Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-02-14

q BIZ authorizing the erection in Wash
ington of a monument to John Paul
Jones, at cost of $4,000.
The Pennsylvania legislature yester-
day passed a resolution for the appoint
ment of a commission of 80 to repre-
sent Pennsylvania at the ST. Louis
Fair and appropriating $4,000 for the
erection of building.
Friday February 6.
Former United States Senator Henry
L. Dawes died yesterday at Pittsfeld,
Mass.
The French cruiser Tage, Admiral
Rivet, has arrived at New Orleans and
will remain Is days.
Twelve houses at Norristown, Pa,
were unroofed by the violent wind
storm of Wednesday night. No one
was injured.
The annual convention of the Repub-
lican State Editorial Associations in
the United States will be held at Wash
iIStoa February DC and "a.
A resolution was introduced in the
u. S. senate yesterday to appoint SEN
ator Quay member OF the board of
managers of the National Soldiers
Home to fill a vacancy.
Saturday, February z.
Secretary Moody yesterday accepted
Captain r. P. Hobson's resignation
from the navy.
Hardie Henderson, formerly a we'll
known base ball player, was struck
and killed by trolley car at Philadel-
phia yesterday.
Burglars dynamited the safe in the
postoffice at Mainville. Columbia
county, Pa, yesterday morning. They
secured about $50.
The Philadelphia and Reading Rail
way Company yesterday declared a
semi-annual dividend of per cent. on
the first preferred stock.
President Woodrow Wilson, of
Princeton University, was the guest
of honor last night at the 18th annual
banquet of the Princeton Alumni AS
ISOLATION of Maryland at Baltimore.
Monday, February g.
The funeral of the late Congressman
J. M. Moody was held Saturday at
Asheville, N. G.
William Jennings Bryan will lecture
in Carlisle, Pa, for the benefit of the
Y. M. G. A, on February %.
The Kansas has instructed its SEN
ators In congress to vote for the Cuban
reciprocity treaty and the Panama
Canal bill
Sparks from his pipe fell into q
powder key and John Gallow was
blown to shreds in a quarry at Heller.
town, Pa
A mob took Lee Hall, colored, from
the Jail at Wrightsville, Ca, Saturday
and lynched him, for the murder of
Sheriff Crawford.
Tuesday, February 10.
Colonel Charles B. Davis, of the Fifth
Infantry, U. S. A, will be retired at his
own request
DR.. George A. Harris, a well known
physician OF Bridgeton, N j., dropped
dead in his Office yesterday.
San Francisco medical men say there
is no case of bubonic plague in that
city and that all danger has long been
passed.
President Roosevelt yesterday signed
the bill appropriating 81, 500, 900 for a
new Department of Agricultural build
ing at Washington.
One man was killed and three others
fatally injured by the overturning of a
ladle Of molten metal at a steel plant
at Pueblo, Col, yesterday.
Wednesday, February II.
Samuel w. Glenn. the veteran actor
died yesterday at Baltimore, Md.
aged rs years
Fire yesterday completely destroyed
the plant Of the Ontario Mailing Com.
pany, at Oswego, N. Y. Loss, $3.50. 900
One person was killed and two 9th.
ers fatally injured in a boiler explo-
sion in foundry at Milwaukee, Wis,
yesterday.
The total resources of New York
savings banks on January 1 were ST..
191, S27,57S, and increase during the
year of $59,762 ,949.
Gennaro Rubino, the anarchist. who
attempted to kill King Leopold, of Bel.
GUM, last November, was yesterday
sentenced to life Imprisonment.
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