Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1904-03-12

A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Thursday, March 5.

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Ten buildings were destroyed by fire
at Rocky Mount, N. c., entailing loss
of over $4,000.
The annual reunion Of the United
Confederate Veterans will be held at
Nashville. Tenn. June Ia. Is and 16.
Edward F. Dixey, who years ago be-
came famous as member of the earn
cross & Dixey Minstrels, died at his
home in Philadelphia.
The Morea colliery, near Mahanoy
City, Pa. suspended operations for
three months. throwing 800 men and
boys out of employment
The Ohio supreme court has declared
unconstitutional the law providing a
fine for any one who discharges a work.
man because he is a member of q labor
union.
Friday, March 4.
During a cloudburst in Yellow Creek
Valley, o., scores of houses were flooded
and several lives lost.
Two white men were killed and one
white man and two negroes seriously
injured in a race riot at Bokashe, 1. T.
Denny Hall. one of the finest build
ings connected with Dickinson College,
at Carlisle. Pa, was destroyed by fire.
Loss, $4,000.
While attempting to arrest Shuman
Jefferson near Lock Haven, Pa, Con-
stable Joseph Deegan was fatally shot.
Jefferson escaped.
General George b. Davis will repre-
sent the United States government at
the meeting in Geneva next May to re-
wise the Red Cross rules.
Saturday, March S.
A rural free delivery service will be
established April l at Edgemoor, Del.
Governor Pennypacker has designat-
ed April S and % to be observed as
Arbor Days throughout Pennsylvania.
Admiral Walker, chairman of the
Panama canal commission, says the
commission will sail for the Isthmus
March %.
Because she refused to marry him.
Dominick Antello. of Brooklyn, shot
and killed Nellie Flanagan and then
fatally shot himself.
Secretary Shaw transmitted to the
house an estimate of $4,000 to defray
the expenses of dedicating the statue
of Frederick the Great, to be placed on
the grounds of the war college in Wash
ington.
Monday, March z.
Frank Waldron fell down the Henry
Clay shaft at Shamokin, Pa, a dis
lance of 500 feet, and was instantly
killed
While enroute In a Pullman car
from New York to Macon, Ca, Miss
M. j. Green was ROBBED of diamonds
valued at $4,000.
The Bethlehem (Pa.) Steel company
has shipped IL carloads Of ordnance
to the st. Louis fair, and propose to
have a unique and warlike exhibit
The strike of the messenger boys
against the telegraph companies in
Chicago has been broken, as the com.
panies have all the employees required
Mrs. Sherman Dye, of Boone, Ia, Is
under arrest, charged with sending
poisoned candy to Miss REM Wilson,
of Pierre. SD, who is In a dying con.
dition.
Tuesday, March 8.
The New York legislature has passed
a bill abolishing the Office of coroner
III rev 1OTh city.
Practically every coal mine in In.
dian Territory has closed on account
of lack of orders for coal.
The United States supreme court
did not render a decision In the North.
ern Securities case, as was expected.
The Virginia legislature has appro-
priated $250.000 to improve and en-.
large the Virginia state copital al
Richmond.
Three trainmen were killed in a
rear-end collision between freight
trains on the Missouri Pacific road
near Jefferson City. Mo.
Wednesday, March 9.
Nancy Rucker, colored, died at
Montvale. Bedford county, Va. at the
age Of LOG years.
Postmaster General Payne is con.
fined to the house with a severe at.
tack OF govt.
In a head-on collision between pas
senger trains near Kewanee, Miss.
five trainmen were killed.
DR.. John p. Edge, prominent In med.
zeal, agricultural and litertry circles
died at his home in Downingtown, Pa,
aged 81 years.
Over 700 delegates to the Worlds
Fourth Sunday School convention, to
be held at Jerusalem, sailed from New
York on a chartered steamer.