Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-04-26
AwEEK's NEWS CONDENSED,
ThuradaY. April IL.


Dartmouth College, at Hanover, N.
H, received $32,5o0 from the estate Of
Frank w. Daniels. OF Winchester,
Mass.
w. c. Bird. = Shamolkin, Pa, teIes
phone lineman, was instantly killed
at Westminster. Md, by a pole falling
on him.
All the mines of the Pittsburg Coal
and Iron Company at Dubois. Pa.
whose employees were on strike, re-
sumed operations today.
The United States torpedo boat de-
stroyer Hopkins will be launched at
the ship yards of Harlan G. Hollings.
worth, Wilmington, Del. April "a
Friday. April 10.
r. G.. Gregg, of Pomercy, Pa. a
Pennsylvania Railroad brakeman, fell
from his train near Lancaster and was
killed.
President Roosevelt attended the In.
stallation OF Nicholas M. Butler as
president OF Columbia University, New
York, this afternoon.
President Roosevelt yesterday
named Colon Ell Charles Bird, Simon
Snyder an: William Amman to be
brigadier generals In the army to fll
vacancies.
Archbishop Ireland and Bishop
O'Gorman will be at the Vatican. in
Rome, when Governor Taft reaches
there, to discuss the friars' lands In
the Philippines.
Saturday, April 10.
Business men Of Mobile, Ala, will
invite Admiral Schley to visit their
city on his southern trip.
Five-year-old Jacob Rocks. of Cam.
den, yesterday ran in front of a trolley
car and was killed. The child's body
was horribly crushed.
The annual open handicap track
games of Princeton University were
held at Princeton this afternoon, I3
colleges being represented.
The machinists' strike at the Nor.
folk and Western railway shops, al
Bluefelds, w. Va, has been settled
both sides making concessions.
, An invitation was sent to Admiral
Dewey TO attend a banquet at Denver
orado National Guard to General Fun
ston on May /.
Monday, April 81.
Frank r. Stockton, the we'll known
, novelist. died suddenly yesterday in
Washington from hemorrhage of the
brain.
Former Governor Voorhees,, OF New
Jersey. and his brother. Ralph Voor
hees, gave Rutgers College, at New
Brunswick, $4,000.
John Schlorer, Thomas and Spencer
Tilton, of Merchantsville, N. j., were
each fined 800 and costs for sellins
unstamped oleomargarine.
Major o. L. Pruden, one OF the az
sistant secretaries to President Roose
welt, died Saturday morning in Gar
affection of the heart.
Tuesday, April 20.
large delegation from Maryland
celebrated their state day at the
Charleston Exposition yesterday.
Governor Taft of the Philippines
arrived in Washington yesterday from
st. Louis. much improved in health.
Robert B. Jones, a merchant, OF
GuayaQuil. has been appointed United
States consul general at Guayaquil
Ecuador.
( Captain Joseph B. Coghlan, OF
"Hoch der Kaiser" notoriety, and Cap
tain James H. Sands were yesterday
nominated to be rear admirals.
The transport Crook sailed from
San Francisco for the Philippines yes
terday with 500 men OF the Eleventh
Infantry and a number OF passengers
Wednesday, April %.
The house naval appropriation bill
provides for six new warships, to cost
! $2S. 5000
The heat yesterday throughout the
Middle States broke all previous rec
ords for April
William Goulp. OF New York, was
Frustrated by the heat yesterday be
ing the first victim OF the season,