The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1901-12-28

a Christmas present Of $3.50, 900 from
John D. Rockefeller, the founder of the
institution. whose gifts thus far reach
total of S1o.250,0O0
Secretary Gage wants congress 10
pass a law giving counterfeiters 25
years Imprisonment on second con-
viction.
Admiral Sampson will file protest
against The approval of Admiral
Dewey's findings in the sehley case.
Secretary Root declined to postpone
the Cuban elections at the request Of
Gen. Moso's supporters.
Admiral Sampson is reported to be
critically III at his residence in Wash
ington.
Samuel Stevenson, who IS suing Dow
lie in Chicago, told Judge Tuley that
Zion's leader had him hypnotized and
he couldn't help signing papers.
A negro with smallpox sat among
spectators all day at q murder trial in
Springfield, III.
John d. Rockefeller has offered $780,
900 to Wellesley (Mass.) college for
dormitory.
The newly formed labor court of ar
bitration met in New York, elected
Senator Hanna chairman and outlined
scope of action.
The Worlds Union of Christian En-
deavorers has been incorporated un-
der the laws of Massachusetts, with
Rev. Francis f. Clarke, ID. D., as pres
ident.
Admiral Schley has filed with the
secretary of the navy a bill of excep-
tions to the majority findings of the
court of inquiry.
The navy department has an.
nounced the final acceptance of the
battleship Wisconsin.
W. c. Hicks, editor of Bradstreets
Commercial Bulletin. was crushed TO
death by an elevator in Chicago.
The transport Thomas arrived in
San Francisco from Manila with 1854
soldiers.
A photographer at Richmond. Ind,
has invented a machine for using
acetylene gas in taking photographs
Hiram Bigelow, New York lawyer,
committed suicide in the Vincennes
hotel in Chicago.
The state normal school building
at Aberdeen, s. D., has been de-
stroyed by fire.
The government has sued Senator
Clark to recover 10000 acres of land
said to have been fraudulently en-
tered by homesteaders in Montana.
A London syndicate has acquired
the Hogg-Swayne oil properties in
Texas for S6,000,0o0 and will spend
nearly 100000 in Improvements at
Port Arthur.
Andrew Carnegie, in conference
with the president concerning his gift
of $10,000o00 to the government, of
fered to change the form of the gift
to cash or government bonds.
The steamer Kanawha Bell, which
runs between Charleston, w. Va, and
Montgomery, was wrecked and nine
lives were lost.
John F. Bull, broker, killed his
wife and himself in Parsons, Kan.
As a result of the intense cold and
blizzard stoekmen figure ten per cent.
loss in cattle in Oklahoma.
The state bank of Gothenburg, Neb.
closed its doors with liabilities of S32,-
coo.
The Massachusetts, memorial tablet
erected on the site of the old prison
at Andersonville, Ga, has been dedi-
Gated.
l.. T. Exum, farmer living near
Centerville, Tex, killed his wife and
himself after quarrel
ID. ID. Baroush and John Lisco
founders and leaders in the Polish
colony near Osceda, Neb., were killed
in runaway accident.
The new training school in Salt
Lake City of the University of Utah
with its entire contents has been de-
stroyed by fire.
The home of Henry Davis near
jackson, Miss, was destroyed by fire
and his wife and child were cremated.
Marconi expects his system of wire
less telegraphy viii reduce the rate
to Europe to one cent a word.
A lone robber held up the bank at
Springdale, Ark, and secured $1,000.
Cherokee Indians are reported
starving in the hills near Tahlequah,
Okla.
Ten men were killed and four fatally
injured by a gas explosion at the Soho
furnace in Pittsburg, Pa.
Three persons were killed and 25 in
iured in a collision between Southern
| DaciHo trains al ITDlands Gal
Charles F. Chipp. an employe in the
New York comptroller's Office, robbed
undetected for 20 years.