Press.
Thomas a. Blake OF Boston. was ar I
rested az Long Beach. Cal. charged I
with embezzing $4,000 worth OF min |
ing stock al Boston
Edgar Clark. second mate OF the
schooner Sycamore. was burned TO
death hchting fire aboard the vessel as ]
she lay at her dock In South Boston.
Friday, May rs.
An explosion Of gas I'm the Diamond .
mine. az Scranton. Pa. burned six
men. three OF them seriously.
Near Attica. o.. 200 striking Italian ;
laborers tore up a portion OF the Bal.
timore q Ohio track and delayed
mail train for several hours
A premature discharge OF dynamite
Killed 'wo and wounded Eve OF a con. #
structiOn gang on the Indiana south.
ern railway. near Bloom lngton. Ind. 4
Fire destroyed the cotton compress
Of the Central of Georsia railroad. at
Macon. Ca, together with 200O bales
OF cotton. causing a loss OF Sl250O0. /
The Cuban senate passed the house
bill. amnestying all engaged IN revo-
lutionary attempts. but amending IL
SO as TO include only those whose acts +
We're committed between September
p and December J.. 1905.
Saturday, May 10.
The great council OF Red Men of
Virginia will meet al Norfolk I'm 1907. /
The American Baptist Publication 1
Society at Dayton. O.. celebrated its 1
SD anniversary Friday
Nathan Sharp. a 60-year-old farmer.
OF Collingswood. y. j., was struck by
an express train and instantly killed. 7
In a quarrel over a mule trade al
Benson. ~ c.. H. ID. Hudson attacked I
his uncle with an axe and was shot 4
and Killed.
Rev. DR.. Robert b. Moore. the Vine I
land, y. j.. phnanthropist died sud /
denly OF heart trouble. He was a grad
uate of Washington and Jefferson Col
lege and was 20 years old.
Monday May 81.
Andrew Carnegie has given Kenyon
College, az Mount Vernon. O.. $4,000
for the aid Of poor students.
Austin Wirth. OF Philadelphia. was
drowned in Ridley Pork lake. near
Chester Pa. while swimming.
The clothing of Elmer Deniinger. OF !
Lancaster, Pa, was caught in betting
while at work and he was fatally |
whirled
Family troubles caused Thomas Har. !
ris 20 shoot fatally George McWhorter
wealthy grain merchant. of Chilli. !
cothe. III.
Mrs. William Roughton's dress was
ignited by a fire in the yard OF he,
home at Shamokin. Pa. and she Wa
horribly burned and will probably die
Tuesday, May p.
Howard c. Wiggans was reelected
supreme regent OF the Royal Arcanum
at the session at Old Point Comfort
Va.
William r. Schantz committed sui
eide in his boarding house at Whining.
ton. Del. by shooting himself in the
head while in bed
Vincenzion Di Lucca and Lucia CIV.
liano were sentenced to two years i'm.
prisonment at Wilmington. Del. for
Sringing girls from Italy for immorall
purposes.
While constables were searching the
house OF W. X. Flanders. Of Cleveland
o., with warrant for his arrest on 6
charge of obtaining money by faiss
pretenses. Flanders committed suicide
by shooting himself
Wednesday, May %.
Secretary Bonaparte has resumed his
duties at the navy department after an
absence of three weeks, due TO Illness
Governor Pennypacker. of Pennsyl-I
vania- appointed Richmond l. Jones
OF Reading. a member OF the Valley
Forge commission.
Thomas Corners, so years old, oil
Pottstown, Pa. dropped dead OF apo-i
plexy while driving along the roads
near Collegeville
Two warehouses, containing cotton
on TIE ~ ssicsn Cotton docks c,