Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1903-03-20
THE LATEST NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
Domestic.

The Philadelphia authorities have di-
rected the opening of 81 graves with the
expectation of securing evidence against
George Hossey, the herb doctor, sus-
pected of causing many deaths by pois-
oning.
]. Ogden Armour, who carried big
line of May corn, let go and sold 8,ooo,-
600 bushels at profit of about $4,000
Cudahy, who has also been long on it
turned his line into the Chicago market,
Charles F. Bishop, electrician, died in
Pueblo, Col, from the bullet wound re-
ceived in Lousteau's cafe at the hands
of the masked robber, who also shot and
killed Dr. J. H. Turner.
DR.. Lewis A. O'Brien, the American
who was expelled from Saxony because
he was involved in the Crown Princess
Louise scandal is expected to reach New
York today
Mrs. Gallagher, convicted of perjury
in Iowa City, Ia, in the trial of Charles
Holiday for the murder of her husband
was sentenced to IS years in the peni-
tertiary.
Men imported by the American Bridge
Company to take the places of the strik-
ing structural iron-workers in Pittsburg
refused to work and joined the strikers
The First National Bank of Jackson
vile, Florida, was closed by order of the
Comptroller of the Currency, an exami-
nation having shown it to be insolvent.
Judge Elmer, in Waterbury, Ct.
granted temporary injunction, on ap-
plication of the Connecticut Railway and
Lighting Company. to restrain the trolley
mems union, individually and collectively
and all the other unions in Waterbury
from interfering with the business of the
company and from making use of the
boycott
A movement has been started to secure
the pardon of Euclid Madden, the motor
man, serving term of six months for
manslaughter in causing the death Of
Secret Service Agent William Craig in
the accident in which President Roose-
welt was also injured
Legal action hassbeen instituted by the
striking mill men in Colorado City to
define the authority of the military forces
called out during the strike.
There has been heavy rainfall III
Louisiana, but the levees are still hold
ing and the flood record of 1897 has not
yet been quite reached
The Postal Telegraph Company will
construct a line of wire along the
Union Pacific Railroads right Of way
from Omaha to the Pacific Coast,
there to connect with the new Pacific
! cable
1t is reported in Chicago that in May
a concerted demand will be made BY
the trainmen Of all railroads entering
in Chicago for an increase in wage;
amounting to between IL and IS pei
cent.
A. S. Sales, a young chemist o
| Philadelphia, committed suicide By
swallowing a dose OF cyanide of potas
SUM to avoid arrest and prevent hi:
domestic troubles becoming known.
a partial hearing was had in the
case of Miss Edna Mcclellan against
| the estate of Broadway Rouss, in New
York, and the case was sent to the
foot of the calendar.
The Mississippi river continues to
rise, and other rivers are still causing
damage. The levee at Red Cloud, Ind,
gave way and thousands OF acres Of
land were flooded
Miss Anna Hildebrandt, of Orange,
N. j., convicted OF an attempt to Kill
her sweetheart. B. j. McCallan, was
found in her room overcome by NOR
phine