Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-12-07
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events OF the week Briefly
ChroaicIed.

Notable Events OF the week Briefly
ChroaieI~d.
Mrs. James &. Fillmore is at the
| Rhode Island hospital In Providence
in critical condition. and her hus-
band is dead. having committed sui
eide after making an attempt TO kin
MS wSe and murdercusly assaulting
| George W. Robblee. grocer.
An entire village built by the French
during their occupation OF the isthmus
and completely buried 10y the dense
jungle growth OF twenty years has
| been discovered at Caimito Mulato by
the engineering force that is locating
the center line OF the canal in the
Chagres division.
Tuesday, Dec. ,.
Three men were injured IN an explo-
sion which destroyed a small building
Of the Vesuvius Dynamite works at
Pompton Lake. y. J. The victims were
Or. Romaine, 4 chemist Of Brooklyn;
HIS son Emile and William Cook.
In wreck on the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad at Shenandoah junction.
Md, three passengers were killed and
dozen injured The dead are: w. L.
L. Hoffman and his daughter Nellie
Of Baltimore and an unidentified white
man.
The bodies Of Mrs. Casteel. her
daughter. aged twenty-four: her son.
aged fifteen. and man named Mont
gOmery. aged fifty. foreman Of the
ranch, were found I'm the burned ruins
Of their home near Macleay. Ore. Just
how they were killed may never be
known.
At Karlsruhe Germany. the death
sentence passed upon Kari Hau for
the murder OF his motbcr-iu-aw. Frau
Molitor. has been committed TO life inn
prisonmeut. Kari Hau was at one time
professor OF Roman law I'm the George
Washington university. Washington
lie was convicted OF having murdered
his mother-in-law at Baden Baden.
Monday. Dec. =.
At Catskill, n. Y. Ethcredge s.. Hay
Of the Catskiu Mountain Rulposting
company died suddenly I'm the press
room Of the Recorder. lie was forty
one years OLD.
'The Americans won't work any
more They are SO busy snocuiating
and trying TO live on of each other
that they have abandoned labor. and
the foreigner collects the wages ANA
sends the money abroad" This is the
arraignmcnt OF the nation delivered by
Senator Reed Smoot of Utah.
Saturday. Nov. 80.
One dead. seven others more or less
seriously injured and n property loss
OF about $4,000 resulted from a fire
that broke out en- the Harvard House
NJ Gloucester Mass
A shocking accident I'm which FIVE
Factory employees were killed occurred /
az the West Main street crossing over
the Highland division tracks when an |
extra Hartford bound freight train
crashed into a trolley car containing /
twenty-five persons which was bound /
FOR the pin factories I'm Oabvnle. near
Waterbury. Conn.
Friday. Nov. 20.
The steam yacht Kanawha. owned
by Hartly @. Baxter OF Brunswick
Me, and valued az $4,000. was burn
ed 10 the waters eige at Jordan's
wharf, Gurnet, near Brunswick.
The United States National museum /
has placed on exhibition a specimen /
leaf" OF a thornless cactus developed 4
by Luther Burbank OF California. The /
perfecting OF a cactus without thorns /
means the providing OF a valuable for I
age plant which viii grow as well In {
arid as I'm moist regions.
A marble fountain bearing the sim |
pie inscription "Philo Sherman Ben /
nett Gave This 10 the City" and erect |
ed on the green very close by the old |
pump, town landmark, was dedicated I
and handed over at New Haven. Conn.
The gift was provided for 10y the will /
OF Mr.. Bennett William J. Bryan pre- |
scented the fountain 10 the city in his /
behalf, Mayor John ID. Studley recelv- /
ing the gift.
ThurHday, Nov. -.
You can bet your North American
life that the battleship fleet will sail |
from Hampton Roads on its voyage to
the Pacific on the morning OF Dec. I6."
said Admiral Evans at Washington.
The vessels Will get under way Just
as soon as l receive the presidents or
ders 10 set sail"
The governor OF chihuahua, Mexico.
acting on memorials sent him by Am /
bassador Greel from Washington. has
decided to commute TO twenty years I
Imprisonment the sentences OF DR..
Charles Harle, G. ]. Richardson and /
W. i. Mitchell, who were to be shot |
on Dec. & for numbering two men with |
a view to collecting insurance upon /
their lives.