Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-02-02

Thursday, January a..
The North Carolina Legislature. n.
reelected r. RI. Simmons, perrocr.,
20 the United States senate.
w. H. Horkescheimer. OF Beware
~. j.. Dropped dead from heart dfsea..
On ferrsboat ~ Camden. N. J.
Major Frank b. Gordon. younr..,
son CT the Confederate General John
y. Gordon. died suddenly In Washing.
ton OF pneumonia
Alfred B. Stoney. speaker OF the Me-
Jersey house IN 1855. and well known
in steamboat circles, died at his home
in Keyport, N. J.. aged 81 years.
Walter McHenry. OF Marion Centre
Pa, student az the University %
Pennsylvania, fell under a trolley car
In Philadelphia and was 20 badly in.
jured that his left leg had TO be am
putated.
Friday, January IS.
The Academy OF Music in Washing.
ton was Quilted by fire. entailing a loss
Of $50. 900.
Next years convention OF the Amer
lean National Live Stock Associate,
will be held in Denver. Colo.
Mrs. William Allen. OF Lexington.
KY, died on a street car while satisfy-
ing her mania for riding on cars.
A freight train ran over an en-
bankment at Longdale. near Parkers-
burg. w. Va, and three trainmen were
killed and one fatally injured.
Matte Merritt, aged 81 years; Yer
gle Taylor. aged 8 years. and Ethel
King. aged I years. were burned to
death In q fire which destroyed their
home at Indianapolis.
Saturday, January Is.
Robert Curtis. OF Wilkes-Darre. Pa,
was sentenced to FIVE years and six
months Imprisonment for forging judK-
ments.
The second section OF the first class
OF the Annapolis. Md, navel academy
viii be graduated on Monday. Febru-
airy IL.
DR.. E. w. Haines, the Oldest prac-
ticing dentist in Delaware. died at his
residence in Newark. Del, aged So
years.
Mrs Isabella Beecher Hooker. sister
OF Henry Ward Beecher and Harriet
Beecher Stowe. died at her home In
Hartford, Conn. aged IS years.
Monday, January %.
There are 40 cases OF smallpox in
the territory within 10 miles OF Rich
mond. Va
The steel trust has bought $500
acres more land for Car. Ind. where
II is building a model town.
Brakeman Edward Zuppert, OF Read
ing. was killed in the Reading railway
near Myerstown, Pa
Miss Ellen D. Morris, former ma
tional treasurer OF the W. c. T. U.
died at Hastings. Neb.
Peter G.. Albright has brought suss
against the city OF York. Pa. for $4,000
damages for broken leg. sustained
on account OF bad pavement
The New York state building ct the
jamestown Exposition will be modelled
after the congressional library at
Washington and will cost 3s1.50O.
Tuesday, January %.
The United States supreme court
will take a recess for three weeks. be-
ginning next Monday.
Thirty 10 50 degrees below zero wsz
recorded by the thermometer at SUI
perior. WIS. OF Monday.
Jacob Well and wife were asphyxi-
ated by gas escaping from a stove in
their restaurant in Brooklyn.
WILDER 5. Jackson dean OF the
school OF education at the University
OF Chicago. died after an illness OF "a
hoprs.
A runaway trolley car at Richmond.
Va. crashed into two wagons, wreck
ing them and injuring seven passen-
gers, none seriously.
Wednesday, January 80.
Otis Eddy. aged 102 years. died at
his home in Rockford. ILL.,
Continued grief over the death OF his
wife caused John A. Britton TO commit
suicide by shooting at his home in
Brooklyn.
Tuesday was the 65th anniversary
OF the birth OF William Mckinley and
the day was observed as "Carnation
Day" in Washington.
The comptroller OF the currency is
sued a call for a statement OF the
condition OF all national banks at the
close OF business January %.
In a collision between an express
train and a freight on the Boston &
Maine railroad. near Shelburne Falls.
Mass, four trinmen were killed and
several injured