Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1900-04-07
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Thursday, March 20.


senator from Wisconsin, died at Osh-
kosh, Wis, aged SO.
The national senate refused to con-
firm w. ID. Bynum as general appraiser
| of the port of New York.
In the libel case against Reporters
Hay and Sloan, in Camden, the Jurors
disagreed and were discharged.
| The army appropriation bill passed
by the national house opens soldiers
homes to disabled Spanish war vet
Grams.
| The Delagoa bay arbitrators, In ses-
sion at Berne, decided that Portugal
must pay England and the United
states 1874 900 francs, which Is con-
| stdered wholly inadequate.
Senator Foraker has introduced n
Dill increasing to the extent of 25 per
cent the salaries OF all male EMPLOYEES
Of the government printing office where
| the salaries are now less than 81 a
| day.
Friday, March 30.
The mayor of Pittsburg has pro-
hibited the advertised production of
The Desenerates'' by Mrs. Langtry.
The daughter OF ex-Speaker Reed
and AZ other young women graduated
as lawyers at the University OF New
York.
Mrs. Cleary Hyland Is dead at her
home In Orange, N. j., aged 103 years.
For the last year OF her life she was
Totally blind.
Police Captain Andrew ]. Thomas
has been indicted for permitting dis
orderly resorts In New York's Tender
loin district to remain open.
Premature explosion OF dynamite I'm
Spokane, Wash, killed Salvatore Bruz-
zini, fatally wounded Michael Herman
and totally blinded Andrew Hadberg.
Saturday, March 81.
The national senate confirmed G. w.
Russell as postmaster at New Bruns-
wick, N. J.
John Hayslip. who murdered his
wife and Maud Mitchell, and tried to
Kill Charles Barrier. was sentenced at
Kansas City to SO years in Jail.
Should Leung Chi Tso, the Chinese
reformer, come to San Francisco he
may have the highbinders at his heels.
The value placed upon Leung's head is
S65, 900.
An Ohio legislative committee re-
commends the passage of a bill pro-
hibiting the issuance OF insurance mol
icies on the lives OF children under l2
years.
contract has been signed between
the Ontario government and ]. Pier
pont Morgan, OF New York, under
which millions OF dollars are TO be
spent in developing power from Nj
agara Falls on the Canadian side.
Harvard won the annual debate with
yale last night at New Haven. Har-
ward had the affirmative OF the ques-
ton: Puerto Rico should be in
Guided in our customs boundaries"
Monday, April =.
The shortage OF F. e. Bundy, the de-
faulting city chamberlain of Elmira.
N. Y, will reach $4,000.
Webster Davis has resigned as as
sistant secretary OF the interior, and
will lecture to aid the Beers cause.
The neutrality-suspicious. liner Phoe-
nicia arrived at New York from Ham
burg and Boulogne Saturday with 2.O3S
steerage passengers.
The latest gift ($200, 00O) of Sir w.
c. Macdonald to McGin university.
Montreal, makes his total gifts over
100000.
Two negroes entered a store in Clin-
ton. Ala, cut the throat of Clerk Bun
tain and robbed the place. Two sus-
poets are IN jail, and lynching is
threatened.
Tuesday, April 3.
Our governments outlay for the
Paris exposition last year was $240, 6S4.
We will have 1000 exhibitors.
John Goly, negro, who was under
arrest for attempted murder, set fire
TO the jail at Richland, Ga, and was
burned with it.
Paw nuy{ot+ rT{II.
church, Brooklyn, retires from the
Presbyterian church because he cannot
accept it's doctrines.
The total coinage at the minis of
the United States during March was
ST., ,6SS. Gold, $12,596, 240; silver.
S4,S41 1875; minor coins, $13S, 072.
Rev. Egidus Smulders, c. s. S. r..
senior priest OF the Redemptorist or
der OF the United States, died sudden
ly yesterday In st. Louis, aged 85.
Republicans won generally In the
Ohio elections. Mayor Jones was de-
feated in Toledo. Julius Fleischman,
the mayor-elect of Cincinnati, is q
wealthy Hebrew, aged 2S.
Wednesday, April 4.
The amount OF bonds so far de-
posted In the treasury for exchange
for the new per cents is $210. 800. !
During the heavy snow storms an
avalanche did great damage In the
Sudetian mountains, near Hirschberg.
Germany, killing several persons.
A delegation of G.. A. r. members
from Springfield, Mass, are the
guests of A. p. Hill Camp, Confederate
Veterans, at Petersburg, Va.
Allen Brooks, the 19-year-old negro |
who assaulted Mrs. F. w. Hart, at
Bloomingdale, Ga, on Monday night, |
was yesterday identified and lynched. |
Pennsylvania Congressman John |
Dalzell and w. H. Graham have been
rcnominated by Republicans. C. L.
Magee was renominated for state sem |
ator. Anti-Quay resolutions were |
adopted.