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

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SIX days.
The drought has caused . loss
from damage to Indiana's corn crop
of at least s4O,0O0,000
Albert B. Cummings was nomi-
mated for governor by the Iowa re-
publican state convention.
A cousin of President Steyn of
Cape Colony was killed in battle
with the British last week.
Gold has been discovered in Pu-
lash county, Missouri, but the ore
yield is only about 81 per ton.
The Alabama constitutional con-
yention adopted a clause permitting
women who own property 10 vote In
all bond elections.
1t is reported boxers threaten
trouble when all the foreign troops
depart from China. The Chinese
regulars, it is feared, will not be
able to cope with the boxers.
George and Helen Gould, as e.
ceivers, have been granted an order
by the court to pay the debts of their
brother-in-law, Count Castellane,
out of the estate of their sister, the
counts wife.
Governor Longino, of Mississippi,
has furnished the press with state
ment of the lynching of three ne.
groes in Carroll county, in which he
condemns the officers in the strongest
terms.
Settlers of Lawton, Okla, after
ascertainig that there was no one in
authority to suppress gambling and
robbery in the town, formed an old
time vigilant committee and COM
PEELED all takers to move on
The announcement of the gov
ernment's determination to establish
Cuban army, has caused great de-
preston among the Spanish resi-
dents of the island, as they fear their
interests will be jeopardized by such
an organization. The enlisting OF
recruits for the army will begin inn
mediately. The organization will be
under the charge of Major Roberts of
the Second Artillery.
In all 213 men who served as vol
unteer officers during the war with
Spain and the operations in the Phil
ippines have passed the examinations
and been given comissions in the
regular army. In addition to these
200 enlisted men, who took the COM
petitive examinations under the act
of 1892, have also passed and been
assigned to duty. The reorganiza-
ton of hearmy created between 700
and 500 vacancies of commissioned
officers, and the indications are that
all the assignments will be made by
Christmas.
The United States geological sur
vey has issued report on iron and
steel at the close of the nineteenth
century, prepared by James M.
Swank, general manager of the
American Iron and Steel Associa-
tion. 1t shows that this country to-
day leads all other countries in the
production of these articles. 1t puts
the total worlds production of pig
iron in 1900 at about forty million
long tons, of which the United States
made 13,789,242 tons, or fully 81
per cent. The total worlds produc-
ton of steel for 1900was about twen-
ty-six million eight hundred and
seventy-fve thousand tons, Of which
the United States made 10,187 1923
tons, or nearly 3S per cent
Bradstreefs report of commercial
conditions for the week ending Au-
gust 4, says: "Copious rains
throughout the western half of the
country have had the expected effect
of inducing a more cheerful tone,
and the feeling is decidedly more
hopeful than it was a week or two
ago. Rains principally insured a
large spring wheat crop. Brad
streets advices point to the early
corn crop as practically failure in
the leading surplus-producing states
west of the Mississippi, but late corn
undoubtedly has been saved, and as
time elapses estimates of production
are being raised. From the rest Of
the country trade adT,ces are in the
/ main quite cheerful, aad, despite the
intense heat and drought Of July, an
extraordinarily large business ap-
pears to have been done, which is re-
fiected in the bank clearances for
that month. Cotton crop condi-
tions improved in the south, as a
result of the recent rains, and trade
adyices are correspondingly more
cheerful"
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