Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1901-01-12
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Thursday, Jan. 3.

Judge kohlsaat granted a temporary
injunction restraining Chicago from en-
forcing rs cent gas ordinance.
1t is asserted in Dover that the legis
lature will on Jan. 10 elect Col. Du-
[ Pont and j. Edward Addicks to the
United States senate from Delaware.
The senate committee will report Ia
! vorably the bill to retire Gen. Shafter
as major general and Gems. Lee and
Wilson as brigadier generals.
Mrs. Maria Sittser, wife of Hon. John
A. Sittser, N-president Judge OF the
! Forty-fourth Pennsylvania district
( oled atEureka Springs, Ark, yesterday.
In his final message, retiring Cover
nor Pingree, of Michigan, predicts a
bloody revolution within 25 years un-
less present unequal conditions are
| changed.
Friday, Jan. 4.
Bishop w. x. Ninde, OF the M. E.
| church, died in Detroit, aged So.
The striking structural steel work.
| ers in Pittsburg have resumed work
having been victorious.
Gen. r. N Batchelder. former mar
termaster general of the army. died in
Washington, aged 81. He retired in
! 1896. -
Two carloads OF negroes left Mont
gomery, Ala, last night for the Ha-
waiian islands. They go to take en-
ployment on the sugar plantations
there.
John Bilikis, a Greek, who stabbed
and killed Peter 6iovanis, a fellow
| countryman, on June 10 last, In Phil
adelphia, was sentenced to is years in
the Eastern penitentiary.
Saturday, Jan. 5.
Miss Belle Fremont, prima donna
soprano of the Bostonians, died In Dem
yer last night of pneumonia.
According to Consul Listoe. at Rot
terdam, there is now a good field open
In Europe for American zinc ore.
Among the bills introduced in the
Colorado legislature was one for the
restoration Of capital punishment.
Ali Ferrouh Bey, who was recently
displaced as Turkish minister in Wash
ington in favor of Mustapha Bey. has
been reinstated.
The navy department yesterday is
sued the expected order announcing
| the retirement OF Rear Admiral A.
kautz, to take effect Jan. %.
Monday, Jan. 7.
The estate OF the late Senator Davis,
or Minnesota, amounts to only $65, 900.
Suffocated by smoke In a hotel fire
at Minneapolis, eight men were taken
out dead.
Bishop Wigger, OF the Catholic do
cese OF Newark, died at South Orange,
n. j., aged 40.
John c. Sims, secretary of the Penn
sylvania Railroad company, died yes
terday in Philadelphia.
James Ware Bradbury, United States
frnr NHoE- L..
| Augusta, Me-, aged 90.
Daniel f. Davis, father of Webster
Davis, former assistant secretary of the
interior, died yesterday at Kansas CITY
Mo-, Of consumption, aged Ga years.
In urging the increased army bill
Senator Lodge declared In the senate
that we will lead the world in COM
merce, and it is we'll to be prepared.
Tuesday, Jan. =.
The sugar trust has advanced the
price of all grades of refined sugar.
Forty new engines have been ordered
| from the Pittsburg locomotive works
by the Illinois Central Railroad com
| pany.
Congressman r. ]. Gamble has been
| selected as the unanimous choice OF
| South Dakota's legislature for United
| States senator.
Queen Marie Henriette, of Belgium
is in an extremely weak condition from
the after results OF her recent attack
| OF pneumonia.
The Spanish government is project
ing the establishment of wireless tele-
| graphy in Spain, Morocco and Ten
eriffe and the other Canary Islands.
Because Italian Consul Bacelli at
| Albany, N. Y, declared in a speech
that Italians live on 10 cents a day."
fellow countrymen demand his recall.
At Denver Judge Butler fined the
members OF the board of county COM
| missioners $3.50 each for CONTEMPT of
court in violating a court order by for
bidding the sheriff to appoint deputies
TO guard the polls on election day.
Wednesday,, Jan. D.
Japan's prince imperial is to start
on foreign tour next spring.
The Northern Pacific railroad has
| sold all its lands in North Dakota
amounting to 100000 acres, to a New
| York syndicate.
Negotiations have been practically
closed by the s-Widener-Whit-
ney syndicate for the lease of Cincin-
| nati's street railways.
Paymaster Charles p. Thompson. of
the navy, died yesterday at his resi-
| dence in Washington. He had been an
invalid for several years.
Charles L. Benedict, who was Judge
of the Eastern district of New York
for 81 years, died yesterday in New
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