The suburban citizen., 1901-11-23
WASHINGTON, D. c., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER %, 1901.
SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS.
Domestic.

The verdict of the cornoners jury in
the case of John w. Scott, the young
! club and society man of Richmond, who
was found horribly beaten in the door
way of a West End residence one night
last week, and who died without re-
gaining consciousness, was that Mr..
Scotts injuries we're inflicted by a
weapon in the hands of some person TN
known.
Professor Ritchey, of the Yerke,
Observatory, Chicago, has secured pho
| tographs of the new star in the north
ern sky, from which he draws additional
proof OF the nebular theory of the crea-
ton of the world
Governor Van SAINT, of Minnesota, has
invited governors of other States in the
! Northwest to a conference to discuss
resistance to the consolidation of the
Northern Pacific and Great Northern
Railroads
Admiral Schley has declined the offei
of the Knoxville Sentinel to collect a
fund with which to defray the expense
to which the Admiral was subjected BY
the court of inquiry.
w. D. Brockman, of Chicago, believ.
ing that he had killed his wife instead
of burglar, shot and killed himself in
his remorse.
The New York Grand Jury returned
an indictment against Police Captain
Cannon, charging him with neglect Of
duty.
Bank robbers wrecked the safe of a
bank at Ravenswood, w. Va, but did
NOT succeed in carrying off any cash.
The 400 marching miners from Mont
gomery, Washington, Petersburg and
Princeton, who visited Vincennes, Ind,
to unionizc the miners in the Prospect
Hill Mines. entered a house where sew
eral non-union miners are boarding and
beat five of them almost insensible. The
women in the house tainted, The police
and sheriff we're summoned.
Secretary of State Hay made an i'm
portant speech upon the foreign policy
and commercial development and de-
mands of the United States at the an.
nual banquet of the New York Chamber
vi Commerce Senator McLaurin, Of
South Carolina, spoke on The Monroe
Doctrine of the Twentieth Century"
The court-martial ordered by the Sec
retary of the Navy to investigate the
charges of intoxication and scandalous
conduct made against Col. R. L. Meade,
Of the Marine Corps, was begun at the
navy yard, Brooklyn
One person was killed and II injured
in rear-end collision between two Met
ropoitan Elevated trains in Chicago.
The collision was due to a dense fog.
Another collision occurred on the Lake
Street Il"
Fire destroyed property at Charlotte,
n C., valued at 100000. Among the
establishments burned were the Pied
mont Cotton Company; Aglesby Broth
ers, dry goods, and Bryan & Co., gro
GERS.
The British steamer Monmouth, Cap
tain Troop which arrived at Norfolk
from Cape Town, South Africa, reports
the existence of over 800 cases of bu-
bonic plague in the vicinity of Cape
Town.
Eight hundred brakemen and switch
man on the New York Division of the
New York, New Haven and Hartford
Railway have struck The tug and float
service of New York City is involved
and the strike may be extended.
Mrs Marie Becker was made hysteri-
cal by the sight of cattle being slaught-
cred in the Chicago stockyards, and the
physicians have not yet been able to re-
store her to her normal condition.