The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1901-08-10
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THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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ware works at Muncie, Ind, assumed
a serious phase, on the 1st, when
desperate fight occurred between
union and non-union men, and squad
of police was called to quell the riot.
Three men were seriously injured.
The monthly statement of the pub
lie debt, issued on the 1st, by the
treasury department, showed that at
the close of business, July 81, 1901, the
debt, less cash in the treasury,
amounted TO 81 1863, ,17e, 1899, decrease
for the month of S2,92s,657.
The acting secretary of war has
named the big freight transport Sa-
moa ''The Dix" in honor of Gen. John
A. Dix, who issued the famous order:
''If any man attempts to haul down
the American flag, shoot him on the
spot"
The hottest weather ever recorded
in Montana was reported at the gov
ernment bureau in Miles City, on the
31st, when the thermometer regis
tered Ill degrees. There were no pros
trations.
The Southern Cotton Oil Co., on the
1st. fled papers at Trenton, N. j., in
ereasing its capital stock from $780,
900 to 100000.
The George II. Phillips company, of
Chicago, headed by the young man
whose deals in corn during the year
have amazed old operators of the
board of trade, has temporarily sus-
pended operations, and for the pres
NJ ic fosr hat hor N
cern is solvent or not.
The drawing of winning numbers
in the United States land lottery at
FL Reno, Okla, was concluded on the
1st, 1900 envelopes having been taken
from the wheels, $50 for each dis
trict. The distribution of claims will
now be begun.
Thomas J. Foy, the youngest sol
dier in the United States to enter
service in the civil war, resides at To
peka, Kas., and drew claim in the
Lawton district. He has over five
years service to his credit, entering
the army as drummer boy at the
age of ten years, three months and
six days.
The brutal murder of Mr.. and Mrs.
II. T. Taliferro, in Carroll county,
Miss, on the night of July 80, led to
the lynching, at Carrollton, on the
night of the 1st, of Betsie McCray,
her son, Belfield McCray, and daugh-
ter, Ida McCray, all negroes, by mob
of 500 Carroll county citizens.
Ex-Congressman John Davis died at
Topeka, Kas., on the 1st. John Davis
was born in Sangamon county, ILL.,,
August 8, 1926; was educated at the
Springfield, H., academy and the H.
linois college, at Jacksonville. He had
been a resident of Kansas since 1872.
The Maryland democratic state con-
vention, which met at Baltimore. on
the 1st, declared that the purpose of
the party, if successful in the COM
ing election, il to eliminate the negro
from politics in Maryland, if such a
thing be possible under the constitu-
ton of the state.
Reports to r. G. Dun & Co. show
commercial failures in the United
States, during July, ,697, with an aggre-
gate Indebtedness of S7,035,935. Com
pared with the same month last year.
there appears most gratifying inn
provement, as failures were then 793
in number and s9,771,775 in amount.
The British house of lords, on the
1st. unanimously indorsed the appro-
priation of 100000 for Lord Roberts,
recommended by King Edward as a
token of the nations appreciation of
the field marshal's services in South
Africa.
Following a week of comparatively
cool weather hot wind began blow
ing from the south in the vicinity of
Huron, S. d., on the 1st, sending the
temperature 10 los. curling corn
blades and compelling harvest work in
many fields TO cease. For hours the
wind was scorching hot and people
were compelled TO keep in doors.
The Chicago & Northwestern rail-
way is trying the use of oil as dust
preventive, and, if successful, will
adopt it on it's entire system. Five
miles of double track were selected
for the experiment, 1000 gallons of
crude oil being used to the mile.
Pictures taken before and after using
show a great improvement, the oil
seeming to do away with the dust
King Edward has accepted the res
ignation by Maj. Karrie Davis. as
companion of the bath, that officer
having expressed the wish that he
might be permitted to serve his
majesty without any reward" Maj.
Davis received the decoration for con-
spicuous services in South Africa, es-
recially in connection with the relief
of Mafeking.
Thomas Malley, an old time actor,
who for years played in "Uncle Toms
Cabin, was. on The I'd, committed to
the Rochester tAIinn.) insane asylum.
Aaliey had seen so much of Uncle
Tom that it affected his brain, and
ne imagineg that Simon Lagree is con-
SANITY pursuing him with blood.
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