The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1901-07-13
A WEEKS RECORD
ALI the News Of the Past Seven
Days Condensed.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
News Of the Industrial Field, Personal
and Political Items, Happenings
at Home and Abroad.
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.

The public debt statement issued
on the 1st shows that the debt de-
creased si7,737,374 during the month
of June. The cash balance in the
treasury was S326,s33. .f24. The total
debt, less the cash in the treasury
amounts to S1,O44, ,73o.1 .12o.
A negro who attempted criminal
assault upon young woman was
taken from the jail at Lawrenceville,
Va, by a mob and lynehed.
Nearly $4,000 steel workers are idle
as a result of the strike ordered by
the president of the Amalgamated
association.
1t has been discovered that Geron-
imo PARA, who was hanged in FL
Paso, Tex, in January, 1900, for MUIR
der, was innocent.
The remains of ex-Gov. Hazen 8.
Pingree, of Michigan. arrived in New
York from London.
Andrew Carnegie has offered to give
Detroit $75o,00o towards the erection
of a public library building.
Five men, the crew of the tug Fern,
perished in the laundering of the boat
near Houghton, Mich.
The president has signed the COM
mission of Judge Taft as civil gov
ernor of the Philippines.
Seventy-fve miners from the Klon-
dixie arrived at Seattle with 81, 900, 900
in gold.
Record breaking heat caused "a
deaths, six suicides and 216 prostra-
in - A he -,
Philadelphia. 1s in Pittsburgh, IA in
Baltimore and 5 in Chicago.
Lightning struck pier in Chicago
and killed ten boys and man who had
been fishing and sought shelter from a
storm.
During the 10 months ended June
30 there we're placed in circulation
but four new counterfeit notes,
against an average of about ten for
each year during the preceding ten
years.
Four persons committed suicide in
Chicago, one being a boy of 10 years
who was in love.
During the fiscal year just ended
the net increase in the number of
names on the government pension
rolls was nearly $500, the grand to-
tai being 100000.
The government receipts over ex-
penditures in the fiscal year just
closed amounted to $76,000.000.
The mission of Gen Gomez to the
United States is to prevail upon Senior
Estrada Palma to become a candidate
for the Cuban presidency.
Three men and a boy, members of
a fishing party from st. Louis, were
killed by lightning at Cahokia, Ill.
In raiding a gambling place in Goa
homa county, Miss, oLlcers shot and
killed five negroes.
Four workmen were killed by the
cars near Waterloo, Ia.
The big Homestead hotel at Hot
Springs, Va, was destroyed by fire,
the loss being $500,o0
The mining town of Globe, Ari., was
almost totally destroyed by fire.
George Davenport, former state SEN
ator OF Michigan, was killed by light
ming near Saginaw.
Mrs. Fannie Wilson and her husband
took their own lives at Hot Springs,
Ark, with opium.
Fire completely wiped out the
main portion of Williams, Ari.
A heavy storm of wind and rain
struck Sing Sing, N. Y, tearing off
part of the prison roof and causing
q panic among the prisoners.
The stables and wharves of the
Metropolitan Coal company in Bos-
lx1fx
s500,00O.
Maj E. H. Conger, United States
minister to China, will sail from San
Francisco July II on his return to
Picking.
Rollin Hawkins, farmer near New
ton Falls, o., killed his wife and then
attempted suicide. Jealousy was the
cause.
Gov. Taft's Philippine cabinet has
been approved by the president.
Americans are in the majority.
T. F. Ward, charged with wrecking
the Lemars Qa.) national bank, was
arrested at Jersey City.
In the intercollegiate races at
Poughkeepsie, N. Y, Cornell won the
varsity and four-oared events and
Pennsylvania won the freshman race.
John Ross, who was sent to an In
diana insane asylum on the evidence
of four indianapolis doctors, has been
declared sane.
Intense heat in the east caused 225
deaths and 400 prostrations in New
York, so deaths in Philadelphia, so in
Pittsburgh and fatalities in many 9TH
er cities.
The Washington weather bureau
reports that the excessive heat has
not seriously injured crops, though
rain is needed in some sections.
Street cars on the Chicago-Joliet
hne are run for the first time by
electrical power generated by the
drainage canal.
Army expenses for last year
amounted to s120.061,37
The steamer Mohawk, carrying 900
excursionixts, sank in Long Island
sound in shallow water and all on
board escaped.
The Denver lCol.) chief of police or
cered policemen to main and II neces-
sary kin r1ffans who have overrun the
sH.