Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-03-01
Thursday, FebruarY 20.


=. well known horse dealer OF tn
Fasig-Tipton Co, died yesterday.
Robert MoCaw, OF Philadelphia. 20
cured verdict for $4,000 d IMAGES
against the Union Traction company
for the loss Of leg.
The president sent TO the senate
yesterday the names of Captain Philiv
n Cooper and Captain George H
Wadleigh to be rear admirais.
Fl, II. MattesoE, who confessed q
embeszling $75.00a from the First M
tioaal Benk Of Great Falls. Mont. k
now alleged TO have taken S17s,00o.
Anthony J. Drexsl's yacht Mararitn
has been chartered for two months By
Mr.. Alexander, OF the New York Yacha
Club. The consideration is $50 900.
Friday, February 2f.
Pope Leo yesterday entered on thx
25th year OF HIS pontihcate. He was
the recipient OF congratulations fron
all sides.
Two Italians we're killed and thruw
injured. near Pltfeburg, Pa, by being
struck by train on she Pittsburg. yir
ginia and Charleston railroad.
William Thomas Spencer Went
worth-Fitzwilliam. sixth earl OF Fftz
william. one of the wealthiest Of Eng
iish peers, died In London yesterday.
Charles Denglers, q welIknown
restaurant keeper, OF Trenton, N. j.
died from fall In a saloon. He struck
his head against the bar and fractured
his skull.
Saturday, Februsry %.
Johns Hopkins University, at Baltt-
more, celebrated its quarter centennial
anniversary.
1t is announced that King Leopold.
OF Belgium, will make a short tour OF
America the coming summer.
The annual convention OF the So
ciety OF the Children OF the American
Revolution, at Washington, closed yes
terday.
A gas explosion in a building OF ths
Rochester Gas and Electric Company
destroyed the structure and caused q
loss Of $4,000.
The Ohio house OF Representatives
has placed itself on record as favorin3
the election OF United States senators
by direct vote OF the people.
Monday, February "a.
The Illinois auxiliary OF the McKin-
ley Memorial Association has received
$S0,616 in contributions.
James McGlashen and an unknown
woman were found dead in a roomins
house in Detroit. They were sutfo-
Gated by Illuminating gas.
Charles e. Dalton, secretary-treas-
urer of the Metropolitan Guaranty
Company, OF Cleveland, O., shot and
killed Maurice Kratz in a bar room
fight.
While cleaning a chute at No. &
colliery of the Lehigh Coal and Navf-
cation company. at Tamaqua, Pa.
John Wall was caught in a revolving
wheel and instantly killed.
Tuesday, February IS.
William Emerson Richmond, bet
ter known as BILLY" Emerson, the
famous minstrel, died of consumption
in Boston.
The plant of the Tupelo Cotton
Compress company, at Tupelo, Miss.
with 700 bales of cotton, was de-
stroyed by fire. Loss, 100000.
General Presley M. Guthrie, former
adjutant general of Pennsylvania, and
one of the best-known military men
OF the state, died In Pittsburg yester-
day.
King Edward of England will have
assigned to Miss Alice Roosevelt q
place among the wives OF ambassa-
dcrs to witness the coronation cere-
mony.
Wednesday, February 26.
George P. Kurtz, city treasurer OF
Cleveland, o., died yesterday of ".
phoid fever.
The Empire City race track, at
Yonkers, N. Y, was sold at public sale
for 100000.
The ninth conference of the foreign
mission boards in the United States
, and Canada opened in Toronto yester-
day.
Parties out walking at Benham, Tex
found the body of a young girl con-
cealed in a hollow stump. She had
been murdered.
The transport Rosecranz, with tia
| Third Battalion OF the Twenty-se
Lnfantry, from Manila, arrived at San
y Fran cfap0 voGfar6av