Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-11-02
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Briefly
ChronfcIed.


ton three days after he had secretly
married the Gibson girl nurse" OF the
Boston City hospital, declare he was
murdered. The Boston police insist
that he committed suicide.
Coroner Davidson announces that
Fred a. Boron. cashier of the defunct
Akron (O) bank, had committed sui
eide, there being nothing to substan.
tate the murder theory. The revolver
used was one kept at the Dollar Saw.
ings bank, of which Boron was cashier
and treasurer, and the weapon was ".
ing by his side when he was found.
Tuesday, Oct. -.
President Roosevelt has issued his
Thanksgiving proclamation. through
the secretary Of state, naming the last
Thursday in November, the 2Sth.
Near Dallas, Tex, a wreck on the
[ Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroad
killed the first passenger in the history
OF the company. Two are dead, TWEEN
/ ty-five injured and others may die.
Monday, Oct. 2s.
Absalom Magee. aged sixty, n retired
farmer of Weymouth, \. j.. was muir
dered during the night and is supposed
TO have been robbed of about $1,000 in
cash which he acquired from a recent
sale
At West Point. n. Y, in the presence
Of n large assemblage OF invited
guests and officers and ladies' Of the
post a tablet In memory OF J. Mcneil
Whistler, the artist, was unveiled In
the library building Of the United
States Military academy.
John Mangin, n policeman attached
TO the Hunters Point precinct, Long
Island, y. Y. shot cat. and the spent
bullet struck Theodore s. Weeks. man
aging editor OF the Long Island City
Star, In the back. He was only slight
" hurt.
Saturday. Oct. 26.
The wrecking vessel Salvor is rails
ing the Empress Of China. which sank
at her moOrinC at the Canadian Pa
cihc wharf, at Vancouver. b. G. She
is scheduled TO sail for japanese and
Chinese ports next Thursday, but II IS
not likely that she viii get away then
| Andrew Carnegie came back to New
/ York after an absence OF five months
I'm Scotland and on the continent Ac
| companying him on the White star
1 liner Baltic were his wife and little
| daughter, who seemed TO enjoy as
/ keenly as the ironmaster did himself
] their return TO American soil.
mo such relations exist between
I America and Japan as would make II
I improper TO send the American bat
/ tleship fleet into the Pacific. II there
/ were, then the relations between
= America and Great Britain and the
/ relations between America and France
| which are the same. would forbid thC
/ maintenance OF tho battleship fleet IN
/ the Atlantic ocean" This was the re
ply returned by Secretary Root 10 tn,
7 direct question as TO whether JapaI
I had entered any protest against In,
I dispatch OF Admiral Evans feet 10 tn,
| Pacific.
Friday, Oct. -.
For three hours steady stream Of
| depOsitors passed before the window
I OF the paying teller Of the Union Trus
/ company at Providence, r. L., and
withdrew the amounts they had depos
tied with the institution. The compa
ny paid all demands.
Warrants charging Joseph Pulitzer OF
the New York World and Angus Shaw
cashier. with criminal libel were is
sued 10y Justice Wyatt on the com
l plant Of T.. r. Thomas. The warrant.
allege that the New York World pub
lished a panel OF photographs among
which was that OF Thomas and a hand
pointing 10 them with the legend, "ThC
Bogues' Gallery"
/ Details received at Rome regardin,
the earthquake in Calabria every way
tend 10 show that the damage don,
was much more extended than at frs
estimated. but that the loss OF life ha:
not been great The towns Of Rocella
Jonica, Reggie, Cosanza, Baracdio, Cit
tanova, Palmi, Gerace and Marina SUI
fered from the shocks. but not severe
/ ly. The cathedral at Tore al Gerac,
! was thrown down.
Thursday, Oct. 81.
Germany won the international bal
loon race which started at St Loui,
on Monday afternoon. The German
balloon POmmern, Oscar Erbsloeh pio
and Henry IL. Clayton aid, landed a
Bradley park, half a mile south o.
Asbury Park and 500 miles from st
Louis.
J. Pierpont Morgan assumed com
mand OF the financial situation in New
I York. +. H. Hartman, Thomas +
| Ryan, James Stillman and Oakleigl
| Thorne were among those who con
ferred with him. Secretary OF tn,
Treasury Cortelyou came 10 the relie
of the New York banks with $50, 900,
600 government funds.
At Knoxville, Tenn, r. II. johnson
OF Trundle Crosse, a deaf mute, wal
taken In charge by the police to pre-
vent him making a disturbance Will,
President Roosevelt was in the city
Johnson was armed with a shotgun
and at one Of the leading hotels KEPT
writing notes referring TO the presi
dent, claiming to be a better hunter
than Roosevelt