Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-02-06
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED,
Thursday. January %.

Thursday, January %.
In a collision of trolley cars at St
Louis, more than 20 persons were in
jured, some fatally.
Oscar Murray. president of the B. e.
o. railroad. has been elected president
of the B. & o. S. w.
The National Editorial Association
will hold its 10Th annual convention in
st. Louis May 16, II, Is and 10.
President Roosevelt has appointed
John l.. Smelling appraiser of customs
at Boston. vice A. w. Brown, resigned.
Governor Pennypacker, Of Pennsyl-
vania, has ordered an investigation In
to the mine disaster at Cheswick, Pa.
The Canadian Pacific Railway has
placed an order for 10000 tons Of steel
rails with the Pennsylvania Steel
company.
Friday, January 80.
Three children of Louis Cohen. of
New York, were suffocated in n .ene-
ment lsa>sse are.
General Joseph Darr, formerly chief
of staff of General Rosecrans, died at
his home in Washington.
Thirteen inches of snow fell at Jack
son, Miss, the heaviest fall Of snow
known there in % years.
Caleb Thorpe, aged 103 years, be-
lieved to have been the oldest soldier
in the Civil War died at his home at
Millersburg. o.
A dispatch from Bessemer, Mont,
says the copper country has expert
enced the coldest weather in its his
tory. thermometers registering As de-
grees below zero.
Saturday, January so.
Earl McCann, aged Z years, OF Will
mington, Del. was burned to death by
his clothing catching fire while pass
ing a stove.
Officers of the Clarion Steel COM
pany. Pittsburf. Pa. say there is no
deal pending to transfer the plant to
the United States Steel company.
Another speed trial of the new Unit
ed States protected cruiser Denver.
which failed to reach contract speed,
will be held the latter part OF Feb
ruary.
AS the result of an explosion fol-
lowing an attempt TO hurry a fire with
coal oil, Mrs. A. +. Gray, of Pittsburg,
Pa, is dead and six of her family seri-
ously injured, one fatally.
Monday, February I.
Enough new Springfield rifles will be-
ready by late summer to equip the en-
tire United States army.
DIR. Jacob Cooper. professor OF phil.
osophy at Rutgers College, New Bruins
wick, N. j., died OF pneumonia, aged
"A years.
The Eastern Alumni Association or
Franklin and Marshall College. of Ian
caster, Pa, held their annual meeting
and banquet at Allentown.
Authority has been given to open 8
national bank on the exposition
grounds at st. Louis, to be operated
only as long as the fair lasts.
Carbolic acid. taken with suicidal
intent, because she was sent home
from school. caused the death at New
York of Anna Renders. aged Is years
Tuesday, February 2.
The prison at Dawson Springs, KY.
was destroyed by fire and one prisoner
burned to death.
The report Of Treasurer Harris, OF
Pennsylvania, for January, shows q
balance of $40, ,O57 in the general
fund.
While walking home from a nearby
town, Robert Hines, farmer, OF Pc
tersburg, ILL.,, was frozen to death in a
snow drift.
Senator Penrose introduced a bill TO
appropriate 100000 for the erection of
a statue of Abraham Lincoln In Wash
ington, ID. c.
Mrs. Anne Hurd, aged II years, was
killed by falling down stairs and
breaking her neck at her home at. VII.
mington, Del
Wednesday, February 8.
The national committee Of the So
cfalist party has reelected William
Mailly, of Boston. national secretary.
The Kentucky legislature has post
poned indefinitely consideration Of a
bill designed to disfranchise illiterate
negroes
Two children OF Frank Benn EFT, OF
Somerset, Pa. were burned 10 death
IN fire which destroyed their home.
A lamp explosion caused the fro -