Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-01-17
1 WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Thursday, January 8.

at Mahsnoy City, Pa, yesterday three
miners were fatally burned.
The Central Hotel building. the lar
gest In Mauch Chunk, Pa, was de-
stroyed by fire yesterday. LOSS.
$4,000.
Andrew Carnegie has offered to give
Camden, n. j., 100000 for it's library
provided the city will contribute &c.
zoe n year for its maintenance
II Is reported that jamaica has pro-
hibited the importation of cattle from
Canada and the United States on ac-
count of the foot and mouth disease.
Senator Quay yesterday introduced
q bill prohibiting persons not mem
bers Of societies composed OF war vet
Grams to wear the insignia OF men,
bers.
Friday, January 9.
Emperor William, of Germany. will
reach Rome April 26, on a visit to the
italian court.
The Bank OF Louisville, Neb., was
broken into and robbed of $500 early
yesterday morning.
The explosion Of gas plant at Ma
pleton, Ia, broke every pane of glass
In town and killed two men.
A dispatch from Berlin says Ger
many will negotiate for a new COM
mercial treaty with the United States
In the spring.
The $50 annual convention of the
National Board OF Trade will be held
in Washington January 13, to continue
three or four days.
Saturday, January 10.
The monument to the Seventy-third
Regiment Of Pennsylvania Volunteers
at Chickamauga Park was completed
yesterday.
The house committee on naval az
fairs yesterday refused to report the
bill to retire Lieutenant Commander
Richmond P. Hobson.
Governor Nash. of Ohio, issued a
proclamation yesterday. calling upon
the people OF Ohio to observe January
20 as the 60th anniversary of William
McKipley's birth
Richard Burmeister, Of Baltimore.
has accepted an offer from the Royal
Conservatory of Music in Dresden.
Germany. to become head instructor
IN the piano department
Monday, January ~.
Stepping from his engine. Edward
Walsh. a popular Erie engineer, was
run down by passing train and killed
ut Avoca, Pa
The Marconi Wireless Telegraph
Company OF Canada will ask for a
charter to do business all over British
North America.
Lack of coal caused the closing of
the Glucose and Sugar Refining Com
pany's plant at Peoria, Ill, throwing
500 men out OF work.
Rear Admiral George w. Melville.
chief Of the bureau Of steam engineer.
ing, was retired on Saturday, having
reached the age limit OF 81 years.
Tuesday, January -.
w. ]. Bailey was inaugurated as
governor of Kansas yesterday.
Chief Justice Henry McIver, of South
Carolina, died at his home at Cheraw
yesterday.
While skating on q pond near VIVA
legs, Del. yesterday 12-year-old Robert
Wilson broke through the ice and was
drowned.
For assaulting a crippled white boy
at Aiken, 8. c., Tom Jefferson. a negro
was whipped by a crowd Of white peo-
pie and driven from the town.
John Mitchell will leave PHILADELPHIA
next Saturday for Indianapolis to open
the United Mine Workers national
convention which convenes there the
following Monday.
Wednesday, January IA.
Russia's budget for 1903 places reye-
nues at $94S,516,33s. and expenditures
at S940, 2o2,614.
John B. Stetson, Of Philadelphia.
was elected a trustee of rJucKnell Uni
versity, at Lewisburg, Pa, yesterday.
United States Senator Mason, of IL
linois, yesterday withdrew from the
contest for reelection, admitting his
defeat
A passenger train on the ST. Paul
Railroad was wrecked by spreading
rails last night at Alton, Ill, killing
the engineer and injuring four train
men.
President A. ]. Cassatt, of the Penn
sylvania Railroad, has resigned from
the directory of the Manhattan Trust
Company, of New York, to devote all
his time to railroad affairs.