Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1902-12-20

wages. shorter hours and extra pay
for overtime
The house committee on agriculture
today reported to the house q bill ap-
proprlating 100000 to wipe out the
foot and mouth disease among New
England cattle.
Friday, December ~.
Andrew Carnegie arrived in New
York yesterday from Liverpool on the
steamer Oceanic.
DittmRr's Powder Works, near Lake
wood. N. j., was wrecked yesterday by
an explosion. One employee was In
jured.
The senate committee on military
affairs yesterday acted favorabIy on a
bill retiring General II. c. Merriam as
\ major general
President Roosevelt yesterday re-
ceived deputatioR OF all religious
bodies doing missionary work In Tur-
key. They claimed their institutions
were not treated fairly y the sultan.
Saturday, December 10.
The building Of j. L. Connell & Co.,
Wholesale grocers, at Scranton, Pa.
was destroyed by IRE yesterday. Loss,
1925, zoo.
President Roosevelt has approved
the findings of the court-martial which
found Lieutenant Owen guilty of fnan-
eial Irregularities.
Harry Pulliam, OF Pittsburg, was
elected president secretary and treas
urer of the National Base Ball League
at New York yesterday.
George w. Simmons, master me-
ehanie OF the Philadelphia and Reading
Railroad At Pottsville, Pa, was struck
by Pennsylvania Railroad train at
Harrisburg yesterday and killed.
| Monday, December Is.
Il German societies In New York are
trying to obtain a national pension OF
| $4,000 q year for Mrs. Elise Sigel, the
widow OF Major General Franz Sigel.
President Roosevelt has accepted an
Invitation to attend the dedication OF
8 monument 70 commemorate the bat.
tie Of Manila Bay at San Francisco
next May.
/ Two roe shad, weighing 10 pounds
each. having evidently strayed from
their southern haunts, were caught IN
Chesapeake Bay OF Colchester Beach,
Nd. 90 Saturday.
-Four mills Of the American Sheet
Steel Company. at Canal Dover, o.,
were destroyed by ere on Saturday
night. Loss. $1,000. 900. including $780,,
600 In finished products.
Tuesday, December 10.
Sol Hirsh, ex-United States minister
10 Turkey. died yesterday at Portland
Ore.
The Virginia legislature passed a
bill appropriating $4,000 for an ex.
hibit at the st. Louis Exposition.
T President Roosevelt yesterday nom.
mated Frank F. Patterson, ST.. to be
assistant collector OF customs at Cam.
den, N. J.
Mrs. Mary Bond and her two small
daughters were burned to death yes.
tsrday In q tenement house Gre In
New York.
The congregation Of the Propagands
has proposed to Pope Leo the appoint
nsnt Of Bishop ]. e. Quigley, of Buf.
falo. N. z. as archbishop OF Chicago
to succeed the late Archbishop Fee
han.
Wednesday, December ~.
Comptroller OF the Currency Ridgely
has closed the National Bank OF South
Pennsylvania at Hyndman. Pa. and ap
pointed a receiver.
BY pouring kerosene on the Gre for
amusement. Albert and Claude Bell
more. aged . and years, were fatally
burned at Manchester. N. H. yester.
day.
Thomas Tobin was convicted in New
York yesterday OF the murder Of Can.
tain ]. B. Craft. whose decapitated
body was found two months ago in a
Bowery dive.
Brigadier General II. G. Hasbroucls
will be retired IN q few days and Col.
onel E. M. Hayes, Thirteenth Cavalry,
! will succeed him.
| Factory Inspector James Campbell.
| OF Pennsylvania, will investigate the
testimony given before the strike com
mission at Scranton in regard to lit
tie girls working at night