Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1902-11-28
SUMMARY OF THE LATEST NEWS.
Domestis.

u fierpont Morgan is SAID to have
definitely decided that President Geo
F. Baer. of the Reading and the Jersey
Central shall succeed Alfred Walter as
president of the Lehigh Valley, and
| thus be at the head of the coal COM
bine.
Two strikers were killed and 81 other
men, i'll riots in Havana, Cuba There
was fierce struggle between the po-
licemen and the strikers.
medical commission has declared
Judge John l. Mitchell, OF the Superior
Court of Harrisburg, Pa. incapacitat-
ed to perform the duties OF his office.
English stockholders OF the Central
Pacific Railroad have sued the Hunt
ington estate for $500 900 said to
have been fraudulently secured
The United Singers of Brooklyn hot
ly denounced the alleged discourtesy Of
the Baltimore Saengerbund, and have
selected a new prize song.
One hundred and thirty crcameries
of the Elgin Creamery Company we're
sold to. the representative Of propos-
ed new organization.
Mrs. Hank Narling OF Phillipsburg.
Mont. confessed that she killed Mr..
and Mrs. James Conn, with whom she
lived.
Two men were killed and three in
jured by the blowing up Of locoro-
tive at Mineral Point, on the Allie
ghenies.
Constant rains for four days have
! flooded the Washita and Blue Valley,
i'll the Chickasaw Nation.
| A lockout was ordered by the Build
ers and Contractors Association in
New Rochelle.
A warrant was issued for ex-State
Senator John Holbrook, of Michigan, on
the charge of corrupting the jury that
acquitted Col. Eli r. Sutton of COM
plicity in the state military clothing
frauds.
The government case against the So
called Beef Trust was set for hearing
in the United States Circuit Court, in
Chicago, on December I6, before Judge
GrosScup.
All the old officers of the American
Federation of Labor were reelected at
the convention in New Orleans, and
Boston was selected as the next meet
ing -place. y
A trolley car jumped the track and
was overturned in Allegheny. Pa, and
| five persons were more or less seriously
hurt
There was disgraceful class fight,
which ragged all night, between fresh
men and sophomores of the State Uni
versity of Iowa.
The United States Transport ingalls,,
with General Miles on board, struck on
reef off the Island of Luzon, Philip
pines.
Judge Adams directed the jury in the
United States Court i'll New York to
declare that the government was jus
tilted i'll confscating the $4,000 pearl
necklace on which Mrs. Ida Harrison
Dulles had failed to declare
1t is estimated that the advances in
freight rates being made by the vari
| gate increase OF about $40 900 900 in
revenue over and above the increase in
wages.
Mrs. Albert Sechrest. who was sup
! posed to have committed suicide to
avoid testifying against DR.. Louis Zorn
in Lincoln. Neb., was found in hiding.
Sheriff Dudley, OF Sullivan county,
Ind, lost his job because the negro
/ billiard was taken from his custody by
a mob and lynched
Director D. Willis James testified
before Special Examiner Ingersoll in
New York in the railroad merger case.
Foreiga.
Consul General Gowdy. OF Paris, act
ing Upon instructions OF the State De-
partment. has appointed a commission
of American doctors to investigate the
case OF Mrs. Ellen Gore to determine
whether she was killed or committed
Suicide.
The Italian General Navigation Com
pany will establish service of mail
steamers from Palermo to New Or
leans in order to facilitate the enigra-
ton OF Sicilians to the Southern States.
In defense OF his administration OF
the French Navy. Minister Pelletan
stated in the Chamber OF Deputies that
r,oney was needed to provide for the
defense of the colonial empire.
| The British House OF Commons
adopted resolution approving the ac-
ton OF the British government in
signing the Brussels Sugar Convention
| by 2I3 to 1876.
The students OF the famous Han
overian University have decided not to
accept any OF the scholarships founded
by the late Cecil Rhodes.
King Charles OF Portugal babe fare
we'll to King Edward at Windsor. but
will remain in England sometime on
private visit.
A new revolution has broken out in
Venezuela. The government officials
however, do not believe it will amount
to much.
| Five persons were killed. a number
injured and 100 houses destroyed by a
hurricane that swept over San Urbano,
| Argentina.
The disciplinary council OF the Rou-
lnanian bar has published decision
that bars out Jewish lawyers and
clerks.
Speculation is rife in Russia on the
subject OF the mental condition OF the
Gar and Czarina
The late Herr Krupp's estate is val
ued at $7s,ooo,ooo. The suicide theory
is still rnmored
A heavy earthquake shock was felt
throughout the province OF Leon, Ecu
ador.
The annual convention OF the Phi
Delta Theta Society begin in New
York
Rread riots are reported to have oc-