The suburban citizen., 1902-05-03
SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS.
Domestic.

Domestic.
Four hundred employees of the Big
Four Railroad shops at Bellefontaine,
Ohio, have signed an agreement to fight
the Beef Trust by not eating beef for 80
days, beginning May ?.
1t is reported that r. G.. Erwin will be
offered the presidency of the Atlantic
Coast Line as soon as the consolidation
Of that company and the Plant system
has been effected.
Mrs. Adeine Sage, Detroit woman,
crazed by the death of her child, poured
kerosene over her clothing and then ig-
lited it. She was burned to death.
The Beef Trust is beginning to feel
The effect of the boycott, and men are
beginning to be laid off at the various
plants.
A woman who gives her name as Mrs
Mary Robbins is detained in Chicago or
suppostion that she is the wife of Lieut.
CERT, the sausagemaker. The woman
was supposed to have been murdered
She denies the alleged identity.
Admiral Crownnshield, on the Illi
nois, will sail from the Brooklyn Navy
Yard to attend the coronation of King
Edward VII He will be in command
If the European Squadron.
An explosion occurred on the subma-
'ine boat Fulton at Delaware Breakwa-
.er while en- route to Norfolk, Va. Sew
sral persons were injured, but none Sc
,iously
The sum of $3.50 was divided among
he employees of the Metropolitan Ma
.ional Bank Of Chicago, which has been
merged with the First National.
As the result of an assault by negro
lighwaymen J. H. Flaherty. of Norfolk,
Va, may lose his life or his mind.
William P. Waite, the negro who
made a confession to Pinkerton detect
ives that he murdered Mrs. Collins at
her home near Portsyille, Del, now de-
MES that he killed the woman, and says
The detectives forced him to tell lie"
The detectives say they are confident
they can prove his guilt
A magnificent silver service was pre-
'ented to Admiral Schley in Memphis,
where he is the guest of the city.
The Metropolitan National Bank Of
Chicago, which will be merged with the
First National of that city, has distrib-
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gifts ranging from $50 to $4,000.
Witnesses testified in the court-martial
trial of Brigadier General Jacob H.
Smith, in Manila, that the natives Of
Samar were unusually treacherous and
hat boys fought in the ranks
James Hockenberry was arrested on
he charge of being one of the four
masked men who terrorized and robbed
the Misses Hench in Liberty Valley,
Pennsylvania.
The submarine boat Fulton started on
4 trial ocean trip from New York to
Washington, and made a trip of 10 miles
under water along the Jersey coast.
Sensational circumstances surround
the abduction of little Margaret Taylor
in Cincinnati by her grandmother and
aunts
Ex-Councilman Charles Krats, Of St
Louis, wanted in that city for corrupt
practices, was arrested in Mexico.
The United Copper Company was in
corporated in Trenton, n J., with a cap
ital stock of $4,000, ,ooo
In pistol duel between policemen and
burglars in Chicago one of the thieves
was killed.
A deal has been arranged by which
the Eleinze copper properties in Montana
have been taken over by the United Cop
per Company, The stock is capitalized
at $50
Claiborne Widener 16 years old, who
frightfully assaulted the fve-year-old
daughter of Rice Ford at,Damascus, Va,
was captured and jailed at Abingdon
Virginia.
Mrs. Kate Edwards and Samuel Grea-
son, convicted of the murder of the wo-
mans husband near Stouchsburg, Pa,
we're sentenced to death.