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

Domestic.
Miners formerly employed by Markle
& Co., in the Hazleton region, astonished
the Strike Commission by testifying that
the 10 per cent. increase in wages
granted in 1900 was not straightout in
crease, but instead a 2 I-2 per cent. raise
and a reduction in powder price of 7 I-2
per cent
Zero weather in Chicago and other
points in the West and heavy snow
storms in Western New York state to-
gether with the general shortage of coal,
are causing much distress and suffering.
An order was entered in the Supreme
Court in Brooklyn requiring Morris I.
Mangis to furnish bill of particulars in
his million-dollar suit against Gen. Lofts
c. Fitzgerald
While trying TO escape from fire at
the home of Max Manthey, at Colgate
Wis, MIR. Colgate and one child were
t'''"' and three others sustained serious
injuries.
ne territorial senate of Hawaii
adopted the report of the committee for
the dismissal of Superintendent Boyd, of
! the Department of Public Works
| he opening of the new railroad be-
tween Santiago and Havana, Cuba, was
the occasion for an enthusiastic demon
stration.
The thirtieth annual convention of the
| American Public Health Association was
opened in New Orleans.
Earthquake shocks in the Hawaiian Is
lands destroyed a church and other
buildings,
The Canadian Pacific fast express,
which left Halifax for St. John and
Montreal, was wrecked on the Inter
colonial Railway near Belmont Station
-Four persons were killed and seven
passengers and one brakeman injured
Swift & Armour have acquired the
stock OF the Union Depot Bridge and
Terminal Company, which owns valu-
able terminals and hundreds OF acres
OF land on the Missouri River at Kan
sas City, Mo.
The reckless running OF a racing au-
tomobile is responsible for probably
fatal injuries to a park policeman in
Chicago and the death Of two horses.
Payne, the oldest bank in DeKalb
county, Ala, capitalized at $4,000, has
been placed in the hands of receiver.
At the Delaware Breakwater the
schooner Virginia Rulon was blown on
the rocks and sunk. The crew of SIX
men was taken off and landed by the
Lewes Dell life-savers.
Fred A. Smith, proprietor OF the
burned Lincoln Hotel, in Chicago, IL
which ID lost their lives, and Night CLERK
Weber were arraigned on a charge O,
manslaughter.
Investigation has shown that the eN
plosion on the steamer Progreso at Saf
Francisco, which cost IA lives. was due
to the poor quality OF oil furnished
George Sherverton, driver OF an ex
press wagon i'll Philadelphia, becoming
confused by. the snow, drove his team
into a trolley car and was killed.
The schooner Wesley M. Oler went
ashore at Ocracoke, N c., during the
storm and went to pieces Her crew is
believed to have been lost.
Dr. Henry S. Cutler composer and
musical conductor, who introduced yes
ted male clleirs in this country, died at
| Swampscott, Mass
The two-master Flo F. Nader was
wrecked off Gloucester, Mass, and the
captain and crew were saved by the life
saving crew.
President Hartman, of the Southern
Pacific Railroad, has established sys-
| tom for pensioning old employees of the
company.
George Bear, the Indian convicted of
numbering his suuaw, was hanged in
| Sioux Falls, S. D. He behaved with
great stoicism.
James Sullivan and a man named De-
Kibbis were killed in snowslide near
Baker City, Ore.
George Dickinson, the Philadelphia
robber, was sentenced to IS years in the
pententiary.
Three men robbed about IS who were
gambling at the Eagle Club, in Pocatelo,
Idaho.