Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1904-11-18
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
The Latest Happenings Condensed for Rapid
Reading.
Domestic.

The congressional committee head,
ed by Congressman w. B. Hepburn
as chairman, which was appointed tic
inspect the location of the Panama
Canal, sailed from New York on the
United States transport Sumner fol
Colon.
The American Line steamer Meri.
on, from Liverpool, went aground or
Chester Island Flats, IA miles below
Philadelphia, during the storm, anc
the 1000 passengers were taken to
that city on a river steamboat.
Mrs. Emily H. Cow, of Seattle
Washington, sister of Rebecca Hard
ing Davis. the well-known author, anc
aunt of Richard Harding Davis, died
at Catalina Island, California.
Jacob Daniel Hutson, aged 62, for
20 years foreman of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railway shops, of Chicago
and later of Newark, O., dropped dead
in church in GAINESVILLE, o.
One life was lost and several per.
sons injured by the storm at Cleve.
land, 0. The tug Gregory foundered
at the mouth of the river and Capt
Dell Minney was drowned.
An attempt was made by the manu-.
factuters to open the cotton mills in
Fall River, Mass, but comparatively
few Of the operatives returned to
work.
One outlaw is dead and another is
In jail MORALLY wounded as the re
suit of desperate battle between
cattle thieves and officers near Deeth
New.
Adam Weiss, of Chicago, a passen.
ger on the steamer Kaiser Wilhelm
H., committed suicide when the
steamer was two hours out from New
York
The Chicago police were notified
OF the robbery of the Bank of Rio.
at Rio, ILL.,, by eight men, who Sc
cured $4,000 in cash and escaped.
Joseph Marsden, a farmer, of Sus.
sex. Wis, made so much money in
election bets that he gave an oyster
supper to the whole town.
Mrs. Mary Zimmerman, OF New
York, after quarrel with her hus
band, drank cyanide of potassium and
died instantly.
The small steamer Wyoming foun.
dered in Lake Huron. The crew was
saved
A fire in Knoxville. Tenn, caused
loss Of $e5o.ooo. Six iremen were
injured.
A list of prizes has been arranged
for the Elks' reunion in Buffalo, in
1905.
United States consul at Belfast. w
w. Tonvelle. died in Toledo, @,
Bishop Warren, of Denver, speak:
ing to the General Missionary Com,
mittee of the Methodist Episcopal
Church in Denver, said he regarded
the occupation of the Philippines by
the United States government as prov
idential.
A boiler attached to threshina
machine on the Samuel kaufman
farm, near Laporte, Ind, exploded
and killed Warren Bassett, 10 years
old, and John Boltenhouse, 90 years
old, both of .Elkhart. Six others were
hurt
Judge Brawley, in the United State.
Court, in Charleston, S. c., signed an
order directing the resale of the De.
Kalb Cotton Mills at Camden on De
cember FL at not less than $4,000.
The schooner Wilson and Hunting
was run down off Barnegat by the
United States supply steamer Colgoa
and sunk. Captain Walton and his
wife and two seamen were drowned.
Herman Haas, charged with embez-
cling funds from the Corn Exchange
National Bank of Chicago, pleaded
guilty and was sentenced to the peni-
Tertiary for six years.
Frederick Eve, of Jersey City, who,
with others, was arrested on a serious
charge preferred by two girls, was
found dead in his cell
A New York jury rendered a YER
dict of $4,000 to Mrs. Mary c. Ga
Nun for the death of her husband in
the Grand Central Tunnel.
Mrs. c. A. Curry was shot and
killed and her husband probably fa-
tally wounded in a pistol duel at
their home. in East Pueblo :.
John Hodgson, brother of Frances
Hodgson Burnett, the authoress, died
pauper in the City Hospital. in
Knoxville, Tenn.
Lawrence de Fabio.shot Carrie Jim.
itz and her brother Frank in South
ington, Ct, and then killed himself.
-Four tramps were burned to death
in o. W. Haggerty's barn, which was
destroyed by fire, near Altoona, Pa.
Frederick Griebel, of Ridgewood
Heights, L. L., who lost all he had
on the election, committed suicide.
A misplaced rail caused the wreck
of the Southern Railways fast train
near Cochran, Ga.
Foreign.