The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1901-07-13

States win soon be able 10 produce all
its own sugar, tea and silk.
A library given to Conway, Mass.
BY Marshall Field. of Chicago, is to be
dedicated on July 1s.
Chicago post Office receipts for the
fiscal year just ended were nearly
$1,000, 900.
New York city gained slight relief
from rain Wednesday, but the deaths
caused by heat were 1ss. with 300
prostrations. In Philadelphia the
deaths were 50 and in Pittsburgh ls.
Two men were killed and four
wounded in battle between union
strikers and norunion workers at the
Smuggler mine near Telluride, Col.
A Great Northern passenger train
was held up at Wagner, Mont, by
gang of robbers. who got Ss3,0 from
the express car. The thieves escaped
In the Montana Bad Lands.
The attorney general of Indiana
has ordered an investigation of the
central insane asylum at indianapolis
TO ascertain il any sane persons are
confined there.
The Sturges bank at Mansfield, O..
failed, together with the Mansfield
machine works, which was controlle
by the bank.
An Omaha judge refused to inter
fere with proposed bullfights in South
Omaha. He declared it was no more
brutal than football.
Thousands of carloads of perishable
goods are tied up in East st. Louis by
strike of the freight handlers.
The Allis-Chalm Co. will build
two big machine shops, one at Milwau-
kee to cost s2,500,O00, and another on
the Atlantic coast to cost s1.25o,oo
The Knights of Pythias are to be
called upon to rally to the financial
rescue of the endowment rank of their
order.
Hundreds of "sooners' raided Kio-
wa and Comanche lands in Indian ter
ritory. which are soon to be opened
for settlement, and a clash with 50,-
600 boomers who are encamped about
the reservations is threatened.
Gen. Gomez called on President Me-
Kinley and is impressed with the sim
cerity of the United States regarding
Cuba.
Judge Thompson, Of Cincinnati, en-
joined striking machinists from in
terfering in any way with employers
business.
Six bags of gold amounting to $780,
600 have been stolen from the San
Francisco mint.
The Illinois building at the Buffalo
exposition was formally dedicated.
Directors of the Seventh national
bank of New York held a meeting to
devise plans of paying depositors in
full, take up the Marquand loan,
and to reestablish the bank on a sol
vent basis.
A. L. Johnson's scheme to connect
New York and Philadelphia by troll
ley will be carried out by his brother,
the mayor of Cleveland, o.
Mai. o. L. Pruden has resigned as
paymaster in the army to resume his
former place of assistant secretary
to the president.
Su Shin Chin, the Chinese reformer,
detained at San Francisco. will be
permitted to enter the country.
During the past six days CAT persons
have died in New York city from the
effects of the heat.
Frank Tezelow, an aeronaut, was
killed by falling 1000 feet from bal
loon at Muskegon, Mich.
The new battleship Maine will be
launched in Philadelphia on the 25th
inst.
Stamps worth $4,000 were stolen
from the government exhibit at the
Buffalo exposition.
A Dowieite meeting at Waterloo, Ia,
was broken up by frecrackers and
eggs.
Four persons we're dUwned at To-
ledo by the capsizing of rowboat.
In a quarrel over a woman Albert
Johnson killed Thomas Spaulding at
Columbus, o., and then killed himself.
The men were sergeants in the gen.
eral recruiting service.
Reports from all over the country
show that 10 persons were killed and
1911 injured in rourth of July cele-
bratioRs.
Ire ucSlTONtu lHc DulluiHV III OAR
timore occupied by Hoen G. Co.. lith-
ographers and printers, and other
firms, the loss being s65O.OOO.
Fire destroyed the dressed beef
storage warehouse of A. A. Jewett
& Co. in Philadelphia, the loss being
$5O0,000.
Postmaster General Smith is plan
ming reform in the system of carry
ing periodicals in mails at pound
rates to shut out spurious publica-
tions.
Bullfghts at South Omaha degen-
Grated into a farce. No bulls were
killed and none of the "toreadors"
was injured.
Personal AND POLITICAL.
United States Senator James Fl.
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