Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-04-30
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
THURSDAY, April 21.

Sodyr TpEu
Emil Roeske, the last, of the Chicago
ear barn bandits, has been convicted
of murder and sentenced to life i'm
prisonment
The senate committee on foreign re-
lations have authorized favorable
report on the extradition treaty be-
tween the United States and Cuba.
The battleship Rhode Island will be
launched at Quincy, Mass, April 30.
and will be christened by Miss Maud
Wetmore, daughter of Senator Wet
more.
Baron Won Sternburg, the German
ambassador. will deliver the com
mencement address at the University
of the South, at Sewanee, Tenn, on
June 13.
Friday, April %.
A force OF 1900 workmen are work
ing night and day to complete the st.
Louis fair for the opening.
The Farmers and Merchants Bank
OF Clay City. Ind, was robbed OF $4,000
by burglars. who left no clue.
over 800 members of the Pennsyl.
vania Railroad Veteran Employees AS
ISOLATION held their annual reunion at
Wilkesbarre. Pa.
over 500 employees of the Norfolk
and Western railroad shops at Ports
mouth, o., went on strike against a
change in working hours.
The postoflice department has or
dered rural free delivery service es-
tabl:shed May 16 at Houston Station.
Kent county, Del. with one carrier.
Saturday, April %.
Joseph e. Schwab, former president
of the American Steel Foundries COM
pany. will erect a 100000 steel plant
at Chicago.
Senator Depew, OF New York, cele-
brated his 10th birthday anniversary
by dinner and reception at his Wash.
ington home.
President Roosevelt has nominated
William NJ. Collier, of New York to be
solicitor for the department of com.
merce and labor.
According to statement issued by
st. Louis Fair officials, 1t will cost $50
for the total admissions to all attrac-
tons on the pike"
Building No. 5 of the PENNSYLVANIA
Soap company, at Lancaster, Pa, was
destroyed by a fire caused by de-
fective electric light wire. Loss, $27,-
600.
Monday, April 25.
Buffalo. N. Y, has awarded a con-
tract for the erection of a Mckinley
monument of marble, to cost $93,S9O.
w. +. NoXon, while visiting his
brother on his yacht in Echo Bay, New
Rochelle. N. Y, fell overheard and was
drowned
A baker delivering bread at Schuyl
Kill Haven, Pa. found Mrs Michael
Sauers dead of heart disease and lying
across her stove.
President Roosevelt selected for
governor Of Porto Rico. vice William
Hunt. appointed federal judge, Judge
Beakman Winthrop. of New York
Tuesday, April 20.
Two soldiers were killed and > in.
jured in a head-on collision on the
Santa Fe railroad. near Hartoum. Cal
Secretary of War Taft will repre-
sent President Roosevelt at the open
ing ceremonies OF the Louisiana Pur-
chase Exposition at ST Louis
Prince Pu Lun. nephew to the eH,-
peror of China, and his personal REP
resentative to the st. Louis EXposi-
ton, was officially received by Presi-
dent Roosevelt at the White House
The Virginia cases involving the
validity of the suffrage provision of
the new Virginia state constitution
were dismissed by the United States
supreme court on the ground that no
relief was possible.
Wednesday, April 27.
All the union carpenters of Louic-
vile, Ky, will go on strike for closed
shop and an eight-hour day.
A three-story building at Elgin, Ill,
was wrecked by robbers blowing up
the safe of II. ]. Schuett & Son. They
escaped with $1,000
NJ Richard Strauss, the composer.
was received at the White House by
President and Mrs. Roosevelt, who
'~'er attended his concert.