Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1908-03-14
q WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Thursday. March 5.

thursday March ,.
Max Fielder. of Hamburg, Ger
many, has been engaged as director
Of the Boston symphony orchestra, to
succeed DIR. Carl Muck.
New York won the dual inter-city
track meet at Philadelphia between
the amateur atletes OF the Metropoli-
tan association and the Middle Allan
tic association by a score OF sc 2-3
points TO 30.
William r. Weimers. OF Highland
Park. a former master in chancery of
the circuit court Of Cook county, was
indicted at Waukegan, H., by the
Lake county grand jury on a charge
OF conspiracy TO commit arson.
Friday March 6.
At Foyil. near Musl1ogee. Okla, Ell
lis Beck. farmer. shot and killed his
wife and his fifteen-year-old stepsOn
and then committed suicide.
Mrs. Bridget King. of Sheffield. Ill.
is dead. and her son John. fifteen years
old. is fatally burned. following the
explosion of lamp in their home.
General Frank A. Pargond, who
gained his title in the Confederate ser
vice. is dead at his summer home. In
Branford. Conn, aged seventy-nine
years
Anna Arnold and her two children.
Florida, aged three years. and Arnell.
aged eighteen months. colored. we're
burned to death in their home at Tam
pa. Fla
Saturday, March 7.
r. p. Gary was elected by the South
1~,fr -, AL,
c. Latimer in the United States sen
ate.
Alfred Johnson committed suicide at
North Easton. Mass, after he had ac-
cidentally shot and killed John Ben
son. friend and fellow-workman.
The secretary of the interior has Sc
lected Moses Friedman TO be superin-
tendent Of the Carlisle Indian school.
at Carlisle. Pa, succeeding Major w
A. Mercer.
Court decides that ballot boxes can.
be opened and ballots that elected
Mayor Mcclellan. of New York. count.
cd in William r. Hearst's fight 10 un.
seat Mcclellan. charging fraudulent
election.
Monday, March 9.
Charged with embezzling $4,000
from the Hold Carriers union. No. 13s.
OF York. Pa. Calvin Fells has been ar
rested.
For assaulting a non-union work
man at Ashtabula, o.. John OBrien. a
union labor leader, has been given six
years in prison.
Having stepped out OF a second.
story window in her sleep. at I.ancas.
ter. Pa. Miss Maize Maud Olhme was
so badly hurt4that she died.
For robbing bodies in his charge
Richard c. Russell. an embalmer's as
sistant was sent 10 state prison for an
indefinite term at Minneapolis Mimi.
Tuesday, March 10.
Edward II. Chase. one of the best
known attorneys in Luzerne county
died at his home in Wilkes Barre. Pa
The treasury department purchased
100000 ounces OF silver for delivery
at New Orleans at 55.74O cents per
fine ounce
An unknown young woman. we'll
dressed, jumped from the SmithfeldI
street bridge at Pittsburg. Pa. into
the Monongahela river and was swept
away by the swollen water.
Miss Jessie Daw. OF Brooklyn. who
had been an inmate of sanitarium
at Fishkill Landing. N Y. for the past
three months. threw herself from a.
third story window and was killed.
Wednesday. March II.
The school building at Napoleon, O,
the largest OF the kind in the state.
was totally destroyed by fire. entailine
a loss Of $4,000.
]. Wood Lukens. sixty-fve years OF
age. president and treasurer of the
Longmead Iron company Of Consho.
hocken, died at Norristown. Pa.
One hundred masked might riders"
rode into the town of Birmingham.
Marshall county. Kentucky shot six
negroes. one OF them. It is believed
fatally. and whipped five others.
Eight fremen were cut and bruised
and eight business houses damaged TO
the extent of $125. 900 by a fire which
for a time threatened the entire bust.
ness section OF Williamsburg, a suburb
OF PittsbuTg.