The suburban citizen., 1901-07-27
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS.
nnmestic.


President Shaffer, of the Amslgamat-
ed Association, visited Wellsville in dis
guise as tramp to learn the condition OF
he plant that the company is trying to
work with non-union men. He does not
hinlI any injunction will be granted un-
less the mer resort to violence.
A shell fired from one Of the battle
ships lying off Newport struck the City
Hall of the town, making a hole in a
granite block and bursting after striking
tree. No one was injured, although g
number of people were near the flying
missile
Mr.. Doty, health officer Of the port Of
New York, diagnosed the case of the
stoler of the Hohenfels, from Calcutta,
as a mild case of bubonic plague
Henry w. Taylor secured in Newport
News Va. divorce from his wife, who
had returned to her old home in Balt-
more, refusing to live in Newport News.
Mrs William II. Hoover, while asleep,
walked through an open window Of her
home in Winchester, Va and sustained
injuries that will result in death
John MeFadden, who plannei ,ail
delivery in Camden, N. J., to escape
serving in default of $1,000, t1u't now
serve LOCO days for so doing.
The grand Jury in Newport News.
Va, indicted Russell Van hrSdale for
the murder of his great uncle, Robert
Kelly.
SeN eral encounters occurred between
striking ice wagon drivers and men who
sought to take their places in Columbus,
Ohio.
Professor Edgar w. Abbott of Butler
University, was drowned while bathing
in Broad Ripple Greek, near Indian
apolis.
Thirty-one Of the contractors in New
York, employing in the aggregate 5000
people, have granted the demands of the
garment workers. Strikers and sympa.
thzers wrecked shop in New York
because the employees would not joir
them.
The Grand Lodge Of Elks, in session
at Milwaukee, elected officers Charles
+. Pickett had a walkover for grand ex-
alted ruler, and Henry W. Mears ol
Baltimore, was elected grand treasurer
after a spirited contest
All the brotherhoods on the Lacka-
wanna and Western have taken up the
fight OF the telegraphers. They claim
the company has been dismissng them
because Of their activity in the union.
AT Richmond in the Constitutional
Convention Mr. Blair introduced a reso.
luton eXempting the property of Con.
federate soldiers from taxation to the
amount OF $1,000.
VIM II Hunt the present secretary
Of Porto Rico, has been chosen to sue.
ceed Governor Charles II. Alien when
that official retires.
Lieut. F j. White auditor of West
Virginia University was married at
Knoxville, Tenn, to Miss Marian Hite
Smith
Ex-Chief Of Police Harwood has sued
Mayor Alan A. Amoss, OF Newport
News, for alleged defamation Of char
lcter
AT Simmons, W. Va, a boarding
house keeper named Howaker shot and
killed one Of his boarders named
French
Elmer E. Barner was hanged at Har-
rsburg for the murder OF Isaac Miller
IN August, 1000.
The machinists who had oeen on
strike at Wilkesbarre applied for rein
statement in the shops of the Lehigh
Valley Railroad and other mills. Many
we're taken back, but the places Of others
lad been filled
The coroners jury in Winchester Va,
holds the Winchester Gas AMI Electric
Light Company responsible for tine
death of Jacob Houck and Lewis Price,
who were electrocuted by live wire.