Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1901-02-02
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Thursday. Jan. "a.


II is reported that Gen. Ludlow will
soon be sent to the Philippines.
The war revenue reduction bill,
agreed upon by the senate committee,
cuts OF 100000 taxes.
Judge James p. Sterrett. former chief
1usticeo OF Pennsylvania supreme court,
died in Philadelphia, aged 7S.
Gen. John p. Shanks, who served I'm
congress from Indiana for two terms.
died at Portland, Ind, aged "A.
Col. Morris r. Hamilton, state IL
brarian OF New Jersey from 1884 to
1899, died yesterday in Trenton, aged 80.
Friday, Jan. 20.
A resolution was introduced in con-
gress to investigate hazing at the An
napolis naval academy.
Chairman Cannon, of the house an
preparations committee, says the new
navy will cost 1910, 900 900.
Julian T. b. Arnold, son of Sir Edwin
Arnold, was sentenced in London to ten
years penal servitude for misappro-
priating trust funds.
Governor Dockery, OF Missouri. sent
message to the legislature adyocat-
ing law inflicting the death penalty
In cases OF kidnapping for ransom.
A Trondhiem, Norway, disnatch
says that 35 persons persisted in a hnr-
ricane at Hero, Jan. %. Sixty boats
were sunk in the harbor and eight
houses blown away.
The bondsmen of City Clerk Miller
OF Sandusky, o., who has been found
many thousands short in his accounts
have agreed to settle with the city for
80 cents on the dollar
Saturday, Jan. 2e-
Simon Hassler, the well known mu-
steal director, died in Philadelphia.
aged 6S.
Chief Justice Depue, of the New Jer-
sey supreme court, will retire in No
vember next.
The pineapple growers of Florida
have organized the Florida Fancy
Pineapple Growers association.
The Indiana senate passed a bill
making electrocution the mode of in
nicting the death penalty in that state.
Lieut.. Richmond Pearson Hobson has
recovered from his attack of typhoid
fever, and is resting at the home of
New York friends.
Six of the crew Of the whaling schoo-
ner Charles II. Hodgdon, of New Bed
ford, Mass, were drowned while chas-
ing a school OF whales.
Monday, Jan. -.
Our trade with foreign countries in
creased from less than $3.50. 900 600 in
1900 to $2.250,000,0OO in 1900
Sixty men, women and children skat-
ers broke through the ice on a Brook
lyn pond, and two 11-year-old bows
were drowned.
The battleship Wisconsin will be put
in commission Monday, Feb. 4. I'm
difference to superstition against Fri
day, the day first set
CALIFORNIA; congressionsA delegation
has presented to the president the gold
trimmed ballot box used by the presi-
Dental electors of the state.
The Kewanee Light and Power COM
pany, of Illinois, will pay employees the
same per cent on their salaries as Is
given to shareholders as dividends.
Tuesday, Jan. 30.
Ii Hung Chang, says a Pekin dis
patch, is critically i'll with fever.
Viscomte Henri de Bornier, the
French poet and dramatist. Is dead
in Paris. aged as.
The Russian minister of railways.
Prince Khiloff, has ordered that wo-
men shall be eligible for station mas
ters in minor towns.
The Nominations in honor of the
marriage OF Queen Wilhelmina, of
Holland, have been postponed to Feb.
on account of Queen Victoria's fu-
neral.
Miss Lolita Crabtree, the actress. Is
seriously i'll at New York hotel. Her
illness is due to ptomaine poisoninp
caused by something she ate last Sat-
urday.
All children in the Chicago schools
must be vaccinated Immediately. and
all unvaccinated pupils will be kept
out OF school until they comply with
the order,
Wednesday, Jan. 30.
I The health Of Col. Marchand, Of
Fashoda fame, is causing much anxiety
to his friends in Paris.
A misplaced switch caused the
death OF Brakeman Henry J. Beat in
a wreck at Scranton, Pa.
A bill in the Delaware legislature
provides for adjournment March /.
The senatorial deadlock continues.
All the saloons at Harper, Kan, are
closed as q result of report that a
visit from Mrs. Nation isexpected soon
Count Tolstoi, the eminent Russian
novelist and social reformer, is again
seriously i'll, says a st. Petersburg dis
patch.
ProhatS Judge Willard, at Toledo
held that all prisoners committed to
the ,Foledo workhouse from the police
courts were detained unlawfully. and
immediately released several of them