Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-03-15
NEWS CONDENSED.
ThuradaY. March q.

There are more assertions from
German merchant vessels at New
York than at any other port
The navy department sold the old
monitor Manhattan to Henry Hitner's
Sons, Of Philadelphia, for s16,21S
Rear Admiral ]. A. Howell will be
retired on the 18th inst. Next to Ad-
mirsl Dewey he is the ranking officer
Of the navy.
George Hettrick, OF Trenton, N. j.,
who killed John Kraus on Thanksgiv-
ing day, was sentenced to be hanged
on April IL.
Negotiations are being made for OPP
lions on candy factories in st. Louis,
Mo-, with a view to forming a trust,
with S5,o0O,00O capital.
Friday, March z.
The New York chamber OF COM
merce adopted resolution urging the
maintenance Of silver dollars on parity
with gold.
The Republican convention of Sus-
Quehanna county, Pa, nominated Hon.
Charles F. Wright for congress for the
Fifteenth district.
President Roosevelt has been Invited
to deliver the principal address at the
G. A. r. Memorial day exercises at
Arlington cemetery, Washington, on
May 80.
A telegram received at the navy de-
partment at Washington from London
announced the death Of B. F. Stevens,
for % years United States dispatch
agent there.
Saturday, March 8.
President Roosevelt yesterday
signed the permanent census bureau
bill.
The United States cruiser Olympia
is OF Yorktown, Va, where she will
have target practice.
A man said to be Heber L. Bull, of
Philadelphia, committed suicide in a
Boston lodging house yesterday.
Camden, N. J., is nearly free of
, smallpox, having but II cases, all of
whom are in the isolation hospital.
General julius ]. Estey, aged 81,
president OF the Estey Organ com.
pany, died at his home at Brattleboro,
| VT, yesterday.
Monday, March 10.
President Roosevelt on Saturday
signed the Philippine tariff bill.
William Gosden, one OF the most
| prominent young men of Richmond,
Va, committed suicide by taking NOR.
phine.
Secretary Wilson, of the agricuL
| tural department, denied that he in.
tends resigning, from President Roose.
velt's cabinet
Charles Foster Kent, Phi. D., profes.
sor of Biblical literature at Yale Uni
| versity, surprised his class by strongly
favoring hazing.
The Philadelphia Base Ball club of
| the American League will play fits
| first exhibition game on April with
| n picked team.
Creditors OF the late Archbishop
| Purcell, OF Cincinnati, have appealed
to Rome for special collections in the
| United States to wipe out his $4,000.
0Oe in debtedness.
Tuesday, March II.
Count Won Buelow, German imperial
chancellor. is i'll with influenza and
confined to his room.
The dispute between Germany and
Venezuela is nearing a settlement, but
| the terms are still secret.
The postoffice department at Wash.
ington received a conscience contri
button OF $40 from a resident of Rich.
mond, Ind.
Fire which started in the kitchen OF
the home OF Arthur Bouchard, at Ma.
tame, Quebec, caused the death OF
Mrs. Bouchard and nine children.
In an explosion at E. c. Dupont de
| Nemours & Company's powder plant,
at Keokuk, Ia, two men were killed
outright, a third will die and three
| others are seriously injured.
Wednesday, March IL.
The glass works of Gill a. Co., of
| Philadelphia, was totally destroyed by
| fire last night. The loss is $4,000.
]. X. oliver, a well-known business
man OF Roanoke, Va, committed sui.
eide in a New York lodging house.
| Margaret d. Stark, aged rs, was
killed by fall from a second-story
window of her home in Philadelphia.
City council of Toronto, Ont, passed
| a resolution barring American con-
tractors from bidding for municipal
| work.
| The safe in the bank OF Bozman &
| Waters, at Poseyville, Ind, was blown
by robbers and $13,5O0 in money
| stolen.
1t was announced at the White
House yesterday that President
/ Roosevelt would not visit the Charles
| ton Exposition until the second week
| IN April.