Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-03-26
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Thursday, March II.

President Roosevelt has appointed
Cal ain I. L. Jewell to be a rear adj
mil Il.
iiliam e. Stanley, ex-governor Of
Kansas, has resigned as a member of
the Dawes Indian commission.
Dr. James y. Sanford. speaker of
the Colorado house OF representatives,
died at his home in Denver of appen-
dicitis.
Fire destroyed four oyster packing
plants and the railroad freight sheds
at Tilghman S Island, Md, causing a
loss of $4,000.
The Hickory Run Brick company. of
Allentown, Pa, has made an assign
ment for the benefit of creditors. LA
bilities. $4,000; assets. $4,000.
Fr;asy, March IS.
w. ]. Si.er. of Knoxville, Tenn,
has been appoin ted receiver for the
Tennessee Central railroad.
w. T. Nichols has been appointed
by President Roosevelt to be secretary
of Arizona, to succeed Isaac T. Stod-
dard.
Bishop Louis NJ. Fink. of the Leav-
enworth. Kan, diocese OF the Catholic
church, died in Kansas City of pneu.
monia
st. Louis fair officials have receiy-
ed cablegram that Russia will par-
ticipate in the press congress to be
held at the exposition.
General Il. Ii. Thomas, who was re-
Gently ousted as federal appraiser at
the port OF Chicago, dropped dead in
a lawyers Office of heart disease.
Saturday, March 10.
The New Jersey Democratic state
committee will meet in Newark March
"a to fix date for the state conyen
ton.
President Roosevelt has issued an
order applying civil service rules to
the service of the war department in
the Philippines.
The poStoilice safe at Mount Wash
ington, near Baltimore, Md, was blown
open by dynamite and $500 in money
and stamps taken.
George A. Secor, formerly cashier of
the Delaware. Lackawanna and West
ern railroad at New York, was sem
fenced to two years and six months
Monday, March 81.
John Moral had every bone in his
body broken by a fall of 200 feet in the
Halle Brook mine at HaZleton, Pa.
One man was killed and one fatally
hurt at Baltimore, Md. by the derail-
ing of "a Baltimore and Ohio coal train
The worlds cotton crop for I9O2-l9O3
&c AS.tf, fDI kNr q - 4
ricGlture at l7,l79, 765 bales, valued at
$3.50. 0S2.45l.
Fayette Sawyer and Burke Harris.
negroes, we're hanged by a mob AT
Cleveland. Miss. for the murder of
another negro.
Samuel kile. an employee of a saw
mill at Mifiiinville, Pa. stepped on a
rapidly, rev diving rip saw. lest his
right foot at the ankle and was Sc
rionsly cut about the back and head.
Tuesday, March %.
Ex-Mayor William r. Grace. of New
York, died of pneumonia at his home
in that city, aged y years.
The supreme court of the United
States has adjourned for two weeks
for the usual Easter recess.
Burglars blew open the safe in the
postoffice at Pleasantville, N. j., and
secured Sis in cash and stamps.
The warehouse OF the Deering Har-
vesting Machine company. at ST
Louis. stored with farm machinery.
was destroyed by fire. Loss. $50, 600.
Or. Jesse B. Carter, of Princeton. N
j., has been appointed professor OF
geography and photography in the
American School OF Classical Studies
at Rome.
Wednesday, March %.
The Ohio Republican state conyen-
ton will be held May II and Is at Co.
lumbus
by the collapse OF brick building
being erected at Houston, Tex. eight
persons were injured. three fatally.
The National Hardware Dealers As
ISOLATION held its annual convention
at Indianapolis, Ind.
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