Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1905-03-18
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED,
Thursday, March 9.


Postmaster James w. Bartlett, OF
Doylestown, Pa, d.od at his hcne,
aged 81 years.
Judge Peter V. Voorhees,, of the New
Jersey court of errors and appeals,
has resigned on account of i'll health.
Vespasian Warner assumed his Of
fee of pension commissioner, to sue
ceer Commissioner Ware, resigned.
John Sheer, a freight brakeman on
the Pennsylvania railroad, fell from
his train near Lancaster, Pa, and was
killed.
After searching % years for his sis
ter, William Vansickles, OF New
York, met her by accident on a crowd
ed street in Chicago.
Friday, March 10.
A bill 70 prohibit prize fighting In
California was defeated in the legis-
lature
The New Jersey Grand Lodge, An
cient Order of United Workmen, held
q two-days' session at Trenton.
Thomas Folk. a cripple, committed
suicide at Reading, Pa, by cutting his
throat with razor because Of his in
ability to earn a living.
While picking coal on the tracks of
the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Wash
ington railroad at Wilmington, Del.
James Twaddel was struck by a train
and instantly killed.
Mrs. Caroline r. Haldeman, widow
of Hol. Jacob S. Haldeman, who was
minister to Norway and Sweden under
President Lincoln, died at Harrisburg.
Pa, aged so years.
Saturday, March II.
Augustus II. Cobb, banker, OF Rich
mond, Va, committed suicide by shoot
Ing himself through the head.
The will of the late James G. Carter.
OF New York, bequeathes 100000 10
Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Railroads entering Chicago have ap-
piled for an injunction against ticket
scalpers, who they say have combined
into trust.
AS result OF furnace explosion at
the Cambria Steel Works, Johnstown.
Pa, three men were killed, their bodies
being horribly burned.
Vice President Fairbanks has ap-
pointed his son. Fred c. Fairbanks.
who graduated from Princeton in 1903.
as his private secretary.
Monday, March ~
Appraisers think the def met City
Trust company, of Lancaster. Pa. may
pay over 60 cents on the dollar.
The armored cruiser New York left
Old Point Comfort for the navy yard
at Boston to be put out OF commits
sion.
Dusing the session OF congress
which closed on March 4, President
Roosevelt signed 1912 measures
passed by both houses.
BY an explosion of gas in the Park
Place mine. near Mahanoy City, Pa.
two miners were fatally burned. be-
sides being hurled 100 feet down a
breast.
An express train on the Buffalo.
Rochester and Pittsbgrg railroad was
wrecked at Butler, Pa, by an axle on
the engine breaking, and one man was
killed and nine injured.
Tuesday, March IA.
Thieves dynamited the safe in the
bank at Benton, KY, and escaped with
$4,000.
President Roosevelt has appointed
Joseph Cross United States district
judge for the district of New Jersey.
For the first time in so years the
Democratic party OF Bangor. Me-.
elected a mayor at the municipal cleo
tons.
In collision between a trolley car
and heavy truck in New York. five
men and one woman were injured, sew
eral seriously.
Edward Mcmahon and William
Fawls were caught in a rush of coal
at the Stanton breaker, at wilkesbarre.
Pa. and suffocated.
Wednesday, March is.
The biennial convention of the Head
Camp of the Woodmen of the World.
was held at Harrisburg, Pa.
Twelve locomotives were shipped to
Japan by the American Locomotive
company, Schenectady, N. Y.
President Roosevelt has appointed
George Barclay Rives, of New Jersey.
secretary of embassy at Vienna.
Sydney Adams, chief clerk of the
general delivery division Of the Balti-
more postofflce, was sent to Jail for
three years for robbina the mails.
AS the result of a gas explosion in
the home of Jacob Bitter, at Pitts
burg, Pa. Mrs. Bitter was killed. a
woman friend fatally injured and two
houses wrecked