Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1903-03-27
THE LATEST NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
Domestic.

| n1ngS MC(OmD, who married Artist
Louis Herzog, and was, in conse-
| quence, cut off by his fathers will, has
won her suit contesting the will and
is declared entitled to 100000.
Judge Kirkpatrick made an order in
Trenton. N. j.. allowing the receivers
for the Pacific Packing and Navigation
Company to Issue certificates to the
amount of $I,25o,ooo to continue the
business
The Mississippi river is falling above
Memphis and rising below that place.
Flood warnings have been issued gen
orally from Richmond to Atlanta on
account of the heavy rains OF the past
two days.
Judge Lands. in Lancaster, Pa, filed
permanent injunction restraining the
ironmolders from interfering with the
business or workmen OF the Marietta
Casting Company
George Nelk is ON trial in Philadel-
phia for the murder OF his mother and
the attempted murder OF his sister.
The town of Surigao, in the north
crn part of Mindanao, was captured
by ladrones, who killed Constabulary
Inspector Clarke and several others
By his will Arioth Wentworth, the
Boston millionaire, left the bulk of his
estate Of $1,000, 900 for the endowment
OF an industrial school.
At Southbridge, Mass. Mrs. Louise
! Burke Killed her four children with an
! AK and then committed suicide by cut
| ting her throat
Sixteen hundred men employed in
Chicago carriage and wagon factories
have struck for a nine-hour day and
an increase i'll wages.
AS result Of battle between union
and non-union structural ironworkers
employed on bridge in Cleveland
three men were badly cut and bruised
by being struck with bricks and clubs.
Twenty men took part in the fight
and only quit upon the arrival OF the
police
Suit has been brought by the de-
scendants of the original proprietors OF
Ellis Island, in New York Bay, who
claim the island through royal grant
given their ancestors. They aver that
the island is part of New Jersey.
Five men of the crew of the tug
Pilot were drowned in the Delaware
near Philadelphia as the result of
collision with the steamship Winifred.
| Mrs Albert A. Phares, OF Jackson
vile, N. j., was held for the action OF
the grand jury on the charge OF poi
soning her husband.
President Gompers, OF the American
4 Federation OF Labor. addressed let
ter to the chief OF police OF Tampa, Fla.
demanding protection for two organ
izers, who have been threatened with
death.
! The attorney general at Manila de
cides there is not sufficient evidence tG
justify the prosecution of President
Gomez and other leaders of the Ma
tionalist party, charged with assisting
the ladrones.
1t has been learned that the son OF
President Palma. OF Cuba, was secretly
married in New York TO Miss Mabel
Jacobs, the daughter OF wealthy to-
/ bacco importer.
The annual meeting Of the Fedora
ton OF the Alliance Franchise in the
| United States was held in New York
and attended by delegates from all parts
OF the country.
Fcreign
The capital city of San Domingo. Is
land of San Domingo, is in the hands
Of the revoutionists. The foreign min
lister OF the government has sought
refuge i'll the United States consulate
In the fighting many were killed and
wounded.
General Matos, leader OF the Ven
czuelan revolutionists, i'll dispatch to
General Ayala, vice-president, says
that if Congress will accept President
Castro's resignation he will exert all
! his influence to put all end to the war.
Trouble over new waterworks at
Port of Spain, Island Of Trinidad.
caused rioting. A mob attempted to
burn the government buildings. The
police fred upon the rioters, killing
and wounding several OF them
1t was announced in the House oil
Commons tnat the formal agreement
between the British government and
| the International Mercantile Marine
Company would shortly be ready for
signature.
NJ. Declasse, French foreign minis
ter in speech to the Senate, said
Senator Clemencea"'s efforts to secure
the suppression OF the French embassy
to the. Vatican were not warranted.
During riots at Tomsk, West Siber-
ia, the students, who shouted Down
with the autocracyf were attacked BY
the police, and it is said, were NAL
treated
IN SiSSutit lSSlONtiNS OIL the hum
bert family, in Paris, which was The
scene OF their triumphs and downfall,
was sold at auction for $64,4 400.
The epidemic resembling smallpox
on the Island Of Trinidad is pronounc-
ed by medical men there to be -vario-
lold, Or chicken-pox.
Colonial Secretary Chamberlain stat
ed in the House OF Commons that 1oo.-
900 Beers had been repatriated, and
that the British government was Civ
ing the new colonies as military com
pensation $75.ooo, 900 toward the ex-
penses OF their resettlement.
Samuel Untcrmeyer, OF New York.
is organizing a combination in Eng
land, Germany, AUSTRIA Russia and
France to control steam-pump, engine
| and waterworks.
There was a clash between the Cath
olics and Protestants OF the Fiji Is
lands as the result OF the conversion
OF a number OF Catholics to Protestant
ism,
i The midlent festival in Paris was wit
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