The suburban citizen., 1902-06-21
WASHINGTON, D. G., SATURDAY, JUNE 81. 1902
SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS.
Domestic


The big Pacific Mail liner Korea, the
largest vessel ever built in America left
her dock at the Newport News (Va.)
shipyard on her long maiden voyage
around the Horn. The Korea will pro-
ceed to San Francisco, sailing from that
point to the Orient.
During the graduating exercises OF
Washington and Lee University, at Lex
lington an interesting feature was the un-
yelling of an oil portrait OF Hon VIII
liam L. Wilson, late president of the uni
yersity Hon Isidor Straus, of New
York, delivered an address
The Hygeia Hotel (Va) management
has been granted additional time in
which to tear down the building 1t will
keep open until August 1, and possibly
until September I.
President Mitchell has called a nation
al convention at Indianapolis for July
II to consider the advisability of calling
out all the soft-coal miners in the Uni
led States.
AT Oklahoma City o. T., w. T. Nc
Michael shot and killed w. Z. Johnson,
| well-known young business man, on
he street, the result OF dispute over a
contested land claim While he was
ying on the ground Johnson shot Nc
Michael in the abdomen. Johnson eN-
oired in 4 few minutes. McMichael
,annot live
The honorary degree of doctor of
Jurisprudence was conferred upon for
ner President Grover Cleveland by the
Augustinian College at St. Thomas of
Villanoya, Philadelphia. Mr. Cleveland
was present and made an address.
AT Plattsburg, N Y, the Very Rev
Eugene Augustus Hoffman, d. D., dean
)f the General Theological Seminary of
The Protestant Episcopal Church died
suddenly. He was in his seventy fourth
year.
DIR. George Fl. Denny was inaugurated
as president of Washington and Lee
University at Lexington, Va.
Because OF fears of a corner in July
corn prices huctuated widely OH the Chi
cago Board of Trade.
AT Denver Colo, burglars entered the
postoAice through window aud robbed
the registered mail
Two children of Jeremiah D. Small,
near Hanover Pa, were drowned.
The striking puddlers in four rolling
mills at Columbia, Pa, although granted
an increase in wages, refused to return
to work because the management re-
fused to treat with the Amalgamated
Association.
Vice Chancellor Emory, in Newark, N.
J., made permanent the injunction re-
straining the United States Steel Corpo-
ration from converting $2oo,ooo,ooo of
preferred stock into bonds.
DIR. George Fl, Denny, president of
Washington and Lee, has been notified
that Furman University, Greenvlle. s, c.
has conferred the degree of IL. d. on
him.
Abe Rothschild, who is accused of be
ing the principal in the unsuccessful at
tempt to swindle New York diamond
merchants, was arrested in Harrisburg,
Pa.
A freight train ran into washout
caused by cloudburst at MiddIesex, VT,
and five railroad men lost their lives.
A memorial arch was dedicated at
Camp Chase, near Columbus, erected in
honor of $500 Confederate dead buried
there, The speakers were Governor
Nash and General Gordon
Oliver Williams, the gypsy who
eloped from Nansemond, Va, with Fan
ny Smith, was arrested in Emporia, Va.
A conversation between two colored
Aagmen was the cause of the wreck
Oh the Seaboard at Macon, N. c.
William Collins, colored, aged 50
years, was nearly cut to pieces with an
Ak by William Dixon. aged 70 years.
The city of New York will prosecute
corporations to force them to stop using
oft coal