Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-07-06
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Notable Events OF the week BREEZY
ChronfcIed.


After a conference with the president
at Oyster Bay Secretary Loeb denied
that II was the intention OF the govern
ment to increase its naval strength In
the Pacific.
AT Cass Lake. MINI, a hundred per
sons were IN line before the land Office
when the doors opened for entries on
the Cass Lake reservation. Lewis Lar
son OF FoEston. who has been first in
the line since May p. fled on a valua-
bic farm.
Tuesday, July =.
Mark Twain was photographed at
London IN the cap and gown OF an
oxford doctor OF letters.
The unheard Of claim that he has
discovered a method by which be can
photograph the human soul was Rd-
vanced by Henry Price, a retired pro-
fessor OF music at Mount Vernon, y. Y.
The corporation OF Dublin decided
by vote OF % 70 Is TO confer the
freedom OF the city upon Richard Gro
ker, whose horse Orby won the Eng
lish Derby at EPSON and the Irish
Derby at Curragh.
After brooding over an Illness which
be feared would drive him TO the In
sane asylum Herman Ritter. aged sixty
years. q wealthy St Louis man. killed
himself with poison at Galveston, Tex.
Mr.. Ritter was judge OF Madison coun-
" FOR several years. His estate Is val
usd at close 10 S1.OOOOOO.
Monday. July I.
At Paris the government promulgat-
ed the wine fraud bill. which was pass
cd by the senate and is designed 20
correct n number OF the abuses COM
planned Of by the wine growers OF the
south OF France.
Frank Kelly, wanted by the New
York police on a criminal charge grow
ing out OF the death Of six persons IN
an elevated railroad wreck IN January.
1906, was arrested at San Francisco
pending orders from New York. Kelly.
IL is said, admitted his identity.
Failing overheard from a rowboat
into water twenty feet deep. the Rev.
J. A. Pulsifer OF East Hartford. Conn.
rector OF St Paul's Episcopal church,
who cannot swim. was saved from
drowning in the Willimantic river by
Frank Gray, a fourteen-year-old boy.
Saturday, jane 40.
At London May Sutton OF California
In the all England lawn tennis cham
pionshp games. at Wimbledon, beat
Miss Morton. the English expert
Oscar Hammerstein at London said
that ne has discovered and engaged an
Algerian tenor named Cazauran, who
is better than CarusO or BOncL The
impresario declared that Cazauran not
only possesses a voice OF velvet. but is
as beautiful as an Apollo and a six
footer 10 boot
After investigating every charge
which has been brought 20 my atten-
tion. whether apparently well founded
or not, l have been unable 10 find a
single penny OF graft going 10 any one
IN connection with the isthmian canal
work" This statement was made by
Secretary Taft at Washington.
Friday, June -.
At Hongkong a horrible holocaust
has occurred, 800 Chinese OF the au-
dience Of a Chinese theater and ten OF
the actors being burned 10 death when
the native thester was destroyed by
FIRE.
At Milwaukee, Wis, the Information
nj Association For the Prevention OF
Smoke opened its second annual con-
ventlon and in debate and lecture dealt
the smoke nuisance a number OF heavy
blows.
On the Thames river at New Lon
don, Conn, the Yale crew held the big
eight cared Harvard crew even until
the last half mile, when the sons OF
Eli let out their speed and won 8
great race by a scant boat length. Z.
II Hartman, the railroad magnate,
was arrested during the race by Presi-
dent ROOsevelts naval aid, Lieutenant
Billiard, who was in charge OF the rev.
enue cutters, following a warning he
had given 10 every boat owner not TO
follow the race.