Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1906-03-10
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
ThursdaY. March 1.

Two daughters of George Storer. OF
Camden. Mich, were poisoned by eat.
! ing canned salmon.
Rear Admirals Colby VI. Chester and
French K. Chadwick have been placed
on the retired list.
Postmaster Albert IIoerner. OF West
Seneca. y. Y. is under arrest. charged
With embezzling 5000 postofico funds.
Mrs Sarah E. Ray, Gged l02 years.
one of the oldest women in Baltimore.
and a. well-known war nurse. died of
old age.
George Kingsbury. grand scribe OF
the Grand Chapter. Royal Arch Masons
Of Michigan. died at Cassopoi.s of con
sumption.
Friday March 2.
Rob Mitchell. colored, was hanged
at Windsor. n. C.. for wife murder.
Armour < Co.'S meat distributing
plant In Philadelphia was destroyed by
fire. entaiiirg a loss OF Sf5O.O0o.
North College. the oldest dormltory
at Wesleyan University. at Middletown.
Conn, was destroyed by fire. Loss
$50 900.
BY the collapse of the upper floor of
a building at Cleveland. O.. one man
was killed. one fatally injured and 10
had miraculous escapes from death.
President Roosevelt has asked con-
gress TO appropriate 100000 to defray
the expenses of the delegates of the
United States 10 the Pan-American
congress in Rio de Janei-o next spring.
Saturday, March 3.
Andrew Thompson. a negro. was
hanged at Greenville. S. O.. for rape.
Robert S Woodruff. former law judge
Of Mercer county. y. J.. died at Trenton
from stomach trouble.
Governor Feunypacker has designated
Friday. April 6. aud Friday. April 20.
as Arbor Days throughout Pennsylva-
MIA.
Mrs Joseph A. Swami. widow OF for
mer Governor Swami. OF Maryland.
who recently suffered a paraiytic
stroke. died I'm Washington
Attempting TO open a can Of powder
with a pick caused an explosion which
fatally injured threee foreigners and
destroyed house at Creensburg. Pa.
Monday, March 5.
over 100000 acres of fine pasture
land in the pan handle OF New Mexico
has been burned over by a two-days'
prairie fire
Caught under a loaded coal car that.
jumped the visduct at the LaughI n
steel plant in Wheeling. w Va. John
Cramer. a workman. was killed.
From a strong. husky fellow. Harry.
Wakefield has been transformed into
a weakling az Richmond. Va. by five
weeks of hiccoughs
Captain A. J. StSuding. assistant
superintendent OF the Carlisle pa
Indian Training School for 20 years
and lately connected with Dickinson
COLLEGE, has resigned 20 go 20 England.
Tuesday, March g.
Andrew Carnegie will give S25 600 20
Rio Grande College. a Baptist theo-
logical school AZ Rio Grande, o.
William Dowd was sentenced TO two
and a half years In prison at Ballston.
N. Y. for Illegal voting last fall.
Major Livingston Minis. one OF the
most widely known men in the south
and an intimate friend OF jefferson
Davis. died at Atlanta. Ca.
J. II. Ward a prominent merchant OF
Toledo. o.. became mentally unbaI-
anced IN a political campaign and COM
mitted suicide by shooting
A passenger train on the Southern
Railway WIS wrecked al High Point.
n. c.. and a score OF persons were in
jured. but no one was killed.
Wednesday, March Z.
George Hasty was convicted OF muir
dering two actors az Raleigh. n. c.,
and sentenced TO life imprisonment.
Joseph Hogan. Il years old. OF Phila-
delphia had both legs cut on while
attempting to board a Reading freight
train
Governor Pennypacker has vetoed
the resolutions passed by the Pennsyl-
vanai legislature 20 investigate the
coal combine
Frank J. Constantine. who Is wanted
In Chicago for the murder OF Mrs. Ar
thur w. Gentry. has been arrested near
Wheeling, W. Va
President Roosevelt will appoint
Manly Lawton. son OF the late Major
General Lawton, a cadet 70 the West
Point military academy.