Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-03-21
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED,
Thursday, March -.

Thursday, March II.
cornell students who left Ithaca. ".
| Y, on account of the typhoid epidemic.
are returning in large numbers.
Mrs. Mary Pollard Espy, aged 10I
| years, died at Harrisburg, Pa, yester-
day. She was native of Virginia.
After several conferences among high
| officials, Austria has decided not to par
ticipate in the st. Louis Exposition
J. II. Brown, private detective. was
shot and killed near Wynne, Ark, yes
terday by negro he attempted to ar
rest.
The general committee of the G. A.
X. has invited President Roosevelt to
attend the annual convention in San
Francisco next August
Friday, March 13.
Professor Charles w. Shields. OF the
chair of harmony OF science and re-
vealed religion Of Princeton Uniyer-
sity, has resigned.
Richard P. Stoll, one of the wealth.
Test whiskey manufacturers in the
south, dropped dead at his home at
Lexington, KY, from apoplexy.
John d. Rockefeller will give Arcadia
College. Halifax, N. S., one dollar for
each dollar raised by the college up
to 100000 before January 1, 1908.
Work was commenced yesterday
near Shamokin, Pa, to sink a 1000
foot shaft for the Reading Coal and
Iron Company, which when completed
VIII employ 500 men and boys.
Saturday, March "a.
The launching of the battleship Col
orado, building at Cramps shin wards.
Philadelphia, has been postponed until
April rs.
William Connell, aged 10 years. of
wilmington, Del, accidentally shot
and killed himself yesterday while
playing with loaded revolver.
Yesterday rear Odenton, Md. CIar-
ence Carrick went to the house of
William Conway, called him to the
door and sfrot him to death. The mo-
tive for the act is not known.
The Ocean Steamship company sign.
ed contracts yesterday with the Della
ware River company, Of Chester, Pa.
for two 4000-ton steamships to cost
100000
Monday, March is.
President Roosevelt nominated Er.
nest Lyon, of Baltimore. Md. TO ba
consul at Monrovia, Liberia.
Italy has decided to officially par.
tcipate in the st. Louis Exposition
and will appropriate $1,000 for that
purpose.
Two men were killed and several in.
tUred in a freight wreck SATURDAY.
evening on the Chesapeake and Ohio
railroad at Lynchburg, Va.
The box factory and lumber yard of
Thomas B. Rice & Sons, at Philadel.
phia, were destroyed by an incendiary
nre yesterday. Loss, $4,000.
Nearly 1000 men In 10 cities of
indiana were thrown out of work by
the closing of factories of the Ameri-
can Window Glass Company.
Tuesday, March IL.
Secretary Of War Root, who has
been absent from Washington for over
a week, resumed his duties Yesterday
Mayor Carter II. Harrison, of Chi
cago, was re-nominated for a fourth
term by the Democratic city conven-
ton yesterday.
Governor Pennypacker, OF Pennsvl-
vania, yesterday appointed William
q. Hays recorder of Pittsburg. vice T
q. Brown, deceased.
The safe in the postofice at lin
colnton, y. c.. was blown open early
morning by robbers. who
secured $500 in money and stamps.
l.. B. Brewer, of Harroldsburg XIV
took an overdose OF morphine by mis-.
take on train near New York YES
terday, and was removed to a hos.
pital in serious condition.
Wednesday, March IS.
The war department has sold the
old indianapolis, Ind, arsenal pron-
erty for $150.000.
President Roosevelt yesterday an.
pointed William r. NJ Finn United
States marshal for Delaware.
Admiral Tyrtoff, Russian minister
Of marine, dropped dead of heart dis.
ease at st. Petersburg yesterday.
A great dinner was given Yesterday
at the Irish College at Rome in honor
OF st. Patrick's Day. Several English
bishops participated.
Lewis Roulson in a fit of jealousy
shot and killed his wife and fatally
wounded his mother-in-law during a
party at the latter's home at Find
lay, o., last night.