Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1898-02-12
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Thursday. Feb. 3.


Thousands 81 sheep have persisted
from cold and starvation in western
Wyoming.
George II. Earle. receiver OF Phila-
dSlphia's failed bank. expresses the
opinion that no one need lose anything.
The report that Great Britain had.
on the demand OF Russia. backed
down" on the question Of making
Talien-wan a free port Of entry. Is
officially denied.
At a meeting or over 400 PENNSYLVANIA
business men I'm Philadelphia Senator
Quay's methods were denounced. and
Hon. John Wanamalxer was urged as a
candidate for governor.
Friday, Feb. A.
AT points In Maine and Vermont yes
terday the temperature was 40 degrees
below zero.
A bin prohibiting the marriage OF
chronic invahds has been introduced I'm
OhiO's legislature.
Colonel Rend. who testified before the
Ohio senate trust committee. said he
thought the senate trust might bear
investigation.
Governor Bushnell. OF Ohio. says that
he was forced into the anti-Hanna
nShl oCCA0cC ne was lol0 lnaL ne must
support the senator. Now that 1t ia over
he harbors no malice.
Saturday. Feb. 8.
One of the passenger trains caught in
the blizzard on Long Island was stuck
in the snow for two days.
The immigration bill viii be taken up
in congress with caution. owing to the
political sntagonism it may arouse.
Seven men were killed and SO others
injured in a collision on tt Glasgow
and Southwestern railway, near Troon.
Scotland.
cisco tend TO contradict the story of
Captain Ray. u. S. A.. that no new pla-
GERS have been discovered along the
Yukon
Monday. Feb. 7.
BY the fall OF a roof during a fire I'm
Boston six brave hremen were killed
and four injured.
Unless the telegraph and telephone
wires in Chicago and placed in sub
ways by March they will be cut down
by the city.
Highland Park hotel at Augusta. Ca.
the famous winter health resort. was
destroyed by fire yesterday. There were
no fatalities
Briclxlayer John Purdy fell eight stor-
les from a building I'm West Thirty
eighth street, New York city, but es-
capped death
A COW derailed a train on the ST.
Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern
railway, at Hematite. Mo-. resulting In
the death Of Engineer Francy and Fire
man Childs.
Tuesday. Feb. s.
Lord William Nevill win be tried AZ
London on Wednesday on an indict-
ment charging forgery.
The Austrian government has closed
all the colleges until March 81, owing to
the disorders among the students.
Michael Varrish. who died In Bridge
port. Conn, is believed to have been
poisoned by horse meat sausages.
De Wolf Hopper and John Philip
Sousa are going to Europe to give
American comic opera and band music
Several women tainted during the
services in a Poughkeepsie church, and
a panic almost ensued among the con-
| gregation.
In Brooklyn Mrs William w. Place
murdered her 17-vear-nld granddaughter
cut her husband with an AK and then
attempted suicide. Jealousy the cause
"Wednesday, Feb. o.
St Louis police report that Mrs. ]. ~
West, of New York. has been robbed OF
| $1,000 worth OF diamonds and jewelry.
Another case OF consumption I'm New
York has been cured, IL is said. by the
serum discovered by Professor Mara
| gliano.
Two thousand students OF Rush col.
lege. Chicago. had a desperate fight
with police. They were finally repulsed
and many arrests made.
The captain and 16 men Of the Nor.
wegian bark b. u. Metcalf which
foundered in midocean. were taken e
New York by the steamer Burgundfa
Counsel for Charles o. Kaiser. tn,
Norristown wife murderer, will max,
no further effort TO delay the execu
ton of the law One of the attorney
advises him to confess.