Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1903-04-17
THE LATEST NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
Domestic.

The leading fnanciers interested III
/ the Northern Securities merger had
conference in the Office Of ]. F. Morgan
& Co.. i'll New York. 1t is limited that
the big tumble in stocks may have been
intended by them as all object-lesson
George Edward Mills. indicted i'll
| New York on the charge OF attempting
to bride the assistant district attorney,
| failed to appear for arraignment and his
| bond was forfeited
| United States Minister Squiers out
lined to President Palma. of Cuba. at
Havana, the details OF the permanent
treaty between Cuba and the United
States
Morris K Jesup, who provided the
| funds for the Jesup expedition to
Northeast Asia. says he is satisfied with
| the results of the expedition.
Rev. Clarence E. Eberman, field sec
retory Of the United Society Of Chris
tan Endeavor, died at Bauff, North
west Territory.
A committee of the various electric
and trolley companies of New Jersey.
controlling 500 miles Of road, vote to
consolidate.
A tornado wrecked number of
houses in the vicinity of Blocton, Ala.
A woman was injured by falling chin
ney.
Mrs Kate Wolsey, OF Covington,
KY. author of Republics Versus Wo-
men, has written a letter resigning
membership i'll the organization Of the
Daughters of the American Revolution,
OF which she was a charter member, be-
cause the founders of the republic did
not give women the right to vote.
he attorney general OF Illinois cer-
| Cd tO tlxc 81 80 n+4 r~f
county (Chicago) the names Of 5000
corporations which have failed to com
plv with the Antitrust Law, and di-
rected that official to proceed against
them
Charles w. Sell Jr.. shot and seri-
ously wounded Miss Mabel French. and
also wounded Grover Davis and JOS
! eph Clough, who we're escorting her
home from grange meeting, near
Manchester. N. H.
The United States marshal at St.
Louis began the payment OF $4,000
creditors OF John J. Ryan & Co., the
race investment concern. They will re-
ceive IS cents ON every dollar they in
vested
Gen. John S. Jones, president of the
board of trustees of the Ohio Soldiers
and Sailors Orphan Asylum, at Xenia,
died at his home, in Delaware, O.
Justice Murphy held an inquest i'll
Buffalo in the matter of the death OF
Mr. and Mrs. Pencil. and decided that
he could not determine from the evil
dence whether the tragedy was acct
dental or designed.
The gun explosion on the battleship
Iowa is reported. upon investigation,
to have been due to a defective fuse.
The three who were killed were buried
In the National Cemetery in Pensacola.
Spreading rails caused drill engine
on the Jersey Central Railroad to
plume down all enbankment into
pond near Elizabeth, N. j. and the en-
gineer, fireman and brakeman were
killed
Daniel Lamont says the decision in
The railroad merger case will make little
difference in the management of those
roads, even if the decision is affirmed
by the Supreme Court.
| Congressman J. H. Southland. OF
Ohio, is investigating complaints OF ex-
orbitant charges being made for the
disinterment and shipment of the bodies
OF dead soldiers from Cuba.
P. Ogden Armour and the other
wheat bulls associated with him in the
big corner now being formed are count
ing upon war in the East to be of as
sistance to them.
Lewis Good, the only formidable
candidate against President T. J. Shat
fer, of the Amalgamated Association
of Iron and Steel Workers, has with
drawn.
The rear end Of freight train on the
Susquehanna Railroad broke loose and
IL cars plunged into the Poquannock
river, in New Jersey.
Foreign.
Fifty men and one officer were kill
ed by the explosion Of the mine under
the fortress OF Trajana by the Moor in
surgents. The rest OF the garrison
ned into Spanish territory and the in
surgents took possession
Great crowds greeted President Lou
bet i'll Marseiles. where he stopped on
his way to Algiers. A disorderly crowd. 4
including a party Of antigovernmentI
radicals cried Down with Freemas}
sonry."
In fight between German and Aui
trian soldiers on the streets in ~
the result of barroom row.
were injured. Troops separate
rioters and cleared the streets.
The British ambassador at RI =
been Informed that the Pope
pleased to see King Edwas
the latter's visit to Rome.
The death OF M. Stcherbina.
sian consul at Mitrovtza =
| Turkey, who was shot by
ser-inel has greatly alaN
ish authorities, who FED
with Russia
Moses Fowler Chase Il
mar Of Lafayette. Ind,
States Consul General
sa:litarium in Paris, (
way to the United State -
An official cable mess. =
ragua states that Pres
forces have recaptured + = .
os, at the Lake Nicaragua
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