Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-06-28
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Z thursday, June 10.


Thursday, June 10.
: Toledo, o. has extended an invita-.
tion TO President Roosevelt to stop
there on mis- way to Detroit next Sep
TENDER.
Cornell University's 9Ith annual
commencement exercises were held at
Ithaca, y. Y, yesterday
The Turner Day & woolworth ak.
handle plant at Louisville. KY. was
damaged by fire yesterday 10 the ex.
tent of $4,000
The senate committee on naval af.
fairs reported eavorably the bill pro.
viding that Rear Admiral Schley be
given he pay of a rear admiral 90 the
active list
Friday. June 20.
Lieutenant General Miles returned
to Washington yesterday from his visit
10 Fort Riley. Kan: West Point aud
ctEer places
The United States transport XII.
patrick, WITH $50 marines. So enlisted
men ana t5s casuals, arrived at San
Francisco yesterday from Manila.
Miss Helen Gould has given Mt.
Holycke College. Northampton. Mass.
$4,000 TO endow a chair Ia Biblica!
literature. in memory of her mother.
William Crosby. OF Warsaw. y Y,
yesterday SHOT his wife and mother.ia.
law. and ;hen shot himself through
the temple The tragedy was caused
. by Domestic troubles.
Saturday, June 81.
Frank Jones and John Johnson. ne
gro murderers of a Hebrew peddler
we're hanged at Elllcott City. Md, yes
terday.
The house committee on Interstate
and foreign commerce authorized a
favorable report on the bill To pen
sion members OF the life saving ser.
vice.
Ten-year-old Annie Reno was fatally
burned at rubbish heap in Braddock
Pa, yesterday, and four others who
went to her assistance were seriously
burned.
The senate and house conferees
reached an agreement yesterday on
the military academy appropriation
bill. naming s5.5O0.000 for new build
ings at West Point.
! Monday, June %.
/ Woodrow Wilson will be inaugu
rated president of Princeton Univers
ity, Princeton, n. j., on October 22.
President Roosevelt has decided tc
attend the next convention of the
Spanish War Veterans at Indianapolis
Ind
Rev. Father Camillius, o. +. NJ.
celebrated his 50th anniversary as :
priest yesterday in ST Joseph.
Church. Cleveland, o.
The round house and - locomotive.
of the Southern Pacific Railroad a
Fresno. Cal, were destroyed by fir,
yesterday. Loss, 5000. 900.
The 800 coal miners who have beer
on strike at the Sonman shaft, nea
Altoona, Pa. to force recognition o
the union. have won it and returned
to work.
| Tuesday, June "a.
| Lord Kitchener and General French
sailed from Cape Town, South Africa
for England yesterday.
The trolley strike at Toronto, Ont
was settled yesterday. the men receiy
ing an increase in wages.
/ Secretary OF War Root attended tn,
commencement exercises OF Hamilton
4 SOllSSes CLINTON, n. y, To-Day.
During a fit of dependency, J. r
| Conkling. of Middletown, N. Y, sho
his wife dead and then committed sui
eide
+ c. R. Walker and F. w McElro,
were killed in a collision during a 70,
on the Cleveland and Pittsburg Raj
road at Mingo Station, O., yesterda
morning.
L Wednesday, June IS.
L President Roosevelt attended the an
/ nual commencement OF Harvard Col
! lege, at Cam bridge, Mass, today.
Civil government has been establish
ed in the Island of Mindoro and in tn
Island of Paragua, Philippines
4 President Roosevelt accepted the in
| vitation tC lay the corner stone of tn
new Dutch Reformed church In Wash
ington on TIly 1.
The sen@;e yesterday confirmed tn
I nominations OF John C. Bates an
I George w. Davis to be major general
in the United States army.
lF 1t is rumored in Philadelphia ths
Q [ Attorney General Elkin. OF Pennsylvs
MIA, will succeed Justice Shiras q
a United States supreme court Justice.
Words to King Edward