Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-04-23

Hillard company, at Miners Mills.
near Wilkesbarre. Pa, was DESTROYED
by fire. entailing a loss OF $3.50. 900.
The $4,000 fund raised by the
Knights OF Columbus to endow a chair
OF secular American history ut the
Catholic University at Washington has
been presented to the institution.
Friday, April IS.
Secretary of War Taft has returned
to Washington from his trip in the
west
Mrs. Louis E. McComas, wife of
United States Senator McComas, of
Maryland, died at Washington from
Bright's disease, aged SO years.
Prince Amar Nath, of Lahore, India,
student at Purdue University, Lafay-
cite, Ind, was knocked from his bicy-
Gle and fatally injured in that city.
The senate committee on military
affairs acted favorably on the nomi-
nation of Colonel Albert L. Mills. SUI
perintendent of the Military Academy
at West Point. to be brigadier general.
Saturday, April 1s.
After being idle since December, the
225 coke ovens at Dorothy, Pa, re-
sumed operations, giving employment
to 5000 men.
Preston Mccarthy, of PHILADELPHIA,
has been offered the chair of secular
history at the Catholic University at
Washington, d. c.
A collection of 500 animals, the
largest ever brought to this country
in single ship. arrived at New York,
en- route to the st. Louis fair.
By the explosion of naphtha in a
Brooklyn dyeing establishment, En-
gineer Troller was killed and five
other employees seriously injured.
Burton R. Nation, formerly treas.
urer OF the WATERFOWL, Conn, Savings
Bank, was sentenced to eight years
imprisonment for making false entries
in the books of the bank.
Monday, April 10.
The candidacy of Judge William H
Mann for the governorship of Virginia
has been announced.
By five to one vote the Socialist
Party's headquarters were ordered
moved from Omaha, Neb., to Chicago.
Edward pullman, aged 40 years. a
Lehigh Valley brakeman, fell from his
train at Easton, Pa. and was cut in
two.
President John Mitchell, eli the Unit
ed Mine Workers. is in Pueblo. Colo,
to help straighten out the taDgle in the
coal strike.
Frank Shear and Frank Graham.
West Shore brakemen. were burned to
death in the wreck3ge of q rear-end
collision at Albany, n. Y.
Tuesday, April 10.
Senator Alice has been appointed a
member of the Republican congress
sional campaign committee from Della
ware.
The coal operators and miners of
Iowa signed an agreement for two
years, which provides a 5.55 per cent.
reduction in wages.
The barn Of ex-Judge Faxson, Of
Philadelphia, located near Doylestow n.
was destroyed by fire and II cows and
six horses persisted. Loss, $4,000.
AT a benefit performance at tile
Lafayette theatre, Washington, for the
sufferers by the accident on the battle
ship Missouri. over $4,000 was realized
Wednesday, April 20.
OShClfl A<lldlleS reviewed
the First Regiment, National Guard of
Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia.
President Roosevelt has declined an
invitation to attend the annual re-
union Of the Army Of che Potomac at
Hartford, Conn. May rs.
John oliver, one OF the best known
cotton mill experts in the south,
dropped dead at his home at Atlanta.
Ga. He leaves 100000 life insurance.
The library of the late John Sher-
man, 5000 volumes. was delivered to
the Ohio state library at olumbus, and
will be preserved as a memorial to the
statesman.
II. e. Wilson. 3. conductor on a Fort
Wayne, Ind, trolley car, was instantly
killed by an electric shock while at.
tempting to use the portable telephone
carried on the car.