The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1901-08-17

died at Victoria, b. C., on the Sth.
The importations of munitions of
war into China is to be stopped.
More than zoo children under
the age permitted by law for their
employment, were taken from st
Louis factories last week by the
officers.
| Percy Levy, young negro, whom
it is supposed committed an assault
on a prominent young woman of
Terry, Miss, committed suicide. He
answers the description and it is
supposed that fear of capture
caused him to take his life.
The greatest strike in the history
Of the United States, involving the
heaviest loss both 10 men and manu-
facturers, is that between the steel
workers and the great steel trust.
While the parties directly involved
will be first to feel its effects, the
general public will be the greatest
sufferers.
Citizens of Tampa, Fla, took an
unusual course to end a strike by
kidnapping the strike leaders and de-
porting them from the city. For
several weeks the cigarmakers, most
ly Cubans and Spaniards, had been
out, and all efforts to settle the
trouble failed. 1t was then the bus
iness men determined on putting an
end to the strike by forcibly expell-
ing the leaders from the COM
munity.
The town of Lawton, in Okla
homa, sprung up in night with
population of 1000 people. The
town site is just outside the Fort
Sill government reservation. 1t is
twenty miles from railroad, was
without water for several days ex-
cept what was hauled for miles and
sold at so cents per barrel. There
was much suffering from heat among
the settlers, who had to pay as
much as So per hundred for ice.
United States Pension Agent
Jonathan Merriam, of Chicago, has
rendered a pension ruling which, so
far as known, passes upon question
never before raised under the pen
sion laws. 1t is to the effect that
marriage does not inyalidate or af-
feet a pension drawn by a minor
daughter of a soldier. In other
words a minor child of soldier who
marries may continue to draw pen
sion until it reaches its majority.
Hundreds of homeseekers who
failed to draw claim in the new
Kiowa-C -Comanche country are selling
their tents, horses and wagons at
sacrifice in order to reach their
homes. Many others who camped
on the borders of the land for
months expecting that it would be
opened by ''run" are destitute and
already suffering is apparent. Hun
dreds are drifting south toward the
projected towns of Anadarko, Ho-
bart and Lawton, hoping that some
thing may turn up.
The money order division of the
postoflice department has success
fully inaugurated its system by
which money orders can be sent to
Canada without additional cost to
the sender. By the changes, which
became effective on July /, any one
of the $4,000 money order offices of
the United States may sell money or
ders to Canada, Porto Rico, Cuba
or the Philippine Islands. Up to
that date these orders could only be
secured at 1000 offices, designated as
international Offices"
The annual report of Major Cen
eral Macarthur, dated July A, 1901,
the day that he relinquished COM
mand of the division of the Philip
pines, has been received at the war
department. The period covered by
the report is from October /, 1900.
General Macarthur gives the follow
ing statistics from May 5, 1900, to
june 80, 1901 during which time
ther were 1,026 conflicts between
American troops and insurgents),
which show the casualties on both
sides: Americans-Killed, 245;
wounded, 400; captured, 118;
missing, 20. Insurgents-Killed,
1854; wounded, 1,193; cap
tured, 6,572; surrendered, 49,
0s5. During the same pc
riod the following material was cap
tured or surrendered from the insur-
gents: Rifles, 1858; rife ammu-
milton, 296,365 rounds; revoIyers,
s6s; bolos, 1916; cannon, 1872; can
non ammunition, 1920 rounds.
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