Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1906-05-05
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
thursday April 26.


The Standard oil company has ad-
vanced the price of crude petroleum
three cents a barrel east and two cents
west.
Professor John Knowles Paine. di-
rector OF the musical department OF
Harvard University. died suddenly at
Cambridge Mass. of pneumonia.
a tank OF gasoline exploded in the
round house of che Delaware q Hud-
son Railroad company at Wilkes
Barre. Pa. and five locomotives were
badly damaged
The body of John Flannery. an en-
g'neer ou the New Jersey Central rail
road who disappeared from Wilkes
Barre. Pa. six weeks ago was found
iE the SusQuehanna river.
Friday. April 27.
TWO men were burned 90 death and
four others were injured In a FIRE
which destroyed a hotel az Franken-
muth. Mich.
Spencer Eddy. secretary OF theAmer-
lean embassy an ST. Petersburg, and
Miss Lurinc Sprcckeis. of san Fran
cisco. were married IN Paris.
Joaquin Alvarez. a Spaniard who on
February 26 shot and killed two men
IN a Philadelphia boarding house. was
sentenced Co e0 years In prison.
IT. 20. Sinclair aged SO wears. an
employee of the p. Vs. G. b. railroad.
was struck by fast freight train near
Wilmington. DEL. and instantly killed
Saturday April %.
John DAILY, said 90 De one OF the
wealthiest gamblers Ia the country.
died In New York after a seven-months'
illness.
William a. Brewer. formerly presi-
dent Of the Washington Life Insurance
company, was indicted ia New York
for perjury.
A runaway horse. frightened by an
auto. az Atlantic City y. j., leaped
over the go-cart OF Miles Barnetts
baby without injuring the child.
The muuiated body Of Selee Houk.
the missing deputy game and fish war
den. was found heavily weighted with
stones, in the Mahonng river. near
Hillsville Pa.
Christian Lipp, a wealthy retired
farmer. near New Danviue. Lancaster
county. Pa. died in great agony from
lockjaw caused by a pitchfork pene-
rating his foot.
Monday, April 80.
Three children were burned TO death
when the Presbyterian mission school
at Lawson. W. Va. was destroyed.
Pennsylvania state authorities will
experiment in the culture of tobacco
under cover az the Tocalico station. IN
Lawrence county.
Falling beneath his horse IN the sta.
bic. Adam Brilliant. a wealthy York
county. Pa. farmer, so years OF age,
was trod upon so that he died.
Thirty-one indictments have been
returned against former Clerk of the
Circuit Court John A. Cooke. at Chi
cago. IS Of them relating TO forgery. ;
Lloyd son OF Jacob Roth, OF West
Coplay. Pa. was run over by a stone
train in a quarry OF the Lehigh Port
land Cement plant and sustained In
1uries that caused his death.
Tuesday, May I.
The hearing in the bankruptcy case
OF John Alexander Dowie in Chicago
mas UGH NOCA ifOACR unAl May 10.
Two laborers were killed and FIVE
seriously injured by the explosion of
a cupola at the Illinois Steel company
IN Chicago.
Governor Pennypacker. Of Pennsyl.
vania. reappointed David Martin, OF
Philadelphia. commissioner of insur.
ance for a term of three years.
The body OF Albert Schubert. a New
York plasterer. with throat cut and
arteries severed, was found in the an.
Client well 81. Romans at Corona,
Queens county. y. Y.
Wednesday, May 2.
Former Governor James L. Boyd. the
only Democrat ever elected to the Office
in Nebraska. died at Omaha.
Joseph PasQuale. a Italian cook. of
Philadelphia. was fatally burned BY
the explosion Of a gasoline stove.
The battleship New Hampshire will be
launched at the plant OF the New York
Shipbuilding company in Camden. n. j,
some time drrirs SE-