Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1903-09-04

CONDENSED
TELEGRAPH NEWS
In response to telegram from Hot
| Springs, NC, Chief of Police Powers
| OF Radford Va, arrested a young man
named Martin, charged with larceny
James Allen, of Newport News. was
accidently killed several days ago while
| hunting on the farm of his father. Col
| S. Brown Allen.
The Metropolitan steamship, H. H.
Whitney from New York to Boston,
| ran down and sank the schooner John
W. Booth, of West New Haven. Five
of the schooner's crew and one passen-
ger were drowned
An explosion at the works of the In
dependent Powder company, situated
four miles southwest of Carthage Mo-,
on Centre creek, wrecked the mixing
row, killing three persons and injuring
three othersSon fatally.
Mrs. Mary Taylor, aged 40, a highly
respected lady, was burned to death
near Gate City, Va Her clothing
caught from an open fire while she was
stirring apple butter in the absence of
other members of the family.
Judge John A. Buchanan, of the SUI
preme court of appeals of Virginia
who had been critically i'll at his home
near Emory, Va, is at the Memorial
hospital, of Richmond, Va, undergoing
an important operation.
Pulaski's thirty-first annual exhibit
ton given by the Pulaski Agricultural
and Mechanical association of that
town is billed for the 8, 8, and 10th OF
September, and promises to be highly
successful one indeed
Mrs Mamie Grubbs, who one night
recently disappeared from Bristol
Tenn, leaving her husband and three
small children, has just caused a com
motion by returning and kidnappine
her baby, which she found in the yard
at the home of it's grandparents.
w. S. Langhorne, of Portsmouth, was
seriously burned by the explosion of a
can of wood alcohol He held a match
close to the mouth of the jug to peel
in, when there was a tremendous ex
plosion. His presence of mind saved
his sight, if not his life.
The eastbound express from Budapest
to Constantinople was blown up b.
dynamite near Kuleli Burgas, twenty
five miles from Constantinople. Sever
persons were killed and fifteen injured
The wrecking of the train is supposed
to have been the work of revolutioniSts.
The closing down of the Roanoke
Cotton mill, the burning of the Salem
Wooden mills. the shutting down of tho
West End furnace and the cessation O.
work on Norfolk and Western improve
ment in the West End yards at Roam
oke, it is estimated will mean LOSING
of about $500 per day in trade to thC
merchants of that vicinity.
Robert Fitzpatrick was hanged in tho
country jail at Media Pa, several days
ago in the presence of a small group O.?
official witnesses. Kilpatrick's crime
was the murder of his housekeeper
Elizabeth Bearmore. He was the first
white man to be hanged in that county
for sixty years.
Colonel A. P. German, Jr, the onl,
son of United States Senator German
has been nominated by the Howard
county, Maryland Democratic conven
ton for the state senate, having won
decisive victory over his opponents
Colonel German is 80 years of age and
begins his political career where his
father began thirty years ago.
An order has been issued by Public
Printer Palmer to the heads of the
divisions in the government printing
office to appear before notary public
in the Office and take the oath of allie
gience to the United States as subscrib-
ed to by clerks under the civil service
law.
Rev. William d. Howell, of Freezing
Va, was recently found beside road
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