Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-03-10
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Thursday. March 1.


| The national senate passed the bill
providing a territorial form OF gov
eminent for Hawaii.
The Ohio house defeated a woman
suffrage bill by 40 nays to 81 yeas. II
required SO votes to adopt.
The Democrats in the Kentucky leg
islature passed the bill Offering $780,
900 reward for Goebel's murderer.
Three children OF Edward Friedner.
aged Is months to years, were suf-
| located In a New York tenement fire.
Joseph Clean, a farmer near Blue
field. w. Va, objected to his daugh-
ter's sutton, Albert Marsh. He killed
Marsh, his daughter and himself.
Lon Curry, one of the robbers who
secured over $4,000 by holding up a
train at Wilcox, Wyo., last June, was
killed while resisting arrest at Dod-
son, Mo.
| Friday, March 2.
| Cecil Leslie, connected with Brook
lyn's Franklin syndicate, was captured
In Cleveland.
| Laurence Rummell. Is months old,
pulled lighted lamp on himself in his
Newark IN. j. home and was burned
to death.
| The national house passed a bill
which will return to Puerto Rico all
the duties paid by Puerto Ricans. The
president urged the hill.
The bodies of 96 soldiers who died in
Cuba since the end OF the Spanish war
were buried with military honors at
Arlington cemetery yesterday.
Prof. Arthur G. McGiffert, of Union
| Theological seminary, is to join the
Congregational church, thus averting
a heresy trial by the Presbyterian gen.
eral assembly.
| Saturday, March J.
Membership of the Methodist church
es is less than two years ago.
Texas yesterday celebrated the e4th
anniversary Of Texas independence.
Near Wake, Va, a boiler explosion
killed George Steurer and seriously in
| jured his two sons.
In a quarrel over a match W. L.
Adkins killed Edward Brooks, a fellow
clerk in an Atlanta store.
| snowstorm which started wednes-
day noon in Buffalo continued with
out cessation until last evening.
Lee Slower, late colonel of the First
South Dakota regiment, has announced
himself as Republican candidate for
the United States senate.
! The Guy v. Henry committee, at
New York, proposes to raise fund for
the generals widow to put her beyond
possible want.
Monday, March 8.
Congressman G. A. Boutelle, Of
Maine, is a candidate for reelection.
Archbishop John Hennessy, OF the
Catholic diocese of Dubuque, Ia, died
yesterday, aged rs.
Fire in cheap lodging house in the
Bowery, New York, resulted in seven
deaths and serious injuries to two
others.
President David Star Jordan, OF Le-
land Stanford university, predicts the
downfall or Great Britain in the COM
Ing century.
The British consular inquiry at San
Francisco has found Chief Engineer
Mcdonald, OF the transport Manuense,
guilty OF negligence and drunkenness
and fined him $3.50.
Tuesday, March @.
General Joseph Wheeler and daugh-
ter have arrived at San Francisco
from Manila.
Martin Gallagher died in a New York
hospital, the seventh killed by tho
Bowery lodging house fire.
Proposed increases IN British taxes
makes the income tax virtually bear
half OF the extra taxation.
The knights OF the Royal Arch, in
Guiding all engaged in the liquor BUSH
ness, has $4,000 members, and is grow
Ing.
A bill introduced in congress pre-
vents the sale OF liquor by retail in the
Philippines. except on physicians pre-
scriptions. !
Henry Ohlrogges and his brother
Richard were asphyxiated by gas In
their New York home. Henry is dead
and Richard may die.
A freight train collided with a train
carrying miners from their work near
Brazil, Ind. The train was wrecked,
two miners killed and 40 injured.
Actress Olga Nethersole and others
interested in producing the play OF
"Sapho," in New York, were held in
bail for trial and the play stopped.
Wednesday, March :.
Building material firms in Chicago
have shut down, adding 10000 idlers
to the 10000 now on strike.
Commander-in-Chief Shaw, of the
Grand Army, is being cordially greeted
by Confederates on his southern tour.
r. R. Hit was renominated for con-
gress by reclamation at the Republican
congressional convention at Freeport,
| Ills.
Three workmen, repairing car on
a siding at Memphis, were killed by
coal cars colliding with the car being
| repaired.
The wage controversy in the central
Pennsylvania and Maryland mining
districts will doubtless be settled with
out strike.
A flood in a st. Louis suburb came
so suddenly that three women and
seven children were taken from the
roofs Of their houses in boats