Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-01-24
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Thursday, January is.


Crown Prince Frederick William. of
Germany, left Berlin yesterday for ST.
Petersburg, to visit the Car.
Governor Jefferson Davis. of Arkan-
sas, was inaugurated yesterday for his
second term of two years.
The superior court Of PENNSYLVANIA
held its opening session at Scranton
yesterday, with four of the seven
Judges present.
Congressman Sulzer. Of New York.
yesterday introduced bill appropriat-
ing $4,000 for a statue to Samuel 7.
Tildsn, tn be erected in Washington.
Fire at Christiansburg, Va, yester-
day destroyed Charles Gardeners print
ing office and Johnson & Janney's
wholesale grocery store. Loss. $75, 900.
Friday, January IS.
The Interstate commerce commits
sion will investigate alleged secret
violations Of the interstate commerce
law by railroads entering Chicago.
President Roosevelt committed the
15-year sentence of Henry Starr, of In
dian territory. convicted of man.
slaughter. and he was released from
prison.
The Pennsylvania board of pardons
decided to give Mrs. Kate Edwards
of Berks county, under sentence of
death for the murder Of her husband.
a rehearing.
Michael Flaherty, a mine worker at
the Indian Ridge colliery, Shenandoah.
Pa, fell down the shaft, a distance of
80 feet, and was crushed into an un-
recognizable mass
Saturday, January IL.
Mrs. James Nossick, of Laurel, Del,
fell down stairs yesterday and broke
her neck.
George ]. Stear, a fiagman, was
struck by an Atlantic City train and
killed at Camden, N. j., crossing.
Emma and John Cliska, aged 10 and
II years, were struck by Lake Shore
train at Valparaiso, Ind, and killed.
j. M. Fluff, of Purdy, Mo-, shot and
killed his wife yesterday and then
killed himself. Domestic troubles
caused the tragedy.
The register Of Lehigh University.
South Bethlehem, Pa, shows the at.
tendance of 5S1 students, from 81
states and six foreign countries.
MONDAY, January 19.
The will of the late Mrs. Mary J.
Winthrop, leaving 100000 to the
Princeton Theological Seminary. will
be contested.
The funeral OF the late Congress
man T. III. Tongue was held yesterday
at Hillsboro, Ore, over :, 900 people be-
ing in attendance.
Citizens of Birmingham, Ala. have
given so carloads of coal to the city
the poor of the city.
The state of Virginia proposes to
place statue of General R. E. Lee be-
side that of George Washington in
Statuary Hall. Washington, D. c.
Lieutenant Mitchell, graduate of
Annapolis, who was an officer on the
Colombian government gunboat Bogo-
ia, died at Panama of yellow fever.
Tuesday, January 20.
Peter Knapp, OF Philadelphia, COM
mitted suicide yesterday by Jumping
from Pennsylvania express train near
Harrisburg, Pa.
Baron Speck Won Sternburg, the Ger
man charge d'affaires at Washington.
sailed from Hamburg. Germany, for
New York today.
Owing to the coal shortage the Sus-
quehanna Iron and Steel Mills at Co
lumbia, Pa, employing 1900 men, had
to shut down yesterday.
The anniversary o; the birth of Gen.
eral Robert E. Leee was observed In
the public schools throughout the
southern states yesterday.
Wednesday, January II.
In boiler explosion yesterday at
the Pittsburg Glass factory, at Elwood.
Ind. three men were fatally injured,