Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1902-12-05
SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS
Domestic.

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Brotherhood of Trainmen and the Or
der OF Railroad Conductors was held
in Chicago to fix a date for asking all
Western and Southern railroad compa-
MES for an increase OF 20 per cent in
wages.
A charter was granted to the Enid,
San Diego and Pacific Railroad Com
pany to construct a line 1000 miles
long, from Enid, Ok, to San Diego,
Cal
Claude l.. Stillman, former secretary
to Governor Murphy, of New Jersey.
was sentenced to 10 years imprison-
ment for forgery and ENLIGHTENMENT
Thomas Livingston, of Whitehall,
Ind, shot his sweetheart, Fannie l..
Sherman, and himself Both are in a
critical condition.
Officials OF the Massachusetts State
Board of Agriculture found number
OF injected cattle in various parts OF
| the State.
Nelson and Frank Hamlin, two boys
| fell through the ice while skating at
Millersburg, Mich, and were drowned.
Practically the entire business section
! of the village OF Normal, near Rat
| Portage, Ont, was wiped out by the
fire which started i'll the extensive lum-
| timated at $500, 900, with an insurance
OF about third of that amount
A mob attempted to take William
Glasco, the assailant of Mary Mallory
from the jail at Ironton, o., and lynch
him, but the man was spirited away By
the jaler.
Charles F. Kelly, ex-speaker OF the
St. Louis House of Delegates, was ar
raigned in Philadelphia and held tc
await requisition papers from Missouri
Harvey Logan. the train ro,bber, was
sent to the penitentiary by the Knox
vile (Tenn.) Court for 20 years.
Mrs. Hattie L. Written was arrested
in Dexter Me. on suspicion OF having
murdered her daughter.
Charles F. Kelly, former speaker Oh
the St. Louis House of Delegates, TN
der indictment for completely in the nu'
nicipal scandal, reached New York iron
London on the steamer Celtic. He was
arrested in Philadelphia
A disastrous conhagration resulted
from a spark being blown into pile OF
cedar at Rat Portage, Ontario. Sly
steamboats,, two barges, eleven houses
and 100000 feet of lumber were
burned
Suit has been brought against the
American Sugar Refining Company to
prohibit cutting rates on sugar and TIC
restrain it from engaging in the coffee
business.
John Mclaughlin was killed by an
elevated train in New York, and En-
manuel Dreyfus, who witnessed the &C
cident, dropped dead from the shock.
Florence Burns. who was eXonerated
of the murder of Walter Brooks in
New York hotel, was quietly married to
Charles w. Wildrick
The Cuban Cabinet has accepted the
resignation of Tamayo, secretary OF the
government. who was also president OF
the Nationalist party.
Edward F. Croker, chief of the New
York Fire Department, was found gull
ty of series of charges and dismissed
from the service.
The St. Louis flyer on the Big Four
was wrecked near Avon, Ind, and
number of passengers in the sleeping
coaches injured.
In a duel at Armourdale, Kan, be-
tween Ernest Damus and Charles w.
Tucker over a waitress both were NOR
tally wounded
A number of cases of foot-and-mouth
disease were reported to the Massachu-
sets Board of Agriculture.
Foreign
President Castro has handed to the
German Minister at Caracas an accept
ance OF part OF Germany's claims, but
it is said that Germany, having entered
into an agreement with Great Britain
to exact settlement jointly, will not
enter into a separate agreement.
The Korean Cabinet has resigned,
owing to the refusal OF the Emperor to
authorize the impeachment OF the War
Minister on charges which have not
been disclosed. The populace is in
censed against the court.
1t was announced in the Italian
Chamber of Deputies that Italy was
opening negotiations with the United
States to secure compensation for rela-
tives OF Italian emigrants killed while
employed in America.
English advices from Morocco tell OF
the flogging and execution, by order
OF the Sultan, OF the Moorish fanatic
who murdered DR.. Cooper, a British
missionary,
The Transvaal continues in state Of
serious financial depression. Only
about third of the mines are working,
because OF the scarcity OF labor.
Syndon, the French artist who killed
NJ. David, stockbroker of Paris, was
sentenced to 10 years penal servitude.
Passengers arriving at Panama from
Nicaragua state that earthquakes con-
tinue i'll that country.
important steps were taken in Lon
don through an Anglo American bank
err to satisfy all the financial and diplo-
matte claims by foreign powers and
bondholders against Venezuela If this
succeeds, Germany and Great Britain
will have no cause to take vigorous
steps, now contemplated
The minority caused a big row in the
German Rechstag over the attempt of
the majority to railroad the tariff bill.
and for the first time in the history of
that body the president was forced to
suspend the sitting
Great Britain is the only power that
has replied to the Russian note regard
ing the sugar conference, and offers to
submit the question of sugar and all 9TH
er goods to The Hague Arbitration
| Court.
The convention of Irish landlords has
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