The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1901-10-12
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PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Tjardt Kruger, son of the former
president of the Transvaal republic
who recently surrendered to the
British, died, on the LIST, after short
illness.
The Princess Charlotte Bonaparte
widow of Count Primoli. died in Rome
on the 9th. She was born in 1882.
Lieut.-Col. John B. McGinnes, ord
nance department, has been ordered
to San Francisco for duty as chief
ordnance officer of the department
of California.
The race between Shamrock II. and
Columbia, on the 1st, was not finished,
having been called off owing to inabil-
ity to sail the course within the time
limit. Shamrock was leading.
Rear-Admiral Evans and Capt. Sigs-
bee were the principal witnesses be-
fore the Schley court of inquiry, on
the 1st, the former insisting that
Commodore Schley furnished no plan
of battle to his officers.
The Russian prince, Sa<achidze,
who, with his wife, was arrested in
Rome as an anarchist, having entered
Italy in defiance of the anti-anarchist
regelations, was sentenced, on the
1st, to 20 days Imprisonment. The
prince protested that he was not an
anarchist, though he was a national
ist; adding that he was legitimate
pretender to the Russian crown.
The Greater New York democracy,
of which John c. Sheehan is the lead
er, held its city convention, on the
LIST, and nominated the fusion ticket
headed by Seth Low for mayor.
The secretary of agriculture has ap-
pointed DIR. f. II. King, now professor
of agricultural physiology in the Uni
versity of Wisconsin, to be chief OF
division in the bureau of soils, de-
partment of agriculture.
Herr Krupp, the gunmalxer, has pur-
chased a palatial residence in Berlin
The Cuban constitutional conven-
ton, on the 1st, addressed letter to
Gov.-Gen. Wood, informing him that
the changes which he suggested
should be made in the election law
had been made, and that the conven
ton, deeming it's work completed, was
ready to dissolve.
The resignation of J. NJ. Herbert
general manager of the Southern Pa
cific railroad, was announced on the
I'd. 1t is stated that Mr.. Herbert
will go east as manager of one of the
Gould lines.
The triennial convention of the
Episcopal Church of America was
formally organized at San Francisco
Fowler, of Kentucky, as president, anu
Rev. S. Hart, of Kansas City, secre-
tary of the house of bishops, and DR.
John S. Lindsay, of Massachusetts
chairman, and Rev. Charles Hufchins
secretary of the house of deputies.
The commercial treaty between
Guatemala and Germany has been de-
nounced by Guatemala, and will cease
to be in effect June %, 1908.
Prince Henry of Prussia started for
Russia, on the I'd, to visit Emperor
Nicholas, having received leave of abb
sence for As days
Mr.. George b. Cortelyou, secretary
to the president, returned to Wash
ington, on the I'd, from Canton, o.,
and resumed his duties at the White
House.
The steamer Cottage City arrived
at Seattle, Wash, on the Sd, from
Lynn Canal with over two hundred
passengers. On the trip downward
Purser Bree was custodian of over
five hundred thousand dollars worth
of gold dust belonging to passengers
on board.
Gen. George w. Getty. one of the
heroes of the Mexican war and of the
war of the rebellion, died, on the 3d.
at the family residence at Forest
Glen, Md. He was buried with full
military honors at Arlington, Va, on
the 4th.
John Campbell, chief justice Of Col
orado. passed through Berlin, on the
Sd, from GasteiD, Austria, on his way
TO London.
1T is estimated says the London
Daily Mails correspondent, that "a
were killed and hundreds injured dur
ing the Hungarian election riots. In
threats of death or torture. At Udur-
assa, prominent politician. together
with his wife and three sons, was
murdered by his fanatical opponents
After an existence of two years IN
ice foes of the Arctic regions, DIR
Robert Stein, of the United States
geological survey, and Samuel Warm
birth. of Boston, have arrived at sgd
ney, Novo Scotia, on the Windward
en- route home
Rear-Admiral Mortimer 1. johnson
took command OF CharIestown nay.
yard. On the 3d, in place Of Admira
Wm, 7. Sampson, relieved on aceoun'
OF ili-health.
A passenger train on the Montans
Central was wrecked about shirt'
miles west of Great Falls. Mont. o.
the 4th. The engine. baggage car am
a day coach left the track. Engines
smith and Haggageman Morris weE'
probably fatally injured.