Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1904-11-25
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest happenings Condensed for Rapid
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Domestic.
-Four hundred laDorers employed at
the Vulcanite Cement Mills, at Vul-
canlte, N. j., went on a strike. Po-
lice are now guarding the works
Papers in suit for $4,000 boo
brought by the American China Chm.
pany against the Hudson Trust Com
pany, OF Hoboken, were served
A. F. Jaurett. the American JneTs-
paper man who was ordered to leave
Venezuela, came to New York on the
steamer Philadelphia.
The Philadelphia Presbytery of the
Presbyterian Church voted in favorsof
Affiliation with the Cumberland Pies
byterian Church.
The Chicago Subway Company was
incorporated in Trenton, N. J., with
an authorized capital OF $4,000, 600 @
Mrs. ]. r. Nickum died in board
ing-house in Topeka, Kan, from IN
juries inflicted on the head with an ak.
The suspension Of Alfred M. La
mar was announced on the New York
Consolidated Exchange.
Secretary Taft and party sailed
Dolphin for Pensacola
Secretary Of War Taft and party
have reached New Orleans They
were received by a committee OF
prominent citizens, members Of the
governors staff. and military detail
OF regulars and members of the state
guard.
Andrew Meaders, Jushua Cummins,
1 L l.. 7 I'll L
! under arrest at Williamsburg. KY,
| charged with the murder of George
+ Curd and Emma Durham near Cum
berland Falls.
The Liberty Bell was brought back
TO Philadelphia from St Louis and es-
corted, to Independence Hall by an
imposing military procession.
William Bate, a chauffeur, was found
shot dead in an automobile on lonely
road near Chicago He is believed to
have been killed by robbers.
| Reuben Loree, aged IS, and his son,
| Fred Loree, aged 80 years, were suffo-
Gated to, death in the village lookup in
Columbiaville, Mich.
! George Mack, chauffeur for Anna
Held, was arrested in New York on
! the charge of running down aged ia
| cob Clemons
Three election officers in Denver,
| Col, were convicted of frauds at the
/ recent elections. They were fined
and sent to jail.
The Central Vermont Railways
! freight steamer Mohawk was burned
| off Horizons Point. L. l. The Mo
! hawks crew was taken off by the
| Fall River Line steamship Boston.
| Henry Meldrum, formerly United
i States surveyor, was convicted of for
gerry, being the first man to be con-
victed in the so-called land fraud
cases.
A premature blast in the cxcava
| ton for the Pennsylvania Railroad
Tunnel in New York did $4,000 dam
/ age to neighboring buildings.
Announcement was made in Chi
cago Of the completion of the fund Of.
| 100000 for the erection of the Nc
kinley monument.
After the death Of DR. T. c. Conk-
| lin, a physician of Pennington, ILL.,,
| the discovery was made that he had
| two wives.
William P. Hayde, for many years
county license Inspector in Kansas
City, Mo-, shot and killed himself
while in bed
President Francis and other officials
| of the St. Louis Exposition were dec-1
GRATED with Legionsof Honor insignia.
John and James Black, twin broth
ers, and John Murphy were arrested
in Indian Territory on the charge OF
| being the men who held up the Rock
Island train at Fort Logan. N. M.
William Pollwofth, 20 years old,
shot and probably fatally wounded
| Conrad Boxman at Bartlett, H., and
! then barricaded himself in his moth,
er's home and dehed citizens and po-
lice, but finally surrendered.
John G., Heckscher, secretary of the
National Horse Show Association, was
| run down and trampled upon by pair
| OF horses in the ring at the New York
! Horse Shows His injuries may result
in conclusion of the BRAIN
All the shipbuilding cases brought
in the United States Court in New
4 York against Schwab. Morgan, Gates
and others were discontinued with the
consent of the complaintants.
The Hotel Olympia, the largest
frame hotel building in Olympia, Wash,
has been burned'to the ground The
/ loss is 100000, with $4,000 insurance.
All the guests escaped safely.
! One man is dead and. three others
are seriously injured as result of
fire which destroyed the tar plant of
4 the Denver Gas and Electric Com
! pany, in Denver, Col.
4 /.
Foreign.
The betrothal is announced of the
Grand Duke of Hesse. who was di-
\ vorced from his cousin, Princess Vic
\ :oria Of Saxe-Coburg, in 1907, to the
4 Princess E1eonor Of Solms- Fl ohec-
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